Image: Rush Hour Detroit is arguably one of the most significant cities in the history of electronic music. It marks the birthplace of what has become known as ‘Detroit techno,’ one of the last stylistic inventions of African-American dance music in the 1980’s and one of the most influential sounds
Image by Kiran Gidda From psychedelic 8-bit meditation music to improvised post-modern jazz, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: UNKNOWN ME, Bishintai That the debut LP from Tokyo group UNKNOWN ME opens with an automated voice instructing “this music is gentle practice
Image: n-PLEX This far into the era of lockdown, the relentless thud and rattling synths of 130BPM hard techno feel like a strange fever dream or the sound of a memory from another lifetime. Never before has the pounding snarl of the sound of the underground felt so out of
Image credit: Javier Alonso As you recount your dreams to an attentive listener, what are the basic elements that seem to hold each concept together? Do you have a running theme that intertwines with each night or are you cast across time and space: with each time you lay your
Image by Agata Ferrando From vintage 80’s Euro-synthwave to experimental West African IDM, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Ikram Bouloum – Ha-bb 5 (EP) As a conversation between the sounds of Bouloum’s Moroccan heritage and the aesthetics of Western electronic
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Image by Daniel Swan With each displaying their own distinct cultural influences from East Africa to Miami, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Charlie Soul Clap – Virgo’s Victory / Soul Fed (EP) As one half of the electro-funk duo Soul Clap,
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Image: Ilian Tape When German producer Bryan Müller, known by the moniker Skee Mask, released his sophomore effort Compro in 2018, it was widely praised as an immaculately designed body of work. That album was seen as a remarkable refinement of the aesthetic he had been crafting since his teenage
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Image by Jordan Johnson & Louisa Nicolaou DJ, rapper and acclaimed party starter Chippy Nonstop has released her self-titled debut album with collaborator dj genderfluid, and it’s an astoundingly nuanced experiment in storytelling. Spanning 11 tracks with two bonus remixes, the album spins together a rave utopia that lives up
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Image by Fredrik Schneider When pressing play on Dedicated 2 Disrespect, the debut EP from Berlin based DJ and producer LSDXOXO, the word jouissance comes to mind. That is, an inescapable state of pleasure, delight, or ecstasy. Pleasure in the context of queer subversion weaponises itself against the heteronormative masses.
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Image by Harrison Reid Closely following the release of In Ferneaux in February, experimental maestro Benjamin John Power or Blanck Mass has released a new live LP, Mind Killer. The project is released via his own label, Weirding Way. The LP is an entirely improvised performance that was originally live-streamed
