Crossing the Divide with Kane Ikin

In some academy of the future you get the feeling Kane Ikin‘s music will be studied as its own subject. Like astronomy. Appropriate, as the Melbourne-based musician and producer has slowly and carefully created his own microuniverse of sound over years of work. The closer you listen the more the mysteries unfold. The curriculum starts with his early work as one half of Solo Andata, and later subjects look at his individual output: a vast constellation of deconstructed beats, synths, samples, instruments and field recordings floating in infinite space. His releases for 12k and This Thing cover everything from abstracted techno and house to modern classical.

A new transmission arrived without warning a couple of weeks ago via Blowing Up The Workshop, the influential online mix depository run by writer Matthew Kent. Disguised as a mix, it’s essentially a complete album of original works from Kane Ikin. The meaning of it all is still unclear, but future academics will undoubtedly have their theories. Meanwhile, we can simply enjoy this exclusive, the eerily beautiful “Divide“.

Hear Kane Ikin’s Blowing Up The Workshop mix here.
Find out more from Kane Ikin here.