Mike Cadoo Returns as Dryft with New Album ‘Particle’

On downtime from his current work as frontman of post-punk duo Vague Lanes, Mike Cadoo returns to his long-running Dryft project with Particle, his fifth full-length album under the moniker. Arriving twenty-six years after his debut Cell, Particle further sharpens the fractured electronics and muted melodic language explored on 2021’s From Stasis, presenting a crisper, more immediate set of compositions.

Cadoo, also widely known as a founding member of the pioneering electronic project Gridlock, has used Dryft as a consistent outlet for his electronic work over the decades, bridging early post-industrial IDM with more contemporary, restrained forms. Long recognized for beat structures that feel precarious; rhythms that seem to strain, erode, and reassemble in real time. Cadoo approached Particle with a renewed focus on allowing these patterns to fully resolve. Melodic elements are given a more direct role, actively driving momentum rather than hovering in the margins.

Emphasizing clarity and immediacy, Particle favours tactile sound design and forward-pushing arrangements over density or abstraction. The result is a notably focused Dryft release that functions as an all-encompassing signpost for Cadoo’s electronic output to date, informed by decades of sonic exploration.

Particle is out on March 20th. The clear with black-and-white splatter vinyl and compact disc are currently available to preorder on the n5MD Bandcamp page.

Particle Track Listing:

1. Particle
2. Bysemtiv
3. Bentithrum
4. Low Fixture
5. Actacrume
6. Of Penecfrume
7. Cupal

Dryft (Mike Cadoo) ‘Particle’ album artwork