kane ikin

Kane Ikin is an experimental musician from Melbourne. His music, equal parts narcotic and kinetic, conjures ‘floor-fringing structures in crystalline definition.

Concussive rhythms surround a glistening soundstage of diaphanous bass and thistly hi-end, so precisely balanced in the mix you could practically lean in and it would support your weight.

In 2016 Kane delivered three new long form works – the tense and atmospheric 'Modern Pressure' (Type Recordings), its experimental dancefloor-minded companion 'Basalt Crush' (Latency Recordings) and the dense tripping ambient club excursions of 'Sensory Memory' (Echovolt Records). All receiving high acclaim from the likes of Boomkat, Bleep & Honest Jons

Discography:
[2016] Sensory Memory - Echovolt Records
https://boomkat.com/products/sensory-memory

[2016] Basalt Crush - Latency Recordings
http://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Kane_Ikin/release/Basalt_Crush

[2016] Modern Pressure - Type Recordings LLC
https://boomkat.com/products/modern-pressure

[2015] Sync Textile | Blowing Up The Workshop
https://kaneikin.bandcamp.com

[2014] Warehouses | This Thing
https://boomkat.com/products/warehouses

[2012] Sublunar | 12k
http://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sublunar

Press:
Modern Pressure - Type Recordings LLC

“Imposed restraint has pared the artist’s aesthetic to a more vital, impending sound: 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. ” - Boomkat - Album of the week

“Assault of bare bones electronics and ‘ardkore mutations. A follow up to EPs Warehouses and Circular Tip, Modern Pressure sounds just like that. A claustrophobic paranoia swamped by heavy beat programming, bleak industrial noise and murky dub-tek. Big tip for followers of the Raime-machine, Andy Stott, Demdike on Jungle duties and Peder Mannerfelt’s modular scorchers.” - Bleep.com - Featured Album

“A thoroughly bold, remarkably well realised body of work. It sounds completely natural as a start-to-finish listening experience, without a token effort in earshot” - Juno - Featured Album

"The whole album is wonderfully cohesive, very much of a piece, and extremely visually evocative, like a film score. A great album to lose yourself in, to soundtrack your own dystopian nightmares." - Allmusic.com - 50 Favourite Electronic Releases 2016

“Kane Ikin is a master of immersive music: vast fields of sound and rhythmic waves that crash, compress, surround and stretch to infinity. The Melbourne-based composer and producer's latest record is remarkable for its synthesis of numerous styles and its ability to explore dark depths with a clarity and lightness of touch. Tense trip hop textures, tenebrous techno tones and dystopian dub dynamics all work to create an atmospheric aural experience; cinema for the mind like a modern-day Blade Runner or Akira soundtrack.” - RRR Radio Melbourne - Album of the week

Basalt Crush - Latency Recordings

“Whoompf. Another knockout record from Latency.
Five grippingly widescreen, warmly immersive, dubwise soundscapes — propulsively roiling, droning and ticking, smudging the limits of their own coherence.” - Honest Jons - Featured 12

“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.” - Boomkat - Featured EP

“Ikin is a producer making music worth talking about, let's just call in undefinable. This Basalt Crush EP sways between the forlorn ambient and tribal haunt of Blackest Ever Black ("Echoic" and "Autophasic") to the scatter beats of Samurai Hero character Ena ("Grid"). With some heavy, slowed down and instrumental post-punk on "Gestalt" and to the luminous glow of "Street Flare", this record is another pearl from Latency.” - Juno - Featured EP

Sensory Memory - Echovolt Records

"Kane Ikin rounds off his busiest year on record with a well rounded approximation of shoegazing techno called Sensory Memory, sounding out somewhere between the slow, heaving styles of Alessandro Cortini and Pye Corner Audio, with maybe a hint of HTRK’s narcotic sexiness for good measure.” Boomkat - Recommended release

"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 a mini-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.” - Bleep - Recommended release