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...
For sure, I will keep a closer look on Fluxion's work from now on!
Happy 2026!
