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"Go on a trip to get lost" with the multidisciplinary artist and Incienso signee – you won't regret it.

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Crack Mix 475: James K

@jamesk_1

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Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi, james k, she/they, ridgewood, NY

What sound would you listen to… if it was the only thing you could listen to 24/7?

purrr

What is your favorite party/collective where you reside and why?

Truly no favorites, lots of people doing great things atm! But will shout out to CNC, had a lot of fun playing with them over the years.

If you could transfer all your knowledge from what you do now into something completely different, what would it be and why?

SUgar glider trainer

What is your most recent favorite DJ mix and why?

OK williams’ nowadays nonstop thawed me out of a winter ice block

Any advice to upcoming DJs/producers? 

Listen. Dig deep. Trends don’t last, so define yourself by what you love, and share that with people. 

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

More support to diy spaces, independent bookings, intention, care, respect, love.

James K - 1080˚

In very loose terms, James K's (@jamesk_1) music operates at the fringes of the pop world. It is experimental and industrial, packed with hooks and riddled with dreamy textures that show off her mastery of synths. She has released it in album form with Dial and Incenso, dropped EPs on AD 93 and collaborated with the likes of Drew McDowall and Stefan Maie, and always manages to imbue her adventurous arrangements with real-world emotions and anxieties. This year she will join us at Dekmantel Festival but not before serving up this week's podcast.

It's the sort of rhythmically thrilling workout that has always stood James apart: jittery drum patterns and kinetic grooves that unfold at 100 miles an hour as a barrage of caustic motifs, hypnagogic melodies and hyper-real colours all bounce about the mix. There is an ever-present sense of tension in the way things are assembled - it's as if they might implode or explode at any minute, and it all sounds fantastically futuristic.

Dekmantel Podcast 460 - James K

@jamesk_1 at Hemlock Nights on Friday evening.

Campout Mix Series: james K

Interview: https://truantsblog.com/2025/truancy-volume-353-james-k/ 

Soundcloud: @jamesk_1

With her forthcoming album ‘Friend’ set for release on @ad93rec in September, james K weaves memory and emotional directness into a sprawling map of love, euphoria, and intentful listening.

Music by Conna Haraway, Idoplumes, Terra Utopia, Marco Shuttle, Akio & Okihide, Marina Herlop, Carmen Villain, Konduku, MARMO, Pugilist, Pod & more...

Access the download and full tracklist (TBC) on our Patreon (patreon.com/truants). However if you need anything leave us a nice comment here with @jamesk_1 tagged and either of us will get back to you with an ID! Your support helps cover all our costs allows Truants to continue running as a non-profit and ad-free platform.

james K

Truancy Volume 353: james K

Toma Pipocada (MEGA SLOWED)

LIVE AND LET LIVE, LIVE AND LET'S BREAK FREE
~50 MINUTES OF DIGITAL NOISY CHAOS

MY FIRST EVER MUSIC PROJECT, MAY THIS BE THE BEGINNING OF A NEW PHASE FOR ME

ENJOY THE FREQUENCIES

[STUDDIE//AK//ASTRO_KID]

DEAR PHOBOS

MASHUP 6 IN 1
THX YOU EVERYONE FOR YOU HUGE SUPPORT
LOVE U ALL 🖤🕷️

COLLAPSE

Taken from E B U's debut album 'Hinge' -
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"Celebrating otherness, E B U casts a universe of her own both sonically and visually. Defying any one genre, she refers to her distinct sound as 'Swamp Pop'. Unnatural sounds and pitches exhale in melodic chants, ominous basslines resound and eerie loops fixate in this macabre ensemble. You are captive in her world. Moments of haunting clarity keep you wondering where she will take you next whilst strange narratives unfold. Her chameleonic visual display is charged with emotion, keeping you suspended in a state of flux as she orbits through the spectrum. Stimulated by human behaviour and existence she questions the very nature of being, and invites the audience to explore through her cathartic performance."

To our ears, her sound captures elements of the radiophonic qualities by electronic pioneers such as Delia Derbyshire, through to unlikely melody and harmony akin to that of Ryuchi Sakamoto or Laurie Anderson. 

It's an explorations of strange places with a weird & wonderful sphere, sonically capturing the colourful intensity of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, or perhaps sounding like a much more out-there, much more convincingly extra-terrestrial Space lady... These are just vague comparisons though... Essentially, her sound is a total world of it's own. 

Hinge, E B U's debut album, is an outer body experience that will conjure up memories you never had before, images you can't quite place but somehow relate to, and a sense of sweet disorientation as you slip into a whirlpool of shapeshifting melody, harmony and frequency.

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E B U - Homeland

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PBA – James K

Having formed over ten years ago, as teenagers, Nantes duo Simon Puiroux (electronics and sax) and Charles Dubois (percussion) construct the music of Humbros on a semi-improvised framework. Rhythmic patterns, samples and melodic phrases act as marker points along each piece’s winding, free-flowing narrative, a musical communication honed over their years of collaboration to reach From 0 to 90’s clairvoyant levels of improvisational understanding.

The record’s wealth of exploratory sonics stems from Humbros’ unique combination of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Puiroux and Dubois line up recogniseable toms, congas, bells, and exotic wind instruments alongside a cryptic treasury of more curious artefacts: sound-distorting mirrors, wood, skins, metals, voice processors, and percussive stringed instruments. Combined with Puiroux’s modular synthesis and treated saxophone, this journey from heady, pulsating polyrhythms to sparse, chirruping insects of tropical concréte digs deep into hypnotic, meditative textures (they are never “jams”) whilst maintaining a deeply philosophical, conceptual relationship with the energies generated.

Constantly positioned in an intersection, in balance between acoustic and electronic sound, Humbros acts as an exploration of the “in-between”, produced by the marriage of two distinct timbral approaches. They sit between repetitive minimalism and illuminative free-jazz; between angular patterns and lysergic, dripping textures; human fragility and sci-fi sound-design.

From 0 to 90 was recorded over the duration of a week at the end of 2019. Working in their own self-constructed studio, Piuroux and Dubois set about creating a record relatively lighter and quieter than their live performances. Stacking textures, landscapes, structures and “lots of objects hitted with stuffs of all kinds”, the album traces the evolution of living beings - the numbers of its title refer to the angles at which organic life has been orientated, from crawling to standing. “We have passed through different shapes, landscapes and elements (a wispy swamp, an aquarium, a wet skate park, a thick cloud, a medieval kennel…),” they write.

Spending much of their musical career more visible in concert than in recording, Humbros have experienced - and reflected on the theory and the form of - the live performance as a medium since their inception. They have performed in a multitude of concert formats: nightclubs, village halls, an empty highway bridge, abandoned factories, art galleries, vineyard cellars, festivals and across France’s vibrant network of DIY venues. Their first recorded works - the self-recorded demo Night of the Toacas - emerged on Bandcamp in 2018 and immediately caught the ear of Phantom Limb’s A&R department.

From 0 to 90’s will be released in July, 2020

Humbros - Bois Debout [radio edit]

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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "hlinc", a brand new split from Fourth-Coast-ambient purveyors Chaperone and Glyn Maier. Sand-surfing through oasis mirage our duo makes frequent stops, freediving the microcosms of desert flora and fauna... both real and imagined. Birthed from the search for water in heatstroke mind, "hlinc" inhabits the spaces between, a psychedelic survey presented here for the very first time via limited edition cassette. Exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@glynmaier
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[JGT51] "hlinc" - Chaperone / Glyn Maier (Previews)

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Laura Not

inexact 10 – Laura Not

Charlotte Simon - Chloé

From the album "NIMP Preset".
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