Last year, Pan Daijing delivered the haunting and beguiling album Jade 玉观音. Her third effort, Jade 玉观音 was steeped in a sort of uncanniness that made it creep through your veins long after it had finished playing. At the centre of this was Daijing’s voice. Mournful, pensive, and sometimes bizarre,
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 credit: Alexander Hjorth Jespersen Hailing from Denmark, electronica duo BYLJA have just released their EP Sojourn via Springstoff. Atmospheric, melodic compositions set the scene for BYLJA’s distinct themes and soundscapes. With dark Nordic melancholy and inspiration from astronomy, the duo creates a tide of smooth ambience and elegant
Image courtesy artist Following their previous singles Kilo and Medicine, prolific producer Pablo Nouvelle and multi-instrumentalist Kinnship continue their enchanting collaborative project with the release of The Wholesomeness Of Waiting, the third single from their forthcoming album Stones & Geysers. Further proving themselves as a formidable creative force, The Wholesomeness
Image Ninja Tune TSHA has slowly been on the rise to becoming one of the UK’s strongest new voices in electronic music. Last year’s Flowers EP largely solidified this status, a dazzling collection that revealed an immense sense of emotional depth and awareness to TSHA’s natural electronic pop affinities. The
It’s possible that Caribou may be a sage, or at the very least incredibly astute. There’s something eerie about the aptness of Dan Snaith’s nomenclature with regards to the zeitgeist. The fact that last year’s Suddenly arrived with a lead single called Home and left with a final single called
Image by Jerry Knies It’s not unfounded to assume Oscar Mulero moves in tandem with the culture of the dance floor. Lockdown and the absence of spaces for his music to come alive seems to have been a time of frustration for the Madrid DJ and producer, at least according
Image by Steve Gullick It’s criminal that Hybrid aren’t as instantly recognisable as their peers such as Aphex Twin or Massive Attack. The group’s acclaimed debut Wide Angle revolutionised the landscape of U.K breakbeat. It was an astute keying into the futurist anxieties of the turn of the millennium with
Image: Kranky That ‘Loscil’, the moniker of Canadian sound artist Scott Morgan, is taken from an abbreviation for “looping oscillator” is an act of nomenclature that deftly echoes Morgan’s creative practice; deconstructing the familiar and sculpting from the pieces something completely new. This modus operandi, executed with a distinct sense
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Image credit: Camille Dampierre You may have noticed that we have a soft spot for both shimmering organic electronica and Parisian electronic artists, as the two manage to portray some of the most colourful and unique sounds. Naturally, when we discovered Jaffna, the duo creating fresh percussive rhythms with their
