Dedekind Cut's "Dede-K-Tion" closes a trilogy from a producer who started in hip-hop

Fred Welton Warmsley III released the last Dedekind Cut album yesterday, September 22, 2026. It carries the catalogue number ded008, and the release calls it the third and final full-length under that name. 1 Start with the title track, "Dede-K-Tion": 4:28, first in the running order. 2

The record tags itself drone, ambient, industrial, breakcore, new age, "United States" and the artist's own name. 1

Drone is the slowest of those genre tags: music built on sustained tones, where a piece can hold one harmony for a long time. La Monte Young, who helped start the form in the 1960s, called drone "the sustained tone branch of minimalism." 3

Breakcore is the fastest. It came out of jungle, hardcore and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s, built on breakbeats chopped up and played at high tempo. 4 Records coming out under that name now sound different from the 1990s version. Bandcamp Daily's James Gui describes the 2020s revival as "nostalgic, atmospheric, and sentimental," grown out of the 2010s digital hardcore scene. 4

Industrial and new age cover the two ends of that range, grit and calm.

Warmsley is from Sacramento, California. He was born in 1987 and has been releasing music since 2008. 5 He came up in hip-hop: as Lee Bannon he self-released beat tapes, worked with Souls of Mischief and the producer The Alchemist, then joined Pro Era as the crew's touring DJ in 2012 and produced for Joey Bada$$'s mixtape Summer Knights. 5

The move away took two records. Alternate/Endings, his 2014 debut on Ninja Tune, folded jungle and drum and bass into his production, and Pattern of Excel in 2015 was announced as almost entirely ambient. That May he posted a handwritten note saying the name Lee Bannon had "reached its limits," and in September 2015 he put out an EP as Dedekind Cut. 5

Two studio albums came before this one, $uccessor in 2016 and Tahoe in 2018, along with the 2016 EP American Zen, which Resident Advisor described as new age and credited with "chilling cinematic sound design." 5 The older alias also has a SoundCloud account, still holding a few tracks, the newest posted five years ago.

The album landed on September 22, 2026, one day before this issue goes out. The record also says it is the end: "the third & final full-length project by Dedekind Cut — completing the ded trilogy." 1

The page sat open for pre-order long enough that a supporter left this comment under it: "It's July 24th, is this still dropping?" 1

The numbers: eleven tracks, about 48 minutes, $11 or more for the digital album with streaming included, delivered at 16-bit/44.1 kHz. A first pressing of 500 copies on 180g black vinyl runs $36 and ships on or around October 4, mastered by Frederic Stader at Music Matters Mastering in Cologne. 1

The credits list additional production by Ryuichi Sakamoto on three tracks, among them "Super Natural 独行道" and "POP MUSIC." 1 Sakamoto co-founded Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978 and won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Grammy and two Golden Globes for his film scores. He died in March 2023, aged 71. 6

"Dede-K-Tion" is the door in: 4:28, and it names the record. If you want a faster test, "Nemesis" runs 2:49. The two Sakamoto-credited tracks sit right behind the opener, at 3:54 and 4:03, and the closer, "Duracell† (feat. Torus)," takes 8:48. 1

The whole album streams from Bandcamp, where the digital copy is $11 and the 500-copy vinyl ships around October 4. 1