Based in Santo Domingo, Boundary, the alias of multidisciplinary artist Josué Suero, has spent more than nine years developing an approach to electronic music influenced by leftfield techno, IDM, ambient, and experimental sounds.
Photo credit: Boundary – Official
Released on October 2nd, 2026, ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ follows his previous albums ‘Fantasmagórico’ and ‘Óxido En El Espejo’. Across eight tracks, the record imagines a mysterious program transmitted from the star closest to the sun, inviting the listener to explore its functions and consider its potential to change the world.
In this conversation, Boundary discusses the album’s creation, his relationship with video game music, the development of its science-fiction narrative, and the sense of hope underlying the project.
EG: Hi Boundary, welcome to Electronic Groove. It’s great to have you with us. How have you been, and how does it feel to be approaching the release of ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’?
Boundary: Hi to everyone at EG, thank you for having me! Super excited for this release. I’ve just started working on the videos for ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’, which I’ll be releasing throughout these months; hopefully each song gets a video, and it becomes this little short film thingy.
EG: This album arrives eight years after ‘Fantasmagórico’ and two years after ‘Oxido En El Espejo’. When you look at that evolution, what feels most different about the way you approach music now compared with those earlier records?
Boundary: Well, a lot has changed. For example, ‘Fantasmagórico’ was made completely in my DAW, with no hardware used, and I was just starting to make music and learning the program, so I feel like a lot of the vibe from that first record is naivety; I wasn’t really doing it with any expectations of making music in the long run. ‘Óxido En el Espejo’ is a bit of an odd one, because I made that record between 2019 and 2021 and it was done by then, but it didn’t release till 2024, so I felt somewhat disconnected about what I was actually doing by ‘24 and what I was making back then. For this one, only 2 tracks were made last year, and the other ones were made between February and April of this year, which is kinda the fastest I’ve ever worked on an album.
EG: The concept behind ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ is unusually vivid: a mysterious program arrives from the star closest to our sun, and the listener becomes the person exploring it and discovering its potential to reshape the world. Where did that idea come from, and how did the narrative influence the way you wrote the music?
Boundary: I actually came up with the whole narrative after the record was done. I did have the name of the record, but it wasn’t until I listened to the whole thing that this idea of this program that was sent from the star came to my mind. In some ways, the music almost feels kinda ‘dusty’ in a good way, like it just came from an alternate timeline for it to be discovered now. The main idea and backbone of everything was to think of it as an imaginary soundtrack for a video game that never came out.
“The main idea and backbone of everything was to think of it as an imaginary soundtrack for a video game that never came out”
EG: Your influences span leftfield techno, IDM, and the often-overlooked soundtracks and musical language of old video games. What is it about those worlds that continues to inspire you, and how do you translate those references into something that feels distinctly your own?
Boundary: I think I try to go about my music as if I was following an alternate timeline, if that makes any sense. I’m not really sure if I’m self-aware about the way I go about things; I’d honestly rather not be. I kinda just listen to all the music I love and try to find little things I can take cues from, whether it’s sound design-wise, from the way things are arranged, from the way things are mixed; there are a lot of things you can take inspiration from, and what you surround yourself with will ultimately be expressed in your art.
EG: ‘Eclipse V’, which arrives ahead of the album, sits within a record full of gritty synths, evocative melodies and strange technological textures. What can you tell us about the track, and what role does it play within the wider world of ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’?
Boundary: Well, the backstory I have for this song is that in this part of the program, ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ requests you to collect information from ‘the city’. I want to leave it up to the listener to decide what it is from the city they’d want to show the program.
EG: There’s a fascinating contrast between the album’s futuristic premise and the very human emotion running through the music. How important was it for you that this imaginary technological world still felt vulnerable, intimate, and emotionally recognizable?
Boundary: As I mentioned, I didn’t really have the whole story sorted while I was making the album. I feel like the story was completed after listening to all of the finished songs in the tracklist I imagined; I felt like the narrative that was implied was very transformational.
EG: You’ve described wanting the album to offer “some air of hope” in a moment when hopelessness can feel overwhelming. How did that idea shape the record, and did it change the way you approached the more intense or darker passages?
Boundary: I somehow felt like the songs implied some sense of hope, so I decided to make the story revolve around all of that. I guess I was unconsciously making music that made me feel hopeful.
EG: The idea that the listener might have the power to alter the course of the world gives the album an almost interactive quality. Do you see music itself as having that kind of transformative potential, or is the “program” ultimately a metaphor for something much more personal?
Boundary: I’d love to leave that up to the listener, but it definitely feels like it’s about the awakening of a state of mind, both collective and personal.
EG: ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ is being released through Point Records, a Santo Domingo-based label with a particular focus on developing artists and connecting the Caribbean with wider international scenes. What makes Point feel like the right home for this chapter of your work?
Boundary: Well, Point has basically been my ‘home’ record label, to put it in some way. I’ve been with them, releasing music since 2017, and they’ve given me so much support throughout the years, and it’s allowed me to make music my full-time thing so far. In some ways, I feel like this release is sort of a new chapter of my music; it’s the first release in a while that actually catches up to what I’ve actually been doing recently, and it allows me to, so say: this is what Boundary sounds like. I’m really happy to work on this new record with Point, as I feel like it’s also part of a new chapter for them.
“I guess I was unconsciously making music that made me feel hopeful”
EG: Over the past nine years, your music has taken you from the Dominican Republic into a much broader international conversation, with appearances across platforms such as NTS and Rinse and recognition from publications around the world. How has that growing visibility affected your relationship with the local scene and with your own sense of identity as an artist?
Boundary: It’s cool; I feel like people start showing more interest in the project and are more willing to give it a listen.
EG: With ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ about to enter the world, what do you feel this album opens up for Boundary, and what are you most curious to explore next?
Boundary: I’m honestly not so sure what to expect. What I can say is that I’m very happy with this record, and it’s the most recent stuff I’ve worked on, so I feel like, sound design-wise, it’s what people can expect from my music going forward, but I have some other stuff in the works already, like a release that revolves around a ‘fake band’ and also more of a club-oriented release called ‘Generational Lap.’ I hope you look forward to those projects also!
EG: Thank you so much for your time. We wish you all the best with ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’, its release on Point Records, and everything ahead. Take care!
Boundary: Thank you, EG, for having me, and thank you to the readers out there! Best to all.
Boundary’s ‘PROXIMA CENTAURI’ is out now via Point Records. Stream and download here.
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