KATE PENDING - Onyx Skies
'Onyx Skies' is about the future journey of our species, potentially travelling into the great unknown of the universe
By Eleonora
1/5/20241 min read
Kate Pending - Onyx Skies
Emerging from Berlin, Kate Pending explores the drum and bass genre from a different perspective. With a rigorous process of perfection, the artist has reached a point in her career where the music speaks for itself. The new track ‘Onyx Skies’ is a listening experience that transports you in time. Through its futuristic composition and glitchy echoed vocals, Kate Pending expresses the journey of humanity into space. Her music itself is a progression of the DnB genre, with her apparent earlier inspiration being massive DnB legends to her more recent works taking a wider influence from experimental techno artists. One is transported through music and time into a utopian cyber haven. The visuals created alongside this placed Kate Pending in a situation of exploratory discomfort, as she recounts the experience of being stood “half naked, wrapped in colourful plastic in the middle of an alley in Berlin”. What her new single ‘Onyx Skies’ shows us is how malleable Drum and Bass is as a genre, allowing for artists to expand on its core ideas to create mind bending communal experiences. With her new album on the horizon of release, we can rely on Kate Pending to bring it with this sound - and more.
