It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…it’s a new year! To kick off 2019, we’ve compiled a list of but a few favourite music videos that certainly fit the category of ear and eye-candy! Prepare to click repeat as you’re captured by both aesthetic, and the fantastic tracks with a
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Written by Arnold van der Walt We are pleased to showcase the official music video for lo-fi hip-hop producer ZOD1AC’s soothing track, ‘Rainroom’. ZOD1AC has been quite busy this year. He released his latest album ‘Year of the ZOD1AC’ a week ago and so far the album has only seen
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt As the year crawls to an end, we decided to treat you to one last premiere for 2018 from DYZPHORIA. DYZPHORIA is a Canadian producer who has racked up hundreds of thousands of plays on Soundcloud, each track building on his production chops as
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt Wave music is a subgenre of electronic bass music that’s been taking over the internet from all corners of the globe. If you’re a regular reader of The Playground you may have noticed that we’ve had multiple interviews, articles, and premieres from various wave
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Based in Krakow, Poland, FIDSER has loved music his whole life. He first took up piano as a child, but his discovery of the turntable and midi controllers soon enticed him away from traditional classical music-making, towards the exciting sounds of electronic production. After several years of expanding his musical
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Interview By Maya-Rose Torrao Producing under the moniker AyyJay, UK wave artist Aaron Reid has been hypnotising the online electronic music scene for more than half a decade. Over the years AyyJay has been honing his craft, carefully creating, with the help of an ever-growing and exceptionally supportive wave music
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By Jenna Dreisenstock Wave is an ever-dynamic genre; the ways in which this relatively unrecognised style has the ability to create starlight atmospheric soundscapes, an encapsulating and enchanting submerge for all listeners alike is ever-loving. Whilst progressing in an often melancholic, yet comforting thoughtfulness – Wave artists deserve more recognition,
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Florida-based Reed Sligar is the mastermind behind the genre-bending music project that is CATVLYST. Although CATVLYST’s music carries definite elements of the trap, wave and ambient music genres, he is not afraid to experiment with sound and challenge the norms of production. It’s no wonder this rising star musician has
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt WRCKTNGL is a name you might have seen in the online electronic community in places like Plastician’s ‘Plastician Presents Wavepool’, as part of the TITAN cult or you might have stumbled upon some of his releases on electronic record labels like Terrorhythm or the
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Curated by Arnold van der Walt & Maya-Rose Torrao This year we’ve curated the perfect playlist for your upcoming Halloween party. Using only the freshest tracks from 2018, we have put together (in no particular order) an eclectic mix of tunes that all have a dark and eerie edge. Lose
