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Blue Drifts is the third EP by Paris-based artist orti, completing his trilogy formed alongside his previous releases Red Gardens and Green Deserts. Together, these three works constitute a conceptual series an exploration produced during the years the Spanish multi-instrumentalist spent living in Berlin. Sharing a common visual identity and a naming structure based on contrasting colour and elemental imagery, the trilogy reflects the evolution of the artists sound and the closing of a creative chapter. In this new release, the compositional focus moves towards introspection and experimentation, delivering a more abstract and instrumental narrative than its predecessors. Blue Drifts presents four tracks Entropy Loss Syndrome, fake_news, Seele and Gut Dimension that combine ortis characteristic textural work with an experimental journey of new forms of sampling and sound design. The EP incorporates elements of IDM and 90s-influenced electronic music, with presences of guitar and orchestral instrumentation that preserve the organic essence found throughout his earlier EPs. Conceptually, Blue Drifts represents a farewell and a process of creative renewal. The pieces portray the reflective state that follows an intense creative period; a moment of transition marked by dissolution, memory, and transformation. Tracks such as Entropy Loss Syndrome and fake_news continue an exploration of the relationship between technology, information, and perception, while Gut Dimension extends this inquiry to the physical realm, being built majorly from recordings of the artists body vocal, blood and stomach sound recordings reshaped into rhythmic and melodic structures. Seele, composed five years earlier (2021), stands as the most cinematic and contemplative piece of the record. Closing his Berlin Trilogy, Blue Drifts captures the sensation of winter departure a final drift through the frozen citys sonic and cultural landscape. The EP encapsulates both the residues and the resonances of a period spent in dialogue with Berlins underground and experimental scenes, marking the end of an era and opening the way to a new artistic stage. Blue Drifts is released on HOA Records.