Alex Koenig might get lumped in with vaporwave, but the producer’s work as Nmesh goes deeper than dolphin GIFs and abandoned malls. He cut his teeth drumming for metal and hardcore bands in Louisville, Kentucky, then turned to electronic production after getting hooked on psychedelics and the Warp Records catalog. The Nmesh project kicked off in the early ‘00s, with a smattering of records that spanned blissful breakbeats, plunderphonic glitches, and marshy noise. The project strengthened during the ‘10s — a woozy heyday for terminally online stoners. Defined by a series of increasingly freaky left turns, Koenig’s discography now lands somewhere between Black Dice, Omni Trio, and a thrifted New Age cassette with occult backmasking.

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