Janus Rasmussen (half of Kiasmos) signs his solo album Inert which will be released on 19 June on Embassy One
Known as one of the two creative minds behind Kiasmos alongside Ólafur Arnalds, Janus Rasmussen releases his solo album Inert. This record marks a decisive step: that of a producer who is a master of nuances and delicate balances, choosing this time a more assertive approach, without sacrificing the finesse of his work.
Designed as a movement against inertia, both creative and physical, the album unfolds in a constant play of tensions and breaths. Here, the tracks favour construction over immediate impact, drawing evolving trajectories where gradual builds coexist with more contemplative moments of suspension.
Janus Rasmussen places his voice at the forefront, not as a fixed central element, but as a substance that circulates within the arrangements. It blends into a dense electronic sound, made up of moving textures, shifting basslines, and details that appear and then disappear without ever weighing down the whole.
Murk condenses this dynamic with a contained energy but clearly club-oriented: a beat with a UK garage imprint, oscillating frequencies, and a structure that plays on repetition and variation rather than immediate impact.
Over time, Inert avoids linearity. The opening Drain sets up a fragile light, quickly darkened by the 2-step contours of Doom. The track Bones, on the other hand, stretches the sound material to near dissolution, before Sift tightens the space around a dialogue between synthesizers and piano.
In the centre of the opus, Tomb introduces a more fragmented, almost playful groove, before Fumes does not come to open the spectrum with a more direct intensity thanks to its bright breakbeat. Evil prolongs this tension in a more restrained form, while Blame reinjects movement with a more pronounced rhythmic base.
Spiraling concludes the whole in a broader format, allowing the disc to unfold rather than closing it abruptly.
On Inert, Janus Rasmussen finds a balance between production precision and club pulsation, allowing sound exploration and a sense of movement to coexist without ever opposing them.