Argentinian producer
Juan Pablo Pfirter has been pumping out techno tracks for two decades, his sound gradually becoming deeper, trippier, and spacier with every successive release.
The Empty Space is his first full-length, and it's his most cosmic exploration yet. Much of the album resists standard four-to-the-floor beat patterns, preferring broken rhythms and unsettling noises, like the garbled, sinister robot voices of "Note to Self" and the grinding, echoing vibrations of "A Different Reality." It's pretty much completely devoid of melody, or any other crowd-pleasing attributes of club music, and basically sounds like a lone rocket ship driving further away from Earth without the slightest thought of looking backward. It might be stratospherically dull if cold, inhuman techno isn't your thing, but he has a way of making it sound captivating. Like all of the best pure techno, the power is in the repetition, and the way the sounds gradually build and change, locking hold of your attention and transporting your mind into a distant region. Supremely focused while still experimenting with textures and timbres,
The Empty Space is a master class in inner-mind, outer-limit exploration. ~ Paul Simpson