Electro

This release is one of the hardest ones I’ve ever done. It carried weight I wasn’t expecting, haunting me. For months, these tracks sat unreleased. I kept coming back to them, until I stopped looking for reasons to hold them back.

“Knighthood” is a deeply emotional, ethereal-sounding track with intentionally hard edges. It began scattered, using old-school basslines and fragments of melody that didn’t yet know what they wanted to become.

Over time, something emerged - delicate, celestial melody taking shape in the broken beats. The creative process split into two equally compelling directions, and rather than choose, I let both versions breathe. The original maintains that organic development, while the VIP mix explores the same emotional terrain from a deeper angle, a couple semitones down and using a little more space.

Originally released 10 years ago, “Typhoon” was essentially a standalone release. This was always a favorite because of the “fast but slow” nature of this track - a breakbeat track with some complexity and a lot of patience.

I always saw this as an “imperfect” track, largely due to the unique soundset from the Kaossilator Pro. The loops were recorded live and then sequenced in Ableton. This created an interesting constraint - there’s an implicit imprecision in the recording process that took several takes to get right.

Like many of my other favorites, the constraints give the track a lot of life, and imperfections are what makes it memorable. “Typhoon” is a track well-deserving of this re-release, just in time for hurricane season.

“Shocking” could now be considered an older favorite of mine (Way back from 2013!), having been a central part of the mix SHOCKED. Although there weren’t enough originals in this mix to warrant an EP release, I really liked this track.

I had been thinking about this track a lot recently, and got inspired to create a drum & bass remix. This fits in really well with the original’s electro style while updating it with some more energy and modern touches. I think the remix is the high point of this release, but I also still like the original.

Shocking is available wherever you listen to music, but is cheapest from Bandcamp. Check it out by clicking through the player.