Issued on C7NEMA 100 / Furthur Electronix, KEPLER186 in April 2025, Jude Greenaway’s three-track EP channels downtempo, dark, space-drifting progressive music into a tightly controlled, cinematic drum’n dub experience.
A moment thick with tension
A quiet contender for understatement of 2025, this three-track release—”A three track release. Downtempo, Dark, spacey progressive treatments“—captures Jude Greenaway operating at full command. Issued under KEPLER186 in April 2025, the EP ignites with “9000,” a stark exchange with HAL 9000, cinema’s most chilling artificial mind from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968). Fractured hip-hop rhythms cut low and slow, orbiting warped samples as the familiar refusal echoes—“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”—in reference to opening the Pod Bay Doors. A moment thick with tension, freshly reanimated by “9000.”
Greenaway’s precision with sub-pressure, dubwise fragments, and turntable craft deepens on “MASS FRACTION,” where ominous pulse and overdriven haze cast long percussive silhouettes. Final movement “KEZZA,” a standout and personal favorite, unleashes crushing drums and distant synth trails, channeling a Jack Dangers–Ben Stokes and Scorn lineage filtered through illbient gravity. Downtempo momentum, emotive instrumental plateaus, and drifting vocal residue stretch across eight minutes of immersive otherworldliness. Result: a defining statement for 2025, placing Jude Greenaway firmly in a realm of his own.
KEPLER186 is available on C7NEMA 100 (digital) and Furthur Electronix (vinly).
