Image: Planet Mu From mutant cumbian to erratic and complex polyrhythmic breakbeats, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat. Juan Ramos – Iniciado Berlin collective REIF recently announced their upcoming first compilation project REIF01, and with it an epic
Image: 2MR There’s a dazzling sense of fantasy to the music that Russia’s Yana Kedrina conjures up, like modern folk songs that are told through the intersection of man and machine. Folding her saccharine voice like shards of crystal into layers upon layers of buzzing, gloaming, and ebbing electronica, she
Image: Awesome Tapes From Africa To say that South Africa may be experiencing a cultural Renaissance may not be completely unfounded. From the meme sensation of Jerusalema to Beyoncé dressed by Rich Mnisi, South Africa’s pop culture has never felt more prevalent in the first world. And with the success
Image: 100% Silk When Japan’s Soshi Takeda set out to create a collection of tracks inspired by painted Chinese landscapes and the changing of the seasons using only vintage analogue machines,”balearic” may not have been the most immediately apparent description for what he set out to create. But then, across
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Image: Micron Audio Electronic music is one of our most deft forms of futurism, divining ideations of what the world might feel like beyond our present moment. It’s a quality that Detroit’s Sherard Ingram, aka DJ Stingray 313, has always been enamoured by. Trained by the likes of Detroit’s masters
Image: Never Normal Records From groundbreaking new work from some of electronic music’s most subversive new voices to a comeback from pioneers of the form that draws from their past, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat.
Image: Downtown Records / Interscope The sexually explicit rap song has a long history in hip hop, but its lineage becomes markedly more important and subversive when bars like “lick my pussy and my crack” come from the mouths of women. A reaction against hip hop’s penchant for male dominated
Pigeonholing the sort of music that elusive English producer Shackleton creates toward any sort of categorisation is likely a futile exercise. While the Woe to the Septic Heart! founder’s early work slips neatly into the breaks and bass cannon, it’s his later offerings that are more difficult to pinpoint. His
Image: LEITER When Nils Frahm and F.S Blumm dropped Dessert Mule, the first single off their fourth collaborative album 2X1=4, out now on LEITER, it became apparent that this record would be distinct from the work that preceded it. Immediately apparent was the shift in genre, with the duo exploring
Image: Björn Holzweg Nairobi born and Kampala based producer Freddy Njau, aka Slikback, has slowly been infecting club music with his abrasive and entirely future focussed sound over the course of the last few years. His burgeoning influence rides the crest of the wave of interest in the electronic music
