Studios & Platforms

Lux Cache
founder & editor-in-chief
2020–present

A music-production education platform founded on the principle that artists should articulate their own process. Across ten editorial seasons Lux Cache has commissioned tutorials, interviews and editorial from u-Ziq, Juliana Huxtable, Rabit, Iglooghost and Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber, and many more — alongside teaching partnerships with NYU, BIMM and Ableton.

Slate + Ash
marketing & content director
2024–present

A musical software studio designing instruments and sample libraries that have become fixtures of contemporary film scoring and electronic composition — developed with artists such as Stephen O'Malley, Eli Kesler and Lea Bertucci, recorded at Real World, Teldex and Funkhaus.

scenes by Lux Cache
network-based artist discovery platform
2026

A free digital service mapping experimental music as a living network — a force-directed graph that traces who collaborates with whom across SoundCloud and Bandcamp, surfacing emerging artists through the shape of their connections.

Music

The Elder
forthcoming 2026

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 through Orthodox liturgy and the augmented fourth — the medieval diabolus in musica.

XUL
3x ep series
2024

An album framed around a pure-dark cosmic-void event — reality tearing at its edges. A fifteen-track record, first released as a three-disc EP series; monochromatic abyss, refusing commercial concession.

Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. (Extended Cut)
2023

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

Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.
2022

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 reframes the 90s rave canon of Massive Attack, The Prodigy and Orbital as reimagined secondhand memory, with features from Pussy Riot, EDEN and Iglooghost.

Drayan!
2021

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 across 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.

No World As Good As Mine
2019

A deliberate 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.

XYZ
with Iglooghost & BABii
2019

A three-way collaborative album with Iglooghost and BABii. Three distinct hyper-club practices folded into a single record; reaching 8th on Billboard's Electronic Album Sales chart.

Kai Whiston Bitch
2018

A debut of hyper-surrealist, painterly deconstructed club music — maximalist pastiche drawing on Arca, Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips and nu-metal. Out on the GLOO imprint co-run with Iglooghost, Clarence Clarity appearing on 'Your Secrets'; co-signed by Kanye West, Skrillex and Mary Anne Hobbs, and a place in i-D's Music Class of 2018.

Visual, Writing & Concept Works

'Krepost, Polesia'
rpg video game
2026

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.

'A New Crimson Haze'
theatrical play
2026

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.

'Ť (Hanging From A Thread)'
alternate reality game
2024

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.

'Div Era'
graphic novel
2023

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.

'Peace Convoy'
short film screenplay
2024

A short-film screenplay drawn from the New Age Traveller history behind Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. — peace convoys, the Battle of the Beanfield, and the state's campaign against a way of life.

'Between Lures'
live action music video
2022

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 wider history of British counterculture.

'T.F.J.'
animated music video
2022

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 frenzied fantasy worldbuilding.

'NWAGAM'
art book
2019

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.

Selected Press

Dazed
documentary
2023

Rave Mysticism: Kai Whiston and The Story of the New Age Travellers

Dazed
music
2022

Dazed 100

The Quietus
interview
2022

The Travellers Were Right: An Interview With Kai Whiston

BBC Radio 6 Music
guest mix
29th September, 2022

Kai Whiston for Mary Anne Hobbs

The Quietus
album of the week
21st July, 2022

Secondhand Memories: Kai Whiston, Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.

Resident Advisor
review
2022

Kai Whiston — Quiet As Kept, F.O.G.

Resident Advisor
review, Zach Tippitt
30th July, 2021

Kai Whiston — Drayan!

PAPER Magazine
interview, Matt Moen
20th July, 2021

Kai Whiston and His Hybrid Alien Son Read Your Horoscopes

Bandcamp Daily
best of 2019
19th December, 2019

The Best Electronic Albums of 2019

BBC Radio 1
guest mix
16th November, 2019

Kai Whiston for Diplo & Friends

Loud and Quiet
cover feature
9th August, 2019

GLOO — The DIY Universe of Iglooghost, BABii and Kai Whiston

i-D Magazine
interview, Ryan White
15th November, 2017

i-D's Music Class of 2018: Kai Whiston

Production & Writing

Composition & Sound Design

Lectures, Workshops & Talks

Live Performances