By Jenna Dreisenstock 2018 has been quite a year, with many exceptional releases stunning fans with brand news innovations and experimentations in sound, style and personality. From experimental avant-pop, to dreamy R&B inspired synth-love; the music world has sculpted an incredibly diverse experience for all. We’ve compiled a list of
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Interview by Maya-Rose Torrao What happens when you combine three top-quality underground labels from Amsterdam, an out-of-the-box DIY approach to music, and a passion for collaboration? It’s not a trick question, the answer is De Lichting, a collaborative project between labels Yield Records, Native Response and Working Titles. Self-described as
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Interview by Maya-Rose Torrao “Creating music is an ecstatic and deeply emotional moment.” Warsaw’s analog techno maverick Jurek Przeździecki AKA Epi Centrum is one of the more powerful and uncompromising voices in former Eastern Bloc electronic music scene. Przeździecki has been producing music for over two decades and, over the
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Oneohtrix Point Never | Love In The Time of Lexapro EP | Warp Records Release Date: 23rd November Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Examining our identities within artificial spaces; love so curated it curdles saccharine, slumbers sticky on the tongue and mouths held shut with pharmaceutical FDA-approved bubblegum. Robota in truth
Interview By Maya-Rose Torrao Producing under the moniker AyyJay, UK wave artist Aaron Reid has been hypnotising the online electronic music scene for more than half a decade. Over the years AyyJay has been honing his craft, carefully creating, with the help of an ever-growing and exceptionally supportive wave music
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Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN Release Date: November 9th Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Image Credit: Unknown The duality between the artificial and strikingly organic; to stroke emerald earth and stutter the flash of buttons and control within a machine – traverse between a dichotomy that need not be, opening
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Written by Arnold van der Walt New Orleans producer, Phelian, shared his debut music video exclusively with The Playground; the track ‘Komorebi’ is the closing track from his acclaimed debut full-length album, ‘Quadrivium’. Phelian has seen widespread organic success with his music, as fans have been sharing his music ever
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt Parra for Cuva has been at the forefront of talented multi-instrumentalists ever since he first started showing interest in music at a very young age. A young Nicolas Demuth experimented with classical piano, jazz, pop and indie before finally trying his luck in electronic
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By Jenna Dreisenstock There are many ways to portray narratives; whether they be through novels, auditory journeys, television and film. Music videos are such incredibly powerful tools – a visual journey in perpetual motion with sound, the images conjured within as we listen to each track and are suddenly able
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By Jenna Dreisenstock Despite being a genre that continuously flies under the radar for reasons forever unknown, Wave takes so little yet gives so much. With relatively regular releases by some extremely talented creators, Wave doesn’t get almost half the credit it deserves. With this being said, youtube channels such
