Acen Razvi is an English
breakbeat hardcore
Breakbeat hardcore (also referred to as hardcore rave or oldskool hardcore) is a music genre of the very early 1990s that spawned from the UK rave scene. It combines four-on-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats usually sampled from hip hop. In ad ...
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techno
Techno is a Music genre, genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally music production, produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central Drum beat, rhythm is typ ...
music producer. Acen was known for tracks such as "Close Your Eyes", "Window in the Sky" and "Trip II the Moon" (the latter two both 1992). He worked for the
Production House Records stable, which also brought fame to
Baby D. He released the album ''75 Minutes''.
He has also collaborated with
Baby D's Floyd Dyce to form The House Crew.
He is now a filmmaker, specialising in short films under the name Acen Films Limited to be shown at festivals. Besides producing dance music tracks, his aim is to fuse art forms and to introduce pioneering visual and musical perceptions to new audiences.
In 1999, Tom Ewing of ''
Freaky Trigger'' described Razvi as "the most underrated act of the decade": "His series of 12″ singles, tossed out into the seething dance marketplace of ’92–’93, are without exception stunning. Acen is the lushest, and most lyrical, of the great hardcore producers, and if his gleeful inventiveness and wicked way with a sample are more typical of the time, that just goes to show what an unbelievable time it was. More than anyone else making records, Acen for me encompasses the beauty, velocity and freedom of hardcore."
In his list of the "Top 100 Singles of the 90s", "Trip II the Moon (Part 2)" was ranked at number 23 and "Close Your Eyes (Optikonfusion!)" was ranked at number 44,
while "Window in the Sky" almost featured on the list.
Partial discography
* "
Trip II the Moon" (re-mix) (1992) UK No. 71
* "
Trip II the Moon" (1992) UK No. 38
* "Window in the Sky" (1992) UK No. 88
* Collaborated with Dice on "When the Lion Awakes" by The Brother's Grimm – Exodus (1992)
* 75 Minutes (1994)
* ''
Licka'' (EP) (2002)
References
English electronic musicians
English record producers
Breakbeat hardcore musicians
Hardcore techno musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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