Shoreditch ‘hub-club’ Village Underground has announced a new 15-year lease deal with the Hackney council. The contract will be signed “in the coming days,” the venue’s founder, Auro Foxcroft, announced yesterday. In addition to being a popular venue, Village Underground also provides studio space for around 30 artists and new
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
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
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
The organisers of Dutch electronic music festival Dekmantel have released a cryptic promotional video on their Facebook page, that seems to hint at some of the acts that will be playing at this year’s event (to be held at Amsterdamse Bos from 2-6 August). The video, cleverly titled “Tomorrow’s Artefacts”
With a new album due October 6th via Ghostly International, Shigeto has shared new single ‘Don’t Trip’. It’s been four years since Zach Saginaw, aka Shigeto, returned home to Michigan from a stint in Brooklyn, NY, and since then, the multi-faceted musician has become a part of the fabric of
The release of Chloé’s first solo record in four years, will hallmark the launch of her record label Lumière Noire. While she has already released a few records under the name of her ongoing event series, Lumière Noire, it is the upcoming single, “The Dawn” that will officially launch the
