Image: Brainfeeder There’s a paradox that exists within electronic music that has become more apparent in recent years. While the form exists as a result of our innate instinct to experiment, and by proxy innovate, what began as us literally playing with technology has shifted to technology playing us. The
Breakbeat / electronic music / electronic music producer / Garage / House / Jungle / New Album / UK
Image: Juliette Leigniel Paris DJ and producer POPOF is a name most tech-house fans would be familiar with, and for good reason. After fifteen years in the game, he’s one of the genre’s most downloaded artists and has become synonymous with music that, well, pops off. From the early synth
Image: Planet Mu From mutant cumbian to erratic and complex polyrhythmic breakbeats, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat. Juan Ramos – Iniciado Berlin collective REIF recently announced their upcoming first compilation project REIF01, and with it an epic
Image: 2MR There’s a dazzling sense of fantasy to the music that Russia’s Yana Kedrina conjures up, like modern folk songs that are told through the intersection of man and machine. Folding her saccharine voice like shards of crystal into layers upon layers of buzzing, gloaming, and ebbing electronica, she
Image: Awesome Tapes From Africa To say that South Africa may be experiencing a cultural Renaissance may not be completely unfounded. From the meme sensation of Jerusalema to Beyoncé dressed by Rich Mnisi, South Africa’s pop culture has never felt more prevalent in the first world. And with the success
Image: Axis Records With his tree-like frame and strangely ethereal eyes floating atop the angles of his face, there is no mistaking the icon that is Jeff Mills. His name alone is synonymous with cultural significance, artistic and technical mastery and Black excellence. Over the course of his epic, near
Image: 100% Silk When Japan’s Soshi Takeda set out to create a collection of tracks inspired by painted Chinese landscapes and the changing of the seasons using only vintage analogue machines,”balearic” may not have been the most immediately apparent description for what he set out to create. But then, across
analog / Chillwave / electronic music producer / House / Japan / lo-fi / new electronic music / tropical
Image: Micron Audio Electronic music is one of our most deft forms of futurism, divining ideations of what the world might feel like beyond our present moment. It’s a quality that Detroit’s Sherard Ingram, aka DJ Stingray 313, has always been enamoured by. Trained by the likes of Detroit’s masters
Image: youANDme youANDme is deeply engrained in the German electronic music world and especially the international Berlin club scene. As the owner of Rotary Cocktail Recordings, Polymorph, CUTZ.ME, and three other mysterious imprints, he provides a steady flow of music and talent from Germany to the rest of the world.
Image: Never Normal Records From groundbreaking new work from some of electronic music’s most subversive new voices to a comeback from pioneers of the form that draws from their past, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat.
