Van Boom is by his own admission a terminal outsider. His work questions what is forbidden in an uncompromising context through abrasive sonics and banging rhythms, although a self-reflective edge accompanies every extreme. His dread-laced, hyper-industrial wares were first unleashed on the 2019 EP frown. The following year's MORFEUS EP for London's ANBA label sparked urgent attention, resulting in him being tapped for Boiler Room's Hard Dance mix series. His collaboration with Slikback only heightened anticipation for further transmissions from the Gulf.

Van Boom's visual output has also gained traction, with the product of an apparel collaboration with Bedouin Records finding support from ACRONYM 's Errolson Hugh. His forthcoming debut album, Prosthetics, finds a fitting home on Varg2TM's Cease 2 Exist label. Prosthetics manifests the heady frustrations and tradition-tempered strains into a demonic cacophony of distorted rapture. Encoded into the giddy fragmentation and acidic crescendos of Van Boom's work is a deep meditation of the meaning of difference and disobedience in very real circumstances.

• HARD DANCE 065: VAN BOOM by Van Boom

• HARD DANCE 065: VAN BOOM by Van Boom