Earlier this year, Flume announced his upcoming new album Palaces, his first since 2016, with a single featuring MAY-A. Surprisingly, the comeback single seemed to gesture at a change in direction for the Australian producer away from his signature style of post-dubstep / future-bass toward poppier waters. Say Nothing was
Bass / electronica / experimental / Future Bass / Post-dubstep / Synthpop
The dichotomy between PC Music and 100 Gecs’s respective styles of hyperpop is sort of bridged by umru. The Brooklyn based producer has always brought his American sensibilities to the otherwise UK informed PC Music collective; immediately bawdier, more in-your-face saturations of pop tropes than, say, A.G. Cook’s slightly more
In 2005, grime pioneer Wiley explained his music to Spin magazine. “Everyone’s so angry at the world and each other. And they don’t know why.” Rage is at the core of grime. Born in the early 2000s post DnB and UKG, grime is the pulverising, aggressive love child of jungle,
Bass / experimental / grime / Jungle / post-club
There’s something inherently badass about an artist or band using their name as the title of one of their songs. It’s quite metal, actually. In that genre, it’s seen as a sort of flex by a band who’ve reached a point at which they’ve garnered the merit to pull such
Amapiano / Bass / electronica / experimental / Gqom / Rave / trap
Canada’s Jacques Greene is part of a generation of producers to emerge in the mid-2000’s having been raised on a diet of Aphex Twin and 90’s drum’n’bass. The result of these influences in combination with the age of Tumblr and MySpace led to the evolution of a sound that impregnated
From French touch funk to future forward bass, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Grimes – Player of Games Following previously heard tracks Shinigami Eyes and 100 Percent Tragedy, the new single from Canadian alt-pop star Grimes appears to be the first official single
Timedance, the label run by Bristol producer Batu, has become synonymous with innovation. The releases here are challenging in the way that they explore and subvert the trends of the Bristol underground, often arriving at uniquely distinct formulations of the sound of the club. Much of this is due to
Bass / experimental / IDM / Industrial / New EP / Techno
Image credit: @stapledface As another week draws to a close, we look forward to the weekend and the potential for fun and relaxation, whether that be a scenic drive or hanging out with your crew. Today we present a song to use as a backing track for your weekend, that
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
