Image: Fabric The concept of the recorded DJ mix has never been more relevant than in our current moment. In the absence of nightclubs and music venues, DJs turned to recorded content to keep the party going. The lack of a live audience removed the necessity to play music that
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Image by Trinity Ellis You’d be forgiven for feeling as if Shygirl seemingly arrived out of nowhere with her infectiously cool brand of sex positive Y2K nostalgia. Following her debut EP Cruel Practice in 2018, the London rapper and DJ unleashed a string of singles that ushered in a refocusing
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Image: Planet Mu Derived from ghetto house and hip hop, footwork may not be your immediate point of reference when considering the work of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti, AKA Vladislav Delay and simply, Ripatti. His latest album, Fun is Not a Straight Line, parts with the artist’s conventions in that
Image: NON NON NON Electronic music has a long history of being the medium of choice for trans artists. From as far back as 1968 when Wendy Carlos played the works of Bach by way of a Moog synthesiser, there’s been something about the modulation of current into sound that
Image: Heartworm Press It’s no secret that Cold Cave, the moniker and ever evolving band of American darkwave and synth pop artist Wesley Eisold, owes a lot to the past. In many ways, the Cold Cave project is a tribute of sorts to the post-punk sound and electro-goth aesthetics of
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Image by Rob Walbers From acid induced Miami bass to an eleven minute reworking of a disco magnum opus, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: VITALIC – Carbonized Vitalic returns with a chaotic electroclash offering that is full-on sci-fi theatre macabre. The
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Image by Casper Maare The term ‘techno’ can be quite controversial in the world of electronic music. Depending who you are talking to, ‘techno’ has become somewhat of an institution that requires music to possess a definitive set of conventions in order to be identified as such. Techno purists so
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Image by Estudio Primo The arc suggested by French electronic ambient composer and multi-instrumentalist Colleen’s latest offering, The Tunnel and the Clearing, is simple. It is a journey from darkness to light, from one opening to the next. However, Colleen’s invocation of this journey takes what is otherwise a linear
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Image by Sasha Smolina Finding a sense of nuance in the consistent thud of techno is not an easy feat, which makes Julia Govor’s brand of techno a bit of a rarity. The New York based Russian selector and composer has always brought a sense of nuance to her productions,
Image courtesy 3D Agency If anything the pandemic has come to affirm, it is that we are inherently social creatures. The global lockdown and periods of self-isolation brought with it the need for us to adapt our methods of socialisation and communication. Technology became more essential than ever, and in
