The closing record of a three-part total artwork, preceded by a browser RPG and a theatrical play. Set in the fictional Polesia, it stages a bloodline's theological decay somewhere between post-industrial pressure and esoteric chamber malady, breath and brass hardening into architecture.

An album framed around a pure-dark cosmic-void event, reality tearing at its edges. Fifteen tracks first released as a three-disc EP series, then assembled into the fifth studio record; a monochromatic abyss, refusing commercial concession.

A seventeen-track expansion of Quiet As Kept, F.O.G., widening the autobiographical record with new material and reworkings.

An autobiographical record drawn from a childhood in the New Age Traveller community, built around the sampled voice of Helene Whiston, the artist's mother and the album's central presence. It recasts the 90s rave canon of Massive Attack, The Prodigy and Orbital as secondhand memory, with features from Pussy Riot, EDEN and Iglooghost.

A mixtape framed as alien transmission: the dream-broadcasts of Drayan, a teenage hybrid-child alien from the X'ziphursch VII civilisation, reaching his earth-father through a distortion implant device over three weeks. Each track channels a different human emotion, from homesick frustration to lovestruck empathy; high-saturation Technicolor candy-fiction running through music, merch and rollout.

A left turn in production: seven months of isolated writing in a woodland cabin in Snowdonia, trading bangers for live instrumentation and an avant-garde fusion of experimental rock and electronics drawn from the beauty and horror of the natural world. It features Joe Petersen and The Physics House Band, closes on the thirteen-minute opus 'No World', and comes with a sixty-page journal documenting its making. A Bandcamp Daily best electronic album of 2019.

A three-way album made with Iglooghost and BABii, out on GLOO, the DIY imprint the three share. Three distinct hyper-club practices folded into a single record; it reached 8th on Billboard's Electronic Album Sales chart.

A debut of hyper-surrealist, painterly deconstructed club music, a maximalist pastiche drawing on Arca, Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips and nu-metal. Released on GLOO with Clarence Clarity appearing on 'Your Secrets', it drew co-signs from SOPHIE, Noisia, Anthony Fantano and Mary Anne Hobbs, and a place in i-D's Music Class of 2018.

A bureaucratic horror RPG set inside The Krepost, the hermetic fortress-monastery of the Zaganov bloodline in the fictional borderland country of Polesia. The player works as a newly recruited cleaner, scrubbing stains and lighting candles while investigating a murder foretold: Lady Anastasia, breaking protocol, warns she will be killed in five days, and cannot be saved. Playable now in-browser.

A theatrical play set in a shadowed, distorted Eastern Europe where a single family, the Zaganov bloodline, holds humanity's oldest obsession: eternal life. A rare genetic condition both accelerates their ageing and extends their lifespan, leaving them worshipped and feared, their power brokered through a troupe of performing agents known as The Herd. Its full novelisation is readable online.

An alternate reality game played out across Instagram stories, a collective choose-your-own-disaster whose course is set in real time by audience poll responses. The protagonist wakes trapped beneath a luminous yellow sky in a sea of endless mud; over two weeks the audience negotiates with a punishing landscape and a stubborn crow to win their freedom or drown in the soil. The unfolding story is soundtracked by a fourteen-minute generative sound piece, modulated live by the audience's choices.

A graphic novel made with Helene Whiston, extending Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. into illustrated narrative, mother and son drawing the album's 90s rave scene mythology onto the page.

A short-film screenplay drawn from the New Age Traveller history behind Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.: the peace convoys of the 1980s and the Battle of the Beanfield.

A self-directed video for the lead single from Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.: a caravan hauled up a hillside by hand and rope, then set alight, the film breaking into colour as it burns. Archival footage of police clearing rural raves runs through it, setting the album's New Age Traveller story inside the history of British counterculture.

A self-directed animated video for a single from Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. Early AI image generation renders New Age Traveller dreamscapes in strobe imagery, collaging stop-motion sequences into a frenzied fantasy world.

A sixty-page art book and journal released alongside No World As Good As Mine, documenting the woodland recording process and illustrating the record's narrative in print.

An Ableton Live extension that turns a single long recording into a pack-ready sample library without leaving the Set: slice against the tempo grid, design each hit with automatable processing, layer slices into composites, and export a tagged, named folder alongside a new track of clips.

An Ableton Live extension for harmony, the one thing Live has no concept of. Right-click a MIDI clip to read its key, chords and scale degrees, generate bass, arp and lead parts from a shared progression, or audition endless in-key variations of the clip, with keepers written back to clips and tracks.

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