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
When electronic music composer Nicolás Jaar and jazz multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington unleashed their collaborative project Darkside onto the world in 2013, they changed the game. It was the sort of musical meeting of minds that felt entirely serendipitous and to this effect, a bit precious. The fuzzy psych rock of
Image by Anthony Devlin Dr. Gabriel Scally, a doctor who sits on the independent Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) panel, has shared his opinion on the U.K’s reopening of the nightlife industry. The U.K officially reopened its nightclubs and live music venues on July 19th, a day
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Image courtesy Fractal Fantasy / Zora Jones Fractal Fantasy, the label and creative collective headed by producers Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones have launched their new online interactive club simulator. The audio-visual platform includes a soundtrack that features original music from Hawke, Xzavier Stone, Zubotnik, Martyn Bootyspoonand and Jones. The
Image by Richard Drew A new article published by Rolling Stone has revealed that Spotify’s highest streaming artists still struggle when it comes to making any significant income. The report aims to expose the truth behind the lure of a lucrative ‘creator economy’ and also investigates platforms such as Patreon,
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
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Image by Keiki Knudsen Peaches’s seminal hit F*** The Pain Away is sort of revolutionary. An outré display of feminine desire and sexual identity, it finds power not in the sultry but rather the abject. The explicit lyrics and grating, industrial synths that shape the track refuse submission to the
Image courtesy LEITER records F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm are no strangers to collaboration. The renowned German experimentalists have consistently returned to each other time and again, feeding off one another’s respective points of view to produce increasingly mind-bending records. Though, it’s not hard to imagine the meeting of such
