Kobe Dupree - Voice from the Inside (2025)

Kobe Dupree unveils debut album, Voice From The Inside, arriving 21st May 2025. It lands on fellow Chicagoan DJ Hyperactives 4Trk Recordings, now based out of LA, and features twelve tracks already supported by the likes of Dustin Zahn, Truncate, Korea Town Acid, Amanda Mussi & more, coming out on WAX alongside the digital release. Duprees cosmic ambient opener, Jacurutu, sinks you into deep, sub-aquatic techno hypnosis before Heretics layers up alien sounds and rolling kick drums. Syk brings edgy, unrelieved loops and muffled spoken words over more mind-melting rhythm. The supple sounds and otherworldly atmospheres continue on Forms, which is marbled with static electricity, with Interlude of Voice marking a moment to reset amongst gorgeous celestial synth smears. The second half of the album takes in the more punchy but still perfectly loopy deep techno of Memory Replacement and psychedelic swirls of Tongue of the Unseen. There is a mystical charm to the harmonic tones of Gammu, a moodier vibe pervades the suspensory Fogwood, then Semuta Music traps you in tightly coiled drums and hi-hats while a backlit glow soothes the soul. One of Many Faces closes with a heart-aching piano piece that gets deeply emotional. Kobe Dupree is a techno artist from Chicago with a deep interest in sound design and minimalism. His musical experiments have been released on Trax Research, Double Vision Records and DJ Hyperactives 4Trk, on which he released the Stimulate | Iterate EP in 2024. He has a hybrid approach to production, which involves using a modular rig for sound design before moving to a DAW for arrangement and final touches, heard on the sophisticated and cerebral Voice From The Inside album.