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Supercontinent EP, named for the ancient geological era when Africa and South America were joined as Pangea.

A reformulation of rhythmic ideas inspired by South African Amapiano and South American Baile Funk governs the two hemispheres of the record. The pair examine and deconstruct dancefloor material, eschewing 4/4 for interlocking shaker patterns, searing acid lines, cracking breakbeats, and vocal samples in Zulu and Brazil Portuguese.

The immediacy of the restless rhythm and bass-led funk of “Yena” forms a sweet spot where double-time and half-time can coexist. The word Yena translates to ‘he / him / man’, and the punchy male vocal loop punctuates the track’s deep swing, enhanced by amapiano log drums sped-up to a glassy pitch.

“Yami” (‘mine’ in Zulu) is a slinkier proposition which sheds prominent percussion in favour of a weighty, fluid, acid-informed bassline undulating from below. Contrasted against its jutting female vocals and sharp synth pads, the track cultivates dancefloor anticipation, accented by skittering percussion and time-stretched acid disintegration.

An ascending percussive riff marks the arrival of “Pulgueiro Baile”, followed closely by break beats and the nostalgia of distinctly British acid electro. While pulguero translates as ‘flea market’ there is nothing random to be found; it is an intentionally future-forward retelling of a vintage sound, replete with a mind-melt breakdown of rave pads.

A dubbed-out groove dominates the bottom-heavy “Sistema Baile”, established by a leading Roland System 1 synth line. It is a groovy, steady roller that chugs and propels and chugs with head-nod hypnotism through an intricately minimalistic approach. 

releases May 24, 2024

2024, !K7 Music

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Supercontinent [!K7 Records]

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slide 1 (a1) @kassiansound - replicate
slide 2 (a2) @benoit_b_blush - sparkles of knives
slide 3 (a3) @piezopz - souk 96
slide 4 (b1) @sputnik__one - blaze
slide 5 (b2) @em_stav_music - with you
slide 6 (b3) @kouslin - sunken

Kassian - Replicate [UU010]

Overtone [Unknown to the Unknown]

Watch Live | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXq_4rhFyU&ab_channel=H%C3%96RBERLIN

Kassian | HÖR - Aug 5/2022

Big love🫶 Tom Ravenscroft and BBC6music for inviting us to record the Ravers Hour mix 🥳

We recorded this mix in our new @38eaststudios set up and crammed 10 tracks into this mini mix including newbies from us plus: 
 
Nikos 
Big Ever  
LWS 
Pariah 
E-Unity 
Untitled-Uknonwn 
Not Even Noticed  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pl2w

#BBC #6Music #Raversmix

ODOO (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)

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BBC6Music - Ravers Hour Mix - Kassian Aug 23

Kassian - Sistema Baile

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London outfit Kassian continue their broadly-evolving yet highly detailed journey through and beyond sound towards something ever more expansive. Their second release for !K7 Records comes in the wake of creating a dedicated hardware-forward studio in a Northeast London container complex, where they have the freedom to interlink their machines. This renewed focus brought them to Supercontinent EP, named for the ancient geological era when Africa and South America were joined as Pangea.

A reformulation of rhythmic ideas inspired by South African Amapiano and South American Baile Funk governs the two hemispheres of the record. The pair examine and deconstruct dancefloor material, eschewing 4/4 for interlocking shaker patterns, searing acid lines, cracking breakbeats, and vocal samples in Zulu and Brazil Portuguese.

The immediacy of the restless rhythm and bass-led funk of “Yena” forms a sweet spot where double-time and half-time can coexist. The word Yena translates to ‘he / him / man’, and the punchy male vocal loop punctuates the track’s deep swing, enhanced by amapiano log drums sped-up to a glassy pitch.

“Yami” (‘mine’ in Zulu) is a slinkier proposition which sheds prominent percussion in favour of a weighty, fluid, acid-informed bassline undulating from below. Contrasted against its jutting female vocals and sharp synth pads, the track cultivates dancefloor anticipation, accented by skittering percussion and time-stretched acid disintegration.

An ascending percussive riff marks the arrival of “Pulgueiro Baile”, followed closely by break beats and the nostalgia of distinctly British acid electro. While pulguero translates as ‘flea market’ there is nothing random to be found; it is an intentionally future-forward retelling of a vintage sound, replete with a mind-melt breakdown of rave pads.

A dubbed-out groove dominates the bottom-heavy “Sistema Baile”, established by a leading Roland System 1 synth line. It is a groovy, steady roller that chugs and propels and chugs with head-nod hypnotism through an intricately minimalistic approach.

Supercontinent EP [!K7 Records]

PREMIERE: Kassian - Yena

Supercontinent EP, named for the ancient geological era when Africa and South America were joined as Pangea.

A reformulation of rhythmic ideas inspired by South African Amapiano and South American Baile Funk governs the two hemispheres of the record. The pair examine and deconstruct dancefloor material, eschewing 4/4 for interlocking shaker patterns, searing acid lines, cracking breakbeats, and vocal samples in Zulu and Brazil Portuguese.

An ascending percussive riff marks the arrival of “Pulgueiro Baile”, followed closely by break beats and the nostalgia of distinctly British acid electro. While pulguero translates as ‘flea market’ there is nothing random to be found; it is an intentionally future-forward retelling of a vintage sound, replete with a mind-melt breakdown of rave pads.

Artist: @kassiansound
Buy: https://kassiansound.bandcamp.com/album/supercontinent

PREMIERE: Kassian - Pulgueiro Baile [!K7]

London outfit @kassiansound return with four amapiano and baile funk-infused club workouts that speak directly to the hips

‘Supercontinent’ is out 24th May via @k7-records – have an exclusive first listen to ‘Yami’

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-kassian-yami

Supercontinent

Premiere: Kassian ‘Yami’

uu010

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kassian - replicate (a1) [uu010]

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Concept label @unkown-untitled marks its 10th release with a six-track compilation record from six unnamed artists, 'uu010'.

The A1 - now revealed as @kassiansound's 'Replicate' - goes deep into sub-bass territory with warbling basslines and a chill-inducing vocal sample.

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Premiere: Kassian 'Replicate'

Overtone I

Overtone B (Breaks Mix)

Overtone B (4x4 Mix)

Overtone A

Overtone II

Overtone D (Arp Mix)

Overtone C

Channels is out March 21st, 2025 via !K7 Records on LP and digital.

With their debut album Channels on !K7 Records, they’ve come full circle, focusing on the warmer, sample-based, and house-inspired sonics that brought them together. Kassian periodically revisited these initial pieces throughout the last five years until they felt able to journey deeper, using their rapidly developing craft and refined production techniques to build a debut album that momentarily steps away from some of their more club-focused excursions. “As we were writing, we realized that all the tracks had the unique potential to tell a story,” reflects Cummings, with Channels leading the listener through a series of different atmospheres and emotional terrains.

At the heart of Channels’ ethos lays a patchwork of quotidian social connection, those which give colour and shape to our everyday lives. Pre-Kassian, a web of happenstance led Cummings to remix Danvers track ‘1997’, bringing in some extra instrumental sensibility from British musician and member of Ezra Collective, Joe Armon-Jones. This early moment in Kassian’s origin story comes full circle with Joe Armon-Jones contributing his languid and dialled in keys across the album and most prominently on the track ‘Aeolian Harp’, melting across the spectrum of Kassian’s musical register. In
‘Invision’ the beat and sample interplay creates a momentum, which stretches and limbers, glistening with detail in the periphery of the stereo image. The euphoric ‘Metro’ links back to Kassian’s experience writing for the dancefloor using more structured and openly emotive cues, in the rain.

Widening their net of collaborators they also enlisted Timothy Kraemer on cello, a neighbour Joe first met by chance on a chilly new years eve. Kraemer’s cello adds a range of soaring resonances focussed on texture, micro-adjustments and spontaneous improvisation. ‘’It gave it this natural improvisational feel as most of the recorded cello was done on the first take, a lot of Joe’s keys were taken from the first take as well, the first takes have that raw feeling to them’’, says Danvers. The contributing musicians were allowed to interpret the music they were hearing rather than being verbally
directed. This is further reflected in the natural themes both nominatively and through field recordings which Kassian used throughout Channels. In the piece ‘Spring’, field recordings of birdsong and cascading deconstructed rave-like samples mounted with cello and keys signal the portal opening to the latter part of the record.

Channels flows with the space between start and end of tracks standing as ecotones creating distinct zones outside of the songs’ integral structure. ‘Sun’ picks up with a lightness, a mood which spreads its rays across the audible spectrum all the way through to the bubbing, submerged atmospheres of ‘Joss Bay’. Rolling through to the end of Channels ‘Sunset Park’ increases the pace with a faster steppier moment, throughout the record Kassian reference these different locations which draws together a fictional world for the listener. With its layered cello and arpeggiators and vocal sampling, ‘Peech Blue’ builds creating atmospherics which fade into static and the finale of the record ‘Limoncello’, a cerebral digestif for fading into a warm summer evening.

This record is an earthy thing, its naturalistic track names evoking recognisable and cyclically familiar moments, Kassian have provided a map for the listener at the forefronts of their minds. Channels has a flow and a depth to it allowing listeners to return and use it to reorient themselves, bringing new meaning to each unfolding moment.

Metro

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An original from the 'Faux Polynesia EP' on Phonica White.

Vinyl drops  23rd November.

System [Phonica White]

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Kassian with Dom Servini - June 2019 [Balamii Radio]

The B1 from Kassian Versions 001

Vinyl only, limited press.

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Kassian Versions 001

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Making Love [Kassian Versions]

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The A1 from Kassian Versions 001

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Montana [Kassian Versions]

The A2 from our EP 'Music Without Words'

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Out on @groovencerecords

Music Without Words

Music Without Words EP

Woodland Rhode [Groovence Records]

Shuffling Words EP

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U Make Me [Phonica White]

**TRACKLIST**
Between Sleeps – Peak
Black Loops – Ode to IPSE
Look Like – Dreamwaterz
Endgrain – La Junta
Kassian – Crush
James AV – Pace
Cristi Conts & Traumer – Reverso
Paranoid London – Sly Is Watching
Kassian – Aerial
O’Flynn – Mesablanca (O’Flynn & Ekhe Dub)
Kassian – Breathe
Ste Roberts – Mangrove Nine (London Modular Alliance Remix)
Baby Rollen – B45
General Ludd – Run, Don’t Play Dead
Four Tet – Teenage Birdsong (Overmono Remix)

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