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Grid 6th release is a unique one from Londoner Joe Arthur AKA @kincaidofficial, comprising of six completely mind-blowing tracks, brimming with sublime sound design.

With everything from foley and footsteps, to tempo changes and analogue synthesis, there is a complete spectrum that is fully apparent here. Many styles that Kincaid has already demonstrated via labels like Well Street Records, Banoffee Pies & Accidental Meeting.

This release has a slightly deeper, introspective feel to it though. All the tracks were written within a week in February last year, deep in a lockdown. “It was a particularly difficult time for me, and the record reflects that, each track representing a catharsis with different issues”

It culminates into an incredibly personal and beautiful release, with frequent samples of memories featuring family & friends that relate to specific places and moments for Joe.

Welcome in the Cotswolds, near Bristol.

Tracklist :
01 Sudden Shifts In Perspective
02 Stretching Distance
03 Slowly Breaking Away
04 Fall On Your Sword
05 Dripping Back
06 More Good Than Bad

All tracks produced and mixed by Joe Arthur.
Artwork by Unité Studio.
Mastered by Krikor Kouchian.

Supported by : Ame, Antoine, Asok, Azu Tiwaline, Bake, Breaka, Ciel, D.Tiffany, Danielle, De Grandi, DJ Autumn, DJ Tess, Etapp Kyle, Gigsta, Grand River, Henzo, Huerco S, Ido Plumes, Jurango, Kaval, Martha, Marylou, Mish, Miss Jay, Nazira, Nico, Om Unit, Oceanic, re:ni, Resom, Roi Perez, Romy Mats, Ronan, Scott Young, Solid Blake, Synkro, Syz, Unperson, Upsammy, Wordcolour, Wrong Assessment, Yushh and more.

Kincaid - Dripping Back

Vinyl & digital album: kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us.

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

subtextrecordings.net/

Limen

Vinyl & digital album

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence

Introducing [THMP001], the first transmission of the THUMP Mix Series featuring  @ontologyyy !  A mysterious character and well-seasoned junglist.  She has digital and vinyl releases on a number of prominent jungle labels including Future Retro, Amenology, Meditator Music, Yellow Jacket Recordings and Yeska Beatz.  Enjoy!

[THMP001] Thump Mix Series- Ontology Hardsteppas Tape

HERE BUY: https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/timesaver

No problem, no worries. No it's all good man nonono, don't stress it. It's cool don't even give it a second thought, it's no sweat off my ass and tits. Nah man. Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah. Hey don't even give it a second thought, much less more than that. I will literally cut and bludgeon you in the event that you sweat it. It's gravy, all of it. It's Xen Model, the collaborative enterprise of Glint and Monocoat. It's 'Local Group', off their upcoming album Timesaver, out on Causaul Chain. It's you liking, reposting, sharing widely, listening. It's fine! It's fine. 

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Timesaver

Xen Model - Local Group [MK PREMIERE]

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True

qwqwqwqwa - shadow (ft. sop.io)

It’s our time to be freaks (free) cus we own it

I see you move your head to the wind and to the music
I find it so hot

The motor is our hymn While I look into the rearview I see you smile
Your hair blows behind (the bike) Leaving like a sign, when we turning

Together we ride, to the sunset of new lives

You’re no bullshit and I like that Kinda anxious but I don’t mind that. These are our times

Worries aside, Let’s go ride into the sunset, it’s our time

I’m so proud that we’re venturing without knowing ‘whats coming up
I’m feeling high with u, and I wanna spend the day with you, and tonight

Together we ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Together we ride
Hold me tight when we’re turning
Take me to the sunset

It’s the first time not the last time. That we moving moving
It’s the first time not the last time. That I’m feeling feeling

Out March 14th on SFX

Performed, produced and engineered by Zoë Mc Pherson
Final mix by Matt Karmil
Mastering by Joker

Upside Down

Together We Ride 💚

Appendix.files welcomes Clima, the alias of Berlin-based producer Samuel Stevenson, with the release of Transient State, a deeply immersive four-track EP that bridges atmospheric soundscapes and experimental rhythms. Drawing on a diverse range of influences from IDM to dub techno and combining ambient textures with the low-end weight of UK bass, Clima crafts a unique sonic palette that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Building on the groundwork laid by his 2022 self-released EP Losing Phase, Transient State continues Clima’s exploration of layered field recordings, tactile sound design, and processed percussive elements. Each track offers a nuanced interplay between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sonic textures—digital percussion is tempered by analogue warmth, and fragmented rhythms find harmony within emotive ambient frameworks.

The EP’s standout moments reflect Clima’s wide-ranging influences and his ability to navigate the delicate tension between contrasting elements. On you(ether), Clima combines warm basslines, processed samples and scattered, broken percussion to create an ethereal soundscape. Meanwhile, 023 showcases Clima’s skill at merging field recordings, ambient textures, and IDM-inspired rhythms, with heavy bass and a half-time pulse that straddles the line between contemplative listening and dancefloor energy. Tracks like mutant dub and st highlight Clima’s ability to balance fractured club energy with introspective, atmospheric sound design, offering moments that feel equally suited to intimate listening or larger sound system settings. 
credits
released February 6, 2025

Written and produced by Samuel Stevenson
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Amos Turner
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