Kimyan Law, born Nico Mpunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a Congolese-Austrian producer who has carved out a singular space in electronic music. Forced to flee civil war as a child, his family resettled in Austria, where he grew up in a predominantly white environment marked by racism and cultural dislocation. Music became his means of processing those experiences—beginning with improvised instruments and rough looping experiments, and evolving into a rich sound world unlike anything else in Drum & Bass.
He calls it fractal Drum & Bass: a fusion of deep African roots, organic textures, and modern electronic production. His sound blends the ancient and the futuristic, weaving kalimba, djembe, and field recordings with glitch-driven percussion and vast, cinematic atmospheres. The result is at once primal and romantic, raw yet sophisticated—music that breaks free of convention to capture a spectrum of emotion rarely heard in electronic music.
Coeur Calme (2014)
His debut LP Coeur Calme stunned listeners with its daring mix of African folk elements and Drum & Bass. Critics praised his ability to fuse seemingly disparate sounds into something cohesive and deeply compelling. The album has its own lore too: reportedly mastered on a pair of $10 earbuds, it somehow retained remarkable clarity and depth. That resourceful beginning only adds to Kimyan Law’s reputation as a producer who thrives by turning limitations into creative fuel.
With a steadily expanding catalogue, Kimyan Law continues to evolve his sound—always pushing toward new territory, always balancing past and future, earth and machine. Coeur Calme remains the starting point of that journey: an album that announced a new voice in electronic music, bold, original, and unforgettable.
