Eustress - Exit
Label: Kino Disk – KD18
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
Country: US
Released: June 12, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno, Minimal
Heath Gillespie returns to Kino Disk as Eustress with Exit — a six-track full-length that follows his 2024 lathe cut Arx on the same Chicago imprint and marks a significant expansion of the project's textural ambitions. Where Arx offered an early glimpse of Gillespie's approach, Exit gives it room to fully unfold — six numbered pieces that function less as individual tracks and more as successive thresholds, each one a distinct passage through the same immersive sonic environment.
The record exercises the textural elements of electronic dub with patience and precision — ambient dub techno that builds from minimal structure into something quietly expansive, the low-end and the negative space carrying equal weight throughout. Rhythm implies rather than insists, atmosphere does the heavy lifting, and the cumulative effect across all six pieces is of a single sustained investigation rather than a collection of separate moments. A considered and immersive statement from a producer finding their fullest voice yet.
