Karsten Pflum pays tribute to the glory days of IDM without losing focus on the future of the genre. He explores the boundaries of heavy bass driven dubstep, frantic d'n'b and breakcore, combining soulful soundscapes with hard complex rhythm programming and treatments. "I make music as a kind of therapy" he explains, "I try to live in a parallel world of music, where the things that happen reflect 'reality' but at the same time live their own life, and kind of grow on their own. I guess i am a pretty typical electronic musician, who tries to develop my music all the time, and find the identity that suits me at the time."
The curious playfulness that has characterized Pflum's work since his debut has evolved and become less naïve and more sophisticated. No Noia My Love offers a multitude of twisted yet melodic tracks with an epic quality, exploring the borderlands between repetition and rhythmic intricacy. Through his incredibly distinct programming, alluring ambience and low frequency treatment he brings the minimal compositions to higher grounds, balancing between machine-generated tightness and organic plasticity.
In Karsten's own words, the album title is meant as a genuine wish for the recipient not to worry, everything will be alright. So take a deep listen to this crystal clear production and welcome the new Hymen Records' family member. No noia, my love!
Karsten Pflum
Hymen Records
