Listen to Komplete Sketches from Nkisi, Mumdance & Angel-Ho

Music technology company Native Instruments has launched an ambitious project and selected 24 of the best producers shaping the underground right now to create original works using its latest production suite Komplete 11, containing over 13,000 instruments. The result is Komplete Sketches, a tour across different producer styles, all coming to terms with new software.

Each production comes with visuals created by Austrian digital designer Rainer Kohlberger, with the direction and movement of the visuals triggered by the sounds. Kohlberger credits a South Korean visionary for inspiring the work. “The principles behind the process I used can be traced way back to the 1960s, when video art innovator Nam June Paik worked on his Video Synthesizer with the engineer Shuya Abe,” he said.

The list of producer participants reads like one of the best club lineups around right now, with names like Olof Dreijer, Nkisi and Throwing Shade all involved and labels slash collectives such as NON, Staycore, PAN and Planet Mu all representing. We’ve selected three (see below), including a sprawling soundscape from Mumdance, but check the rest on the Native Instruments site to get a feel for the programme.