The Mission

Channeling peak-era dark garage ambience and contemporary trance stomper technology in the same breath, on their debut collaboration Silhouette (AKA Vision of 1994) and Kobayashi Maru join forces on Amphibian Records for The Mission, a 4-track EP that airlifts the snarl and frayed temper of early dubstep into the psychedelic frontiers of modern dance music.

On the A1, the title track’s driving 140BPM two-step thunder, scored with doomy metallic bellowing reminiscent of early Distance and a rolling bassline right out of Big Apple’s playbook; on the flip, Last Transmission’s frosty atmospherics and crisper-than-snow UKG-inflected percussion, a sharp retort on every third beat superimposed onto a trance-techno model.

Two lower-tempo cuts kiss each runout groove, with no lessening up in sound pressure. Winter Outpost is at the last of its tensile strength, neo-noir synths pulled skin tight over a frame of sharpened breakbeat, while End Credits shakes it all loose with a serpentine beat...  more
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released April 3, 2025

All music written and mixed by Daniel Valášek and Karel Průcha
Master by Ladislav Štěrba
Artwork by Omar El-Sadek
Graphics by Jakub Kučera
Words about the release by Freddie Hudson

AMPH003

Kobayashi Maru & Silhouette - The Mission

bllo,

with @sharktech

mixed mostly by @avgtoucan

this was one of my own audio section in the 70+ person audiovisual megacollab i hosted over the last 15 months in my discord collective @0ssembli .

please listen to the full thing here 
https://soundcloud.com/0ssembli/kintsugi 

or preferably watch the music video that goes with it 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hMbccyAkE

and also join the discord https://discord.gg/ccTG9URuDX


<3

a reflection on the wall (from KINTSUGI)

You cannot run, you can only burn.

Thank you to @ykscii for additional guitar parts

Face of Glass

thing i made today-- if i mix this it goes on streaming and bandcamp. free dl as always! 

cover art from my computer

time waster (mix later)

https://www.popbot.work
https://www.patreon.com/amfivolia

artwork by amfivolia @amfivolia
song in collaboration with amfivolia@popbot 
just to clarify both he artwork and the song were worked on by amfivolia. 
and just to clarify the artwork was fully worked on by amfivolia and the song was partially worked on by amfivolia.

Buy on Bandcamp

This project, along with a selection of other solo pieces, has been in the works for over a year now, and is my first non-collaborative release since Physical Acoustics. During this time I've done a lot of reflecting on my musical process and the kind of work I'd like to do in the future, and I feel this song incorporates elements from both sides of this transition! Thank you for listening, and please enjoy :)

Static Reflection

i'm mister science

found foothold, misalignment, crash landing, comforting assurance that nothing will be ok

wrote this for fawm 2025 and liked it enough to spend 6 months on it, avoiding the entire purpose of writing music for fawm

furiously writing the stuff here that i had on my mind when i wrote this so i don't forget again. guess what? i'll definitely forget again

turbine tremor

grey dungeons

WAITING

Part-time Eardrum Acupuncturist.
alt: @pbalt3
website: https://popbot.work/
contact: popbotmusic@gmail.com

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