Australian producer Jordan Alexander’s moniker ‘Mall Grab’ is a term people in skateboarding circles use to describe the way ‘posers’ hold their skateboards at the mall. Like accessories rather than serious equipment. It’s a piece of nomenclature that harkens back to Alexander’s origin point: the circa-2012 internet age. This time
breaks / breaks and bass / Garage / grime / House / Jungle / lo-fi / lo-fi house
For over a decade, James Vine has found himself at the fore of the bass music boom. Better known as ENiGMA Dubz, Vine has been pushing the boundaries of what bass could be since cutting his teeth on the dubstep scene. He’s the sort of artist who’s anything but an
Bass / Drum'n'bass / Future Bass / Garage / Jungle / Post-dubstep / UKG
Not wanting to be bound to one sound and experiment freely, music producer duo minds&machines were born out of a deep love for liberating electronic arrangements. The duo’s sound is constantly evolving, but they are mostly drawn to electronica. They are also known to dabble with garage, lo-fi and more
London producer and DJ Breaka is part of that generation of millennial provocateurs who are totally unafraid to reference and counter reference, an iconoclastic approach that is arguably the result of a myriad of influences having grown up in the age of pop consumerism and Postmodernism. For Breaka, this has
Breakbeats / dembow / Garage / Jungle / kuduro
We’re not going to lie, this one slipped under our radar. A new Joy Orbison track that morphs from droning ambient into a full on dancefloor rager? Orbison’s own statement that he’s “sitting on quite a lot of unreleased music”? It’s shocking that we’re only getting to this track now,
The visualisers for the music from British producer Bonobo’s seventh album, Fragments, have all played with the dynamics of light as it interacts with the natural world. For Rosewood, one of the album’s first singles, the ocean and a mountain coastline blur into a singular wormhole. For Tides (and Fragments
From classic PC Music mutations to atmospheric tech-house programmed for rainy days, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Angel-Ho – Silent Plateau Angel-Ho approaches music much in the same way as a performance artist; bursts of improvisation followed through with a bit of refinement.
Amapiano / dreamhouse / drill'n'bass / experimental / Garage / hyperpop / Tech House / Techno
Ah, the new year. Our annual clean slate. A time to reflect on another 365 days around the sun, pick up the pieces from the year gone by and hit reset. It’s a time of looking forward to things, and if you’re anything like us it’s the prospect of new
Chillwave / Electropop / Garage / House / hyperpop / New Album / New Releases / Synthpop
It often feels as if Burial occupies an entirely different time space to everyone else, an outsider quality that has made the UK producer both icon and enigma. Maintaining a ghost in the machine aura that’s had people guessing he could actually be anyone from Four Tet to Skrillex for
From reworkings of dance music classics to unexpected explorations into new styles, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Sevdaliza – The Great Hope Design There’s always been something sanctimonious about the music that Iranian-Dutch singer Sevdaliza puts out. Her songs play like unearthed rituals,
