Existential Funk
The original epic that started it all.
Existential Funk was what came out when I stopped second-guessing myself.
2008 was a year when I couldn’t stop writing. I kept starting tracks in one genre and finishing them in another - minimal techno that wanted to be drum and bass, trip-hop that demanded breakbeat treatment, house tracks that went trance halfway through.
Most producers would call this unfocused. I called it honest.
The album title came later, but it fits perfectly. This was music about being caught between states - between genres, between moods, between who you were and who you’re becoming. The “funk” isn’t just the groove; it’s that unsettled feeling when you can’t quite pin down what you’re hearing, or feeling, or becoming.
“The disc has enough thumping bass and spacy synthesizer chords to please any trip-hop head.”
– URB.COM
Looking back, Existential Funk was me figuring out that genre boundaries were more like suggestions than rules. Each track followed its own logic, which meant some landed in minimal techno territory while others wandered into drum and bass or trance. The diversity wasn’t planned - it was inevitable.
By 2014, the album had grown. The 5th Anniversary Special Edition brought together two EPs that had been orbiting the original release - Modify your Mind and Electronic Monk. These weren’t just bonus tracks; they were part of the same creative conversation, an extension of the same restless energy that defined that period.
Existential Funk was my commercial debut, but more importantly, it was proof that you don’t have to pick a lane and stay in it. Sometimes the most honest thing you can do is follow the music wherever it wants to go.