Dorian Concept - Miniatures (2025)

Dorian Concept returns with Miniatures, a collection of his renowned one-take synthesizer recordings that he’s been known for sharing online since the mid-2000s. "This release was right under my nose" he says. Over the past two decades, Dorian Concept has uploaded videos of himself fooling around on various synthesizers and keyboards, long before the rise of short-form content. These signature one- to two-minute performances have sparked countless covers, remixes and reinterpretations by musicians and producers alike. With this project, Dorian Concept aims to celebrate a long-standing bond with his instruments and honor it in the form of a photo album.

In his own words:

"As a kid, every night before bed, I would sit in the same place and draw a comic. I rarely finished them, but I couldn’t go to sleep without having started one. These Miniatures and the preceding videos I’ve recorded come from the same place. They’re the expression of a ritual.

Around 2020, I created a compact setup using three devices – a mono synthesizer, an analogue reverb and a looper – which I separated from the rest of the studio. Every day I would improvise on this small setup and at the end of every month, I would record a video and share it with the world. These songs were made in front of you, in a Truman Show like fashion.

Now they feel like diary entries that capture the timeline of a deepening relationship, the harvest of limitation and repetition, and the beauty of simplicity."

The cover art is a drawing by the esteemed Austrian artist Leopold Strobl (courtesy of Galerie Gugging), who is known for his distinctive small-format work. The closing track, An Unopened Letter, features the genre-defying guitarist and producer Bibio.

Miniatures will be released on 14 November 2025 via Play Instinct.