nolongerhuman digs into the original sessions behind four fan-requested tracks, reconstructing them with new vocals, modern production and nearly two decades of accumulated studio experience.
The Archives Have Been Reopened
nolongerhuman has released Insect Archives, a four-track collection that reaches backward through the project’s history without simply repackaging what listeners have already heard.
Released October 2 through COP International, Insect Archives features newly reconstructed 2026 versions of “Let Me Go,” “Insect Politics,” “Dead Empire” and “Sycophant.” The release also marks the first time nolongerhuman’s music has been issued on vinyl.
For Clint Robertson, however, revisiting these tracks wasn’t about applying a fresh master to old recordings.
Robertson returned to the original stems and original DAW sessions, stripped away the previous effects and compression, removed elements that had muddied the mixes, cleaned up samples and unwanted noise, rebuilt the processing and dynamics, and completely re-recorded every vocal.
The result represents something closer to reconstruction than restoration: familiar songs rebuilt using the studio, technology and production experience Robertson has today.
Old Machines, New Scars
That approach gives Insect Archives an interesting place within nolongerhuman’s catalog.
Active since 2006, the project has spent two decades carving through dark electro, industrial, aggrotech and harsh EBM, combining aggressive electronic production with deeply personal examinations of humanity, society and alienation. Revisiting material from earlier records therefore becomes more than an exercise in nostalgia — it’s an opportunity to hear what those songs might have become if today’s tools and experience had existed when they were originally written.
The physical presentation carries that same attention to detail.
Limited to 300 black-vinyl copies worldwide, with no repress planned, Insect Archives uses artwork by Kallisti:Design / Vlad McNeally inspired by mid-century listening stations and archival reel-to-reel equipment. The choice of straightforward black vinyl was deliberate, reinforcing the vintage archival aesthetic rather than competing with it.
For an artist who has watched music increasingly become something consumed, skipped and replaced within seconds, the physical edition also makes a statement. Insect Archives was designed as an object worth keeping — something meant to occupy actual space rather than disappear into an endless streaming library.
🎶 Listen Now
Insect Archives doesn’t attempt to rewrite nolongerhuman’s history. It reopens it. By returning to the original sessions and rebuilding four established tracks with today’s technology, experience and voice, Clint Robertson has created a bridge between the artist who originally wrote these songs and the one who hears them differently nearly two decades later.
