Tycho | Weather | Ninja Tune Release Date: 12 July 2019 A swooning dreamscape dotted with sweetened electronic melodies, exploring textural playtime in colour and tenderness. Bright and upbeat, yet bubbling with depth and reflection; sculpting a new day, a glow throughout the seasons – introspective and tenderly aware. Multi
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LORN | DROWN THE TRAITOR WITHIN | Wednesday Sound Release Date: 30 June 2019 A phantom industrial soundscape looms in textural experimentation; a realm sculpted within melancholia – the dance of artificial apparitions warp an immersive narrative. A haunting, glowing in an eerie vibrancy, sculpts a world of power and
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Lust For Youth | Self Titled | Sacred Bones Release Date: 7th June, 2019 A sweeping synth-pop dance, cold to the touch yet warm in the blue light. To reflect upon the self; submerged in insight, longing for the sun yet still bathing in the moon. An embrace of animated
Katie Dey | solipsistsers | Run For Cover Records Release Date: May 31st, 2019 A perspective from the inside out; sculpted by individual thought, a bittersweet inner world growing in the outer. I think therefore I am – I think, therefore everything else is, too. If perception is reality, reality
J-E-T-S | ZOOSPA | Innovative Leisure Release Date: May 24th, 2019 Between the old \\ new, the traditional – the future. Combinations of soundscapes created meticulously, with simultaneous genres as play; stacking blocks of sounds – never to be narrowly defined. Boxes broken through. Collaborations in the experimental; merged, experienced,
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Holly Herndon | PROTO | 4AD Release Date: May 10th, 2019 The artificial; the organic – an extraterrestrial anxiety pushes and pulls through our blue-blood veins. A juxtaposition; the cold mechanical, technological hijack. The possibility of replacement; human beings as luddites, afraid – future advancement, breaking us down. Yet, the
4AD / A.I / Avant-Garde / Composer / Dream / experimental / Holly Herndon / Pop / PROTO
Caterina Barbieri | Ecstatic Computation | Important Records Release Date: May 3rd, 2019 Feature Image Credit: Frank Zerban Spiralling intricacies within the weaving and sculpting of patterns; twisted within the other, a basket cradled with sequences of electronic timbre – to reach within a processed depth, algorithms, constructed mathematics as
Lomea (pronounced “Low-maya”) has shared ‘You Are Your Memories’, the first single off of his upcoming album Echoes in Bloom. The album will be Lomea’s second album coming via Here and Now Recordings, a label with a keen interest in experimental cinematic sounds. Lomea is the experimental electronic project of
Interview by Arnold van der Walt Already being compared to the likes of Bonobo and Caribou, Oscuro has been making waves with his richly textured soundscapes. Today, he brings us the deep ‘Take Me Down’, exclusively on The Playground. Oscuro was formed in 2014 after he won a contest on
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Joni Void | Mise En Abyme | Constellation Records Release Date: 29 March 2019 Feature Image Credit: Thomas Boucher & Sonya Stefan Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A woman speaks; robotic, clinical – observant. An artificial understanding of the painful, the thoughtful, the healing and broken. A look within the self;
