Barker announces first full-length record since 2019, ‘Stochastic Drift’

Berlin-based DJ and experimental producer Barker has shared details of his first full-length record in nearly six years, ‘Stochastic Drift‘.

Set to land on Smalltown Supersound on April 4, the new project builds upon 2023’s ‘Unfixed‘ EP as well as the Panorama Bar resident’s debut album ‘Utility‘ — which was named as one of Mixmag’s 50 best albums of the year following its release in September 2019.

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News of the eight-track project has been accompanied with the release of first single ‘Reframing‘, a cavernous journey through searing bass, scintillating percussion and simmering synths.

In a statement, Barker said that the new record is inspired by “embracing uncertainty,” and trying to “see every change as a potential positive.”

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“I was trying to draw a link between creative and social parallels, between what was going on in my life and how that was manifesting in the music,” he continues. “It’s a transition between lots of different goals, describing a process in a window of time that was full of change.”

‘Stochastic Drift’ will be released on Smalltown Supersound on April 4, you can pre-order via Bandcamp here. Check out the tracklist and listen to first single ‘Reframing’ below.

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Tracklist:

1. ‘Force Of Habit’
2. ‘Reframing’
3. ‘Difference And Repetition’
4. ‘The Remembering Self’
5. ‘Positive Disintegration’
6. ‘Cosmic Microwave’
7. ‘Fluid Mechanics’
8. ‘Stochastic Drift’