Image by Mark Davis Earlier this year, fans worldwide were left devastated when Daft Punk announced their split in February. The French duo and electronic music pioneers were made up of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. Now, Bangalter has announced his first project following the split. He will be
Image by Toma Kostygina Featuring new material from electronic music veterans to captivating and bewitching new voices, we round up the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Sofi Tukker / Carl Cox – Drinkee (Carl Cox Remix) Sofi Tukker
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Image by Julien Lasota France has consistently produced some of electronic music’s most cutting edge creators. The evolution of the French touch has earnestly embraced other forms of club music, arriving at the banging electroclash of artists such as Vitalic and John Lord Fonda. Fonda is a more elusive creature
Image by Steve Gullick It’s criminal that Hybrid aren’t as instantly recognisable as their peers such as Aphex Twin or Massive Attack. The group’s acclaimed debut Wide Angle revolutionised the landscape of U.K breakbeat. It was an astute keying into the futurist anxieties of the turn of the millennium with
Image: Seilscheibenpfeiler Berghain is basically the techno’s answer to Mecca. The venue is paradigmatic of underground nightlife and techno culture, the epoch seat of techno’s gods and tastemakers which has influenced the direction of the style and its endless sub-categories for decades. Marcel Dettmann is one such god. One of
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
