ARDENTRONIC arises from a searing passion for music. He begins in simplicity: a lit pulse of a foetus, banging drums, strumming guitars, shoes pounding the ground. He keeps you awake at night, makes you turn up the sound to catch something that you can feel hard in your chest. It's heavy bass line, funky vibrations, the groove beneath the melody. It's the stretch of time: tribal like the first beat of a djembe drum, rumbling off hot sands and over still-water, miles away.
It is authentic, it exists, it consumes. It swallows slumber and hours - a studio-world of musicians, imagination and 3 am. It's rooftop parties, dancing in streetlight; it's a fervent festival and the club every Saturday night. It cuts through smoke. Ripples. Stretches out so it goes through you, past you, and back again. It's a version of something you never knew you wanted to hear: fine-tuned and translated into beats and sounds. It's your being turned into a loud reverberation.
You will know it as heat, sweat, the rhythm of bodies, the disconnect of brainwaves. It's the build-up beginning hushed in the pith of your core that grows deafening. It's release, the energy pinging like sparks. It's freedom in white flashes that shoot across crowds.
He's about ordinary people, about you and me. He's the discovery of absolute music, pure sense and craze. It's locating the circumference of the sound and pushing our way into the passion of Ardentronic.