SCALER – Salt ft. Akiko Haruna

SCALER delivers ‘Salt’ featuring Akiko Haruna as the lead single from their upcoming album ‘Endlessly’, arriving September 26th via Black Acre Records. The Bristol-based project has crafted something that feels like the city’s musical DNA made manifest.

Recorded at The Louisiana in Bristol, the track pulses with the intensity that makes you check your pulse. There’s something almost physiological about how SCALER approaches sound design, creating music that feels like it’s happening inside your bloodstream rather than just hitting your eardrums. The production carries traces of Bristol’s legendary trip-hop heritage while refusing to be nostalgic.

‘Salt’ weaves together fragments of drum’n’bass, experimental electronics, and flashes of techno that feel genuinely unsettling in the best way. The immense low-end pressure provides the gravitational force that holds everything together, while more spatial elements drift and sprawl around the edges.
Akiko Haruna’s vocals add another layer to the sonic tapestry, looping and layering in organic ways despite the digital manipulation.