Manchester does not always know where to file a band that refuses the usual boxes. Indie rooms, club nights and jazz stages all sit a few streets apart, but the music that actually belongs in the gap between them still has to make its own case. Kazimi’s new single Errant Nodes, out 8 October 2026, makes that case at full volume. It is a pumping dancefloor track built on big melodic hooks and joyous energy, and it is the duo’s most electronic-leaning release to date: synth-driven, punchy and packed with momentum.
Tom Chapman and Jon Needham formed Kazimi to blend jazz and dance music into something high-octane. The writing rests on pounding electronic grooves, sizzling improvisation and mind-bending odd-time jams. Over the past two years they have been writing and producing their own strain of electronic jazz. The 2025 singles Storming Jupiter and Mauve Coconut, both released with live videos, marked the start of the project. That work sits on more than 20 combined years as band members for other artists and creative projects. Collaboration is still part of the method. Saxophonist Jimmy Stuttard and keyboardist Liviu Gheorghe have already featured on the earlier releases, and both play in the live setup.
Errant Nodes lands as the breakthrough in that process. The band put it plainly: they took a single idea and kept pulling more out of it. The result feels compositionally more mature than the earlier tunes, and it genuinely felt like an evolution in how they write together. The track moves through a lot of moods and dynamics. The structure is complex. A single thread still ties it back into one piece, which gave them a strange freedom. They could take the tune anywhere and it would still hold.
That matters if you care about indie dance that is not just a loop with a drop stapled on. Chiptune colour, electroclash bite and a proper club pulse sit in the same arrangement without sanding off the odd-time writing that defined the earlier singles. Storming Jupiter came from a syncopated, dance-y synth part against driving drums, with a saxophone solo from Jimmy Stuttard inspired by RKDIA. Mauve Coconut was the mathier one, built around an odd-time riff that shifts signatures, with a keyboard solo from Liviu Gheorghe. Errant Nodes keeps that compositional nerve and tips further toward the floor.
The timing is useful. Electroclash has been creeping back into underground dance pop all year, with a new wave of acts reverse-engineering early-2000s club attitude and pairing it with sharper modern production. Indie dance playlists are still hungry for records that feel physical rather than purely playlist-polished. Kazimi are not chasing that trend from outside. They are arriving from electronic jazz, Royal Northern College of Music training, and a city that gave them excellent musicians even when it did not offer a neat scene for the sound. Fans of Knower, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Charli XCX and Evan Marien are the reference points the band themselves name, and the single earns the comparison on energy rather than costume.
Errant Nodes also works as a trailer. A debut EP is due early 2027, and the band say it will show the full range of their writing and production. Mixed and mastered by Steve Poppleton, with press photos by Jamal Hayes and cover art by Luke Panayiotou, the single already sounds like a group that has stopped explaining the concept and started finishing the song.
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