Kimyan
Kimyan (also credited as Kimyan Law) is the stage name of Nicola Mpunga. He is a Vienna-based producer and DJ whose work is rooted in drum & bass and jungle and spans bass music, breakbeat, dubstep, dub techno, liquid funk, drumstep, chillstep and tropical house.
Nicola Mpunga is of Congolese descent. He began making music at a young age using instruments improvised from everyday objects — a fact he has cited as part of his early musical practice. Public biographical detail on his early career is limited, but he is documented as working and releasing music from Vienna, Austria.
As a producer, Kimyan blends elements from multiple bass-heavy styles. His tracks move between jungle- and drum‑and‑bass‑style break programming and lower‑tempo bass music and dubstep textures. Production hallmarks include tight break edits and swung breakbeat placement typical of jungle and drum & bass, layered sub and midrange bass parts to fill club-frequency ranges, and the use of dubtechno-style delays and reverb to create atmosphere. His catalog also shows influence from liquid funk in melodic pad work and from tropical house in occasional melodic phrasing and lighter percussion choices. The early practice of building instruments from found objects informs a continued interest in percussive textures and non-standard sound sources in his arrangements.
On the DJ side, Kimyan presents his productions within multi-genre mixes that bridge faster rollers and halftime/bass pieces; his sets emphasize contrast between break-driven tracks and deeper, dub-influenced basslines. He operates both as a studio producer and as a selector, using his productions to shape transitions between dnb/jungle and slower bass music in live DJ contexts.
Recorded output and formal credits: Kimyan has released music on the PlusPlusPlus label. In 2025 he is credited as a co-composer of the Austroschwarz original motion picture soundtrack (2025). These are the principal verifiable credits currently available in public sources.
Specific collaborations and a fuller discography are not widely documented in public sources beyond the PlusPlusPlus release and the Austroschwarz soundtrack credit. Likewise, explicit statements of artistic influences beyond his Congolese heritage and early improvisatory work are not broadly published; however, his cataloged genres and the soundtrack credit point to a practice that moves between club-focused break constructions and cinematic, textural composition.
For now, the clearest touchpoints on Kimyan’s career are his Vienna base, the PlusPlusPlus release, and his role as co-composer on the Austroschwarz (2025) soundtrack — concrete markers of a producer/DJ working across drum & bass, jungle and wider bass music forms.
