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.

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Past Gigs

2025 

13.09 Bar IDA (Live & DJ)
23.08 Paavli.Club XL (Live)
03.08 puhas kräu at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
13.07 KiKuMu Festival
11.07 Norberg Festival, Sweden (Live)
05.07 Jauru- ja tantsupidu
27.06 Net Cafe at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
13.06 Bar IDA
25.04 Sparcle, Secret Location
19.04 puhas kräu with umru (US) at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
11.04 Null Club Opening with Brenda (CO)
15.02 Dreamscape Festival 
11.01 Kivi bar
10.01 Fonoteek 

2024

31.12 NYE at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
27.12 EKKM 
20.12 puhas kräu at Sulps 
07.09 puhas kräu at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
01.09 Paavli.Club festival
23.08 Träk at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
17.08 Dark Side Of The Moon at HALL
03.08 puhas kräu with Joao Lagrima De Ouro at HALL
19.07 Kivi Bar 
13.07 Masta Blasta at Kivi Bar 
12.07 Flux at Kivi bar
11.07 puhas kräu at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
29.06 Valga Glow 
06.06 puhas kräu at Paavli Kultuurivabrik
31.05-01.06 puhas kräu 2-day Summerjam at Genialistide Klubi
03.05 Träk at Kivi Bar 
11.04 Flux at Kivi Bar 
05.04 Paavli.Club / Tallinn Music Week
29.03 puhas kräu at Kivi Bar
16.03 Kivi Bar
17.02 puhas kräu & Net Cafe at Genialistide Klubi
12.01 HALL

2023 

16.12 puhas kräu at Kivi Bar
02.12 Sveta Bar
24.11 Masta Blasta at Kivi Bar
27.10 demoClub closing 
22.10 puhas kräu at demoClub
23.09 puhas kräu at Genialistide Klubi
03.08 puhas kräu at Kivi Bar

Audio-visual artist and DJ exploring real-time technologies to breaking point.

Tracks featured on BBC Radio 6, NTS, Rinse FM, Threads Radio, 1020 Radio, Reprezent Radio, Internet Public Radio, Subtle FM, Resonance FM, Radio Raheem Milano and SWU.FM.

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