Australian digital music composer HRTZ
has released her premier dance single, “Accidentally Acid.” The
prominent track features original vocals by Canadian DJ Kwe. It has
been proudly published as an independent release outside the
influence of the corporate music industry. Pulsing with groove,
subtly unstoppable, and so easy to fall into that fans of all genres
can agree on it, “Accidentally Acid” is a traditional house music
anthem with a modern edge that suggests HRTZ will be at the top of
her game for years to come.
HRTZ cites music influences from the UK
house-music scene, such as Maya Jane Coles and Carl Cox, as well as
Russian DJ Nina Kraviz. Listeners familiar with the works of these
digital composers will recognize common traits between them: tight,
spacious beats, minimal instrumentation, and slow builds that rely on
tasteful texturing rather than “are you all ready for this”-style
crescendos. Like the music of HRTZ, herself, this is electronic
music that has much more to offer than your kid brother's MacBook
masterpiece.
The difference may lie in HRTZ's
musical roots, which differ greatly from that of many digital
composers today.
“I was originally a
singer-songwriter,” HRTZ writes. “I wrote blues and folk songs
and played around the open mic nights in Melbourne. I also played an
open mic night in Canada while on holiday and in San Francisco, too.
It was fun to experience a different audience from the Australian
one.”
Another key quality her new single
boasts is that of an underlying complexity. Its patient, classy
minimalism allows for a tacit communication between the music and the
music fan. It isn't blaring, isn't gaudy, isn't obnoxious. This
electronic music doesn't yell – it speaks.
“'Accidentally Acid' is about letting
go of the daily grind and realising it's not about the gadgets and
the quick sugar rushes that we experience in life,” writes HRTZ.
“It's about something much deeper than that. It's personal to every
listener.”
Maybe that's why her single has
collected 6,000 plays in the few weeks it's been available for
listening – just on her official SoundCloud page alone – and this
with precious little hype but word of mouth.
HRTZ (Toyah Hoetzel) is a
Melbourne-based house-music producer and DJ affiliated with Beyond
The Beat UK & AU. She grew up getting into gay clubs underage in
the industrial areas of Melbourne's grimy Collingwood district. She
found her feet amongst the lovers of vocal house where sweaty,
bass-driven remixes of divas such as Whitney Houston were a regular
vice for many.
Originally a classically trained
guitarist and then a singer-songwriter, HRTZ loves and focuses on
melodic shifts in tension in her sets, and by doing so commands
control of the dance floor. Inspired by the electro movement in
Melbourne's more obscure clubs like Honky Tonks, Eurotrash Pop Shop
and The Croft Institute in the early 2000s, HRTZ was exposed to such
legends as Ajax, John Course and Carl Cox, where her love of vocal,
electro and house were entrenched.
HRTZ returned to her musical roots on a
digital platform in 2013 pioneering TopDeckDJs and entered as a
newcomer into Melbourne's club scene with a variety of sounds from
house, tech-house, trap, moombahton and bass-heavy EDM sets. She now
produces what she loves, indie dance and deep-house tunes, and is
gaining momentum as a DJ, producer, and digital-sample artist.
“Accidentally Acid” by HRTZ and
feat. DJ Kwe is available online worldwide beginning Aug. 31, 2015.
Get in early, house-music fans.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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