01 - Mumdance - Ping Devil Meme

02 - unearth - Faulty Client

03 - 6amsunset - Scroll of Doom

04 - Logos - Red October

05 - Lillia Betz - Boomerang

06 - Meta & Henry GreenLeaf - Fault Line VIP

07 - Klahrk - Sent Spinning - Ben

08 - Beton Brut - Lime Bikes - Zach

09 - CORIN - redux - Corin

10 - Cortical - Grated - Sevi & Daniel

11 - Xen Chron - Q’omatose

12 - Amit - Dirt Doctor

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It’s an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum. Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore, and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The Ping Report — a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds and ideas before they had a name.

Artwork by Renick Bell

Design by All Purpose

Mastering by Alex Gordon @ Abbey Road

Distribution by Supernature

Cat. No. DIFF010 – All rights reserved

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