Skip to main content
Tag:

KMRU

KRM and KMRU

The six-track debut from Martin, aka The Bug, and Kenyan ambient artist Joseph Kamaru is described as a "back-and-forth creative dialogue"

Kevin Richard Martin, aka The Bug, and KMRU have teamed up for a new album, 'Disconnect'. Set for release via Brighton-based imprint Phantom Limb on...

New music tech summit, Kilele, scheduled for Nairobi in 2024

KMRU, Nyokabi Kariũki, Labdi Ommes and Monrhea Carter are among those set to perform at the inaugural series of workshops, live shows, lectures and more next February

Kilele, a new music tech summit will take place in Nairobi, next year. The symposium, running from 12th to 18th February, will span workshops, live...

KMRU launches label, OFNOT, with new album, ‘Dissolution Grip’

The Berlin-based Kenyan artist evolves his signature use of field recordings and turns them into a structural tool — listen to bonus track 'Along A Wall' now

KMRU is back with a new album, titled 'Dissolution Grip', to kick off his new label OFNOT. Listen to 'Along A Wall' below. The Berlin-based...

Blue illustration of a pair of headphones with swirling blue soundwaves coming out of either side

More and more artists and listeners are discovering the benefits of ambient music to our mental health. Here, Manu Ekanayake speaks to artists Meemo Comma, Auntie Flo, CLAIR and KMRU about its therapeutic qualities, and learns how one NHS neuroscientist, James Kilner, is using it to help people with anxiety and depression

Fans of ambient music will know that the genre takes its name from Brian Eno’s seminal 1978 album, ‘Ambient 1: Music For Airports’. Meanwhile, the...

Premiere:  Budalagi ‘Mura’

Nairobi-born DJ and producer Budalagi delivers ominous acid techno for the INSHA compilation

A new compilation, 'INSHA', is set to spotlight Kenyan electronic music artists. Out 24th February, 'INSHA' is borne out of a Nairobi Ableton User Group...

KMRU co-curates compilation of Kenyan electronic music, INSHA

Lead track 'mtwapa siren' was written by Nabalayo "to gently say I want to drop everything and just disappear. Ideally to where the ocean is."

KMRU has co-curated a new compilation, called 'INSHA', featuring music by Kenyan artists. Listen to lead track 'mtwapa siren', by Nabalayo, below. Out 24th February...

Selections: KMRU

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, KMRU spotlights blissful synths, tactile guitars, streetscape sound design, indie rock and more

For Berlin-based Kenyan artist KMRU, the art of listening is a crucial facet of music-making. “I feel like the things around us have something to...

Southbank Centre announces KMRU, John Glacier,  me for Purcell Sessions autumn programme

The London cultural institution is bringing back its multi-art series in the recently renovated hall

London's Southbank Centre has revealed the programme for its upcoming Purcell Sessions this autumn. The contemporary culture series highlighting a wide-ranging of artforms including music...

Mos Def, KMRU, Makaya McCraven, more feature on soundtrack for new Netflix documentary, Civil

American civil rights attorney Ben Crump is the subject of the new documentary

Netflix has unveiled the soundtrack credits for its new documentary, 'Civil: Ben Crump'. Among the artists whose music features on the film are Mos Def...

KMRU, Jessy Lanza, more remix Courtesy's 'Night Journeys' on new EP

Listen to DJ IBON's remix of the track below

Courtesy's debut EP, 'Night Journeys', is getting the remix treatment on the next release from her Kulør label. The four-track remix package sees KMRU, Jessy...

KMRU and Aho Ssan collaborate on new album, 'Limen'

The album will be released through Subtext, the label of Emptyset's James Ginzburg

KMRU and Aho Ssan have teamed up for a new collaborative album. Titled 'Limen', the album takes in three tracks, one of which totals 21...

A new book about Berlin club culture will be released in May

'Coming To Berlin' aims to look beyond the city's reputation as a techno haven, and explores the diversity of its nightlife

A new book exploring various elements of Berlin's nightlife scene is to be published this May. 'Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music...

The eight-track album was produced remotely between Nairobi and Manchester 

KMRU and Echium have collaborated on a new album, ‘Peripheral’. Check it out below. 

The eight-track experimental ambient release was produced between the artist’s respective...

The self-released album is available now via Bandcamp

Slikback has self-released a new album full of collaborations with other artists.

Titled 'MELT', the 16-track album was initially teased last month with the Van...

KMRU curates the latest instalment of Air Texture’s ‘Place’ charity compilation series, focusing on artists from Nairobi. Hear Munyasya’s ‘Incandescent Plight’ now

New York label Air Texture will release the latest instalment of its ‘Place’ charity compilation series this month, curated by KMRU with a focus on...

Proceeds from the compilation will go to The Green Belt Movement

New York label Air Texture has revealed that the next edition of its 'Place :' series will be curated by KMRU, and focus on artists...

Loraine James, rRoxymore, Russell E.L. Butler, and KMRU are all involved

Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has launched a series of free production masterclasses for aspiring Black artists, in association with Ableton. 

The series will run through...

The collaboration with ARTE Concert includes sets by Ben Klock, Paramida, KMRU and many more

   

Berghain has announced a three-day livestream with its in-house label Ostgut Ton.

Filmed in the legendary Berlin club's concert room, Halle, a 19-hour programme of...

The artist has also announced free plug-ins for Spitfire Audio's LABS series 

Berlin-based American producer and vocalist Lyra Pramuk has announced a double album of remixes, 'Delta', released through Icelandic imprint Bedroom Community. The reworked record will...

LSDXOXO, Yazzus, TYGAPAW and KMRU are among the many artists to contribute new music to the club’s 30th anniversary release

Tresor will release a 52-track anniversary compilation later this year.

After announcing that Tresor's 30th anniversary this year would be celebrated with with a string of...