Image: Planet Mu Despite the fate of the dance floor still very much hanging in the balance around the world, 2021 has been an alarmingly triumphant year for footwork. This year alone, we have been graced with albums which have shifted the genres in ways we have not thought possible.
Image: Gloriette The breakup album is often a significant turning point in the scope of an artist’s oeuvre. There’s no real blueprint for them, rather they exist as asymptotes of the various ways we as humans process and experience grief. This near impossible task of expressing the trauma of heartbreak
Image: Ninja Tune The thing about Kevin Martin is that he’s as much an extremist as he is a producer. Over the years, his various projects from the post-reggae group King Midas Touch to the dark and dubby Techno Animal have always pushed things extremely far. This doesn’t always mean
Image: Ninja Tune In a year when dance music was filled with more longing and ruminating on states of isolation than ever before, it’s interesting that Armand Jakobsson, or DJ Seinfeld, should release an album that finds him basking in the glow of contentment. After all, Seinfeld was largely at
Image: Ninja Tune Who might have suspected that behind the assuredly cool exterior of 박혜진 Park Hye Jin, would lie such vast feelings of loneliness and alienation? Then again, considering that the Korean DJ and producer has practically been nomadic over the course of the past three years, a sense
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Image by Travys Owen Angel-Ho has always had something to say, and knows damn well how to say it. She has always understood that in order to be heard as a body perceived by way of its brownness, queerness, transness; you must be loud. It’s something that the South African
Image by Jelena Luis Hood by Air occupies a sort of legendary cult status in fashion and pop culture. The streetwear brand, brainchild of designer and cultural provocateur Shayne Oliver, first arrived in 2006. The identity of the brand is rooted in the underground subcultures of New York, from ballroom
Image by Charlotte Duale The Moritz von Oswald Trio has always been a bit of a revolving door of collaborators, held in place by the common denominator of von Oswald himself. Subsequently, the music from the German record producer and composer’s group has always changed shape somehow, presenting a myriad
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Image courtesy Planet Mu Contrary to her name, Jana Rush seems to find solace in slowness. The iconic Chicago native DJ and producer (also known as JaRu) released her debut album Pariah in 2017, after twelve years in the game of Chicago footwork. It was a statement from a veteran;
Image credit: Jon Simo It wasn’t too long ago that Michael Oakley appeared on our radar with his newly released album, Odyssey. The LP stood out for a number of reasons, including its warm-spirited tone, the well-known featured artists Ollie Wride and Dana Jean Phoenix as well as several memorable
