Ping Devil Meme

Red October

Titta - Light Will Lead Us

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-nic-as-well-tickler

Creaked Records gear up to issue their latest double vinyl album release from Swiss producer Nic As Well, previously known under the moniker Lemonick...Our pick from the album is ‘Tickler‘. Opening with precision-drilled drum patterns threaded through a maze of tension-charged frequencies, Nic As Well drags the audience in a Gqom-tinged dimension, ready to be blasted in a jam-packed yard in the townships of Alexandra. As the track unfolds, a maelstrom of stomping kicks collides with FX-warped screams, ending in a cyber aftershock that remains forever like a planetary memory.

@cloudcreaked
@nic_as_well

Nic As Well - Tickler [Creaked]

Produced, arranged and mixed by Atrice
Mastered by Lino (Atrice)
Released by Les Points
Part of Speedparade Compilation Vol​.​ 4

Bandcamp

No Frogs Given

Out now - 12 tracks: double vinyl and digital 

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. 

Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum.

Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The “Ping Report” a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds & ideas before they had a name.

Lillia Betz - Boomerang

AMIT - Dirt Doctor

Klahrk - Sent Spinning

unearth - Faulty Client

"What's dangerous, is when the universe pick you."
Latest material in the arsenal of unreleased chunes. 140 - heavy low end tings'.

Veracity vision

Liquefaction - The Sun (Lizplay Records)

Record label & event series curated by Mumdance & Logos

PING VOLUME ONE OUT 27 AUGUST 2025

Pre order is up now