N1NJA returns to her Tales of Twilight imprint on November 13 with ‘Particles’, featuring Ukrainian vocalist JKLN and later reimagined by technologist and remixer PALIS. The result is a sweeping progressive journey exploring the idea that everything, from machines and human beings to matter itself, is in constant motion.
Continuing the label’s philosophy of sampling the sounds of speed, ‘Particles’ began 10,000 feet above the Swiss Alps, where N1NJA captured field recordings from a helicopter in flight. The aircraft itself became part of the architecture of the track: its rotor was transformed into a synth, its natural pulse shaped the rhythm of the pattern, and smaller mechanical details from inside the cabin were reshaped into high-frequency percussion.
From there, the idea travelled from physical flight into the world of particle physics. Inder Phull, aka PALIS, fresh from his recent collaboration with Dixon’s Transmoderna project, created a bespoke instrument using real CERN collision data, translating particle activity into musical patterns that became part of the record’s melodic language. The instrument forms part of his ongoing Living Instruments project, which explores how live and archival data can become playable musical instruments.
For ‘Particles’, that concept extends into an interactive digital experience inviting listeners to step inside the world of the record and explore its sounds through particle-based interactions. Producers can go deeper through an exclusive plugin built from the track’s sounds and source material, extending the project from something to listen to into something to explore, manipulate and create from.
Explore the interactive experience and plugin HERE
Against these mechanical and subatomic systems of movement, JKLN introduces the human and celestial dimension. Her ethereal vocals flicker at the edges like candlelight, moving through ideas of time, stardust and the abstract beauty of being one tiny part of a much larger continuum. Her recurring line, “round and round we go,” echoes the track’s central idea of endless motion and cyclical movement.
PALIS adds another dimension through his remix, pushing the track’s sense of movement forward with harp-like melodic cascades falling between angelic chords. His interpretation expands the original’s progressive sound into Indie Dance territory, bringing a darker, more driving energy while preserving its emotive melodic core.
The breathwork versions complete the release by shifting ‘Particles’ from movement and collision into stillness and reflection. Narrated by N1NJA, the Guided Breathwork Journey is built around a 1:2 pranayama rhythm, moving between receiving and releasing, and exploring two states that appear separate but belong to the same cycle. Symbolically connected to the release’s catalogue number TWL002, the practice becomes a meditation on duality, exchange and return, completing the project’s wider arc from physical speed and subatomic collision to conscious stillness.
From the sounds of a helicopter high above the Alps to the invisible movement of particles, ‘Particles’ traces a journey between vast physical landscapes and the fabric of reality itself, transforming movement into music, data into emotion, and a finished record into something listeners can explore and create from.
N1NJA’s ‘Particles’ ft. JKLN drops via Tales of Twilight on 13th November 2026, with PALIS’ Remix arriving 4th December 2026 and the Breathwork Journey landing 1st January 2027.
Tracklist:
1. Particles ft. JKLN
2. Particles ft. JKLN (PALIS Remix)
3. Particles ft. JKLN (Guided Breathwork Journey)
4. Particles ft. JKLN (Breathwork Instrumental)
N1NJA: Instagram – Soundcloud – Facebook – Spotify
PALIS: Instagram – Soundcloud – Website – Spotify
JKLN: Instagram – Soundcloud – Website – Spotify
Tales of Twilight: Instagram – Soundcloud – YouTube