Tag: Audio Key Architects (A.K.A.)

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: A.K.A. Returns with a Wide-Screen, Club Friendly Banger

Paris-based sibling production and DJ duo Audio Key Architects (A.K.A)  is driven by a deep and abiding passion for electronic music and techno. The siblings’ collaborative project is guided by a shared vision of sharing what they love to create and listen to with the rest of the world.

Clocking in at seven-and-half-minutes, the French sibling duo’s latest single, “Star Lord” manages to be simultaneously cinematic and club friendly, with the song being anchored around dense layers of glistening and arpeggiated synths, tweeter and woofer rattling thump and some mind-bending melodicism. Sonically bringing Magic Sword, Giorgio Moroder, The Chemical Brothers and a lengthy list of others to mind, “Star Lord” reveals a duo that’s boldly pushing their sound in dynamic, new directions.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: A.K.A. Shares a Cinematic, Deep House Banger

Audio Key Architects (A.K.A) is a Paris-based sibling production and DJ duo. Driven by a deep and abiding passion for electronic music and techno, their collaborative project is guided by a share vision of sharing what they love to create and listen to — with the world. 

Over the past couple of months I’ve written about the following singles:

  • “Ellipse,” a single which begins with a Flamenco-like introduction before quickly morphing into a eep house/techno banger that featured a soulful, wailing vocal sample, bursts of vocodered vocals, glistening synth oscillations and skittering beats paired with the duo’s uncannily cinematic sense of melody.

  • “Fenrir,” a hard-hitting, aggressive techno banger built around tribal percussion, glistening synth arpeggios and a relentless motorik groove. Th result is a song that wouldn’t sound out of place at Electric Zoo — while bringing JOVM mainstays LutchamaK and Bubba Brothers to mind.

“Dune,” the Parisian sibling duo’s latest single is sleek, club friendly banger that alternates between taunt, uneasy tension and radiant, meditative beauty while prominently featuring glistening synth arpeggios paired with a relentless motorik groove. Much like its immediate predecessors “Dune” further cements A.K.A.’s uncanny penchant for cinematic melodicism.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Audio Key Architects Share a Deep House Banger

Audio Key Architects (A.K.A) is a Paris-based sibling production and DJ duo. Driven by a deep and abiding passion for electronic music and techno, their collaborative project is guided by a share vision of sharing what they love to create and listen to — with the world. 

Last month, I wrote about the Parisian sibling duo’s second single “Ellipse.” Beginning with a Flamenco-like introduction, “Ellipse” quickly morphed into a deep house/techno banger featuring a soulful, wailing vocal sample, bursts of vocodered vocals, glistening synth oscillations and skittering beats paired with the duo’s uncannily cinematic sense of melody.

Their latest single “Fenrir” sees the French electronic music duo crafting a hard hitting, aggressive techno banger built around tribal percussion, layers of glistening synth arpeggios and a relentless motorik groove. The result is a song that wouldn’t sound out of place at this weekend’s Electric Zoo — while bringing JOVM mainstays LutchamaK and Bubba Brothers to mind.