Kamandi and Junus Orca link on new track

After playing and touring New Zealand under numerous aliases, Junus Orca began forging a new path in late 2018, experimenting with a darker sound. Since then he has been perfecting his craft, elaborating on a sound that online music and youth culture magazine happymag.tv has previously referred to as “innovative and exciting”.

Not Everything Has To Be Something / Never Really Here (Everyday Hurt); the artist’s new release on Echo Train Records sparks a change in pace from his previous releases with an offering beaming with light and colour.

“Not Everything Has To Be Something” explores new industrial territories as you levitate among the ambient pads before being pulled back to earth with a huge industrial pulse at hardcore speeds, and also maintaining a consistent rave energy throughout. “Never Really Here (Everyday Hurt)” winds back the pace, offering hypnotic oceanic waves of sound to soothe the comedown from its predecessor, as it gently reflects on textures past. Two tracks created somewhere in grief upon reflection.

Off the back of those recent cuts comes a link with fellow kiwi producer Kamandi, bringing us their new experimental electronic piece “I Did It All”.

Kamandi is an outside-the-box music producer. His solo repertoire has expanded into various rapper and singer collaborations with a cross pollination of genre’s helping Kamandi’s sound to translate across the board.

The new track is a collaboration between two of the leading lights of New Zealand’s contemporary electronic music scene; both prolific experimentalists and sonic innovators. “I Did It All” casts a desolate industrial landscape, with Junus Orca’s eerie drones and pulsating kicks. The track then erupts into heavenly melodic noise, grounded by Kamandi’s signature driving bass and intricately crafted percussion. The production and composition panache of both artists’ styles has conjured up a uniquely forward-thinking and blood pumping piece of music.

Listen to I Did It All below