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André Obin’s slow-burning dance tracks find their way to the floor

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February 16, 2012|By Luke O’Neil

I still dont think many people know who I am, but the people who do feel like… (Jim davis/globe staff )

With four EPs and a handful of singles under his belt (and two more set to drop in the coming months), electronic producer André Obin has been particularly busy the past few years. And that’s without considering his work in the shoe-gaze, post-punk rock band Endless Wave.

While the Cambridge-born Obin, 33, says he’s been making music at such a steady pace his entire life (he graduated with a degree in electro-acoustic composition from Wheaton College), it wasn’t until 2008, when he dropped his first release, “Colorwheel,’’ a hypnotic kaleidoscope of synth-noodling and hazy aesthetics, that his work fully registered in the Boston scene.

He’s made up for lost time in the past year with a series of singles that have started to gain traction on the international level, and a respectable track record in local music awards, including a nomination as best electronic artist in the 2011 Boston Music Awards, and a win in the same category in the Boston Phoenix Music Poll. Obin plays the Magic Room Gallery in Brighton on March 2.

Among the tracks he’s been recognized for is “Soft Rain,’’ a song firmly footed in Obin’s dreamy, meandering, blissed-out style. Released last March on the Dutch label Trouw - run by the influential promoters of the Amsterdam club of the same name - it came complete with a remix by German electronic veteran Patrice Bäumel that, according to Obin, has found its way into John Digweed’s sets.

“That really opened me up to more of a global fan base in Europe and South America,’’ says Obin. “I mean, I still don’t think many people know who I am, but the people who do feel like real fans right now. They’re hungry for more.’’

That explains the heightened pace of his release schedule. His recent, brightly mournful single, “Lemondrop,’’ on Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Moodgadget Records, features remixes by Vancouver, British Columbia’s, Teen Daze and Kansas City, Mo.’s, 18 Carat Affair. April will see the launch of his next single, “Valencia,’’ a harder-edged track on Boston’s Vanya Records; while in May, the Dutch label Klopfgeist will put out his acidic 10-minute techno track, “Night Owl.’’ A video for “Valencia’’ is also currently in the works. Directed by Theodore Cormey - who made the stunning shot-by-shot re-creation of “The Prisoner’’ for Boston duo Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling this past year - the video was partly shot in Montreal and required the rental of an actual military tank, among other elaborate details.

None of that heavy load represents a change in his recording or writing habits, Obin says. “My releases might be more frequent,’’ but the prolific pace isn’t. He’s just lucky enough to have found people ready to put out his work this year.