#36 Feat. New Releases in Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass

Johan Gielen returns on Black Hole Recordings for the first time in 2024 alongside Arkayne. Meeting for the first time at a writers camp back in 2023, the two hit it off and immediately started working more with each other. "We were hitting ideas back and forth as if we were playing "creative tennis" for years." Johan says jokingly. "There was an immediate chemistry in the sessions and we were both keen to see where that could lead us". After a year of "sonic silence", Arkayne - whose real name is Kevin van der Tholen, is ready to re-enter the industry. When asked about his short hiatus he replies: "Music is art and evolving that takes time. I don't want to become a broken record and I think meeting Johan was truly a right place, right time moment. Save Face is really something else for the both of us." 2023 ended with the powerful Love From Above and Save Face feels like a fresh (winter) wind for both Johan Gielen and Arkayne. The combination of both musical backgrounds is abundantly clear in this trance meets breaks powerhouse. Just listening to the granular influences and vocals by Arkayne and Johan's added ethereal trance feeling makes you float on melancholy and never want to come down.

Johan Gielen, Arkayne