After five years of planning, writing, and refining their sound, London-based production duo Kolectiv are set to release their long-awaited debut drum & bass album, Circadian Rhythms.

The project began in the aftermath of the pandemic, when the pair started setting aside tracks that captured the spirit of a night out at a drum & bass event. Their vision was clear: to create an album that reflects the variety, energy, and progression of a rave – from the first beats that pull you into the closing sounds that carry you home.

“Going out to drum & bass nights, you’d hear so many different flavours across six or seven hours. We wanted the album to follow that same arc – like a circadian rhythm, a natural flow of time, but in this case the cycle of a rave,” Kolectiv explain.

To achieve this, the duo placed a strong emphasis on originality and sound design. Most of the album was built from scratch using their own recorded samples, crafted through sessions with keys, drums, and guitars, and only dipping into external sources when absolutely necessary. Vocal collaborations from PAV4N, Hijak MC, Illmatika and Kerry Donnelly add unique flavour to the project, while carefully placed interludes tie the project together as a complete listening experience.

“This isn’t just a collection of tracks. We wanted it to be a journey – a cradle-to-grave kind of experience – with highs, lows, and moments to breathe.”

The title Circadian Rhythms captures that intention perfectly: an audio diary of a night spent immersed in drum & bass culture, told through Kolectiv’s trademark blend of technical precision and emotional depth.

The project also coincided with a complete studio overhaul, giving Kolectiv a fresh environment to finalize and mix down the record with a renewed sense of clarity and focus.

With Circadian Rhythms, Kolectiv deliver more than an album – they present a story, an atmosphere, and a tribute to the music and culture that shaped them.

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In April of 2002, I found myself in Shanghai. Every ­morning, I took bus line 589 from my apartment to the office. In 2007, I had a senseless job in Beijing, but a decent colleague who shared a surname, 羅 luó, with me. We had to select cheap images of luxury products and activities for a dubious men’s magazine. It was the time, when taxi drivers were forced to learn English, due to the coming Sportfest, Beijing Olympics. Autobahn city was now teaming with police and luggage scans, almost like a giant ­airport checkin, and I was the idiot 老外 lǎowài (foreigner) right in the middle of it. In 2015, students in Hong Kong proved that shopping does not always have to be what mainland tourists usually do. Then, my blurry dreams and experiences got exorcised into shreds to dissolve in the full consciousness of my own stupidity. Then I ate the mooncake. What a taste.

Chinese Mooncakes have one or two outside layers (usually very sweet), and an unexpected center (usually a salty duck egg yolk). This inspired me to shape my music in a similar way, and to hide the key melodies within an undetermined wrapper of fragments leading to nowhere.

mooncake songs 月餅歌:
Written whenever in China, 2002 – 2025, recorded in Berlin, 2021 – 2025.
All compositions and lyrics © by Roman Wilhelm.
(6) Backing vocals by Jonathan Ganser, Berlin. (7) Bass guitar by Phillip Heßeler, Berlin. (8) Cello by Shenggy Shen (深靜), London. Thank you to Shenggy, Jonathan and Phillip for their invaluable contribution.

(1) First tone: An der Saale hellem Strande; second tone: Bofrost delivery melody; Third tone: 東方紅 The East is Red; fourth tone: Former Shanghai bus signal. Muzak (1)(2): Crickets in Shanghai-Yangpu; (3) Karl-Marx-Straße, Berlin; (6) Shatin Mall, Hong Kong; (7) Vintage flexi vinyl discs from a Beijing flea market; (8) Crickets in Castiglioncello, Italy.

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written on the airport while waiting for a delayed flight. Tested the same night @ White Hotel (Manchester) 

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INDIVIDUAL DROPS by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes out 30/04 via Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // http://bit.ly/gen035_presale
Remix by https://soundcloud.com/cxlo // https://soundcloud.com/cxlo/ice_eyes-argo-cxlo-remix

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/ice_eyes
Cover, teasers & recycled PET object by https://soundcloud.com/h5io
Original tracks mastered by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika Music // www.fabrikamusic.gr 
Remixes mastered by @wimdehaen

INDIVIDUAL DROPS by ICE_EYES is a cold-blooded showcase of dynamic sound organization, where sputtering shreds of sound cluster into larger scale rhythm units, before shattering into new formations once again. Sounds here are sliced, combed, atomized and always performing new acrobatics around the indeterminate no man's land of the rhythm-pitch transition zone, yet somehow never straying too far from advanced dancefloor-ready syncopations. 
The tonal medium of these broken rhythmic arrangements immediately suggests something trembling with cutting edge technological infrastructure, where harmonically dense pads evoke a long forgotten IDM cgi landscape, where hybridized sounds rattle through an elaborate piping system. Warbled mumblings remind us this music is still situated in the realm of the human, but one where every transmission first passes through a chain of paranoia, interception, re-encodings and subversive content barricades. 
The album is finished off with each track rearranged once again by a handful of masterful remixers. 

ICE_EYES about INDIVIDUAL DROPS 
“In seeking of new challenges, our latest work Individual Drops, is focusing on new evolving sonic material from a more microscopic point of view, by integrating more obvious granular synthesis ideas. The purpose is to create a new formula that works both in sculpting sound design, and the same time respects our dystopian orientation as an archetype. At this point, we engage more intensive, ever changing, faintly anorgasmic, sonic motifs, that work as a guidebook to an overall fragmented picture. 
Arcadia, as an art form that can be used as a metaphor of utopia, is always present at the background of that image, holding all parts together, like an anchor in a turbulent sea, resembling the Argo floating on these angry waters. Space or Khoros is a variable of time balancing from small to large places, but not in an paternal way. Granular synthesis at its core, forming each sound in a discrete way, like a drop of rain falling in a pit of clear water.”

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Mastered by Mathieu Berthet
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Undisputed Truth (sanctuary)

German producer @luxxuryproblems is our guest today. ❤ Guess you've heard of him with his releases on @spa_recordings, his recent work for @katharsislabel and on another beautiful comp done by @club_sirens. This mix is an allegory, reflecting his interest and affinity to search for peculiar frictions. To challenge perspectives on expectations. To catch different layers of dis-similarity… 

Invite the strangeness / Ride the wave of discrepancy. 
Infused with recordings by Aerate Plaza.

Tracklist : 

Kenny Dorham - My Old Flame (exc.)
Tilman Hornig - slave
Comastasis - Posthuman Landscapes & Automated Cargo Ships 
Rough Days For Diamond Trade - Somehow (Dopplereffekt Remix)
Second Woman - 300528mj1 (exc.)
Giant Claw - Soft Channel 003
John Oswald - Open
Coleman Mummery - Roderickism
Alexander Mashanov & Ilia Belorukov - Blok
Tenshun - Bubonic Plague 13
Haus Arafna - Satan Organophosphor Shock
Speaker Music - Black Industrial Complex: Automation Repress Revolution In The Process Of Production And Intercontinental Missiles Represent A Revolution In The Process Of Warfare
Sote - MOSCELS O
LILLITH twin - Faith
Thugwidow - Father Figure
Ital Tek - Cipher
Doline - Cligne Musette
Blood Room - CQLD (Boliden Remix)
тпсб - Matted Feathers
HUSTLE FLESH - ICY MANIAC VEINS
Alza54 - XXXtentacion
Whatever™ - Herdmar
Oobe - Crush Mind
Gedankenexperiment - Hypothesis
John T. Gast - YEP
John Oswald - X24
Mutant Joe - Rock
Muslimgauze - Zilver Track 6
Scott Walker - Buzzers
Federico Leocata - Tabula Rasa
C∆T - Dirt
Mensa Group International - Point Olmeca

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World Canvas Mix 06 comes from Janushoved label affiliate and experimental composer Ryong (Isak Steensen Tind). On their mix the Copenhagen-based artist weaves together emotionally impactful songs from contemporary producers from their home country Denmark and beyond.
Cover art courtesy of the artist
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tracklist:
Victor Espasandín - Unreleased
Xenia Xamanek - Espejismo
Organ Tapes - Servant
yeevs 2mor - pressure (Subcutis Version)
Ryong - Unreleased
Triad God - Gway Lo
Lucas Chikhieo - Unreleased
Seoul Ensemble of Traditional Music - Tae-ch’wit’a
Ecco2k - Life After Life
Helena Gao - Unreleased
Alto Aria - Viper II
Lucas Chikhieo - Unreleased
Ioulous - Unreleased
Jvcki Wai - Enchanted Propaganda
Skarv - Unreleased
Ryong - split & rip
Lee Jung-Hyun - Wa

World Canvas Mix 06: Ryong

Axis Arkestra is a project founded by Artists Melika Ngombe Kolongo and Curtly Thomas in 2020. With an aim to shift the axis of perception; the growing Arkestra  directs a shift in social positioning and the development of hidden information materials. With the meeting of sonic and visual as primary renders Axis Arkestra  uses the tools of Improvisation and play to reveal alternative forms of knowledge production and communication lines with our Ancestral sources. 

This commission is part of 'PICO: Un parlante de África en América', an exhibition by Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd plus contributions by Axis Arkestra, Don Alirio, Dairo Barriosnuevo, Larisa Kingston Mann a.k.a. DJ Ripley, Rabz Lansiquot, Edna Martinez, Christelle Oyiri, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Jeanpi Perreo, Sidney Reyes Reyes, Shannen SP and more TBC at Auto Italia, London.

Axis Arkestra - The Commandant Zabra Effect

@rabanopicante has been around for a couple of years now, playing and co-curating parties in Wrocław and beyond. The DJ personality of @regime-brigade affiliate emerged from a murky club space called Uczulenie, where he regularly introduced the local audiance to hybrid bass sounds. In his mix for Destitute he takes an unruly ramble through cross-boundary, club-friendly music. Moody, dub-influenced riddims lead to a silly blend of Żabson and Suegua Kamau. Babyfather's Meditation serves as an obligatory tearing up throwback to pre-COVID reality and forces the mix to take a rather unexpected (also for the author) turn towards UK bass. Rabano Picante wraps it up with some cutting edge, disorientating experiments from the likes of Beatrice Dillon, DJ Scotch Egg and Gooooose.

https://www.facebook.com/rabanopicanteregime 

Born from the fiery depths of hell, @syn6syn is a chaotic imp with a quirky attitude. Her productions derive influence from Brazilian and Latin percussion and has recently begun mangling her style with a wider scope of party-rocking rave noise within her several new and unnecessary genres such as DDM (dumb dance music) Raptor Donk and Hyperdrum.

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gfx: @bibimbobo

DESTITUTE Mixcast 023 —  r̾á̾b̾a̾n̾o̾ ̾p̾i̾c̾a̾n̾t̾e̾ x Syn

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run by @fannuze

July 11, 2025 - SYNC DRIP with @mssingno @5-0-0 @fetva @happynewtears @fannuze ((Point Ephémère - Paris)

February 22, 2025 - Hyperlink x @slagwerk with @to-xe, @baby_pantera, @one_legacy, @fannuze, @oti_s (La Station - Paris)

April 27, 2024 - LOVE IS A SPECTRUM with @b3lovedtrink3t (live), @bewareilive b2b @aeoi, @organtapes, @fannuze, @vendredear (Petit Bain - Paris)

February 24, 2024 - ROAD REDLINE @easternmargins with @fitnesss (live), @lvraofficial (live), @6akl6xchitga (live), @fannuze, @tovankao, Lumi (Point Ephémère - Paris)

November 25, 2023 - BROKEN PARABLES @metaphorecollectif with : 0000vn (live) @28082 (live), @fannuze, @griigg, @gloomknightvivi (Méta Zone Libre - Marseille)

October 6, 2023 - AMBERCAST x @clublatemusic : TTristana (live) Tendre Ael (live), Griiigg, Myen, GIL, bela, Spraelle, POL100, ariane kiks, fanny, dj clope, tina tuner (La Station - Paris)

June 8, 2022 - GIRLS DON'T CRY with @obsequies @fetva @fannuze (La Chapelle des Carmélites - Toulouse)