Some tracks do not ask you to ease in. They just cut the room and start moving air. That is the lane Italian producer GIXBLEX is working in with Turn The Lights Off, a Techno and EDM cut that sits right in the middle of the harder, bass-first club sound he has been building for years.
GIXBLEX is based in Arezzo and describes himself as a producer focused on Bass House and Tech House, with extra time spent in heavier corners like Psy Trance and Techno. That mix shows up in the way his catalog has grown: festival-weight low end on one release, tighter club grooves on the next, and the occasional dive into something more aggressive. His Spotify profile frames the project as emerging electronic work built on heavy basslines, hypnotic synths, and rhythms meant to shake a system. That is the useful frame for this one. Turn The Lights Off is not a soft-focus mood piece. It is written for rooms that want the kick up front and the lights down.
He is not new to the game. Public notes on earlier work put his FL Studio start around 2016 and his first proper singles around 2021. Tonal Drone, released on Will Sparks’ CLUBWRK imprint, got him early attention and support from names like Brooks, Showtek, and Sparks himself. Since then the discography has stayed busy: techno and dance releases across a stack of labels, collabs, and Beatport listings that swing from tech house into peak-time driving techno. SoundBetter even lists him out of Arezzo as an EDM producer with a string of client sessions. None of that needs dressing up. It just means Turn The Lights Off arrives from someone who already knows how a dancefloor drop has to land.
What matters on a track like this is the architecture. Modern techno and festival-leaning EDM live or die on kick weight, bass design, and how clean the arrangement stays when the energy goes up. Bass House and Tech House taught a generation of producers to treat the low end as the hook: a tight sub under a dirtier mid-bass, sidechained so the kick still punches. Techno adds the hypnotic part — loops that do not need a verse to keep people locked. GIXBLEX has already shown he can pull those worlds together. Earlier write-ups of Tonal Drone talked about big-room muscle with psytrance and techno edges. Turn The Lights Off sits in that same family: functional, physical, and built for a dark room rather than a playlist thumbnail.
The timing is not accidental either. Harder techno, hypertechno, and bass-heavy house hybrids have been eating club bills and gym playlists for a few seasons now. DJs want tracks that work at peak without collapsing into the same eight-bar formula. Italian producers have been part of that push for a while, feeding both underground rooms and bigger EDM stages. A title like Turn The Lights Off is almost a set instruction. It tells you the mood before the first bar: late, loud, no small talk.
If you only know GIXBLEX from the Bass House side, this is a good reminder that the heavier catalogue is not a side project. Psy Trance and Techno are part of how he hears energy. That range is useful. It keeps a producer from painting every track the same shade of 128. Listeners who like rolling tech-house grooves and listeners who want a more industrial, driving techno hit can both find a door in.
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What do you think of GIXBLEX’s take on Techno and EDM here? Drop it in the comments and tell me if this one stays in the peak-time pile.
