Delayed with... Notzing
Spain’s underground electronic music community has become an important point of reference for us over the last several years. The sheer amount of talent emerging from the Iberian Peninsula remains astonishing, with artists continually finding new ways to approach techno, ambient, experimental, and everything that exists in the spaces between. One name that has been appearing more frequently, and for good reason, is Dario Garcia, better known as Notzing.
With releases on Southern Lights, Circular Limited, Northallsen, and most recently Hypnus, the Madrid-based producer has steadily established a distinctive voice. Garcia describes Notzing as “a sonic practice of ego dissolution and altered states. Through dense drones, recursive loops, and unstable harmonic fields, the project operates as a vehicle for trance induction and perceptual disintegration.”
For his contribution to the series, Notzing shares a live recording from the Crossroads event at Espacio Perpendicular, one of our favorite spaces in Spain. Over 90 minutes, he navigates the murkier edges of deep techno and halftime, maintaining a level of tension that rarely lets up. The sound design feels fluid throughout, constantly shifting form without announcing its movements. Elements emerge from the background, interact briefly, then disappear again beneath the surface.
Deep techno has accumulated its own habits over the years. Certain textures, certain arrangements, certain emotional cues appear so frequently that experienced listeners can often anticipate what comes next. Notzing avoids that trap. The DNA is unmistakably there, but the music never settles into autopilot. Just as a pattern begins to feel familiar, a strange detail appears in the periphery. A rhythm changes direction. A texture introduces a new sense of scale. The set keeps moving forward without relying on obvious gestures.
There is a dreamlike quality to the whole recording. At times, it feels submerged, as though the music is unfolding somewhere deep underwater. At others, it becomes surprisingly spacious, allowing small details to float into focus before disappearing again. The result is trippy, hypnotic, and full of character.