Nonclassical at 20.
Featuring remixes from Matthew Herbert, Christina Vantzou, Pavel Milyakov, KMRU and Nailah Hunter
About the release:
Nonclassical celebrate their 20th anniversary with a very special remix EP, featuring 5 artists who are new to the roster. At 20 years, Nonclassical are eager to celebrate their past while also looking to the future. By working with new, exciting and diverse talent, this release is a mission statement. Here’s to the next 20 years!
Also known for his dancefloor-oriented project Buttechno, Pavel Milyakov is mostly focused on sonic experiments and artistic collaborations under his birth name. Pavel’s works continue to explore the eerie and the dystopian. Pavel’s remix of Nicola Scrutton’s Interzone uses the hum and buzz of the original and amps up the sonic dread. The result places you in a cold room, isolated with only a leaky tap and hissing pipe for company.
Nailah Hunter is an LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. She has been recording mystical folk and ambient-inspired music since 2019 and has recently put out a full length on Fat Possum. Hunter’s take on Alex Grove’s and Zubin Kanga’s ‘Single Form (Swell)’ is as beautiful and peaceful as you can get. Close your eyes, listen to this song and it’s down-right impossible to not feel like you’re floating away in a bubble. It is but a dream.
Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently based in Berlin. His works deal with discourses of field recording, noise, ambient, radio art and expansive hypnotic drones. KMRU has recently released an album with Kevin Richard Martin AKA The Bug. KMRU’s remix of Langham Research Centre’s ‘Dinotique’ brings a subtle awareness of surroundings and temporality to the track. What is essentially a remix of a rework, as Dinotique is actually a reworking of a piece by Luc Ferrari called Les Anecdotiques, this remix further folds the link between space and sound, an area KMRU is very familiar with.
Christina Vantzou is a Brussels based composer who deals with time expansion, atmospheres and harmonies through electronics and acoustic instruments. Her releases include five solo albums of ambient-classical music on American label Kranky. Vantzou’s remix of Martina Lussi’s ‘F/A-18’ is expectedly atmospheric and gentle with a dreamlike glow. It ebbs and flows in slow motion, washing over you like the new dawn.
Matthew Herbert is a musician and producer working predominantly in the field of electronic music. Known for ignoring the boundaries and mangling the conventions traditionally associated with the genre, he is one of the few truly independently-minded artists working today. Herbert’s remix of Gabriel Prokofiev’s ‘Six Hesit Heist’ is an abrasive and hypnotic journey. Pumping with a subtle 4/4 throughout and a spluttering of industrial chaos, this is Herbert in his element.
