Published
Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 02:17
- The techno veteran says he's behind an alias that started in 2010.
Sonic Groove boss Adam X is the mind behind the previously anonymous production project The Secret Initiative, which will shut down next month after putting out its final 12-inch and a special USB anthology.
The Secret Initiative launched in 2010—the year Adam Mitchell revealed that he was behind the Traversable Wormhole alias—with the first in a string of colored-vinyl records featuring Masonic imagery. Mitchell reportedly sought to make music that touched on "a multitude of classic techno subgenres," working "without expectation [or] stigmatization," while paying homage to the sounds that inspired him in his early years on the scene. Mitchell hadn't publicly claimed credit until now.
From the beginning, he planned The Secret Initiative as a series of ten records, and the final entry is now on the way. Along with that comes a special digital anthology: a USB key with all 20 tracks from the project in 24-bit WAV format, housed in an engraved wooden box.
Each 12-inch release will also be made available on digital formats for the first time.
Listen to a preview of The Secret Initiative X.
Tracklist
The Secret Initiative X
A Cognitive Circuits
B Incorporeality
The Secret Initiative Anthology
01. Polarity Issues
02. Smell, Breath, Electricity
03. Playing God
04. Throwing It Back
05. The Grinding Machine
06. Dark Dirty & Broken
07. Chordrophonic
08. Sentiment Of Pity
09. North Of The Eastern Star
10. Half A Life Ago
11. Static Friction
12. The Risk Factor
13. Meltwater Valley
14. A Flash In The Eye
15. Without An Answer
16. Toneme
17. Synesthete
18. Return To MCMXC
19. Cognitive Circuits
20. Incorporeality
The Secret Initiative will release The Secret Initiative X and The Secret Initiative Anthology in late April, 2018.
Photo credit: Marie Staggat
