Bristol drum and bass icon Daniel Kausman, known as DJ Die, has announced the release of a compilation titled ‘The Archives 1995-2000’, via his own imprint GutterFunk. The compilation is a collection of remastered and repacked tracks taken from 1995-2000, during the time that DJ Die was working with seminal
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão UK electronic music legends Massive Attack have announced that they will be releasing a 20-year anniversary reissue of their iconic 1998 album ‘Mezzanine’, which will include never-heard remixes from Mad Professor. The monumental re-release will come in the form of either a two-CD or a three-LP
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Greek DJ and music producer Vangelis Kostoxenakis has just released a brand new EP titled ‘Take Your Shirt Off’, a three-track journey of hard-hitting house, summer synth sounds and rambunctious energy. Already enjoying great success for his music projects under monikers such as Phatjak, Angel Stoxx
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão The musician behind the experimental electronic music project How To Dress Well, Tom Krell, has just announced his fifth album under this moniker, a techno-inspired psychedelic musical journey titled ‘The Anteroom’. Along with this announcement, How To Dress Well has also just shared a new single
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Maribou State‘s new album ‘Kingdoms In Colour’ has been released via Ninja Tune‘s Counter Records imprint and is the band’s first full-length since their 2015 breakthrough debut album ‘Portraits’. The latest album is inspired by the field recordings they made around the world while travelling and
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Electronic music equipment lynchpin Native Instruments has unveiled a myriad of new products and updates, including initial details for the upcoming Traktor Pro 3 software, which is scheduled to be released October 18th. Amongst the announcements is the updated Traktor Kontrol S4 DJ controller, slated for official release in November,
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Interview by Maya-Rose Torrão Drawing much of his inspiration from street art, electro-house and different kinds of percussion instruments, Mathias D. is a house producer going from strength to strength in his scene. Already, this young French musician has been signed to a myriad of acclaimed labels such as Art
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Yves Tumor has just released his brand new 10-track album via Warp Records, a genre-blending experimental funk masterpiece that defies all norms and features artists James K, Oxhy and Puce Mary, called ‘Safe In The Hands Of Love’. Yves Tumor has been teasing the album for
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Written by Arnold van der Walt “Pull me up lord I’m dying / Time to let the light in” Canadian indie-pop group Royal Canoe recently released the music video for their track ‘RAYZ’ ahead of their forthcoming album ‘Waver’ set to be released 25 January 2019 via Paperbag Records. The
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Interview by Shannon Lawlor and Arnold van der Walt Sweden-based wave producer, sweeep, recently released a brand new single ‘Realize’ and shared the Loneliness remix exclusively with The Playground. Taken from her upcoming ‘dssspear here’ EP, she has been steadily releasing music from this new record with ‘Realize’ being the
