Kyam - Path of Compulsion
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Kyam - Path of Compulsion LP
Unbidden Audio (UBA-005)
Release date: 17/04/2020 (Bandcamp) / 24/04/20 (General release)
"Uncategorisably brilliant opus" - Mixmag
LP written & recorded strictly in chronological order of track-listing.
Full album download includes complete album in one track, for uninterrupted playback on all systems / players.
Press release:
Released on his own Unbidden Audio label, Path Of Compulsion is the latest long player by Cardiff producer Matt Strangis, aka Kyam. Comprising a single piece of music split into four sections and lasting 39 minutes, it’s both compact and epic, strobe-flash intense and flotation-tank immersive. It pushes the dark drum’n’bass sound established by Kyam - over three albums and a cluster of EPs on labels including Ireland’s Subtle Audio and pioneers Renegade Hardware - into fresh new realms, and offers a challenge to fellow reshapers of the genre while often escaping it entirely.
Strangis has made his mark in the d’n’b scene through residencies and support slots at nights where tempos are typically high and the basslines tearout: that, generally speaking, is what ravers want. There has, all the same, been a reaction in corners of the genre against quick-fix approaches to enjoyment, in favour of more considered, experimental approaches. And in a space - narrow in the scene, but expansive in its outlook - that also contains UK producers such as Pessimist, Karim Maas, Vega and Om Unit, Path Of Compulsion stakes out its own territory.
Very much composed with continuous listening in mind, this music is also suited to headphones, dimmer switches and a non-specific sense of foreboding. Strangis, who has a lengthy background in various rock bands and currently plays bass in Nyet Klub, a gothic postpunk group from Cardiff, has always utilised influences from outside drum’n’bass. For Path Of Compulsion, these chiefly include horror and exploitation film soundtracks from their 1970s and 80s golden age, plus bands like Sunn O))) and Earth who cross between drone music and doom metal. All of which retains the hard snares, rushing breaks and dark, screwy basslines heard on his three Unbidden EPs in 2019, or the three-track 12-inch on Subtle.
‘Path Of Compulsion Part 1’ sees eerie ambient chimes and tinkles overtaken by brisk, chattering drum arrangements and vocal samples both mysterious and menacing. A pivot to the sort of moody synth melodies that’d sound just right coming out of arthouse cinema speakers is a natural progression. This segues into ‘Part 2’, a showcase of Kyam’s eclecticism that never overloads the vehicle: jazzy, dextrous and live-sounding drums, basslines which variously roll and stab, dropouts where naught but soft pads can be heard. Things get heavier and nastier on ‘Part 3’, whose imposing edifices drone and crunch as the aesthetics of industrial and metal synced up with techstep and ambient jungle. Finally, ‘Part 4’ bursts into life with emphatic, rock-like kickdrums and melodic chiming chords as sinister as they are clean. Fierce hoover riffs, hefty breaks and an energy rush of noisy leftfield junglism acts as a final payoff to an intense, genre-smashing work.
Unbidden Audio (UBA-005)
Release date: 17/04/2020 (Bandcamp) / 24/04/20 (General release)
"Uncategorisably brilliant opus" - Mixmag
LP written & recorded strictly in chronological order of track-listing.
Full album download includes complete album in one track, for uninterrupted playback on all systems / players.
Press release:
Released on his own Unbidden Audio label, Path Of Compulsion is the latest long player by Cardiff producer Matt Strangis, aka Kyam. Comprising a single piece of music split into four sections and lasting 39 minutes, it’s both compact and epic, strobe-flash intense and flotation-tank immersive. It pushes the dark drum’n’bass sound established by Kyam - over three albums and a cluster of EPs on labels including Ireland’s Subtle Audio and pioneers Renegade Hardware - into fresh new realms, and offers a challenge to fellow reshapers of the genre while often escaping it entirely.
Strangis has made his mark in the d’n’b scene through residencies and support slots at nights where tempos are typically high and the basslines tearout: that, generally speaking, is what ravers want. There has, all the same, been a reaction in corners of the genre against quick-fix approaches to enjoyment, in favour of more considered, experimental approaches. And in a space - narrow in the scene, but expansive in its outlook - that also contains UK producers such as Pessimist, Karim Maas, Vega and Om Unit, Path Of Compulsion stakes out its own territory.
Very much composed with continuous listening in mind, this music is also suited to headphones, dimmer switches and a non-specific sense of foreboding. Strangis, who has a lengthy background in various rock bands and currently plays bass in Nyet Klub, a gothic postpunk group from Cardiff, has always utilised influences from outside drum’n’bass. For Path Of Compulsion, these chiefly include horror and exploitation film soundtracks from their 1970s and 80s golden age, plus bands like Sunn O))) and Earth who cross between drone music and doom metal. All of which retains the hard snares, rushing breaks and dark, screwy basslines heard on his three Unbidden EPs in 2019, or the three-track 12-inch on Subtle.
‘Path Of Compulsion Part 1’ sees eerie ambient chimes and tinkles overtaken by brisk, chattering drum arrangements and vocal samples both mysterious and menacing. A pivot to the sort of moody synth melodies that’d sound just right coming out of arthouse cinema speakers is a natural progression. This segues into ‘Part 2’, a showcase of Kyam’s eclecticism that never overloads the vehicle: jazzy, dextrous and live-sounding drums, basslines which variously roll and stab, dropouts where naught but soft pads can be heard. Things get heavier and nastier on ‘Part 3’, whose imposing edifices drone and crunch as the aesthetics of industrial and metal synced up with techstep and ambient jungle. Finally, ‘Part 4’ bursts into life with emphatic, rock-like kickdrums and melodic chiming chords as sinister as they are clean. Fierce hoover riffs, hefty breaks and an energy rush of noisy leftfield junglism acts as a final payoff to an intense, genre-smashing work.
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released April 17, 2020
All tracks written & produced by Matt Strangis, copyright 2020.
Mastered by Dapz at Compound Audio.
Artwork by Matt Strangis.
All tracks written & produced by Matt Strangis, copyright 2020.
Mastered by Dapz at Compound Audio.
Artwork by Matt Strangis.
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