The Kenyan artist has been perfecting this balancing act from his base in Berlin, most notably on 2020 full-length Peel. It's a record of slowly unfolding synth beauty and drawn-out drone mindfulness. Soft focus chords bleed and blend into one another like different shades of watercolour paint and the environmental nature of the sound sources lends it a gorgeously natural atmosphere.

For this week's most meditative mix, KMRU puts together an hour of soothing sound in a painterly fashion. It is unhurried but always going somewhere thanks to a gentle underlapping rhythm, expansive synth arc or little hiss of static. What sounds like distant vocal calls drift in and out of the mix which at times is like a recording from the furthest recess of the cosmos, at others the pleasant ambiance you might hear out of a Berlin window on a sunny afternoon.

Tracklist:

Doltz – Mimei
KMRU & Echium – Insomniac
Echium - bygone
claire rousay - everything perfect is already here (extract) emaenuel - Earth
KMRU - wind bags
Kali Malone - Spectacle of Ritual
Carmen Villain – Portals
perila – how
SLIKBACK X MALIBU – UENDELIGT
Debit - 1st Day
Kevin Richard Martin - Higher Than The Sky
Nyokabi Kariuki – Anjiru
Kunsf - will be
Actress – Jardin
Dj Raph – Amen
Elin Piel - Satsuma Sunday
Patricia Wolf - Distant Memory
France Harris - Useless_Machines
Pontiac Streator - eye to you
Barraco Barner - 20200419 MT4X #1 Day Out
Jake Muir – melting like the stars