This month sees Dublin composer, producer, and DJ Kormac gearing up to release his first album in almost a decade. Drawing inspiration from orchestral compositions, the multi-hyphenate artist says that this project was born from a desire to do something very different. “I basically decided I wanted to write an
Electronic / exclusive interview / experimental / grime / Hip-Hop / Premiere / Synth
The meeting of South African alt-pop star Nakhane and American art-pop darling Perfume Genius was inevitable in hindsight. Both artists have embraced the otherness of queerness, drawing from abjection, stigmatisation, and alienation as both major themes and aesthetic vehicles in their work. In this case, Do You Well feels like
If Hagop Tchaparian seems familiar, it’s for good reason. He’s been active behind the scenes of acts like Hot Chip as both producer and manager, quietly contributed to underground compilations, and even flirted with fame as the guitarist of punk rock band Symposium. Lately, he’s fostered a creative relationship with
Bass / experimental / IDM / minimal house / minimal techno / Post-dubstep / Techno
It’s eerie how timeous ANTIDAWN, the dystopian ambient album Burial dropped at the start of the year, was in hindsight. Inspired by playable character POVs in videogames, ANTIDAWN was an experiment that found itself in barren, ghostly, and decaying noise. Not long after the world heard the enigmatic UK producer’s
ambient / Drone / experimental / immersive / New Age / soundscape
“I should have never dated white men,” Mykki Blanco says with a pang of regret through the droning string loops of Steps. It’s one of the many confessional moments that stud their latest album, Stay Close To Music with jewels of intimate, honest emotionality. Later on Carry On, an even
Alt-Pop / Alternative / Chillwave / Downtempo / experimental / Hip-Hop
Two days before the release of her sixth album, MATA Sri Lankan-British rapper M.I.A took to Twitter, commenting on the recent ruling regarding alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: “If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” While the artist is no stranger to controversy, this
Alt-Pop / dembow / experimental / Hip-Hop / moombathon / reggaeton
The life and work of American composer Julius Eastman is both a tragedy and enigma. A Black gay classical composer active in the late 70’s, Eastman’s work was alarmingly ahead of its time though widely unknown today. Incomprehensible to his contemporaries, there’s a genius to Eastman which is only now
ambient / drill / experimental / footwork / Minimal / neo-classic
From Bollywood house bangers to gorgeously crafted remixes, 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. Anish Kumar – Nazia Possibly one of the coolest new acts in the UK house
Alt-Pop / ambient / experimental / House / Melodic Techno / Post-dubstep / Remix / Synthpop / UK funky
When Björk began the process of creating Fossora, she decided that her tenth studio album would be her “mushroom album.” In recent interviews preceding the album’s release, the Icelandic singer-songwriter and composer kept pushing this concept forward, insisting that Fossora (the made up feminine form of the Latin word for
Alt-Pop / dembow / experimental / gabber / Industrial / neo-classic / reggaeton / Techno
Sarah Davachi sees in electronic music the potential to traverse time. Her music is an amalgamation of what seems like the ancient with the contemporary, formulations of classical sounds and motifs by way of modern instrumentation and methodology. She follows in the lineage of electronic music’s most revered classicists like
