All new tunes I've made since starting over after a 20+ year hiatus.  A mix of styles, the only common thing is they are all synth-based.

New Stuff 2022 - 2024

Drum & Bass (2022 - 2025)

Harmonious Acrimony

neurokinetik - Certain Uncertainty EP

1. Acquisition Apathy
2. Riverside Glide
3. Ordered Stillness (Autonomic Mix)
4. Certain Uncertainty 

About the artist: Grew up in WNY. Started out as a DJ making mix tapes for myself and friends during high school, mostly 80's funk and r&b that I'd heard at the local roller rink, using an ordinary CD player and a cheap belt-drive turntable that I modded with a start/stop switch and a pitch control knob. After moving from the roller rink to dance clubs (getting my first exposure to freestyle and house), I went to my first rave in 1993 at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto. It was during this period that I really began binging on various electronic music genres, all started because I was trying to find the track "LFO" by LFO. I also tended to gravitate towards what they were then calling UK hardcore, then jungle, then drum & bass. Made lots of friends along the way, including the guys at WBNY, where I co-hosted DJ Soma's electronic music show, the Space Time Trip, where we would cover the whole spectrum of electronic music (which is a philosophy I also embrace with my production). I also made occasional appearances on the Underground FM show, where the focus was on jungle and drum & bass. I started producing my own music around 1996, using the moniker ComputerBlue, and making songs out of goofy ideas using a PC, a pre-VST version of Cubase, MixMan Studio, Rebirth RB-338 and a Soundblaster AWE32 sound card. Around 1999, I started using the moniker neurokinetik (spelled with a "k" because that's how Richie Hawtin would have done it, lol), because The Matrix really resonated with me at the time, and it is still my all-time favorite movie. I took a long hiatus after 2000, but lockdown gave me an incentive to find a more productive use of my time, and to provide a much-needed creative outlet, so I rebuilt my studio and got back to work, releasing my first new music again in 2022.

About the EP: Around 2013 I was stuck in a rut of liquid and mainstream drum & bass, and it was either Steve or Dan sent me the link to the first Heart Drive mix. Those sets were eye-opening, and my first exposure to the autonomic genre. Even more than 10 years on, they still sound as fresh as the first time I heard them. It wasn't until the end of 2023 that I even attempted to make anything like that. This EP is my second effort in the genre, and throughout the production, I was constantly questioning whether or not I could even pull it off. So, the only thing I was certain of was uncertainty. Thanks go out to Dan, Mark, and Steve for the support and feedback on this.

Releases July 5, 2024

All songs by: Bret Wallace
Mastering: Resound
Art: Mark Valkwitch

neurokinetik - Certain Uncertainty EP Preview - Out now!

Excerpt of track 3 from Certain Uncertainty EP.

released July 5, 2024 
Ground Mass Music
GMM24001
All songs by: Bret Wallace
Mastering: Resound
Art: Mark Valkwitch

Certain Uncertainty

Ordered Stillness (Autonomic Mix)

03 Ordered Stillness (Autonomic Mix) GMM24001

Excerpt of track 2 from Certain Uncertainty EP.

released July 5, 2024 
Ground Mass Music
GMM24001
All songs by: Bret Wallace
Mastering: Resound
Art: Mark Valkwitch

Riverside Glide

02 Riverside Glide GMM24001

Excerpt of track 1 from Certain Uncertainty EP.

released July 5, 2024 
Ground Mass Music
GMM24001
All songs by: Bret Wallace
Mastering: Resound
Art: Mark Valkwitch

Acquisition Apathy

01 Acquisition Apathy GMM24001

Dedicated to my best friend of 21 years.  She used to attack the drawstrings on my hoodies, so I would remove them and just use them as cat toys.  She sadly passed on 7/26/2024, before this song was finished.

Strings Detached

Dark and melancholy half time drum & bass with a pulsing, growling bassline over haunting pads.

Ambient Occlusion

What genres of electronic music do you like?

"YES"

Formerly known as ComputerBlue.  Produced & DJ'd under this name in the late '90s before changing to neurokinetik in 2000.