Temple.Prayer #027 - Odd Hills by Temple.
✝ Temple.Prayer ✝ @oddhills Download available at 1000 listens. There is no denying that in recent years, there has been a great and invaluable influx of DJ’s emanating from Northern/Eastern Europe who have very much contributed to both the international and British techno scene. Odd Hills is the latest DJ to emerge from this influx. The limited scope and availability of the electronic music scene in his hometown of Lithuania posed obvious problems. Yet rather than be dissuaded, such limitations only led to a greater thirst to explore and discover new sounds. This opportunity was afforded to him by his move to the capital (Vilnius) in which he would find a greater and more established scene. Yet it would only be until he emigrated to London around a decade ago that he would decide to jump on the decks and mix the very sounds he had discovered and explored over the years. Listen carefully to his mixes and the influence of his Lithuanian background will quickly become apparent. He is part of a recent cabal of Eastern/Northern European DJ’s whose unique style of techno has proved a welcome derivation to the standard style of industrial and hard Berlin techno which has dominated the Western European techno scene for many years and which is gaining greater and greater traction. Such a style involves a kaleidoscopic range of experimental techno sounds, ranging from the melodic to the dark. Whilst he had not delved into the realm of music production yet, this is the next goal in his sight. But for the time being, his mixes on the likes of Plazma Records and Temple.Recordings, in which he fearlessly and effortlessly weaves between the dark and melodic elements of techno music, have caught the ear of a small but committed underground techno audience in Britain.