Kuma : It Depends Which Wolf You Feed

The music of Kuma has always entranced me. Canadian producer/musician/DJ James Graham makes the kind of electronic music that engages both the visceral and intellectual. Be it through the world of dance and techno; or through the floating haze of ambient via field recordings and woozy synth, Graham works in mysterious patterns and moods. I […]

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Albums Of 2022 Part I

Well here we are, at the end of another year. As far as the last couple years have gone I’d say this one was mildly more successful in not driving me to the brink. 2020 was, well, 2020. Isolation, pandemic, masks became a thing, and the truly stupid made their presence known(and continue to.) 2021, […]

Kuma : Buy The Tools You Need With Time

Musician and producer Kuma has laid out quite the ethereal and expansive set of albums over the last couple of years. Between releases with Soundtracking The Void, Waxing Crescent Records, as well as self-released works his is a sound world of cavernous tomes and ambient swells that seem to emanate from some Jungian hole in […]

Kuma : Hounds and Echo In Conjunction

On experimental electronic artist Kuma’s latest release, the Vancouver-based sound wizard gives us something between the sparse spaces of Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas and the droning brilliance of Mica Levi’s Under The Skin. Hounds and Echo In Conjunction is an alluring and hypnotic take on the imagined soundtrack. According to record label Waxing Crescent Records’ […]

Kuma : Rainbow Kaleidoscope For Constants

If Canadian producer/musician Kuma isn’t DJ’ing or using bpms to make people move on dance floors, then he’s creating ambient soundscapes to get completely lost in. Much like conjuring beats and four-on-the-floor techno bangers, his work in experimental soundscapes is equally engaging. On last year’s Time Makes Memory Of Us All(released on UK label Soundtracking […]

Kuma : Time Makes Memory Of Us All

Kuma’s musical world on Time Makes Memory Of Us All is a curious one indeed. It feels as if Kuma, a Canadian producer/DJ, is opening a portal to some strange world that’s grappling with a fight between the organic and the synthetic. Moving away from his dubstep roots, Kuma dabbles in the world of ambient […]