Clark - Steep Stims

Label: Throttle Records – THROT014LP
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Black
Country: UK
Released: Nov 7, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Leftfield, Drum & Bass, Trance

Clark returns to the rave, with Steep Stims. This double gatefold LP marks a back-to-basics approach, invoking the early years of gung ho creativity, enforced by limitations in technology at the time. “Most of the tracks on this album capture the spirit of making music on old samplers, which don’t have much memory time”, explains Clark.

Made quickly, Steep Stims reflects the immediate rave energy of his live show, but that’s not to say it’s basic floor fodder, as it’s rife with personality, synth magic, and knack for melody. Although swift and impressionistically captured rather than laboured over, it’s still formidably deft, with plenty of oddball weirdness lurking beneath the dancefloor.

This new album is latest in a long, illustrious, and varied career, which has seen everything from being a Warp records mainstay alongside fellow luminaries Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, to headlining the Royal Albert Hall reinterpreting Bach, to multiple big scores, including ‘In Camera’ starring Nabhaan Rizwan, (who featured alongside Jeff Goldblum in the Netflix hit ‘Kaos’), ‘The Last Panthers’ starring Samantha Morton and John Hurt, and ‘Lisey's Story’, adapted by Stephen King from his own novel, starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen.

A1. Gift And Wound
A2. Infinite Roller
B1. No Pills U
B2. Janus Modal
C1. 18EDO Bailiff
C2. Globecore Flats
C3. Blowtorch Thimble
C4. Civilians
D1. Inpatient's Day Out
D2. Who Booed The Goose
D3. 5 Millionth Cave Painting
D4. Negation Loop
D5. Micro Lyf