New Album Out Now
I've been sitting with this one for a while. Not because I wasn't sure about releasing it, but because putting it into words felt almost contradictory. How do you talk about an album that's fundamentally about nothing?
NIL started as an experiment. I wanted to see what happens when you strip away everything I normally reach for the hypnotic rhythms, the driving basslines, the tension-release cycles that define most of my work. What's left when you remove all of that?
Turns out: a lot.
The Concept
Each of the six tracks is named after a word for "zero" or "nothing" in a different language:
- NIL (Latin)
- Sifr (Arabic — the origin of our word "cipher")
- Ling (Chinese)
- Rei (Japanese)
- Shunya (Sanskrit — a concept central to Buddhist philosophy)
- Nol (Dutch)
These aren't random choices. I spent months researching how different cultures approach the idea of emptiness. In Western thinking, zero often means absence. Something missing. A void to be filled.
But in many Eastern philosophies, emptiness is potential. Space for something to emerge. The silence between notes that makes music possible in the first place.
That reframing changed how I approached every sound in this album.
The Process
I produced NIL entirely during late night sessions. No deadlines, no external pressure. Just me, a minimal setup, and a lot of patience.
Some tracks took weeks of layering and subtracting. Sifr, the longest piece at nearly 15 minutes, went through maybe 30 iterations before I found what it wanted to be. Shunya, the shortest, came together in one session and I barely touched it after.
I mixed and mastered everything myself. The cover art too. Not because I'm precious about control ";)", I just needed this project to feel completely internal. A closed loop.
Why Ambient, Why Now
If you've followed my recent releases, you know ambient has been creeping into my work for a while now. Close The Circle was already moving in that direction. This isn't new territory, it's a path I've been walking for some time.
I still love making techno. That's not going anywhere. But right now, ambient gives me something I need: stillness. A space to breathe. The techno will come back, it always does. But NIL is where my head is at in this moment.
Sometimes you don't choose the music. It chooses you.
Listen
NIL is available now on all platforms:
Also streaming on Tidal, Deezer, Amazon Music, and everywhere else you listen.
58 minutes. 6 meditations. Zero expectations.
Let me know what you hear.
MORDIO