Setting the scene with a powerful rising frequency, textures and a pulsing beat that could be experienced at Berghain in Berlin, Spirit Milk sets the tone and creates a transcendental dystopian mood like no other on their new single, Death Cult.

Taking inspiration from “VHS-horrors, vintage computer games and distopian postsoviet aesthetics”, Spirit Milk combines moody techno and dark synth grooves with “experimental automated sounds and samples captured from their surroundings.”

Based in Moscow, we love the creative output the artist delivers with their creations. Speaking on the track, Spirit Milk says, “Death Cult is an atmospheric track, heavily inspired by retro cyberpunk aesthetics. It is a kind of music you expect to hear while ascending to the lower megacity, where the law reigns no more. It is a sort of atmosphere you can find in illegal warehouse clubs in futuristic slums, where sex and violence go hand in hand.“

The intention is raw and unfiltered, and the freedom demonstration here has political parallels with how the artist feels about the state of the world right now too. Spirit Milk says that they are, “wandering the world without any particular home city for a moment, fleeing from the Ukrainian crisis. Taking inspiration in an atmosphere of severe decline of the post soviet world, he mixes tracks, perfect for the dystopian future visions of prison cities, rogue AI systems, abandoned tundra wastelands, and machine cults.”

To experience more of the fierce and refined production by Spirit Milk, check out their top tracks below and Death Cult is on our New Music Spotlight playlist!

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