From Grimes going techno to Yaeji trading up her style, we roundup our favourite tracks of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Yaeji, OHHYUK – 29 / Year To Year The collaboration between k-house star Yaeji and frontman of Korean four piece Hyukoh is
Image: Artist The first thing to consider about Alice Longyu Gao is the fact that she is injecting some much needed diversity into the hyperpop sphere. Like Namasenda, Gao is challenging what for the most part has been a white dominated space. The origins of the genre being accredited to
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Image: Embassy One If you Google Copenhagen trio WhoMadeWho, you may notice that they’re listed as ‘experimental pop.’ Now, in the current landscape where artists like Lotic are subverting pop tropes left right and centre and where hyperpop has become a legitimate genre, maybe this is not entirely accurate. However,
Image: Incienso We’re not going to lie, this was solely intended to be a review of New York producer Anthony Naples’s latest album, Chameleon. But as fate would have it, lo and behold the arrival of Club Pez, his latest EP. Both are released on his label Incienso. So now
Image: Deadmau5 Deadmau5 featuring Foster The People is not a sentence that anyone may have imagined being written, but stranger things have already happened at the start to this decade, so here we are. To be fair, Hyperlandia actually works entirely in favour of this collaboration. Unlike his previous single
Image: XL Recordings Blawan, AKA Jamie Roberts, is sort of renowned for his disparate, somewhat skeletal modular synth techno. Why they hide their bodies under my garage? Exemplifies this sort of approach, with crunched out beats and loops characterising his sound with a particular kind of analogous decay. In recent
Image: Because Music From subversive hyperpop to an unexpected take from one of Africa’s rising talents, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: SHYGIRL – Cleo For her latest single, British rapper and DJ SHYGIRL finds herself transfixed by the glamour of Old Hollywood and
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Image: Houndstooth Lotic, the moniker of Berlin based American electronic music artist J’Kerian Morgan, is a term used to refer to any kind of moving water ecosystem. From rivers to brooks, the lotic ecosystem is any aquatic habitat that is naturally nuanced in the way that it supports life. It’s
Image: Brainfeeder There’s a paradox that exists within electronic music that has become more apparent in recent years. While the form exists as a result of our innate instinct to experiment, and by proxy innovate, what began as us literally playing with technology has shifted to technology playing us. The
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Image: Clivage Electroclash as a genre was really born from the intersection of French touch and italo house, borrowing the scuzzy allure of underground EBM to formulate its distinctly and devilishly stylish hedonism. It is a sound underscored by decadence, a sort of indulgent maximalism all about seedy glamour that
