Leak [Printed Sleeve,Gatefold]

Description

SK_eleven introduces Leak, the debut album from Nineties Techno Redux, a new project from New York-based musician Holden Federico. Across 17 tracks, the record expands the sonic world Holden has built over the past five years producing techno under his own name, wrestling with themes of memory, nostalgia, and the erosion of human feeling in the modern age. Drawing inspiration from Kraftwerk and pioneering electronic music released on Warp Records around the turn of the millennium, Leak operates at two sonic extremes: transcendent, melodic songwriting and futuristic digital sound design. By integrating these opposing forces, the album creates its own cohesive sonic world-moving through breakbeat, IDM, ambient, and techno. Each day, more and more of our humanity is erased, diminished, ceded to AI, and distorted by a culture that bends to the will of the algorithm. Leak expresses an imprecise ache, an undeniably human longing; we yearn to return to an imagined past while reaching toward the future. We cannot go back, and the memory itself begins to blur. Leak will be released on SK_eleven on November 20, 2026.