Why does leaving Ninja Tune matter?
Thirteen years with a label is most of a career. Machinedrum spent that long inside Ninja Tune, one of the most respected independents in electronic music, and now Travis Stewart has walked. The framing he chose is the part worth reading twice: he is bringing full creative and commercial control back under one roof. That is the language of an artist who wants to own the masters, the rights and the relationship with the people who actually pay.
Bringing full creative and commercial control back under one roof.
The vehicle is IAMSIAM, his own imprint, relaunched for this release rather than borrowed for it.
What is BL00MS, exactly?
BL00MS is a six-track mini-LP: "The Frog Song," "No 1 Knew," "When Ur Gone," "Fade Away," "Bounce N Slide," "BL0000M." It is his first purely instrumental release in years, moving through dubstep, UK garage, jungle and melodic house across roughly 136 to 160 BPM. It landed on Bandcamp in early June 2026, after the 21 April announcement that arrived with the single "WHEN UR GONE."
How does the release model work?
The record is a Bandcamp exclusive, which means the direct-to-fan platform, not the DSPs, carries the launch. Physical editions ship on floppy-disc-style USB drives stuffed with Easter eggs. That is a collector object and a fan signal at once: buy it from the source, get something a stream cannot give you.
