PREMIERE: Qitula - lctrc flw [EM A HO!]
Polish imprint EM A HO! kicks off the year with their 5th release, “Hyper-Scatted Electricty; Shifting Signals Return” - an EP from an artist by the name of Qitula. Founded by Archypness back in August of 2024, EM A HO! is a home for his own productions as well as fellow artists that reside in his realm of heady, textural drum & bass & experimental half time explorations.
Based in Kent, just southeast of London, Qitula has been quietly & ever so patiently carving out his sound from a tangled web of modular synth patches. There is a calming fluidity to his polyrhythmic, dnb-ish creations. With a focus on dark, turbid sounds that rarely dip below 155 bpm, he sits on the perimeter of a variety of subgenres. A regular on Hypnus Records sublabel Aedi, this is Qitula’s Delayed debut, other than an inclusion in our Favorite Releases series way back in August of 2024. where he was featured on one of Aedi’s creative challenge compilations.
His Memoir mix, one of my favorites on the series which released back in November, is an impressive display of a rich catalog of distinct atmospheres, an understanding of space, textures & general hypnosis. This new EP of his is featured across the mix, including the closing track ‘lctrc flw’ which we’ve featured here today. Filling in the possible vowels like a Jeopardy contestant, the title of the track translates to ‘electric flow’, an apt name for a piece of music that feels as though it has been given artificial life by way of control voltage. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know Qitula over the past year or so, starting off through brief online exchanges around modular synth troubleshooting, an all too familiar area of the studio for the both of us. He’s kind, genuine & extremely humble, with a real knack for musical wizardry that you’ll certainly hear more of at Delayed in the future.
Hyper-Scatted Electricty; Shifting Signals Return is scheduled to release digitally on EM A HO! on February 6th.