Jimmy Edgar and his record label Ultramajic have been working incredibly hard over the last couple of years to craft a decisive dance sound for themselves. Paired with Edgar’s background in graphic design, the label has also become a mainstay in discussions that involve particularly strong branding, and with it,
It was excruciatingly early, on a Friday morning only a month ago, when I found myself landing in Iceland’s lava fields and wondering if this is real life or I’m dreaming of visiting Mars. What followed were several wonderfully weird days – from taking a stroll through an ever expanding
Summer is finally here, and Yuksek‘s EP Sweet Addiction was released in almost perfect coordination with the smoldering weather I’m currently facing in Los Angeles’ freak heatwave. The EP is a stunningly coordinated four-track project that will surely be playing at every rooftop pool party in the coming months, and
While James Ford and James Shaw haven’t released an EP since 2014, they’re gearing up for some serious releases this year with their personal imprint Delicacies. ‘Staring At This Handle/Sky On The Floor’ will be the first two tracks out of 8 upcoming releases the duo plan on having in
Blixa Bargeld has gradually metamorphosised from feral-haired post-punk enfant terrible to respectable bourgeois institution, just like his old Bad Seeds mucker Nick Cave. Formed in 1980, Bargeld’s principal group, the Berlin-based industrial hellraisers Einstürzende Neubauten were once prone to stealing construction equipment from building sites near gig venues and then
As a film director, John Carpenter made very few sequels. Granted, there was Escape From L.A., which relocated Escape From New York’s anti-hero Snake Plissken to a slightly different dystopian metropolis, but Carpenter ceded the reins and eventually the rights to later instalments of the Halloween franchise while other sequel
Multi-instrumentalist and Composer Ólafur Arnalds and Berlin based Pianist and Producer Nils Frahm have paired up for a low-key, super synthesised collaboration, resulting in a collection of their previous releases ‘Loon’, ‘Stare’ and ‘Life Story Love and Glory’ plus 7 new songs from the ‘Trance Frendz’ studio film. This latest
It seems like an awfully long time ago that Messrs. Pseudo and Nym came across Nicolas Jaar in a curious speakeasy on Paris’s Left Bank. But ever since first hearing ‘The Ego’, they have followed him with interest. By that time ‘Mi Mujur’ had begun its shuffle around Europe. Soon
Wise Blood released Babyland via Hopesick Cola a few weeks back; an EP which has cemented Chris Laufman’s status as some kind of obscure-pop oracle. A disjointed fairground ride of sounds, Babyland lunges you sharply around corners without warning and it does so deliberately. Speaking about his release, the Pittsburg musician wrote: “Over the past year I have taken time to
Roots Manuva, one the UK’s hip hop kingpins, has emerged from the studio after two years of writing and recording to release ‘Facety 2:11’, a brand new single produced by Four Tet. South London born, 45 Year old Rodney Smith is the son of a preacher, man. Still putting music out on
