Tune #122: Fluxion - Correlation

I have not dedicated a lot of time hearing to dub techno music, but I can always appreciate solid tracks of the genre...

Konstantinos Soublis is a Greek music artist, better known as Fluxion. Expressing an interest in arts since his teens, he studied art and design for a year in London. Starting briefly with photography, he dropped out after a few months to focus on music technology (the best choice of his life according to him). His presence in London during the first half of the 90's was very influential, exposing himself to the explosion of electronic music. In several interviews he has mentioned that his early influences were Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Wim Mertens, all of whom are artists that use heavily repetitive patterns. Additionally, Basic Channel and their minimalistic aesthetics made a significant impact to his approach on electronic music production.

Konstantinos' first official release was the Lark / Atlos EP which can be traced back in 1998 on Chain Reaction, a Basic Channel sublabel (what else?), and was the first time that he adopted the specific alias. One year later, his first studio album Vibrant Forms was released in the same label, spawning another two installments (Vibrant Forms II in 2000 and Vibrant Forms III in 2016) and setting the basis for the launch of a personal label called Vibrant Music, which continues to exist to this very day.

After more than 10 studio albums and multiple EPs for several labels besides CR (Echocord, Subwax Bcn, Solar Phenomena, Resopal Schallware), Fluxion has crafted his compositions combining elements from several genres, such as ambient, dub techno, minimal & score music. Besides his main moniker, he has produced music under other pseudonyms (dub techno as Unsquare Mode, deep house as Recast, IDM as Silex), following the ethos of the old days by using different aliases per music genre.

If my memory serves me well, I first came across Fluxion's music 5 years ago (I guess that I was late to the game) via his collaboration with fellow music producer Savvas Ysatis (for whom I have written some things in another blog post) as Soluce. When I had started listening to electronic music from an early age, I was not into dub techno music at all (explained in more detail here). However, during the last 10 years I have grown my appreciation for other genres as well and mainly for the ones that are not club-oriented, but for home listening (I know, I am getting old...). 

Flashback to September of the previous year, I had the opportunity to visit Paris for business, and I spent some after work time wandering to various record stores. For anyone interested, I would strongly recommend Balades Sonores, which has a vast collection in electronic music (my personal area of interest) along with other genres. Within the electronic music section, I found the latest 2 albums of Fluxion, Parallel Moves & Haze, and I decided to grab the former, mainly due to the beautiful album cover which was also curated by another Greek artist (Nikos Kakoulidis).

Listening to the entire album creates evoking memories of various sentiments and my personal highlight is Correlation. That synth...

FLUXION - CORRELATION 

For sure, I will keep a closer look on Fluxion's work from now on!

Happy 2026!

Tune #114: Omicron - Tranquility Base

When I was very young, I wondered why Greek artists do not have a presence in electronic music, whether it was for dancefloors or focused on more ambient paths. The fact is that I was unfamiliar with significant Greek music artists and their music in the 90's. At some point, my ignorance could be justified from the limited exposure of the genre to the mass media (as I little kid I did not have the means or the knowledge how the perform a dedicated search). Therefore, I discovered great music producers in the later years, when I had the time, resources and more important the passion to dig out obscure but inspiring music. 

One of the most interesting digging results is undoubtedly Savvas Ysatis. Influenced by the electronic music innovators Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre, he was absorbed by the beauty of the synthesizers and their endless possibilities. While in his mid-teens he moved from his birthplace (Athens) to New York in order to dedicate his life on electronic music composition. From 1993 until 1997 he developed a fruitful collaboration with Instinct Records, composing a plethora of tracks under various aliases. Through the label he met fellow composer Taylor Dupree and soon they started working their own original material together. Their partnership stood the test of time with many releases spanning different pseudonyms and different genres, from housey techno to ambient & IDM.

At the late 90's Ysatis returned to his birthplace to support and develop the electronic music scene of Greece. He wrote the track Mono + Mono with distinguished Greek DJ & producer Giannis Papaioannou (a.k.a. IØN), adopting the alias Volume One, and started the Allou project with vocalist Elias Aslanoglou, known for his tenure at alternative rock band Magic De Spell.

ΑΛΛΟΥ - ΩΡΑΙΑ ΜΕΡΑ

Since then, he released additional works for prominent labels, such as Plastic City & Tresor, while also collaborating with Taylor Dupree for production of new material for the latter's label 12k. One of his latest partnerships is with fellow Greek producer Fluxion (Konstantinos Soublis) as Soluce for the collaborative album Birth (2018).

I consider a great idea to present in the current post one track from the early works of Savvas Ysatis; it is called Tranquility Base, taken from his first studio album Acrocosm under his Omicron moniker. The entire album is one of the finest examples of ambient/IDM music and the above track just provides a glimpse of a highly sensory experience that takes the listener to a unique ambient journey through cosmical areas!

OMICRON - TRANQUILITY BASE