Fels is a producer, musician and DJ from Switzerland, active in a variety of musical contexts. Co-founder of the former independent label Strecke Records (2016-2022), he leads several musical projects as a solo artist or with his duo E&A Rüeger with his brother, regularly performing live or working as a sound artist and composer for theatre plays, podcasts and films. Producing for 2 years under his solo moniker, Fels, Alexis has a professional and polished sound made of variations between bass music, ambient, techno and broken beats. In his live performances, Fels’ brings his work to life with synthesisers, effects and rhythm machines.
The Outzone EP is a serious professional workout in the European club genre. A lustrous, slick aura in a subversive, urban experiment, electrifying senses and redefining electronic music. Woven with large threads of creativity and audacious exploration, designed to cascade through the soul with pure euphoria.
A1. Blink: A tension builder and contestation creator, with some sounds recorded in protests against police violence
A2. Outzone: Fel's most explorative track, where he fronted a lot of his musical spectrum, going from distorted 140 rhythms to psychedelic ambient atmospheres
B1. Blurred Edges: A tense and threatening ambience, where all the delays and hoovers make you lose orientation on a dancefloor full of smoke. The darkest track on the EP
B2. Morphed Soil: An unconscious ode to Pearson Sound and Hodge. Melodic breaks to get any rave going
"So regarding the EP, I'd say this one covers almost all of my musical spectrum. It was maybe the hardest one I've done, since I really needed time to shape every track to be happy with them finally... started the process several times, it was sometimes frustrating but, eventually, I'm really glad to have the tracks as they are, this might be a sort of milestone in my production process :) Also, despite having a lot of "dark" ambiences, I felt it was also important to give some musicality to the whole, I think Outzone and Morphed Soil kind of achieved this purpose."