From old-school rave to sleazy hip-house, we roundup our favourite tracks of the week. Listen below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat. Bonobo – Defender On this year’s Fragments, British electronic musician Bonobo expanded his palette beyond slow burning,
Alt-Pop / Breakbeats / Deep House / Jungle / Melodic House / Pop / Progressive House / Rave / Techno / UKG
There’s always been a sense of whimsicality inherent to Shygirl, from the 3D animated Bratz-like avatars of 2020’s ALIAS to the fairytale romance of Cleo, it’s the way she juxtaposes and balances this cutsie girliness with her otherwise irreverent persona that makes for something unexpected and beguiling. It’s literally baked
On this week’s roundup, we have new releases from some of the UK’s most exciting dance music acts, and a haunting tribute by Björk. Listen to our selections below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat. Björk – Ancestress
Alt-Pop / Breakbeats / dembow / experimental / House / Jungle / kuduro / reggaeton / Techno / UKG
On the final track of his new album Quiet As Kept, F.O.G., Kai Whiston weaves a recording of a conversation between himself and his mother into a ten minute trip-hop soundscape of spiralling drones, swelling strings, and jagged breakbeats. “My first rave was in the warehouse I was living in,”
Bass / Breakbeats / Drum'n'bass / experimental / Hardcore / Jungle / Rave / UKG
For their first official release on their new label project Fabric Originals, legendary London institution fabric looks to the formidable duo of Eris Drew and Octo Octa. Their joint EP Day After A Night With U/Stars & Water features one new track from each artist, and plays out like a
Breakbeats / Deep House / House / Jungle / Melodic House / trance
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s latest album Let’s Turn It Into Sound is her most playful to date. From the visuals, featuring a 3D animated neon coloured digital avatar, to the approach to the music, Smith embraces a giddy whimsicality that at its best, brings unconditional joy in the same way an
ambient / Avant-Garde / Bass / Breakbeats / experimental / Synth / Techno / tribal
Four Tet has been through the most lately. The prolific producer, real name Kieran Hebden, has just come out the other side of a long and twisty legal battle with his former label Domino. The case, a watershed moment for artists’ rights concerning royalties from streaming and licensing of material
Bass / Breakbeats / Chillwave / experimental / House
Last year, Canadian house producer Jacques Greene released his EP Fantasy, a record that pivoted him away from the four on the floor invocations he’d become known for toward club ready rumination on the splendour of the natural world. Inviting in breakbeats, ambient influences, and sparkling, fantastical chime synths, Fantasy
ambient / Bass / Breakbeats / experimental / House / Remix / UKG
Within a fairly short span of time, Berlin-via-New York techno / ghetto tech artist LSDXOXO has risen to underground icon status. While his last EP, Dedicated 2 Disrespect, might have been a breakthrough of sorts, it happened to come at a pivotal moment in his career when he began flirting
Alt-Pop / Alternative / Bass / Breakbeats / electronica / Jungle / pop-punk
Last year, Chicago’s Jana Rush single handedly pivoted footwork from the streets to the forefront of electronic music innovation. Her masterful album Painful Enlightenment both disrupted and evolved the form, a documentation of the unraveling of her own mental health through jarring, misshapen loops and stylistic mutations. Rush revealed within
