An album written during 2016-2017, released in 2021.

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Heaven Junk once shined like a beacon of light. Sat in the center of a sprawling desolate plain known as The Barren, the structure was built out of desperation and a collective longing for something new. The haven was something meant to conjure a sense of hope, hope in a future that seemed nonexistent before.

The terra surrounding The Barren hadn't existed for sometime. It had been engulfed by the blistering threat that Heaven Junk was built to repel, a noxious sea of matter cascading across the earth, bound to encompass everything. The matter seemed destined to claim and engulf the planet like a virus.

Junk's populace had lost their ability to dream, to see potential in others and themselves before finding residence in the space. These abilities still waned in and out over time, a trend that drew collective concern. Members constantly found themselves just short of breakthroughs. Hope came in waves.

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Written, recorded, & mastered by Kid Smpl
Recorded in San Francisco, California from December 2016 to November 2017
Artwork & layout by Joey Butler aka Kid Smpl

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Kid Smpl - Heaven Junk

Out now - https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finding-the-sky

Nearly thirteen years since the release of his debut album ‘Skylight,’ Seattle-based electronic producer and Hush Hush flagship artist Kid Smpl returns with his latest full-length album. A loose follow-up to his debut album, ‘Finding the Sky’ examines themes of awe, wonder, exploration, and, journey, and showcases Kid Smpl’s latest evolution in his atmospheric, drifting, hypnotic ambient world, distinguished by his intricate sound design and progressive, panoramic vision.

Finding the Sky

Heaven Junk

Digital & Cassette

Hope Illuminator

Kid Smpl - Venica Passage

Angels Of Junk

Kid Smpl - Supres-6

Deity Capsule

Rebuilder

Haven's Salve

Radiant Module II

To Be Embraced By Fluxing Terminal Light

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvpxAbHwchA

Part of the "Silo Tear" EP out now on @hush-hush-records : hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silo-tear-ep

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Pre-order available now: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finding-the-sky

Nearly thirteen years since the release of his debut album ‘Skylight,’ Seattle-based electronic producer and Hush Hush flagship artist Kid Smpl returns with his latest full-length album. A loose follow-up to his debut album, ‘Finding the Sky’ examines themes of awe, wonder, exploration, and, journey, and showcases Kid Smpl’s latest evolution in his atmospheric, drifting, hypnotic ambient world, distinguished by his intricate sound design and progressive, panoramic vision.

Profits for this album will be donated to Real Change.
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A Sail, A Wind

Boundless

A Chart of Every Star

Blistering Across

New Sculpt

Their Piece

Plated Shell, At the Horizon

Out now- https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finding-the-sky

Nearly thirteen years since the release of his debut album ‘Skylight,’ Seattle-based electronic producer and Hush Hush flagship artist Kid Smpl returns with his latest full-length album. A loose follow-up to his debut album, ‘Finding the Sky’ examines themes of awe, wonder, exploration, and, journey, and showcases Kid Smpl’s latest evolution in his atmospheric, drifting, hypnotic ambient world, distinguished by his intricate sound design and progressive, panoramic vision.

Forever Light

"Repeat Balance" taken from Kid Smpl's EP, Response/Ascend. Out now on Symbols.

https://smbls.bandcamp.com/album/response-ascend

Seattle’s Kid Smpl has always been a student of dance music’s history, his ever-deepening catalogue showing off a keen understanding of over two decades of rave music. Snippets of jungle, garage and dubstep seem to flit in and out of Smpl’s past work, reconstitutions of classic sounds in a new context, often at a new tempo and with newfound emotional heft. On Response/Ascend, Smpl’s latest effort for Symbols and a proficient companion piece to February’s Precinct EP, Smpl moves beyond the confines of the UK hardcore continuum, drawing on everything from the hyper-melodic skip of contemporary dancehall to big room trance, all stuck together with a widescreen R&B sensibility. 

And whereas Kid Smpl’s past work has elicited nostalgia and futurist yearnings, Response/Ascend is a record distinctly of our time, a heaving, ever-collapsing mass that distills big room and home listening sensibilities into one singular space. That space is filled by songs like “Repeat Balance” and “Display Ring” that seem to clatter and bang until it’s almost unbearable, shearing noise and Smpl’s signature tortured vocal manipulations building over a saccharine bed synth pads. Meanwhile on the brief but brilliant “Focus Ribbon”, beaming major chords accompany a twisted, meandering vocal, the track moving forward despite a near-total lack of percussion. As a whole, Response/Ascend oozes confidence; the confidence of a producer willing to match harsh sonics with beatific melodic work and, more so, an artist striving to enter untested waters.
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Repeat Balance

"Response/Ascend" taken from Kid Smpl's EP, Response/Ascend. Out now on Symbols.

smbls.bandcamp.com/album/response-ascend

Seattle’s Kid Smpl has always been a student of dance music’s history, his ever-deepening catalogue showing off a keen understanding of over two decades of rave music. Snippets of jungle, garage and dubstep seem to flit in and out of Smpl’s past work, reconstitutions of classic sounds in a new context, often at a new tempo and with newfound emotional heft. On Response/Ascend, Smpl’s latest effort for Symbols and a proficient companion piece to February’s Precinct EP, Smpl moves beyond the confines of the UK hardcore continuum, drawing on everything from the hyper-melodic skip of contemporary dancehall to big room trance, all stuck together with a widescreen R&B sensibility.

And whereas Kid Smpl’s past work has elicited nostalgia and futurist yearnings, Response/Ascend is a record distinctly of our time, a heaving, ever-collapsing mass that distills big room and home listening sensibilities into one singular space. That space is filled by songs like “Repeat Balance” and “Display Ring” that seem to clatter and bang until it’s almost unbearable, shearing noise and Smpl’s signature tortured vocal manipulations building over a saccharine bed synth pads. Meanwhile on the brief but brilliant “Focus Ribbon”, beaming major chords accompany a twisted, meandering vocal, the track moving forward despite a near-total lack of percussion. As a whole, Response/Ascend oozes confidence; the confidence of a producer willing to match harsh sonics with beatific melodic work and, more so, an artist striving to enter untested waters.
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Response/Ascend

Premiered on HYPETRAK - http://hypetrak.com/2016/01/exclusive-tommy-genesis-execute-kid-smpl-remix/

Video - http://youtu.be/wsyBn5oPxh8 

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Tommy Genesis - Execute (Kid Smpl Remix) HYPETRAK Exclusive

Watch the video premiere of "Fell" at Nest HQ: http://nesthq.com/kid-smpl-fell-video-premiere/

Buy "Privacy" on vinyl via @blcr-laboratories - https://blcr.bandcamp.com/album/privacy

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Privacy (SMBLP007)

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Fell [Nest HQ Premiere]

My new album, Privacy, is out today: http://kidsmpl.lnk.to/privacy

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScZOlB5iOqQ

Fragment Null

My new album, Privacy, is out now: kidsmpl.lnk.to/privacy

Tracklist |
William Kouam Djoko - Intro x Valerio Tricoli - The Hallowed Receiver
Kid Smpl - With Wire
Sangam - Purple Lights
Fis - CMB Inna
Paul Jebanasam - { PILLARS }
Sangam - Way You Be
Kid Smpl - Riven
S Olbricht - Floa1
Kid Smpl - Holding Pattern
Nicole Dollanganger - Chapel x Sangam - Cemetery
Roly Porter - Departure Stage
NAKED - Harakiri
Tim Hecker - Black Phase
Kid Smpl - Damaged Device
Kid Smpl - Promise Emulation
Kid Smpl - Limiter
Kid Smpl - In Wire
Scorn - Gravel Bed (Boris Noiz rework)
WWWINGS - If There Is No You, Then There Is No Me
Eaves - Seas 2
Kuedo - Approaching
meishi smile - ego
Kid Smpl - Stasis
TAPE LOOP ORCHESTRA - Part One
Rider Shafique - Freedom Cry
Kid Smpl - Fell

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KEXP "Midnight In A Perfect World" Guest Mix

Out now on @dreamcatalogue

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-3-the-layers-of-our-dreams-interwoven

Belief Habitant

Damaged Remix

DISPLAYSOLO001 
Artist - Kid Smpl 
Title - Pattern Fallen 

Play the interactive music video/game for "Pattern Fallen" here (Mac only): kidsmpl.itch.io/pattern-fallen

Also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK3TMaTUkPY

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Pattern Fallen

DISPLAYSOLO001 
Artist - Kid Smpl 
Title - Pattern Fallen

Play the interactive music video/game for "Pattern Fallen" here (Mac only): kidsmpl.itch.io/pattern-fallen

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Vial

Pre-order now - https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/burnished-phoenix-winter-heap

Play the interactive music video/game -  https://kidsmpl.itch.io/burnishedphoenix

[HH103]
Kid Smpl - Burnished Phoenix / Winter Heap
Out Aug. 31 on @hush-hush-records

Burnished Phoenix

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Jhene Aiko - Growing Apart Too (Kid Smpl Remix)

Out now - https://otherchannelslabel.bandcamp.com/album/symphony-found

Written, recorded & mastered by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Recorded in Seattle, Washington during July 2019
Artwork and design by Joey Butler

Digital / Cassette

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Runs @displayseries & @otherchannelslabel
Contact: kidsmplmusic@gmail.com

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