Om Unit x Kid Drama

Apollo welcome Metalheadz veterans Om Unit AKA Jim Coles and Kid Drama / Jon Convex AKA Damon Kirkham for a 4 track EP of blissed out autonomic dnb. The duo originally met on the DJ circuit, Coles had been a longtime fan of instra:mental, Kirkham's pioneering project with Alex Green AKA Boddika ''I had their fabriclive CD with dBridge in my car on repeat,'' Coles enthuses. ''What those guys were up to felt like a new start for my appreciation of modern drum n bass music. It was like a new form of architecture.''
Kirkham picks up the narrative; ''Yeah it would have been during my Convex period, I was bouncing back and forward between London and Sydney and playing with people like Machinedrum and Mark Pritchard. I’d heard some of Jims stuff and we had a long chat and in 2013 we did a collab on Exit with my Kid drama alias. Immediately hitting it off over a shared affinity for cold architectural aesthetics, a friendship blossomed; ''Getting to hang out with Damon here and there over the years has always been insightful, we both think about stuff deeply, we come from a fairly broad appreciation of music in general, rooted in rave stuff but loving loads of types of music.''

The pair continued to send tracks and ideas back and forth for subsequent years but nothing was finished, until recently when something shifted and progress began to come quickly and the four tracks of 'The Untitled Works EP' began to form. The release sees the duo explore their affinity for widescreen synth pads and hypnotic rhythms with a rich seam of jungle influences shooting through the gossamer ambiance. While well suited for headphones, in the right hands a couple of the tracks will cause dancefloor damage.

• 1 Untitled 1
• 2 Untitled 2
• 3 Untitled 3
• 4 Untitled 4