APEX CRITTER
Visual Artist / Music Maker

ApexCritter

Techno created for rooms with no windows. Low, methodical, patient.

Enter
Apex Critter on the decks

Thirty years in the dark. One signal, still transmitting.

01

Doctrine

What is?

Techno. Capital T. A language before it is a genre. Sound and image, pointed at the same place.

Aware becoming?

Where the sound points, not where it sits. A signal from somewhere ahead, still arriving.

Why?

The floor was never the whole point. To say what words cannot, to move a room without one.

02

Releases

03

The Vault

Free Downloads

Music produced through tireless hours, and occasionally in no time at all. Free to pull down.

SoundCloud ↗

Mixes

Sets across house, Techno and more. Recorded live and archived.

Mixcloud ↗
Origin

It started in the 1990s Bay Area rave: a young raver and budding DJ, then a West-Coast nomad bouncing town to town, playing whatever party would have him.

A summer on the decks at a rock club in Germany, hundreds of headbangers deep. Events of his own through his twenties, one buried on a ranch in the Oregon backcountry.

All of it compressed, now, into Techno.

Also known as Vylent Hands · Hawthorne
DJ Tech Tools: History of the Right to Rave ↗
Rave

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