Bastet: the breakthrough Techno producer of 2021 in Spain starts his year with the EP 'Oxigen'

The Seville DJ is the most active techno producer in our underground scene: last year he released 31 titles and reached the Beatport Top 10 on several occasions.

He moves between melodic Techno and Hard Techno and has just published on the labels Spartaque and Deborah de Luca

Produced during the pandemic, the 2 tracks of the new EP radiate melancholy and longing for freedom

Fran Bastet —or simply Bastet, her official stage name— is the techno producer He is the most active producer on the scene in Spain. He ended last year as the underground scene's revelation producer with two great assets in his favor: a deep and elegant sound, and an astonishing hyperactivity when it comes to creating and releasing tracks to the market. In 2021 he signed 31 titles, some of them on labels as important as IAMT, the label of Spartacus; or Only, of Deborah deLuca.

In 2022, Bastet has started with the machinery working at full speed and this past Friday it premiered its annual chapter of launches. It is already on the street EP 'Oxigen', published by the Amsterdam-based label Airborne Black Records, is a collection of two songs produced during the worst phase of the pandemic and, perhaps for this reason, their sound radiates melancholy and a desire for freedom.

“This EP sounds at 133 bpm, a little less aggressive than what I've been producing lately. When I was working on it, we were still under curfew and the title refers to the oxygen we were lacking in those exhausting days. On the other track, 'Sometimes', I've used a less forceful bass than usual, reflecting the limitations and frustrations we were experiencing in those days.”, the artist explains.

In her record-breaking year of 2021, Bastet placed several tracks on the Top10 of Techno in Beatport With the track 'Enigma' (Orange Recordings) he reached number 1 on the Beatport Hype Top 100, the special ranking that the platform's expert curators create to highlight musical gems worth considering. Others

Throughout her career spanning more than 15 years, Bastet (Seville, 1985), Bastet's music has been performed by Richie Hawtin, Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, Adam Beyer or Umek, and has sounded in festivals like TimeWarp, Sónar or Exit. After investing many years of passion and with a completely self-taught drive, today 100% is dedicated to music and is a recognized driving force of the underground scene in Andalusia.