When Sweden’s Axel Boman is not busy making music out of gamma radiation, he’s putting out a constant stream of EPs and singles that continue to stretch his house productions toward increasingly odd places. In particular, Boman is a fan of defying the norms of releasing music, from unleashing 13
Atlanta’s Nikki Nair is sort of unmatched when it comes to creating dexterous and ever mutating formulations of breakbeats and club sounds. Defining Nair’s work per-se is nearly impossible, in the span of three minutes he could surge from footwork to drill’n’bass to dubstep and back again. Last year’s excellent
Bass / drill'n'bass / EBM / experimental / glitch / Post-dubstep / Techno
In the short span of the past three years, the UK’s TSHA has made a name for herself as one of the country’s brightest new voices in dance music. 2020’s Flowers would catapult her onto the radar of the global electronic scene, her blend of nostalgic UK dance styles with
Acid House / Bass / House / mix / Tech House / UKG
Read anything about Melbourne’s Mike Katz, and by the end of it you’d have been reminded multiple times that the producer better known as Harvey Sutherland is a self-professed neurotic. In fact, he’s made it his brand. “Neurotic funk,” if you will, is Sutherland’s modus operandi, and over the past
Disco / disco-house / funk / House / house-funk / italo house / piano house
It’s possible that Australian producer Teneil Throssell’s greatest superpower under her club music alias HAAi, is her pysch-rock origin story. As HAAi, Throssell has been cultivating a sonic identity over the past few years that has become notorious for its high energy, acidic, peak time energy. But under the rave
breaks / bubblegum bass / Dream pop / Drum'n'bass / pyschrock / Rave / Techno
Every once in a while, a concept album comes along that toes the line between entirely self-indulgent and astonishingly brilliant. There was 1975’s compilation of rock and roll legends like Joni Mitchell writing songs about Spider Man, Green Day’s entire mid-2000’s catalogue (and subsequent broadway musical), possibly everything by Kate
The mysterious hooded figure that is Brooklyn’s Leikeli47 is one of the most enigmatic figures to arise in the alternative hip-hop scene in recent years. Arriving with mysteriously titled EPs, it was her 2015 eponymous EP that introduced the Leikeli47 persona to the world. Her arresting performance of anonymity aside,
Bass / Hip-Hop / House / trap / vogue beats
The story of Saâda Bonaire is near perfect pop folklore. A German studio project making left-field synthpop fused with elements of Kurdish and Turkish folk music, the band were basically dropped by EMI in the mid-80’s moments before the impending release of their debut album. Having far exceeded their A&R
90's house / Deep House / Fusion / House / Pop / world music
Like her frequent collaborator Claire Rousay, Mari Maurice (AKA More Eaze) composes pieces from threads stitched together to form fragmented and vague musical tapestries, like Rousay also at an alarming rate. But where Maurice and Rousay diverge is in their approach. While the former finds herself occupied with the enigmatic
Claire Rousay is one of the most intriguing artists in electronic music today. The San Antonio native’s music is more like sonic still lifes, collages of the mise-en-scene of everyday life, sequenced into strange, endless passages of ambience and noise. She’s also entirely unafraid to experiment. In the past year
