Image: Because Music From subversive hyperpop to an unexpected take from one of Africa’s rising talents, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: SHYGIRL – Cleo For her latest single, British rapper and DJ SHYGIRL finds herself transfixed by the glamour of Old Hollywood and
Electronic / experimental / House / new / New Music / Techno
Image: Houndstooth Lotic, the moniker of Berlin based American electronic music artist J’Kerian Morgan, is a term used to refer to any kind of moving water ecosystem. From rivers to brooks, the lotic ecosystem is any aquatic habitat that is naturally nuanced in the way that it supports life. It’s
Image: Brainfeeder There’s a paradox that exists within electronic music that has become more apparent in recent years. While the form exists as a result of our innate instinct to experiment, and by proxy innovate, what began as us literally playing with technology has shifted to technology playing us. The
Breakbeat / electronic music / electronic music producer / Garage / House / Jungle / New Album / UK
Image: Clivage Electroclash as a genre was really born from the intersection of French touch and italo house, borrowing the scuzzy allure of underground EBM to formulate its distinctly and devilishly stylish hedonism. It is a sound underscored by decadence, a sort of indulgent maximalism all about seedy glamour
Image: Planet Mu From mutant cumbian to erratic and complex polyrhythmic breakbeats, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat. Juan Ramos – Iniciado Berlin collective REIF recently announced their upcoming first compilation project REIF01, and with it an epic
Image: 2MR There’s a dazzling sense of fantasy to the music that Russia’s Yana Kedrina conjures up, like modern folk songs that are told through the intersection of man and machine. Folding her saccharine voice like shards of crystal into layers upon layers of buzzing, gloaming, and ebbing electronica, she
Image: Awesome Tapes From Africa To say that South Africa may be experiencing a cultural Renaissance may not be completely unfounded. From the meme sensation of Jerusalema to Beyoncé dressed by Rich Mnisi, South Africa’s pop culture has never felt more prevalent in the first world. And with the success
Image: 100% Silk When Japan’s Soshi Takeda set out to create a collection of tracks inspired by painted Chinese landscapes and the changing of the seasons using only vintage analogue machines,”balearic” may not have been the most immediately apparent description for what he set out to create. But then, across
analog / Chillwave / electronic music producer / House / Japan / lo-fi / new electronic music / tropical
Image: Micron Audio Electronic music is one of our most deft forms of futurism, divining ideations of what the world might feel like beyond our present moment. It’s a quality that Detroit’s Sherard Ingram, aka DJ Stingray 313, has always been enamoured by. Trained by the likes of Detroit’s masters
Image: Never Normal Records From groundbreaking new work from some of electronic music’s most subversive new voices to a comeback from pioneers of the form that draws from their past, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat.
