Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. turns Infinite Black Inside into a late-career electronic revelation

Ibrahim Alfa Jnr.’s Infinite Black Inside arrives in the 16 June review cycle with the weight of a life story that refuses to fit neatly into one artist bio. A veteran of 90s leftfield techno, Alfa has been through serious health problems and long interruptions, and the album is framed as an introspective return driven by complex harmony, intricate drum programming and hybrid analog-digital detail. That context gives the music extra force. This is not simply a producer revisiting old tools. It sounds like someone rebuilding a language after the body, the industry and time itself have made continuity difficult. Electronic music often hides biography behind machines, but Infinite Black Inside seems to let the machine become biographical. Rhythm, texture and melody are not decorative. They are proof of survival, curiosity and an imagination still refusing to stay sidelined.

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