Alex Hub and Marthes Bring Latin Rhythms to Minimal Techno on Euforia EP

Straight four-on-the-floor minimalism has its own relentlessness, and it's exactly what Chilean duo Alex Hub and Marthes disrupt across the three tracks of Euforia EP, released April 8 on Boomerang Recordings. The release, mastered by Dani Labb with artwork by MZ, deploys breakbeat patterns and Latin-tinged percussion against stripped-back arrangements. The result changes how the groove functions: instead of locking into every downbeat, the rhythm presses forward with a syncopated energy that pulls a dancefloor differently.

That shift translates directly into how each track slots into a set. Euforia, the title track, serves as the warm-up entry point, introducing the breakbeat swing before the room is fully committed. Baila, which translates as "dance," is the mid-set driver and the EP's most direct dancefloor statement. Que Electro functions as the percussion-led peak tool, leaning hardest into the electro vocabulary with the rhythm section doing the load-bearing work across its five-to-six-minute runtime.

The low-end reflects Labb's background in merging dub and house textures with club-ready output: the bass carries warmth rather than clinical thump, which means the breakbeat-versus-kick interplay stays audible on a full-range system rather than collapsing into low-frequency mud. The Latin percussion layers articulate clearly above it. On smaller club rigs the tonal balance holds as well. That's the practical difference between a well-mastered breakbeat-minimal hybrid and an unbalanced one; the percussion needs room in the mix, and Labb's mastering gives it that.

Boomerang Recordings positions this as its second release. The label's Bandcamp notes frame the Chilean connection explicitly: "The boomerang is already in movement, and thanks to these three mixes brought to us by our Chilean friends Alex Hub and Marthes, the music keeps flying around the world." Hub and Marthes keep the arrangements minimal enough that the Latin percussion doesn't function as ornamentation. It's structural. The breakbeat patterns displace the four-on-the-floor anchor entirely, and the Latin percussion fills that rhythmic space rather than decorating it.

The five-to-six-minute durations make all three pieces immediately practical for integration into sets. The minimal arrangement ethos ensures the Latin percussion and breakbeat elements land as core functions rather than style additions. As a second release from Boomerang Recordings, Euforia EP signals a label position worth tracking.