Name: Fractured Silence by HIROAKI IIZUKA
Duration: 4 min 53 s
Description: https://hiroakiiizuka.bandcamp.com/track/fractured-silence

Dominic Ridgway - Levitate

Nuan Sonar - Friction

This was the last track I worked on before losing all my project files, and taking a hiatus from music.  Losing my entire life's work was a huge blow to my creative drive that has taken me a long time to come to terms with and move on from.  

It wasn't the only reason I stopped, it's been a difficult 5 years with challenges of getting a degree/starting a career, losing friends, and coming to better understand myself and the life I want to live.
It's a process I am still working through, however sharing this unmixed, but "finished" version of this song is a first step on the journey of reclaiming music as my creative expression. 

This track captured a lot of emotions, those of loss, grief, and mourning during a transitional period in my life, so it holds a special place in my heart. 

I hope anyone who listens enjoys it.

Mourning

Ultra Lo-Fi rec of my set at Sanctuary, Denver. Thank you for having me!

Thorjn Live @Sanctuary, Denver 19062025

Cracked

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Fractured Silence

@CONCRETE DUNES 17-08-2025

Swan Song

Out now - 12 tracks: double vinyl and digital 

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. 

Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum.

Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The “Ping Report” a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds & ideas before they had a name.

Klahrk - Sent Spinning

unearth - Faulty Client

Henry Greenleaf & Meta - Fault Line VIP

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Fractured Silence

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