"Pulsari" - A tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto as part of the 'Micro Ambient' album.

Digitally released July 13th, 2023 microambientmusic.info/ as a limited release until the first anniversary of Ryuichi’s death - March 28, 2024.

Vol. 1-6 will be progressively released from May 29, 2024 onwards in analog and digital formats - more info: commmonsmart.com
Sound over music. 'Micro Ambient' is a collection of memorials to the music of the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was obsessed with small things in his later years

This piece was written shortly after Ryuichi passed, thinking about his works, their impression on me, loss, energy and it’s transformation from one element to another.
I titled the piece "Pulsari," referring to a rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Earth, cycling in and out of view like a lighthouse, possibly shining its light towards us long since it has gone dark.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to @trees_for_skmt (https://trees4skmt.org).

Contributing artists:
Alva Noto, AOKI takamasa, ASUNA, Bill Seaman, Chihei Hatakeyama, Christophe Charles, Christopher Willits, David Toop, Federico Durand, hakobune, Hideki Umezawa, Ian Hawgood, ILLUHA, Kane Ikin, Kazuya Matsumoto, Ken Ikeda, Lawrence English, Marcus Fischer, Marihiko Hara, Miki Yui, Nobuto Suda, Otomo Yoshihide, Rie Nakajima and David Cunningham, Sachiko M, Sawako, Shuta Hasunuma, Stephen Vitiello, Stijn Hüwels, SUGAI KEN, Takashi KOKUBO, Taylor Deupree, Tetuzi Akiyama, The Factors, Tomoko Sauvage, Tomotsugu Nakamura, Tomoyoshi Date, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tujiko Noriko, Yui Onodera

Artwork: @rikako.nagashima (village®)
Web design: Yukico Shinoda
Planning and production: @tomoyoshi_date
Cooperation: KAB Inc., @commmons_official

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Tracklist:
1. Boundary Curve

Exploration of collisions, asynchronous, superpositioned and dispersed, bled into and around each other.
Drifting textures. Alien familiarity. Loops that aren’t.
Layers of stone, wood, ceramic + metal.
A matrix-1000 pushed into and out of itself, refracted and re-assembled.

One track spirals into another, or, one track dives into itself.
In complete flow. Each pushing out, the other pushing in.
Out of the dream a grain of the map.

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Produced, mixed & mastered by Kane Ikin for "Longform Editions"
17.08.22
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"Boomkat" - 'Kane Ikin returns to the spotlight, dematerializing on the Aussie Longform Editions label with an almost half-hour composition that combines meticulous mechanical rhythms with processed guitar and delicate piano echoes. RIYL Oren Ambarchi, Taylor Deupree.

Ikin uses the duration well, building his composition slowly from rattling pots 'n pans and barely-there glitches, folding in indistinct drones to create a low-light texture that centers the record's cinematic gaze. But it's the ticking, mechanical pulses that really get us - a few minutes into "Boundary Curve" and it sounds like you're trapped in a celestial clockmaker's workshop, surrounded by whirring rhythms and quartz-powered plucks.

As the composition evolves, Ikin conjures gaseous atmospheres, interspersing rolling rhythms with prepared guitar and faint blasts of synth. It's almost like a hyper-reduced, mechanized take on a Krautrock-kosmische formula, fired into another dimension and made completely weightless. Barely anything happens, but plenty is implied - and it's better that way. Fantastic stuff.'

Tracklist:
1. Echoic
2. Autophasic
3. Gestalt
4. Street Flare
5. Grid

Five grippingly widescreen, warmly immersive, dubwise soundscapes — propulsively roiling, droning and ticking, smudging the limits of their own coherence.

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 directed by Louise Ernandez

Tracklist:
1. Partial
2. Haze Shimmer
3. Crosstalk
4. Tap Tap Collapse
5. Smoke Hood
6. Auto Dialler
7. Pulp
8. Closer Closer

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

Tracklist:
1. Packetloss
2. Soft gloss
3. Slowburner
4. Divigate
5. Surrounded
6. VGA Tracer

Bleep - Brilliant new Kane Ikin LP, moving between moody post-punk atmospheres and streamlined dub techno.

Capping off a vintage year Kane Ikin 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

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Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Bloom
3. Glow
4. Divide
5. March
6. Grid
7. Rust
8. Tide
9. Sync/Textile
10. Shift
11. Intersections
12. Slowburner
13. Dry heat
14. Surveil
15. Pavement
16. Duel
17. End

Collection of salvaged works rescued from digital dust and collected into a seamless mix.

Thanks to Matthew kent

Produced, mixed & mastered by Kane Ikin for Blowing Up The Workshop
Art by Nick Spolarich

Tracklist:
1. Warehouses
2. B.N.R
3. April

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