PURISM issues Elia Hicks’ Weightless Room, restrained minimal techno with depth

PURISM’s Weightless Room by Elia Hicks arrived on April 24, 2026 with a label posture that is almost a manifesto: “Not so much talking, we let the music speak. We are purists.” That line fits an Italy-based imprint that defines purism as strict observance of rules and structures, and it also explains why this EP feels less like packaging and more like an argument for minimal techno as discipline. Bandcamp Daily even folded the release into its April 24 Essential Releases roundup, putting Hicks’ record squarely in the current underground conversation.

The shape of the EP is as controlled as the messaging. Weightless Room contains three tracks, Phase Shift, Molting Skin, and Dust Settles, each hovering around the six-minute mark. That length gives the music room to build pressure without losing its lean frame, which is exactly where minimal techno earns its keep. The titles do useful work too. They point toward transformation, shedding, and after-movement rather than a literal story, so the record suggests change without spelling it out. Tagged across deep house, electronic, house, techno, minimal, and minimal techno, with Italy marked as the scene anchor, it sits in that crossover space where club functionality meets a more meditative pull.

Elia Hicks brings a cross-border identity to the project that matches the label’s European underground profile. Hicks’ Bandcamp page identifies the artist as a Peruvian artist based in Switzerland, which adds another layer to a release that already feels connected to a wider network rather than a single local pocket. PURISM has worked with Hicks before, first on Tnt-us in 2021 and again on Walk On in 2024, so Weightless Room reads as part of an ongoing relationship rather than a one-off experiment.

That continuity matters because PURISM is not operating like a disposable tool factory. Its full digital discography lists 125 releases, a size that gives the label enough history to make its restraint feel deliberate instead of accidental. Earlier Hicks releases also show a stable creative workflow: Tnt-us credited Alfredo Quiroz as writer, producer, and arranger, with mastering by Enrico Mantini at DDA Mastering, while Walk On credited Quiroz as writer and producer alongside additional production and remixes from Nacho Bolognani and Lee Onel. Weightless Room extends that same sense of control, where fewer gestures do not mean less depth. They mean the music has been stripped to the part that lands hardest.