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Premiere: Satin Jackets – Don’t Worry

Formed in 2012, Satin Jackets is the brainchild of German producer Tim Bernhardt. Having enjoyed success through the late 90s and 00s producing house music under a variety of different aliases, Bernhardt launched Satin Jackets as a vehicle to finally explore his lifelong love of disco. Inspired by the clean

Roundup, December #1

From French touch funk to future forward bass, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Grimes – Player of Games  Following previously heard tracks Shinigami Eyes and 100 Percent Tragedy, the new single from Canadian alt-pop star Grimes appears to be the first official single

Helado Negro – Far In

Image: 4AD To use the term ‘new age,’ to describe the sonic identity that Roberto Carlos Lange, AKA Helado Negro, has crafted over the course of his decade long career may not be without reason. Neither would it be so to suggest that his influence on the sound and direction

Weekly roundup: what we have on repeat

Image: Innellea/TAU From retro-Bollywood funk house to campy, italo disco dominatrix pop, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Baalti – Kolkata ‘78 San Francisco based Baalti are changing the way we think about South Asian electronic music. The duo have an innate

Joy Orbison embraces abstraction on his debut mixtape, ‘Still Slipping Vol. 1’

Image by Rosie Marks It’s surprising that someone as iconic as Joy Orbison should put out their first full length release twelve years into their career. Since his debut in 2009, Orbison has enjoyed an illustrious métier as one of the foremost innovators on the U.K underground, all off the

TOKiMONSTA takes us to a technicolour discotheque on new single, ‘Naked’

Image by Bethany Vargas Six years ago, Los Angeles producer TOKiMONSTA was diagnosed with a strange and rare brain disease which caused her to temporarily lose her hearing and her ability to perceive music. Two years and two brain surgeries later she mostly re-learnt the process of music making, an

House music legend Mr. G laments the new normal on ‘The Forced Force Is Not The Real Force’

Image by Emilie Pria 2012 was an important year for electronic music. The renewed interest in the sound of underground club music had brought about the birth of modern EDM and the superstar DJ, and by then this interest was reaching its peak. Also in 2012, a new music broadcasting

Dâm-Funk experiments with the soul of his sound on latest EP, ‘Architecture III’

Image: Glydezone Recordings Over the course of the past few years, prolific Californian producer Dâm-Funk has been preoccupied with the structural core of the sounds that inform his music. What these experiments have produced is a trilogy of EPs that see the artist unlearning, relearning and reformulating the codes of

Interview: Five Minutes with Shookrah

Image: Miki Barlok Made up of Senita Appiakorang on lead vocals, drummer Emmet O’Riabhaigh, Daniel Coughlan on guitar, Diarmait MacCarthaigh on the keys and bass guitarist Brian Dunlea, Shookrah are a quintet of Irish musicians bringing a serious heat to the international music scene with their funky neo-soul take on the pop

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