Four Tet has just announced a new album titled New Energy, due for release on September 29th. The forthcoming album will feature three previously released singles, “Two Thousand and Seventeen”, “SW9 9SL” and “Planet”. The official tracklist and release date was revealed yesterday, September 12th via Hebden’s twitter account. Although
Maceo Plex will be returning this year from May 30th to October 3rd, for another Mosaic residency at Pacha Ibiza. The guest list of acts that will be joining him include Moodyman, Carl Craig, Daniel Avery, Tale Of Us and Royksopp. The initial launch of Mosaic was held at Pacha
The mighty Flying Lotus kicks off his new Brainfeeder Films project – a film finance and production company, on November 16th. This is in partnership with Eddie Alcazar at a special bash held at London’s Regent Street Cinema. Animator and film-maker Alcazar will also screen the world premiere of his
Co-founder of Brooklyn’s Discwoman crew, Umfang, will make her debut on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint with Symbolic Use Of Light on 16th June. The album came into fruition through the process of recording tracks in live takes with the use of a couple of Boss DR 202s, an x0xb0x and
Rush Hour co-founder Antal Heitlager has become the seventh contributor to Altered Soul Experiment’s mixtape series. Officially called ASE07-CASS, the label has indicated that the mixtape will encompass ambient and classical Japanese sounds, “rare jazz fusion”, contemporary eletronica and various “synth oddities” from the island nation. Dutch DJ Antal has
The xx have been pretty quiet over the course of 2016. The group have occasionally teased a few album updates – but nothing definitive has emerged from their progress until now. A recent update posted on their Facebook said they were working on new music and shared a playlist of
Nathan Fake set to release second installment of Providence Reworks, carefully constructed and transformed by Olga Wojciechowska – a Polish composer and multi-instrumentalist who has been known to dabble in modern classical, experimental, and electronic music (and Konx-Om-Pax who recently released his new album Caramel on Planet Mu). Fake’s fourth
THE PLAYGROUND is excited to announce the premiere of Christian Löffler’s “Haul ft. Mohna” (Superpoze Remix) French artist Superpoze’s version of “Haul ft. Mohna,” is taken from LÖFFLER’s 2016 LP, Mare, and is part of “Mare Remixes Pt 1” which also features a remix by Max Cooper. The track is
New York-based producer and artist Nick Hook has collaborated with some massive names including A$AP Ferg, Hudson Mohawke and Novelist. Here he tells us about his upcoming album, how he approaches collaborations and the beauty of performing in an unfamiliar place. Relationships in out on November 1st. What can we
Jared Simms and Voytek Korab have built up an assured discography as My Favorite Robot, while at the same time gigging around the world and A&Ring like-minded synth craftsmen to release on their revered eponymous imprint. Their own sound is mature and musical, and brings real emotion to their sleek
