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
Image by Louie Banks Late last year while the world was deep in the throes of lockdown, German photographer, musician and multi-disciplinary artist Wolfgang Tillmans released his video work, Can’t Escape Into Space. Filmed on an empty dance floor on location at a venue in the iconic LGBTQIA+ haven of
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Photo credit: Philipp Wenning Join us as we proceed further down the steps of history and revisit some of our favourite artists. We first encountered Jamila & The Other Heroes as they were releasing their imaginative single, ‘Aliens In My Bed’. At the time, we sat down for one of
Image: Melody As Truth The word that comes to mind when considering the body of work from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft is evolving. The producer and multi-instrumentalist has always maintained an aura of L.A cool melancholy, first introduced on 2011’s disco influenced Green Flash EP, then extracted and isolated
Image credit: Matthew Butcher Canadian alt-dance producer first arrived on our radar with his single, ‘Honest’ featuring the magnetic duo RYYZN with whom he would go on to release several singles. Naturally, at the time we sat down with the rising star for one of our “exclusive interviews” that gave
Image: Hyperdub The West has always had an unhealthy appetite for Asian aesthetics. Perhaps due to its stark contrast to European austerity and chaste rigidity, the aesthetic conventions of Japan have become some of the most appropriated and fetishised. It’s even given rise to an entire counter-culture of non-Japanese people
