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A STEP AHEAD OR TO THE SIDE
╳It's raining here, wet streets and tyres - but these bells are calming and sometimes sound like voices.
Produced and released as part of season 1 of Holly Herndon's Holly+ project.
Utilising machine learning of Holly's voice to create a 'digital twin' to collaborate with and process sound into her 'voice'. In this case taking something I don't think a human could sing (bell tones with lots of harmonics) producing something alien but very familiar as her vocal sound.
More info here.
Mix + Master: Kane Ikin
BASALT CRUSH
╳boomkat • bleep • bandcamp • apple • spotify
Five grippingly widescreen, warmly immersive, dubwise soundscapes — propulsively roiling, droning and ticking, smudging the limits of their own coherence.
‘I’d been thinking a lot about this idea of skewed club tracks that constantly shift in and out of time like they’re on the precipice of dissolving or collapse,’ says the producer, from Melbourne. ‘Straining against whatever holds them together but maintaining that tension. Tarkovsky calls it ‘space frozen in a dynamic equilibrium’. ‘I’d also been listening to a lot of Steve Reich, Monoton and Arthur Russell, particularly how their work can induce this meditative trance-like state through drifting repetition in rhythm and melody.’.
Boomkat - Basalt Crush steers the abstract techno themes which have emerged over the course of Ikin’s Warehouses (2014, This Thing Records) and Modern Pressure (2016, Type) into ‘floor-fringing structures ripe for more experimental DJs and home listeners alike..
The A-side presents the elegant string flutters of Echoic and an amorphous, haunting stuyd in electro-acoustic dissonance with Autophasic, before titling ‘floor-wards with the ghostly momentum of Gestalt, which could be some spectral relation of Pye Corner Audio.
B-side delves deeper into that theme with more robust, stepping bass wickedly offset by a flinty rimshot, but still keeping the atmospheres wide and gauzy in Street Flare, and Grid draws us farther in to a mix of diaphanous bass and thistly hi-end, precisely balanced in the mix so you could practically lean in and it would support your weight.
Produced and mixed by Kane Ikin for Latency Recordings
Mastered by Dubplates & Mastering
Distributed by Honest Jon's
Cover Photograph by Louise Ernandez
Basalt Crush Film by Louise Ernandez
MODERN PRESSURE
╳boomkat • bleep • bandcamp • apple • spotify
Boomkat - Rendering a world of glancing shadows and efficient, amorphous rhythms from an ever-decreasing sonic palette; pushing himself farther into an escapist’s abyss, but using streaks of electro-acoustic light, elusive field recordings and redemptive chord structures to keep us from falling off the rope. They’re not club tracks, but the sense of momentum is gripping, driving from the Pye Corner Audio-alike highway cruise of Partial to the truck-stop lay-by vibes of Crosstalk and the shuddering, almost Autonomic syncopation of Tap Tap Collapse, before ratcheting the tension further with the euphoric doom of Smoke Hood and resolving an opiated conclusion in Closer Closer’s creeping buzz.
Produced and mixed by Kane Ikin for Type Recordings LLC
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering
Distributed by Boomkat/Morr Music
Photographs by Traianos Pakioufakis
Tap Tap Collapse film by Nic Hamilton
SENSORY MEMORY
╳boomkat • bleep • bandcamp • apple • spotify
Bleep - Brilliant new Kane Ikin LP, moving between moody post-punk atmospheres and streamlined dub techno. Capping off a vintage year Kane Ikan builds upon his Type and Latency issues with an LP of polluted machine funk that sounds like a gritty instrumental jam between DVA Damas & HTRK. The drum machines call to mind the early 80s shoegaze slowness of classic JAMC, but the absence of vocals pinpoint this as a strictly techno affair, in the vein of Portion Reforms The Supreme Negative. Time will tell, but this is sure to be a slow burner that is sure to gather much-warranted attention as the cold months roll on.
Produced and mixed by Kane Ikin for Echovolt Records
Mastered By Brandenburg Mastering
Photography by Antonis Pitsios
SYNC/TEXTILE
╳Collection of salvaged works rescued from digital dust and collected into a seamless mix.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Kane Ikin for Blowing Up The Workshop
Art by Nick Spolarich
WAREHOUSES
╳boomkat • bandcamp • itunes • spotify
Boomkat - Crushing "anti-club constructions" from Melbourne's Kane Ikin, following his 'Strangers' collaboration with David Wenngren for Simon Scott's Kesh label. 'Warehouses' comprises a triptych of cavernous sound designs tessellating industrial percussions in three vast, simulated spaces. Whilst not strictly dancefloor material, the title track mixes brute synth force, clanking drums and dynamic synths to propulsive effect, and 'B.N.R.' twirls on a seductively grooving sway ready for the after-after hours, and the sinuous syncopations of 'April' twist to a thunderous elated momentum ideal for more leftfield warehouse sessions.
Released March 14, 2014
This Thing Records + Tapes
TT014
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Nic Hamilton
Warehouses film by Nic Hamilton
SUBLUNAR
╳boomkat • bleep • bandcamp • apple • spotify
Boomkat - One of the strongest releases we've heard from 12K in quite a while. Kane Ikin is one half of Solo Andata, with a previous EP for 12k and a release for the Kesh label, but this is his debut album proper - and it's a goodun. Ikin takes in a number of familiar tropes but somehow re-works them in a way that's progressive, assembling elements you might recognise from the floaty ambience of The Sight Below (complete with references to Wolfgang Voigt's GAS project), the deconstructed dub of Rhythm & Sound, and a homespun vibe that's become the calling card of countless CDR labels whose names neither you nor us can quite remember, albeit weighted down by a production style that's measured and detailed. It's an absorbing listen, but there are moments that offer a tantalising glimpse of what might have happened if Ikin dared himself to challenge the listener a bit more. He's grabbed our interest enough on 'Sublunar', however, to keep a close eye on what he does next. In the meantime, it's a solid work that comes recommended if any of the above reference points tick your boxes.
Produced and mixed by Kane Ikin for 12k Recordings
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Cover by Taylor Deupree + Kane Ikin
Europa
CONTRAIL
╳boomkat • bandcamp • apple • spotify
Contrail marked Kane’s debut solo release outside of Solo Andata and while the same sense of dark, warm space is present he returns to his roots and focuses more on shoegaze guitar experimentations, lo-fi sample manipulations and warped field recordings. He recorded everything through and onto old technology — aged analog consoles, reel-to-reel tape — and all heard through a hazy science fiction filter.
Produced and mixed by Kane Ikin for 12k Recordings
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Taylor Deupree
Shortwave Fade Film by Reya
Selected Clients:
╳Calvin Klein, Bottega Veneta, Estée Lauder Group (Bobbi Brown, La Mer), Vice, BMW.
For Licensing/Sync, collaborations or commissions: kaneikin@gmail.com
DJ Mixes
╳NTS RADIO 2
NTS RADIO 1
Lullabies for insomniacs #50
Éditions • Kane Ikin Supplement Mix 001
BEANIES #64
INTO THE BLUE #69
Dazed Magazine
Lullabies for Insomniacs - Guest Mix
For booking enquiries
kaneikin@gmail.com
Selected Performances
24.06.18 • MLB • Howler • w/ Demdike Stare
06.02.18 • MLB • Forum • w/ Slowdive
31.01.18 • SYD • Metro • w/ Slowdive
04.11.17 • MLB • Obsidian Festival
20.08.17 • MLB • SuperSense Festival
09.06.17 • MLB • ¿Club D'érange? w/ Laila Sakini
24.04.17 • KYOTO JPN • Soto Kyoto w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
21.04.17 • OSAKA JPN • Compufunk Records w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
22.02.17 • MLB • Hugs & Kisses w/Helm & Croatian Amor
10.02.17 • MLB • Howler w/My Disco
31.01.18 • SYD • Metro • w/ Slowdive
04.11.17 • MLB • Obsidian Festival
20.08.17 • MLB • SuperSense Festival
09.06.17 • MLB • ¿Club D'érange? w/ Laila Sakini
24.04.17 • KYOTO JPN • Soto Kyoto w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
21.04.17 • OSAKA JPN • Compufunk Records w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
22.02.17 • MLB • Hugs & Kisses w/Helm & Croatian Amor
10.02.17 • MLB • Howler w/My Disco
20.08.17 • MLB • SuperSense Festival
09.06.17 • MLB • ¿Club D'érange? w/ Laila Sakini
24.04.17 • KYOTO JPN • Soto Kyoto w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
21.04.17 • OSAKA JPN • Compufunk Records w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
22.02.17 • MLB • Hugs & Kisses w/Helm & Croatian Amor
10.02.17 • MLB • Howler w/My Disco
24.04.17 • KYOTO JPN • Soto Kyoto w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
21.04.17 • OSAKA JPN • Compufunk Records w/ Yousuke Yukimatsu
22.02.17 • MLB • Hugs & Kisses w/Helm & Croatian Amor
10.02.17 • MLB • Howler w/My Disco
22.02.17 • MLB • Hugs & Kisses w/Helm & Croatian Amor
10.02.17 • MLB • Howler w/My Disco
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╳Kane Ikin is an Australian composer, producer, DJ and live artist, currently based in Naarm/Melbourne.