Experimental electronic duo KOGG share new single ‘Doing Things’ via Nonclassical
KOGG share ‘Doing Things’ from upcoming debut album Mechanista
Out via Nonclassical on 22nd May
“Couldn’t be more perfect”
Deb Grant, BBC Radio 6 Music
“Chilled out Aphex Twin vibe”
Nathan Shepherd, BBC Radio 6 Music
Live Date:
June 11th, London – Iklektik (Album Launch)
London/Essex experimental electronic duo KOGG have shared ‘Doing Things’, the latest single taken from their debut full-length album Mechanista, set for release on 22nd May 2026via Nonclassical. The single comes along side a ‘Radio Re-work’ by label mate, Gabriel Prokofiev. Blending contemporary composition, improvisation and DIY sound invention, Mechanista is a bold exploration of where human breath meets mechanical process; a musical world built from spanners, toy whistles, brass, elastic bands and broken piano keys.
The single follows the release of the album’s title-track last month, which has gained the duo early supporters at BBC Radio 6 Music and an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour yesterday.
Working within a field still largely dominated by men, KOGG bring a perspective that feels quietly radical. Where experimental music has often been framed through seriousness and technical austerity, their approach is open, tactile and playful – grounded in curiosity as much as craft. Mechanista challenges these unspoken conventions not through confrontation, but through a sense of shared discovery and invention.
‘Doing Things’ captures KOGG at their most instinctive and transformative. What begins as a gentle chord progression quickly unfolds into something far more kinetic – a rhythmically elastic, off-centre dance track built entirely from the human voice.
Speaking about the track, KOGG explain: “This tune is about getting stuff done, with energy and feeling. It captures the idea of dancing on uneven ground and realizing that’s the whole point.
The track emerged from a chord progression, which we recorded on vocals. This became the source for pretty much all other material which consists of sampling the vocal. We didn’t realise at the time that the rather gentle chord progression would turn into a dance track.”
That sense of surprise sits at the core of KOGG’s process. Formed by Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg, whose backgrounds span classical contemporary composition and jazz improvisation, the duo build their music from experimentation, often allowing a single recorded sound to generate an entire sonic ecosystem. On ‘Doing Things’, the original vocal recording is sliced, reshaped and transformed into a playable instrument, with every melodic and rhythmic element derived from that initial source. Even the chorus emerges through a probability-based generative system, blurring the line between composition and process.
Since forming in 2018, KOGG have brought their genre-defying sound to venues including IKLECTIK and The Moth Club, as well as appearing at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. They were commissioned by Britten Pears Arts to create and perform new work at the Aldeburgh Festival, and have performed internationally at Radar Festival Beyond Music in Varna, Bulgaria. In 2024, they headlined Nonclassical’s 20th Anniversary Club Night, cementing their reputation for theatrical, high-energy audiovisual performance.
With Mechanista, KOGG refine their distinctive sound world into a cohesive debut statement; one where improvisation meets structure, composition meets spontaneity, and everyday objects become instruments of possibility. ‘Doing Things’ offers a vivid entry point into that world: a track born from simplicity, transformed through process, and propelled by the unexpected joy of movement on uneven ground.
Tracklist
- Reel
- Revolution
- Voyager
- Prologue
- Mechanista
- The Count
- Doing Things
- Belastica
- Hocket
- Spanners
- Tin Canticle