I'm back with new material, finally. About half of it has appeared on Soundcloud already, but many tracks have been reworked after the initial upload because there were some things I wanted to improve on. The album is heavily influenced by experimental Dub Techno and Ambient Dub artists like Vladislav Delay, Sa Pa, Echologist, etc, but also the Industrial Dub of Mark Stewart (The Pop Group, Mark Stewart + Maffia) and Adrian Sherwood (African Head Charge, Missing Brazilians), and some of the weirder Industrial Techno-adjacent artists out there, like SHXCXCHCXSH and RSS B0YS. It is probably my softest work so far, but the metallic Industrial vibe of my last two albums is still present to some degree.

The album features a lot of jaw harps, an instrument I started playing last year and still play a lot. In fact, one of my favourite jaw harps is the Nazarov Kobold, which means goblin in both German and Russian, something I wasn't aware of previously.

After having experienced a creative down phase from April 2020 until around early/mid June and being generally fucked in the head due to the pandemic and other things, I decided to try and make some Dub Techno, as I was quite into this genre at the time and felt like I needed to try something new. I quite liked the outcome of the first experiments, so I continued on this path, sometimes creating more straight-forward Techno tracks, other times creating slow and disorienting songs with more convoluted beats (but most of the time ending up somewhere in between). The goal was to make something organic and atmospheric that could induce a trance-like state or confuse the listener in a (hopefully pleasant) way. Many songs are in odd time signatures, with one being in 9/4 and like three or four in 5/4.

The use of jaw harps only felt natural at the time, since they're great for thick, atmospheric sounds, and initially wasn't really something that was supposed to be a defining thing for the album. It just ended up being like that anyway.