Sote
Sote is the primary moniker of Ata Ebtekar, one of Iran's most prominent electronic and experimental musicians. Initially starting out as a techno artist during the '90s, his work gradually became more distorted and abstract, earning the attention of labels like Warp. Later on, he received acclaim for fusing Persian classical traditions with electro-acoustic music.
Ebtekar was born in Hamburg, Germany and spent his youth in both Iran and Germany. He grew up listening to new wave and industrial music, and after his family moved to San Francisco when he was 16, he was introduced to techno music. He began studying sound design, and he released a few techno and trance tracks as Atax during the late '90s. His first single as Sote was Electric Deaf, an intense drum'n'bass/breakcore epic issued by none other than Warp in 2002. The more abstract XOXO EP followed on Dielectric Records in 2003, and the haunting electro-acoustic full-length Dastgaah, which largely abandoned the rhythmic elements of his prior work, appeared in 2006.
The 2007 EP Wake Up (on Record Label Records) was a return to techno and drum'n'bass, but some of his most accomplished experimental work to date was released as the second disc of Sub Rosa's double CD Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966-2006, which also featured the music of Iranian composer Alireza Mashayekhi. Ebtekar, who had moved back to Tehran by this point, also performed Mashayekhi's works, along with the Iranian Orchestra for New Music, on a 2009 release titled Ornamental. Ebtekar collaborated with composer/pianist Mazdak Khamda on an album titled Sonic Within, initially released as a cassette by Digitalis in 2010 and later issued on vinyl by 333 Recordings/2 Hed. The solo album Dear Iran, Miniature Engines Throb in Time for Your Beating Heart appeared on Merzbild in 2013.
Ebtekar returned to his Sote moniker, as well as more rhythmic, techno/industrial-influenced material, with the 2014 LP Architectonic, which was released by Morphine Records. Arrhythmia, created on modular synthesizers, was released digitally by Record Label Records in 2015. Hardcore Sounds from Tehran, a cassette containing edits of live performances, was released by Opal Tapes in 2016. Additionally, Repitch released 10inch04, a single containing previously unreleased tracks recorded during the 1990s, and the EP Hyper-urban 20 30 appeared on Ge-Stell. In 2017, Opal Tapes released Sote's Sacred Horror in Design, an album of electro-acoustic music created as part of a commission from Berlin's CTM Festival.
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Ministry of Tall Tales
Elektronische muziek of Musique Concrète - Released by SVBKVLT on 29 feb. 2024
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Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran
Alternative en Indie - Released by Sub rosa on 4 mrt. 2022
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River of Pain
Elektronische muziek of Musique Concrète - Released by SVBKVLT on 25 jan. 2024
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Hardcore Sounds from Tehran
Elektronische muziek of Musique Concrète - Released by Opal Tapes on 1 jun. 2016
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MOSCELS
Elektronische muziek of Musique Concrète - Released by Opal Tapes on 15 mei 2020
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Sacred Horror In Design
Electronic - Released by Opal Tapes on 28 jul. 2017
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Parallel Persia Remixes
Electronic - Released by Diagonal Records on 7 mei 2020
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BUENos AIREs
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by 1992587 Records DK on 26 feb. 2024
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Artificial Neutrality
Electronic - Released by Diagonal Records on 13 mrt. 2019
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Ela não entenderia...
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Sote on 28 aug. 2023
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Parking (feat. Tin)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by 1992587 Records DK on 28 apr. 2023
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Wake Up
Drum 'n' bass - Released by Record Label Records on 1 jan. 2007
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LGBTQIA+ (Love Generation)
Divers - Released by Lemon Yellow Pea on 11 sep. 2021
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Movement Feat. Elliot Chapman
Drum 'n' bass - Released by Lemon Yellow Pea on 7 apr. 2022
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LOST MIND (feat. Brwan)
Soul - Released by 1992587 Records DK on 8 dec. 2022
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angustia barata
Pop - Released by 1992587 Records DK on 23 aug. 2022
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Electric Deaf
Alternative en Indie - Released by Warp Records on 13 mei 2002
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