Chasing Ghosts: SICAA’s Soundtrack for the Unseen

There’s something eerie about this EP—something you can’t quite put your finger on, like walking through a city at night and realizing you’re being watched by something that isn’t there. The music doesn’t just play; it lingers. It crawls into your subconscious like a neon-drenched fever dream, a mix of halftime, drum & bass, abstract hip-hop, and electronica, all tied together with a cinematic, sci-fi horror aesthetic. It’s like SICAA wired his brain directly into an old, flickering CRT screen and let the ghosts of forgotten futures spill out through the speakers. This is the second half of a diptych that began last September with Chasing Ghosts Pt. I. If that first release was the opening shot of some surreal, bass-driven arthouse film, then Pt. II is the climactic scene—the part where the protagonist realizes they were never alone to begin with

. The sound design is meticulous, but never clinical. "Neon Depths" feels like stepping into an abandoned arcade, where the walls pulse with some unseen energy and the air hums with static. It’s abstract hip-hop and electronica with an undercurrent of nostalgia, the kind that makes you wonder if time really moves in a straight line. And then there’s the title track, "Chasing Ghosts," a halftime-drum & bass hybrid that feels like something out of a lost cyberpunk film score, all deep bass, eerie atmospherics, and rhythms that lurch forward like a machine learning how to breathe. SICAA has always been more than just a producer—he’s a world-builder. His music is the kind that doesn’t just fill a room, it changes the air pressure. He’s spent years carving out a space in the electronic underground, blending drum & bass, trap, and halftime into something uniquely his own. He’s played everywhere from Marvellous Island Festival in France to Rabbits Eat Lettuce in Australia, and his music has been championed by XLR8R, Trax Magazine, Rinse FM, and a slew of others who recognize when something is pushing the boundaries of bass music. And then there’s the visual side of it all. 

The Chasing Ghosts Pt. II artwork started as a photograph by French photographer Fiora Lumbroso, before visual artist Faffy worked their magic, adding spectral figures and subtle pop-culture nods. But SICAA wasn’t done there—he took the image and embedded it into an old-school television screen, complete with distortion effects and a sense of something glitching just beyond perception. It’s more than an album cover; it’s a portal. There’s something deeply nostalgic about this whole project—not in the way that looks back, but in the way that makes you feel like you’re remembering something you never actually lived through. It’s unsettling. It’s immersive. It’s exactly the kind of music that makes you believe in ghosts. 

Whatever lies beyond the veil, SICAA is already making music for it, listen here.