French hip-hop and electronic music producer DJ 4rain needs some attention ASAP. He just recently dropped his latest single “I Don’t Belong” that fuses pop sensibilities with deep house. This is a significant change of pace for the Grammy-nominated producer.… Read More
The new up-and-comer from mau5trap, Sysdemes, just released a new 4-track EP titled ‘Inertia‘. His debut release on the label came out on the ‘we are friends vol. 008‘ compilation which was followed by a series of EP releases that have sent… Read More
The maverick composer and instrument builder Harry Partch once described his creative lodestar as “the actions and activities of primitive man as I imagine him.” Whether this impulse to flee modernity takes form in Constantin Brâncuși’s sculptures, Hilma af Klimt’s… Read More
If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival… Read More
Seekay, the composer and producer, introduced his brand new single ‘Hold’ where he collaborated with the singer Chloe. This smooth fusion of ambient and chill pop sounds was actually quite a huge surprise for us as we weren’t expecting such… Read More
Of the artists to emerge from the first big wave of UK synth-pop acts in the ’80s, Erasure is one of the few still standing. Along the way, singer Andy Bell and synth fanatic Vince Clarke have weathered all manner… Read More
Rather than simply releasing the music he had recorded for Derek Jarman’s 1994 film Glitterbug, Brian Eno handed over the score to bassist Jah Wobble, encouraging him to do with it as he pleased, with the results released in 1995… Read More
Producer and composer Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, makes ambient techno with a volatile soul. His recent records take the same analog approach he developed on 2016’s Night Melody, composing the album using real-life sketches to inform his writing,… Read More
Five months after the release of their duo album Mixing Colours, Brian Eno and his younger brother, Roger, pick up what they’ve called a “back-and-forth conversation” with Luminous, an EP featuring six new tracks and a tune previously restricted to… Read More
Disintegration, decay, black holes… these are a few words that might spring to mind at the thought of ambient composer William Basinski, who has somehow made music from all of the above in the past few decades. Two words that… Read More