Image: Innellea/TAU From retro-Bollywood funk house to campy, italo disco dominatrix pop, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Baalti – Kolkata ‘78 San Francisco based Baalti are changing the way we think about South Asian electronic music. The duo have an innate
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Image: Sam Rolfes “The Chromatica remix album is so f*cking fuego music is life.” With a single tweet in early August, Lady Gaga sent pop music into overdrive. Until that point, the long-rumoured remix album had been the stuff of legend and sketchy insider information, promising a resurgence of Gaga’s
Image courtesy Hyperdub The sound of South Africa’s dance music underground is having a moment like never before. The township born forms of Gqom and Amapiano have infiltrated the landscape of European electronic music, with more and more producers turning to the rhythmic patterns and lurking, grime adjacent bass thumps
Image by Travys Owen Angel-Ho has always had something to say, and knows damn well how to say it. She has always understood that in order to be heard as a body perceived by way of its brownness, queerness, transness; you must be loud. It’s something that the South African
Image by Jelena Luis Hood by Air occupies a sort of legendary cult status in fashion and pop culture. The streetwear brand, brainchild of designer and cultural provocateur Shayne Oliver, first arrived in 2006. The identity of the brand is rooted in the underground subcultures of New York, from ballroom
Image Ninja Tune TSHA has slowly been on the rise to becoming one of the UK’s strongest new voices in electronic music. Last year’s Flowers EP largely solidified this status, a dazzling collection that revealed an immense sense of emotional depth and awareness to TSHA’s natural electronic pop affinities. The
It’s possible that Caribou may be a sage, or at the very least incredibly astute. There’s something eerie about the aptness of Dan Snaith’s nomenclature with regards to the zeitgeist. The fact that last year’s Suddenly arrived with a lead single called Home and left with a final single called
Image Ninja Tune Marie Davidson has been on a bit of a journey. Her take on synth driven techno was at once intriguing and charming, heightened by an extensive live hardware setup and unique spoken word approach. Flitting across her knobs and machines, her stage presence was at once enigmatic
Image by Charlotte Duale The Moritz von Oswald Trio has always been a bit of a revolving door of collaborators, held in place by the common denominator of von Oswald himself. Subsequently, the music from the German record producer and composer’s group has always changed shape somehow, presenting a myriad
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Image courtesy Poppy From UK underground fusions of afro dance beats to grunge alt-rock by a former internet star, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat. Ross From Friends – The Daisy British producer Felix Clary Weatherall, better known
