Alex Drift returns with Curiosity (Chapter 1), a record built from fragments of time, loss and renewal. Out on Electromantica, the album revisits material from across 20 years of production, reshaping it into a cohesive 10-track journey where disco basslines, boogie-house impulses, electro textures and indie dance moods collide with a clear sense of purpose.
There is something quietly powerful about the premise: after a devastating data loss, Alex Drift recovered and reworked productions that could have disappeared forever. Some of these pieces are more than 15 years old, but the album never feels like a nostalgic exercise. Instead, it moves with the confidence of an artist rebuilding his own archive from the inside, giving forgotten sketches a new pulse, a brighter edge and a direct route back to the dancefloor.
Floating Harmony (Interlude) opens the door with deceptive calm, setting up an album that is constantly negotiating between order and instability. For Sophia brings emotional warmth, while Summer Jam injects a loose, sunlit groove that leans into the artist’s current love for boogie house beats, disco basslines and catchy vocal hooks. The melodic language is immediate, but never disposable; Alex Drift understands how to write hooks that stay in the body without flattening the detail around them.
The central run gives the record its most hypnotic shape. Hypnotized by the Sun and I See You work with light, repetition and movement, carrying that indie-dance tension where sweetness and pressure coexist. Then Sold My Soul to the Devil sharpens the atmosphere with a more mischievous attitude, adding grit and theatricality without breaking the album’s flow. Will Never Come Back and Take Me to a Higher Place push the emotional arc further, balancing release, memory and the need to keep moving.
By the time Too Much Coffee arrives, the album has fully embraced its restless side: nervous energy, caffeine jitters, late-night momentum. In Chaos (Outro) closes the chapter not with a clean ending, but with the feeling that disorder can also be fertile. For an artist who has lived in Berlin for two decades and moved through electronic music under different aliases, Curiosity (Chapter 1) feels like a sincere personal statement: not just a collection of recovered tracks, but a declaration of survival through sound.
Curiosity (Chapter 1) is melodic, warped, open-hearted and club-ready, the sound of an artist refusing to let lost time stay lost.
