Last year as clubs and venues around the world slowly began the process of crawling out from under the weight of lockdown, So U Know surged to the fore as the definitive track leading ravers back into the light. One of two original tracks created by UK duo Overmono for
Bass / Breakbeats / Drum'n'bass / lo-fi house / Melodic Techno / UKG
The phrase ‘disrupting techno’ is one that gets thrown around a lot in electronic music and critics circles, usually in reference to an act who breaks the mould of techno purism, but for all accounts is still making techno. As a style born as a form of disruption in of
acid techno / EBM / IDM / Industrial / minimal tech / Techno
There are few bands quite like Guerilla Toss currently out there. The New York based outfit occupy a space in the rock-electronica crossover sphere that has often been traversed by groups in the past like The Naked And Famous or LCD Soundsystem, but while most art rockers these days have
Athens producer Stelios Vassiloudis occupies a unique space in electronic music. Classically trained, he’s been using his diverse and extensive musical background since the early 2000’s to craft music rooted in sonic emotion as much as the dancefloor. Favouring intricacy in harmonies and textures, Vassiloudis’s work has always had some
ambient / Chillwave / Downtempo / experimental / music video / Premiere / trip-hop
Late last year, we interviewed Sofi Tukker before they embarked on their first tour since lockdown. We asked, “if there was any artist they’d want to work with, who would it be?” The answer came without hesitation: Stromae. It’s easy to see why. The Belgian singer, songwriter, and rapper emerged
afrobeats / baile funk / cumbian / funk / reggaeton / trap / world music
2012 would prove to be an essential year for Lyon producer Gesaffelstein. Aside from his own work, in particular Viol, gaining traction, the French techno-punk producer was tapped to produce for none other than (the artist formerly known as) Kanye West. Yeezus would go on to become a groundbreaking record
Nia Archives is one of those recent GenZ phenomenons to arise from the TikTok algorithm, together with artists like Cookiee Kawaai and PinkPantheress, to whom Archives is often compared. These comparisons are not totally unfounded. What these young artists have in common is how their practice is pushing classic dance
Alt-Pop / Breakbeats / Jungle / R&B / UKG
Amidst lockdown in 2020, producer Nicolás Jaar staged a performance at the live stream edition of the Unsound Festival that took the shape of a durational sound art piece. Challenging his own dexterity as a producer, Jaar invited collaborators from all over the world to provide pieces of music and
Few artists can lay claim to as diverse of a discography as Hungary’s Gábor Lázár, who’s as much at home making serpentine pieces of sound art as he is creating mutant reggaeton. 2020’s Source, his first album for Planet Mu, took his inherent abstraction in the direction of footwork and
Sally Shapiro seemingly went into retirement in 2016. The Swedish duo, made up of the eponymous vocalist and synthpop producer Johan Agebjörn, ended their decade-long run with a single called If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind. Ironically, they did. After signing with nu-disco and Italo disco label Italians Do
