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P R E S E N T S .. █▓ █▓ ▀▓ Slikback - Attrition █▓ ARTiST..[ Slikback █▓ TiTLE...[ Attrition GENRE...[ Electronic CAT#....[ ZIQ477 LABEL...[ Planet Mu ENCODER.[ Lame 3.100 YEAR....[ 2025 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps SOURCE..[ WEB (FLAC) MODE....[ Joint Stereo PLAYTIME[ 42:23 REL.DATE[ 07.18.2025 TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA SiZE....[ 97,24 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. T R A C K L i S T .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ █▓ █▓ ▀▓ NR. TRACK. TiME. █▓ █▓ 01 Snow 02:37 02 Knot 03:05 03 Sekli 03:15 04 Guerrilla 03:54 05 Duality 05:19 06 Semblance Of Composure 02:50 07 Taped 04:03 08 Trars 03:17 09 Sheltered 03:32 10 Spend 05:15 11 Fracture 05:16 TOTAL: 42:23 █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. R E L E A S E N O T E S .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ █▓ █▓ ▀▓ █▓ █▓ https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/attrition Slikback releases "Attrition" a densely detailed, cinematic exploration of sound packed with intricate rhythms and gleaming textures. Slikbacks "Attrition" marks his first full- length album for Planet Mu, delivering an immersive melding of cinema and game sound design with tough dance music. It's like a sci-fi film for the ears, exploring a chain of events with dark atmospheres and dramatic pacing; trapdoors and jump scares for your ears. These contrasts and the dense painterly colour of his sounds give it a beastly beauty. The album came to life during a period of transition, while waiting for a visa after recently moving to Poland from Kenya, where he grew up. With this unexpected pause in travel, Slikback found himself working at a slower, more deliberate pace. Writing for a label instead of self-releasing also introduced new dynamics, like feedback and structured release schedules. Rather than feeling restricted, he saw this process as a blessing. In a happy and reflective headspacenewly married and welcoming a newborn childhe was able to fully develop his compositions. I was finally able to explore ideas to a point where I didnt feel the need to change anything, he shares. "Attrition" is the result of that creative freedom. While "Attrition" nods to familiar genres, drawing on elements of Gqom, Dubstep, Tech- Step, and Hardcore Techno, it pushes them into new territory, shaping high-tech, intricate compositions. I worked on the tracks back and forth, drastically transforming some from their original sketches, Slikback explains. I wanted to create a journey within each track, like something alien emerging from emptiness beauty from chaos. The album opens gently before diving into fast-paced 140bpm sounds, reminiscent of earlier Planet Mu releases. Midway through, "Taped" shifts the energy with a shimmering, 160bpm rolling bassline. As the album progresses, its intensity builds. The music grows darker, faster, and more unpredictable, culminating in a final track that bursts apart in a thrilling, chaotic climax. A standout moment in Slikbacks career, "Attrition" is a masterclass in sound design and vision. Strange yet beautiful, intense yet rewardingits the most strikingly unique album youll hear all year. Boomkat Product Review: Slikback's Planet Mu debut, 'Attrition' is the Kenyan maverick's most focused and obsessively tweaked set yet, a spread of knotty club weaponry, jet engine noize and sci-fi atmospherics that fully lives up to the promise of those early game-changing Hakuna Kulala EPs. Superior gear - RIYL 33EMYBW, Nazar, M.E.S.H. or Klahrk. We noticed that something had shifted when the intricately engineered 'Data' relaunched Tempa in January. For years, Slikback's material has been broadly journalistic, a way for Freddy Njau to scrub through ideas and move quickly from release to release, accumulating material while swerving the expected channels. And until now, his tracks have mostly been released on his own imprint; since debuting on Hakuna Kulala in 2018, he's kept things almost exclusively in-house, nurturing his dedicated following via steady releases of boundary- pushing, hastily assembled dancefloor prognostications. So 'Data' felt a little different, not only was it released on Tempa, but the tracks were a little more finely worked - and now we know exactly why. For the last couple of years, Slikback has been holed up in rural Poland and unable to tour while he waited for his Visa, so he banked the free time and slowed down to approach his process with more intentionality. It was during this time that he wrote 'Attrition', working closely with Planet Mu and evolving his genre-fluxing compositions with a clear, structured release schedule in mind for the first time - no chance to just drop 'em online for instant feedback and Bandcamp bucks. Honestly, the change in pace works for Slikback. 'Attrition' is his most ordered, most digestible record, and shockingly, its coherence doesn't detract from the spark that got us so excited about his material in the first place. His wry sense of humor is there from the offset, as he gives a nod to the antecedents with 'Snow', a brief instrumental that's like a dictaphone-dinked take on vintage AFX/AE synthmelt, with far-off airhorns just to remind us what's coming. So on 'Taped', we're on rails, hit with a direct advancement of the template Slikback's been subtly modifying since 'Lasakaneku'. All the classic elements are present - cinematic sound design snippets, chopped vocals, queasy bass, airlock distortions - but everything's been re-ordered somehow, ordered and engineered for maximum devastation. In just a track, we can hear fragments of dubstep, riddim, EDM, dancehall, neurofunk and hardstyle melted down and reprocessed to ooze into the Slikback mold - all those years of R&D finally make sense. Slikback's always sounded like he's making music that's post-genre: trap, techno, ballroom, gabber and whatever else he's been listening to propelled into the future via jet engine. And that's never more evident than on 'Knot', where his harsher elements (modem interferences, screaming digital feedback) are used to provide air to a pneumatic barrage of gqom-cum-dungeon rap kicks and stinging synths. Peep the ear-damaging 'ard dance scoop hits on 'Sekli' that Slikback reforms into sleazy trap knocks, muddling the timeline with waterlogged field recordings and videogame SFX, or the Reese bass hums that the producer uses to anchor polyrhythmic doom trance arpeggios on the melancholy 'Duality'. Even when he's veering into density and intensity, Slikback's able to hold our focus, tempering his prophetic dancefloor visions with references that show the spectrum of his knowledge. His approach for 'Attrition' was to "create a journey within each track", and he does that without resorting to the hyperactive stop-start silliness that derails so much of what passes for IDM. Case in point - 'Trars', a track that seamlessly reinvents itself several times, as quivering noise, acidic basement techno, ritual ambient and demonic, overdriven trap. Experimental club albums are rarely quite so skillfully refined, or this enjoyable. █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. G R O U P .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ MAiL: [email protected] █▓ █▓ ▀▓ The only thing that really matters is music!!! █▓ █▓ ▄▓ . ▄▓ .. G R E E T S .. ▄▓ . ▄▓ ▄▓ . FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET . ▄▓ RIP kHz ▄▓ . ▀▓ . .. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .. . ▀▓ .