Premiere: Martini ‘Show Me’

New York’s Kindergarten Records has announced a new V/A EP, ‘Fluo III’, out later this month. Listen to Martini’s ‘Show Me’ below.

The three-tracker finds two emerging names descending down from the cosmos and onto the label, as New York-based artists Palitra and Martini find their feet alongside a solo track from label founder, Ma Sha.

Describing her sound as “digital biophony”, Brooklyn-based Martini finds inspiration in the soundscapes of the natural world. ‘Show Me’ is made of appropriately unusual materials— wet, fleshy bleeps, bubbly, liquid drips, and a whole vat of breaks — that feel right at home in the Kindergarten catalogue. 

Ma Sha conducts her own experiments in timbre and texture on ‘Sea Through Fantasia’, churning out playful wigged-out rhythms and warping basslines like nobody’s business, before Palitra leads off ‘Fluo III’ with ‘Cold Shoulder’, his first release in over a year. Calling on mid-2000s drumfunk and the subby jams of the Scientific Wax and Inperspective labels, it’s a proper time-warping, bass-churner.

Since its inception in 2020, Kindergarten has quickly become a hotbed for hyperactive club music with the likes of Ziyiz, Drummy, Ayesha, and most recently Sobolik, all debuting on the label. 

Revisit DJ Mag’s interview and mix with Kindergarten Records  here.

‘Fluo III’ will be released on 23rd June. Pre-order it here.