Club Furies

«‘Wicked selection of rhythm and texture of madness. Vibrations’. An attempt to walk the line between visceral and cerebral. Embracing both minimalism and a disregard for the formalities of technological limits, at times it’s a brutal sonic wallop, at others a playful exploration of the oddities of rhythm. Call it what you will, it’s crazy.» So defines David Kaplowitz, an American currently based in London, UK, who has a subtlety to the definition of his artistic concept, as we rarely see it.

Better known as DKAPZ, he returns to present his fifth release, «5. Rational Fears«, to be released in September. It’s the next chapter in DKAPZ’s abstract exploration of a wide range of electronic music genres, taking notes from experimental club, broken techno, free jazz, bass, and IDM. It follows last year’s Rule By Monsters EP, supported on BBC 6Music by both Mary Anne Hobbs and Tom Ravenscroft (also supported by the likes of Beatrice Dillon, Zoë McPherson, Om Unit, Jaye Ward, A. Fruit, Elena Columbi, and Ara-U among many others).

And as we usually say when faced with art that defines itself through its artist, there is nothing left to do but present it: «Once again, DKAPZ offers an intimate and personal work. Created over the last year in the midst of his ongoing musical and technical development, 5. Rational Fears explores the internal dissonance that arises when one must (for self-preservation) temporarily close oneself off from part of the horror show that planet Earth is experiencing and the internal and external changes that occur when irrational fears become rational.»

«Sonically, from the outset there has been a shift towards working with decidedly more minimalist sounds, albeit with DKAPZ’s characteristic sense of exploration and extreme rhythmic complexity, from the minimal techno banger THIRTEEN to the polyrhythms of Chronophobia and the drunken swagger of Intermission (Fear of Intermission).»

THIRTEEN’s sound is somewhere between silence and nothingness, which denies existence, he overcomes this difficulty to meander reluctantly and progressively. Electric tinges that overcome their latency to dynamite with electricity and mediated power. Abstractions that sonorize in the midst of worlds that beg for death, and realities that cry out for cynicism.

Artist: DKAPZ
Title: 5. Rational Fears
Label: Self-Released
Catalogue: DKAPZ_005

Release Date: September 19th. 2025
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Tracklist
1. THIRTEEN
2. Anthropomorphobia
3. Nucleomituphobia
4. TEN
5. It’s Easier to Imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism
6. Momentary Understanding I
7. Intermission (Fear of Intermissions)
8. Thalassophobia
9. Momentary Understanding II
10. Chronophobia
11. Kinesiophobia
12. Globophobe on a Globe

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