Image by Arthur R Severio Anyone who has been to a bathhouse knows it’s an experience that lingers long after the steam of the sauna has dissipated. Simultaneously liberating and degrading, it’s entering into a microcosm where the rules and standards of the world outside no longer apply. To this
Image by Yaseen Brink / Copyright Prolific Media The music of Amapiano is infamously distributed to its followers via grassroots modes, most popularly via WhatsApp groups. This bypassing of conventional or commercial methods of distribution is somewhat synonymous with the spirit of the genre, and largely the dance music culture
Image by Toma Kostygina Featuring new material from electronic music veterans to captivating and bewitching new voices, we round up the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Sofi Tukker / Carl Cox – Drinkee (Carl Cox Remix) Sofi Tukker
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Image by Julien Lasota France has consistently produced some of electronic music’s most cutting edge creators. The evolution of the French touch has earnestly embraced other forms of club music, arriving at the banging electroclash of artists such as Vitalic and John Lord Fonda. Fonda is a more elusive creature
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: Seilscheibenpfeiler Berghain is basically the techno’s answer to Mecca. The venue is paradigmatic of underground nightlife and techno culture, the epoch seat of techno’s gods and tastemakers which has influenced the direction of the style and its endless sub-categories for decades. Marcel Dettmann is one such god. One of
Image: Nyege Nyege The music East Africa refers to as ‘techno’ stands in stark contrast to what we understand as techno in the Western canon, taking the form of mind bending abstract sound collages and works of noise art. Like it’s Western counterpart, East Africa’s techno is very much a
Image by Klaus Wäldele Peter Kremeier chose a moniker that would speak directly towards his preoccupation with the soul at the core of house music. As Losoul, his obsession with the rhythms and electricity of disco, boogie and funk have seen the German producer consistently honour these elements as essential
Image by Elif Demiroglu Electronic music exists as a testament of man turning toward the machine to process things that are deftly human. This is particularly true for moments of feeling that transcend what the human body is capable of expressing; those gargantuan emotions that feel paradoxical in scale to
Image by Frank Casillo From abstract hyperpop sound collages to an unexpected dance pop take from one of techno’s icons, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Glass- Spot Explorer Little may be known about French experimental duo Glass, but there is no
