When we sit down to speak with Cubicolor, the conversation is split across three countries. There’s the dashing Tim, from his home in London, and Peter and Ariaan on a houseboat in Amsterdam. “Still floating,” Peter assures us, cigarette in hand as tendrils of smoke escape his lips. It’s a
Röyksopp have released a visualiser for the first single off their upcoming album, Profound Mysteries III. Featuring Alison Goldfrapp, The Night is an urgent dance track set to a symphony of Röyksopp’s dextrous modular synths and Goldfrapp’s signature seraphic and breathless vocals. The visualiser, directed by artist Jonathan Zawada, zooms
Dance / Electro-Pop / electronica / music video / New Music / Synthpop / Tech / Techno
When you hear the name Nils Frahm, you expect ‘piano’ to follow soon after. The Berlin-based composer and experimental musician is best known for his work on the ivory keys, using the instrument as a means toward realising his improvisational technique in visceral action. Over the past while, however, he’s
Hercules & Love Affair have shared a music video for the song One, featuring ANOHNI. The song is taken from Hercules & Love Affair’s latest album, In Amber. Download and stream In Amber here Directed by surrealist photographer Tim Walker, the music video stars artist Salvia and choreographer
Alt-Pop / Alternative / Darkwave / electronica / music video / new video / post-punk
For many musicians, it can be a challenge to take off the creative apron and squeeze into a stiff business suit, but not for Zeb Samuels, producer and head of the Deep Heads imprint. With his new compilation album, Cosmic Vibrations Vol. 3, he introduces listeners to a third ability:
Björk has announced her next album. Titled Fossora, the singer revealed in a profile for The Guardian that the new project is due this fall. Fossora will follow 2017’s Utopia. The music on the album will revolve around sounds from a sextet of bass clarinets, played in a way Björk
Alt-Pop / electronica / experimental / music news / New Album / New Music
Dabbling in various pockets of electronica, our interviewee today is the boundary-obliterating producer Himalia, a creative who, telling by his new song, possesses a seemingly natural instinct for composing music that is rich in balance and progression. His new single, ‘No One’, beats to life like a racing heart and
If you close your eyes while listening to Andrew Tuttle, chances are you’re about to be transported somewhere unexpected. The Australian producer and banjo player has carved out a distinct niche for himself, intersecting the conventions and motifs of country and folk Americana with immersive ambient electronica. In straddling these
Acoustic / ambient / country / Drone / electronica / Soundscapes
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
For New York native Levon Vincent, the sound of the city is the sound of home, a space he understands inherently and intricately. The DJ and producer is a bit of a nomad, having adopted Berlin and London as home, but it’s the streets, sounds, and culture of New York
