brushwork — the first celestial object in a system that’s still revealing itself

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J-CARDS is the alias of genre-fluid producer/songwriter Thijs van der Klugt, whose work drifts between roles and disciplines like flipping sides on a mixtape. Producer, songwriter, sound collagist — always shifting, never settling.

The name is a gentle nod to cassette culture: the J-card, that folded insert where handwritten tracklists, liner notes, and forgotten artwork live. For J-CARDS, it's a metaphor — for music made in fragments, for creative work that resists categorization, and for the hands-on intimacy of the creative process in a digital age.

Influenced by the soundtracks of a 90s childhood — from watching cartoons on dusty VHS tapes to crackling 12" jungle and rave records, and video game menus — J-CARDS weaves those textures into something new. The result is music that feels both distant and familiar — beat-driven, melodic, worn, and quietly cinematic.

A quiet galaxy made of songs he almost erased, but never quite could.

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music written, produced and mixed by J-CARDS
mastering by Zino Mikorey

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orbiting in nothingness🃏
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