The Final Wave (Metal) [solo]

UK-based Drum & Bass producer with a focus on depth, mood, and movement.

Ride Ravers emerged from the rave scene with a singular drive: to master the craft of production through relentless output and raw intuition. Since first opening a DAW, he's finished over 100 tracks, producing one a week for more than two years — not for fame, but for fluency.

There’s no formal music background here. No brand gimmicks. Just an obsessive commitment to the sound: deep, detailed, emotionally intelligent drum & bass that cuts straight through the noise. Every track is built by ear, refined by instinct, and shaped by a mind wired to notice what others miss.

His work has placed in competitions, landed on respected underground labels, and started catching attention for its unique emotional pull — something hard to pin down, but consistently felt.

Ride Ravers isn’t trying to be part of a scene. He’s building his own world inside it.

All recorded at home with Magix DAW and a midi keyboard. Hope you find something you like.

Still living in a black world on SoundCloud so don't be surprised when they don't let the white track in. ✌

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".

Multi instrumental player, Composer and Producer.
Owner and teaching at Rock Total in Woodbury MN.
 Dear el-magico: We are pleased to inform you that the Akademia Board has decided to officially induct you into the Akademia Hall Of Fame for having created a musical repertoire that is truly original and for talent, hard work and perseverance deemed worthy of the highest recognition.  Effective August 10, 2023, your status in the Akademia Hall of Fame has become fact and your place in Akademia history permanently anointed. Congratulations on this extraordinary achievement, which was granted to less 1% of Akademia award winners through the years. Hall Of Fame inductees will also be honored in person at next year's Gala Event on May 18, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. We are pleased to provide you with the link to your official Akademia 2023 Hall Of Fame certificate:
https://www.theakademia.com/gala2023/ElMagico-HOF.html
We applaud your outstanding lifetime achievement! We look forward to providing you with many important updates in the days ahead. 
The Akademia Music Award in the category of Ambient / Instrumental Album for 'Enigmatic Journeys Chapter 2 of 4' in the June 2023 Akademia Music Awards!
June 2022 Akademia Music Award for Best Ambient / Instrumental Song for 'Mecatan, The Mango Road'  
 2022 AKADEMIA OUTSTANDING LEGACY AWARD for having built a musical repertoire that the executive team has deemed timeless and important to future generations. This is a rare honor bestowed by our organization, 2021 AKADEMIA RISING STAR AWARD for “exceptional talent and perseverance in the field of music during extraordinary times”. May 2021 AKADEMIA winner BEST Ambient/Instrumental Song “Omuamua”2020 Akademia ARTIST VISION AWARD for ”exceptional talent, originality and vision on the field of music”2020 AKADEMIA Ambient/Instrumental Best Album for FORGOTTEN PROPHETS “It is the opinion of The Akademia Board that this work represents an important contribution towards the diversity an advancement of the global music community”

The Final Wave (Metal) [solo]

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