sonikku comes riding back into the lobster tropical gardens with a flurry of sparkling, arpeggiator-driven ambient jams featuring three extended reworks from nts regular mobbs.
sonikku’s originals apply a drier and skit-length pop approach to synth-based home listening. building a borderline-saccharine melodic base to each track then upping the sheen and the tropical & twinkling production. shots of balearic appear in earth temple, christmas jingles echo from the depths of diamond dust, while sky garden channels a more direct emotional palette of warm synthesizer heartbreak.
mobbs’ approach is to allow each track to breathe around it’s core strengths over a longer time frame, whilst enhancing and encouraging each element to make it’s space and time to enter the track. the shifts and swaying structures turn shorter synth ideas into fully blown journeys that become almost hypnotic by the end. a soft, dream-like ride into bliss.

after reviving his 16-bit soul with rampantly joyful and excessively hedonistic escapades in new york, the now newly-named sonikku (casting off the dj moniker of old and focussing purely on his namesake) takes refuge in the legendary high altitude temple, rising from the forest through the clouds and to a monumental blue-hued floating structure. sky sanctuary.
sonikku’s warm, lilted audio recordings from time spent there tell a story of two sonikku’s. one, a young producer, all scorched drum carnage with fruit basket plugins that betray a balearic leaning that defied their age (the b-side). then the second sonikku. pure vibes, positive waves and solid life lessons gleaned all the way from the sky sanctuary (a-side).
cloud surfin, sky swimming, escapist, fantasy-sanctuary blissfulness.

summer 2017 arrives early thanks to the grinning and beaming dilemma001 from the inimitable sonikku. get yourself propped up poolside for this one because its seriously bumpin’. four super fun mixes of some seriously cherished noughties rnb bangers.

after a tropical storm powered by gaming-vengeance battered the long lost secret island, our young protagonist dj sonikku - ruffled but not deterred, having drifted for months on a bird-nested raft - finds himself landing on the shores of new york city. megadrive chip intact, mates along for the ride, and a half century of electronic heritage soaked up in a flash - all my friends is the culmination of sonikku s mental and spiritual journey into his own version of a hyperreal nyc.

dj sonikku debuts on distant hawaii with three sparkling, island-hopping balearic house joints from the heart of a deep jungle-smattered paradise. dreamed up from within the internet-scorched mind of tony donson, his dj sonikku alias sees him utilise segas heralded yet mildly-ancient 16-bit megadrive console as a proto-mpc platform from which to assemble his tropical-tinged house sound.
repress on translucent, blue marbled vinyl.