Caterina Barbieri | Ecstatic Computation | Important Records Release Date: May 3rd, 2019 Feature Image Credit: Frank Zerban Spiralling intricacies within the weaving and sculpting of patterns; twisted within the other, a basket cradled with sequences of electronic timbre – to reach within a processed depth, algorithms, constructed mathematics as
Lomea (pronounced “Low-maya”) has shared ‘You Are Your Memories’, the first single off of his upcoming album Echoes in Bloom. The album will be Lomea’s second album coming via Here and Now Recordings, a label with a keen interest in experimental cinematic sounds. Lomea is the experimental electronic project of
Interview by Arnold van der Walt Already being compared to the likes of Bonobo and Caribou, Oscuro has been making waves with his richly textured soundscapes. Today, he brings us the deep ‘Take Me Down’, exclusively on The Playground. Oscuro was formed in 2014 after he won a contest on
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Joni Void | Mise En Abyme | Constellation Records Release Date: 29 March 2019 Feature Image Credit: Thomas Boucher & Sonya Stefan Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A woman speaks; robotic, clinical – observant. An artificial understanding of the painful, the thoughtful, the healing and broken. A look within the self;
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Croatian Amor | Isa | Posh Isolation Release Date: 25 January 2019 Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Finding gentleness and conflict within the spaces between; a glowing landscape in melancholia with hand reaching toward the sky. Each sound simmers as a cold flame, a vulnerability in a delicate hope, a volatile
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Oneohtrix Point Never | Love In The Time of Lexapro EP | Warp Records Release Date: 23rd November Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Examining our identities within artificial spaces; love so curated it curdles saccharine, slumbers sticky on the tongue and mouths held shut with pharmaceutical FDA-approved bubblegum. Robota in truth
Objekt | Cocoon Crush | PAN Release Date: November 9th Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Image Credit: Unknown The duality between the artificial and strikingly organic; to stroke emerald earth and stutter the flash of buttons and control within a machine – traverse between a dichotomy that need not be, opening
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Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Photography Credit: Jenna Dreisenstock Shimmer heart-glow in the immersion of community; a spark within – an inherent sense of understanding, of acceptance: intimacy in an intangible, often oblivious nature – a vulnerability within ourselves which we all share as creatives. Sphere of flicker strobe beat awareness,
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Marie Davidson | Working Class Woman | Ninja Tune Release Date: 5 October 2018 Image Credit: Etienne Saint Denis Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Eclectic in dynamic textural expression, an ability to genre-defy whilst maintain oneself within the world of media oversaturation and political climate; an eccentric personality clear within the
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Tim Hecker | Konoyo | Kranky Release Date: 28 September 2018 Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Konoyo; the living – an intangible atonement, tender repentance and anxious summation of a soul in limbo – to resolve and make peace within the shroud of isolation; the opportunity so gracefully afforded to the
