Overmind

Mike Dred has been making acid-techno records since the early 1990s, initially on Rephlex — Aphex Twin’s Cornish imprint — and later through his own channels. Overmind (2022) is the most recent document of the same project: the Roland TB-303 at its outer limits, the squelch treated less as texture than as a melodic instrument.

The Kosmik Kommando name appeared across thirty years of records without attracting the profile it deserved — partly because the music was genuinely extreme, too rhythmically aggressive for most ambient listeners and too texturally strange for most techno DJs, occupying a gap between categories that had no settled name for it. Overmind sits alongside the Aphex Classics material as two ends of a thirty-year conversation about what the acid sound could be made to do.