CrucifyMe drops his debut Evolution Chamber EP ‘Coloured Starshow’

From Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine, via a decade of self-directed study and a catalogue that now spans Critical Music, Blackout, Eatbrain, and beyond, CrucifyMe makes his full debut on Evolution Chamber with his ‘Coloured Starshow’ EP, a project that spans 6 tracks and refuses to settle into a single register.

Brent Kilner’s path into Drum & Bass was not a straight one. Growing up in Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine, he came to production through curiosity rather than intent. An old copy of FL Studio 4, spare time that gradually consumed itself, and early exposure to the more muscular end of the music: Noisia, Spor, Pendulum. It was the combination of aggression and musicality in that strain of Drum & Bass that first arrested him. Understanding how it worked from the inside became the mission.

That early obsession did not immediately translate into formal output. CrucifyMe began taking production seriously around 2018, releasing his first official material in 2021 via Axon Records. What followed was a catalogue built steadily and across a broad range of respected labels: Critical Music, Blackout, Eatbrain, Soulvent, Grid, Hanzom, Delta 9, and SINFUL MAZE, alongside appearances on Evolution Chamber’s own ‘Transmissions’ Series Parts 3 and 4. The reputation that has built around him owes as much to consistency and work rate as to any single record.

The ‘Coloured Starshow’ EP is his full debut on Evolution Chamber, and it carries the ambition of an artist who has spent years learning exactly how to use the space he has been given. The EP’s title is well chosen. Six tracks, each distinct in character, combine to suggest something larger; a display rather than a sequence, light shifting rather than a single sustained tone.

‘Bigfoot’ opens the release with a groove that reads as accessible but tightens as it moves. The tension is gradual, the momentum real. It is a functional opener that earns its place without announcing itself too loudly. The title track follows as the centrepiece: dark, heavy, rolling drums with an unambiguous sense of purpose. If ‘Bigfoot’ establishes the temperature, ‘Coloured Starshow’ sets the atmosphere.

‘Crook’ is the record’s most distinctive rhythmic turn; a deliberately disjointed, steppy groove that sits at an angle to the tracks around it. The contrast is not incidental; it is structural, and it works. ‘Gaijin’ shifts register again: sharp bass hits beneath vocal phrases, before a retro-inflected switch that brings some levity to the second half of the EP without losing coherence. The transition is handled with enough precision to feel like a choice rather than a conceit.

‘Nyx’ operates on momentum. Steppy basslines drive the opening passages before rolling drums take over, building pace across the track’s runtime with something close to inevitability. It is the EP’s clearest statement of pure forward movement. ‘Restless’ closes on a different note, progressive, ascending, built around rising bass lines that carry a sense of space. Where ‘Nyx’ pushes forward, ‘Restless’ opens upward. As an ending, it is well-judged.

Debut EPs on labels of this calibre arrive with expectation. The ‘Coloured Starshow’ EP meets it not through a single defining moment but through range and control. This is a producer who understands that a six-track release is a statement about what you can do across different registers, not just within one.

The work rate that peers have noted shows in the output: there is nothing tentative here. CrucifyMe appears on Evolution Chamber as an artist who has already put the formative years behind him. What this EP suggests is that the next phase will be worth watching closely.

Check out our premiere of ‘Coloured Starshow’ below. The EP drops this Friday, 8th May. Make sure you grab a copy from here!