While Beyoncé has centred herself amidst a renaissance relocating house and dance music back to its Black roots, this shift in focus toward the Black origins of club music has been quietly raging in the underground for some time now. One case in particular: Black Rave Culture. The DC trio
afrobeats / baile funk / Bass / experimental / House / Jungle / Techno
Soon after winning what has been regarded as a watershed legal case for artists’ royalties rights, Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet dropped Scythe Master, a reminder to why he’s widely considered a visionary in dance music. It was also a taste of things to come, with the promise of new
ambient / Bass / experimental / House / Tech House
On last year’s Agor, the much anticipated debut album from Lewis Roberts, AKA Koreless, the Welsh producer continued his pointillism-like approach to sound design and the qualities of the human voice. It was this approach that had turned him on to the radars of artists like FKA Twigs, with Lewis
Bass / experimental / industrial bass / post-club / retrowave / Synthwave
Welcome to August, where remixes and new singles give us a further taste of things to come from some of the hottest artists in the game right now. We roundup our favourite of the week. Listen below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we
afrobeats / Alt-Pop / ambient / bubblegum bass / experimental / highlife / loops / Minimal
When Canadian record producer Kaytranada walked away with the Grammy for Best Dance / Electronic Album in 2021, it felt like the beginning of a process of reclamation that would see house and dance music return to the hands of its Black pioneers. To this, Kaytranada is essential. His music
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
When Andy Butler imagined what he might look like as a rockstar, he saw himself as Hercules. A forlorn, lovesick, and queer Hercules, to be exact. The juxtaposition between the machismo of the Greek demigod and his pining over a male lover in one specific legend is what drew Butler
A beautifully distorted and experimental collaboration, Robot Koch and BlankFor.ms’s latest single ‘Migratory’ is a delightful blend of all things mind-bending but yet it is still an enjoyable listen for the palette. Released via the label Trees and Cyborgs, this latest single follow after their previous track ‘Subtle Ones’. Like
Who is Altrice? Well, according to legend, the elusive producer is from Tucson and arrived onto the scene by way of a Caribou (mega)remix in 2010. Dan Snaith, AKA Caribou, had opened up an online contest inviting people to remix his song Sun. Altrice emerged the victor by going a
Bass / bubblegum bass / experimental / House / IDM / Industrial / Techno
Moor Mother is at war with time. The Philadelphian poet and experimental rap artist has theorised through her work a means to rewrite the exclusion of women and Black voices from history itself, a practice she refers to as Black Quantum Futurism. For her, linear time is a captor that
