Kant Kino launch brand new EP ‘Rodney: End-State Variations’ on Alfa Matrix with full remix lineup
Kant Kino
Out now is a brand new EP from the Norwegian EBM duo Kant Kino: “Rodney: End-State Variations“. The 7-track EP is out via the Belgian label Alfa Matrix and is build around the single “Rodney”. The release runs just over 35 minutes and features one new edit of the title track plus six remixes.
Thematically “Rodney” is about “our life in the continuously expanding synthetic world, where personal relationships and social structures begin to resemble systems that drift toward emotional and structural end-states.” so the band says. “It is something that settles in quietly, and that perspective echoes themes explored in Thomas Seltzer’s documentary series ‘UXA’, where long-term deterioration becomes routine and instability starts to feel ordinary rather than alarming.”
Musically, “Rodney” remains rooted in the duo’s trademark mix of EBM and dark electro: tightly sequenced bass lines, direct drum programming, and processed vocals that move between rhythmic phrasing and melodic hooks. The production progresses on the sound developed on “Father Worked In Industry” (2013) and later refined on “Kopfkino” (2017).
Remix contributors on ‘Rodney: End-State Variations’
Industrial Heads contribute three different versions: the main “Industrial Heads remix”, the “Industrial Heads go oghr remix”, and the “Industrial Heads v. One Dead Dicso Dancer re-work”. Agregat deliver a more stripped-down interpretation, while the Atlanta-based project Mode Phaser (the industrial/EBM/Drum & Bass/Dark Elektro side project by Matt Echo) adds sharper, angular synth work and broken-beat elements to the remix.
The closing Electro Ferret remix reconnects Kant Kino with a collaborator already present on the “Kopfkino” remix of “Third Down”, placing “Rodney” in a more detailed, atmospheric setting while keeping the EP’s tempo and club orientation intact.
About Kant Kino
Kant Kino is a Norwegian electronic duo from Oslo featuring vocalist Lars Henrik Madsen and keyboardist/synth programmer Kenneth Fredstie.
They debuted with the album “We Are Kant Kino – You Are Not” (2010, Alfa Matrix). The release was followed by the EP “LRSBSS” (2012), the second full-length “Father Worked In Industry” (2013), plus two download EPs: “Just For The Comfort Of Sleep EP” (2013, issued in two versions) and “Ich Liebe Katarina Witt EP” (2013, also in two versions), all released via Alfa Matrix.
In 2016 they issued the Motörhead cover “We Are The Roadcrew (Robots)” as a name-your-price single, followed by the third studio album “Kopfkino” (2017). In 2017 they also curated and fronted the various-artists digital remix compilation “Matrix:Reb00ted – The Kant Kino Guerrilla – Zion (EBM) Warfare [01]” (2017), featuring their remixes of tracks by Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Leaether Strip, Bruderschaft and others from the Alfa Matrix roster.
The joint Coldkill vs Kant Kino EP “Silent Morning” followed in 2018 on COP International, while the Depeche Mode cover single “Pimpf and Touch Faith” appeared in 2019 and was also featured on the label tribute “Alfa Matrix Re:Covered Vol. 3 – A Tribute to Depeche Mode”.
The one-track single “Enough! (Demo)” was self-released via the band’s Bandcamp page in 2022, marking the first new studio material after “Kopfkino”, while Kant Kino continued to appear on Alfa Matrix and Side-Line-related compilations, including remix and charity projects. They also remixed Front 242 (“Detox Static EP”).
And now there is the “Rodney – End-State Variations EP” (2026).
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