Agustin Pretti Drops Four-Track Minimal Techno EP on Northone

The tracklist announces itself before a single bar plays. "Ketamine." "Limp From Utg." "Rigger Plate." "Ya No Hay Ai." That is a vocabulary built from chemical dissociation, physical inertia, industrial hardware, and a dry Spanish-language sign-off on artificial intelligence: there is no more AI. These are not random selections. Agustin Pretti's NORTHONE0013, released March 31 on Uruguayan imprint Northone, carries naming that signals intent rather than aesthetics, and the sequencing holds up as a four-part functional architecture.

"Ketamine" reads as the EP's tool track. The name draws directly from the K-hole end of club pharmacology, but in the minimal context that dissociation has a structural meaning: long loops, patient layering, a track designed to be mixed into and out of rather than presented as a statement. A selector drops this into the middle of a transition and uses it as scaffolding. "Limp From Utg" works as the tension builder, the word "limp" doing significant gravity work against whatever rhythmic frame holds it up. Sub-peak energy, unresolved, the kind of track that holds a floor in suspension before committing to the push. "Rigger Plate" supplies the peak drive: the term comes from heavy-lifting rigging hardware, and the naming logic is straightforward, mechanical force applied with precision. This is where the EP earns its dancefloor placement. Then "Ya No Hay Ai" steps sideways as the left-field breather, the Spanish phrase carrying enough conceptual friction to reset a set's mood without evacuating the floor.

Whether the titles are fully cashing the cheques the names write depends on what the actual audio delivers. But the naming system itself is coherent rather than decorative, which puts NORTHONE0013 ahead of releases that lean on vague abstraction as a substitute for sequencing logic.

Northone is a Uruguayan label that launched in January 2023 and has maintained a consistent catalog pace, with NORTHONE0013 arriving as the 13th entry in just over three years. The roster runs to artists including MOLEN, LANZIERI, GASTON CABRERA, and BORREGO MATRIX, and the label's self-stated focus on dancefloor sound with an eye toward eventual physical format gives it the kind of curatorial seriousness that separates a working imprint from a Bandcamp upload account. Pretti, an Argentine producer who has moved between house, electro, and techno across his catalog and previously released through Subliminar Records, extends Northone's regional reach without disrupting its sonic coherence.

For selectors assembling April sets, NORTHONE0013 slots cleanest into the pre-peak window: once the room has committed but before the energy has peaked, Pretti's four-track sequence provides a nearly complete kit for the build.