Chicago-born house music producer, Lil Louis, has been left with what is being described as a career threatening injury after an air horn was blasted into his ear at close proximity. The DJ, who is often dubbed “The founding father of house music”, was forced to cancel his gig at
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Dan Snaith, AKA Caribou, has assembled a 1000 track playlist (suitably) titled ‘The Longest Mixtape – 1000 Songs For You.’ 2014 was a spectacular year for Caribou, having released the very gorgeous ‘Our Love’, which received much praise, and playing many sold-out shows across the globe. Caribou says that he owes this success to the loyalty of his
WILD CULTURE is the new project from Austrian sound experts Florian Fellier and Felix Brunhuber. The duo have excelled in producing smooth melodies, driving beats and developed an affinity for experimentalism and high technical finesse along with remixing the likes of London Grammar, Andy Caldwell, Daughter and more. They are
Record Label MUTE have teamed up with Dirty Electronics and designer/ writer Adrian Shaughnessy to create the MUTE Synth II. The battery powered synth features a small patchbay and number of touch electrodes that allow for “a labyrinth of possible connections and resulting behaviours.” Sounds are played by creating rhythmic sequences via “hybrid 4-bit binary coding, feedback loops and bit
US-born, Wales-raised and now London-based producer Dauwd is set to drop a new EP on the ever-reliable Kompakt record label next week, and you can hear to the two-track effort in full now. Titled Saleh, the release is Dauwd’s second for Kompakt and follows April’s heavily praised Kindlinn EP. Incorporating elements of house, techno and electronica, the young
Esteemed underground label Pelican Fly is gearing up for a massive release in the form of 1180‘s Lick It. Typical to the label’s style and sound, 1180 keeps the thumping bass of Jersey music paired with analog synths for a track that’s bound to be blasting at whatever warehouse you’re
Seemingly out of nowhere, save for an Instagram post that someone in the TDE family would be dropping a release this week, Kendrick Lamar has dropped a batch of gems in an album titled Untitled Unmastered. The information has been relatively MIA on this bundle of tracks, but many seem
Jean-Michel Jarre recently released ‘Electronica Part One: The Time Machine’, his first (double) studio album since 2007, and it showcased all of the dynamic reasons why Jarre is, and always has been, one of the biggest innovators in the electronic music world. He’s also announced that he will be at
Chaz Bundnick, the dude behind Toro Y Moi, has had a busy festive period… Over Christmas he released four ace rap and reggae flavour snippets to Soundcloud for our listening pleasure. 2015 has been an interesting year for Toro Y Moi, and releases have ranged in sound from rock to hip hop and
As the year-long celebrations of Planet Mu’s 20th anniversary draw to a close, The Vinyl Factory have released a short documentary and potted history about the British label and its founder Mike Paradinas aka µ-Ziq. Planet Mu: µ20 (The Documentary) takes a quick look back at the past twenty years of the label particularly since
