Ray valioso is a new project by swiss producer agnès. ‘einladung ep’, the debut ray valioso release, sees agnès shifting away from his usual deep, minimal techno territory to explore more house-influenced rhythms and textures. ‘einladung ep’ features three varied pieces: ‘get the strings?’ builds with loose, stuttering, metallic percussion playing over a locked bass/organ pulse before opening out into a beautifully detailed mix of chords, high strings and clipped vocal parts. ‘keep it’ is a minimal percussion-based track of clicky kick drums and shuffling out-of-time hi-hats. ‘rhodes island’ rides on a warm, repetitive chord sequence that refers back to the classic basic channel/chain reaction template. agnès runs the geneva-based label sthlmaudio recordings. launched in 2003, sthlmaudio has released tracks by agnès, puma, octex, apoll, cabanne, croatian producers luka & lazo and uk duo tom demac & duckett. agnès also has a well received ep on cabanne’s minibar label (’treat me bad’) and a new release on plak records. he has recently started a new label, 60sec, in collaboration with french producer and fellow geneva resident lee van dowski (num records, cadenza, plak, mental groove, soma, bpitch control).