Descendants

Erasure

From the album "Deepriver - Volume One"

Deepriver is the recently formed intercontinental project of Cape Town-based Jason van Wyk and long time Stockholm-based collaborator Joni Ljungqvist. Having worked previously in collaboration mining the more introspective side of trance, Deepriver’s inaugural aural statement, “Volume One”, finds the two experimenting with atmosphere and composition to maximal effect. Van Wyk’s recent viscerally experimental direction seamlessly coalesces with Ljungqvist’s conceptually reflective approach in a way that recalls the sounds and nostalgia of electronic music from decades past. Having slowly formed through many iterations, “Volume One” is out on June 16 on vinyl and digital through n5MD.

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Volume One

Deepriver - Hours

Deepriver - Home

It was an honour to be asked to put together this one-hour mix for the Home Normal label’s 15th anniversary. Home Normal’s output over its past fifteen years has been immense to say the least, with many, many incredible albums and artists involved. It became clear early on that approaching this as more of a “collage” than a straight DJ-Mix was the way to go for what I wanted to achieve. Thirty tracks were used overall. Edited, broken apart and re-pitched, with some improvised synth parts and further production added.

Mixes from a selection of their artists are available through their Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis, with each mix put together exclusively from the label’s own catalog over the past fifteen years.

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/home-normal-mixtape-by-jason-van-wyk

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01 - Wndfrm - Alpental Cascade	
02 - Felicia Atkinson - Green & Grey
03 - Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci - The Prelude To
04 - Melodia - Luna (en el hotel Am Bad, Tübingen)
05 - Konntinent - Tensile Strength
06 - Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Drape (Parts 1 & 4)
07 - Islands Of Light - Heisternest
08 - Ten and Tracer - Molossom
09 - Cass. & Cross Record - Boy Interlude
10 - The Boats - Palais Glide
11 - Hotel Neon - The Eye's Mind
12 - Mere - Mere II / Mere III (Parts IV & IX)
13 - Isnaj Dui - Founded On Curiosity
14 - Part Timer - Myr
15 - Ouvala - Brume + Bellow
16 - L/M/R/W - Tegendraads
17 - Silent Vigils - Munhitsu
18 - Tsone - A Good Cleansing Always Sets One's Mind to Rights
19 - Orla Wren - Willow Bows
20 - Chronovalve - Into a New Future
21 - Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - See Their Faces Fall
22 - Nicolas Bernier - Aurore VII
23 - Ken Ikeda + David Toop - Skin Tones
24 - bvdub - The First Day
25 - A New Line Related - Lip Lifted
26 - SLVBRD - Inpouring
27 - Michael Santos - Cut Them Loose
28 - Geskia! - Poem From My Room (Marihiko Hara Remix)
29 - Juxta Phona - Passive Makes Perfect
30 - Tobias Hellkvist - Stripes

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Mix and production by Jason van Wyk, April 2024
Cover photography by Rebecca Hauri

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Home Normal 15th Anniversary Mixtape

Saturated Reworks

Mike Lazarev - Saturated Signals (Jason van Wyk Rework)

From the album "Inherent". Out now on n5MD.

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Release date: 13 June 2025
Label: n5MD
Formats: Vinyl, CD, digital

South African composer and producer Jason van Wyk is continuously honing his craft, with each consecutive release feeling like a clear evolution of its predecessor. Through his albums and soundtrack commissions, van Wyk’s technique at perfectly balancing melody and atmosphere is now more apparent than ever.

Inherent, his sixth aptly named album, finds van Wyk distilling his sound to where each note seems to have implicit cinematic intent, revealing intricate new details with every listen. Inherent features large swaths of warm, wispy ambient, ghostly piano and widescreen drone. Yet, at the very moment when all seems to apex, van Wyk presses on by mining his past endeavors in club music, neo-classical and scoring work to create something else entirely. Distorted guitars, percolating synth arpeggios and poignant beat design propel the contemplative ambient sections into the light, bringing van Wyk’s sound into previously unexplored territory.

Written, produced and performed by Jason van Wyk
Recorded during 2022-2024 in Cape Town, South Africa
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by Gabrielle Guy

Inherent

Still Visible

Out now across all streaming platforms, Cascades is the first single from the forthcoming album, Inherent — Available 13 June 2025 on vinyl, CD and digital through n5MD.

https://ffm.to/inherent

Written and produced by Jason van Wyk
Mastered by Ian Hawgood, Mokoshi Mastering
Cover photography by Gean Burrell

Cascades

Stream

From the album "Inherent". Out now on n5MD.

https://ffm.to/inherent

Release date: 13 June 2025
Label: n5MD
Formats: Vinyl, CD, digital

South African composer and producer Jason van Wyk is continuously honing his craft, with each consecutive release feeling like a clear evolution of its predecessor. Through his albums and soundtrack commissions, van Wyk’s technique at perfectly balancing melody and atmosphere is now more apparent than ever.

Inherent, his sixth aptly named album, finds van Wyk distilling his sound to where each note seems to have implicit cinematic intent, revealing intricate new details with every listen. Inherent features large swaths of warm, wispy ambient, ghostly piano and widescreen drone. Yet, at the very moment when all seems to apex, van Wyk presses on by mining his past endeavors in club music, neo-classical and scoring work to create something else entirely. Distorted guitars, percolating synth arpeggios and poignant beat design propel the contemplative ambient sections into the light, bringing van Wyk’s sound into previously unexplored territory.

Written, produced and performed by Jason van Wyk
Recorded during 2022-2024 in Cape Town, South Africa
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by Gabrielle Guy

Inner

Written & produced by Jason van Wyk

Violin: Brittany Dilkes, Gavin Clayton
Cello: Lynne Donson
Piano and electronics: Jason van Wyk

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by Vadim Petrakov

www.jasonvanwyk.com
www.homenormal.com

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Kept

Stay

Evanesce

Days You Remember

Awoken

Written & produced by Jason van Wyk

Violin: Brittany Dilkes, Gavin Clayton
Cello: Lynne Donson
Piano and electronics: Jason van Wyk

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by Gregory Euclide

www.jasonvanwyk.com
www.homenormal.com

Opacity

Shimmer

Hidden

Blinded

Apple Music

Blinded (Variation)

Threads is the 4th solo full length from Cape Town, South Africa based composer Jason van Wyk and his debut album for Oakland based n5MD.

Previously known for his progressive trance works, van Wyk has spent a lot of his time as of late composing for the film industry. In 2013, his solo output switched to more pastoral forms of neo-classical leaning ambient with his first full-length Days You Remember, before moving into more piano-based composition for Attachment (2016) and Opacity (2017).

Threads does reflect some of his previous ambient works; however, the album shows van Wyk composing music for (and of) current times. There is a much-welcomed underlying beauty to Threads, but there are also threads of anxiousness and unwavering intensity throughout its forty-minute run-time.

Threads is available now on vinyl and digital.

Threads

Subdued

Light Burns Out

Sun Fluorescent

Jason van Wyk is a composer and music producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His work spans album releases on labels such as n5MD and Home Normal, as well as film, media and production music for Universal, Paramount, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Netflix, The Criterion Collection, and Taschen.

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