Weekly roundup: what we’ve had on repeat
Image: Planet Mu From mutant cumbian to erratic and complex polyrhythmic breakbeats, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve ha
Kedr Livanskiy finds the fantasy on the enchanting third album, ‘Liminal Soul’
Image: 2MR There’s a dazzling sense of fantasy to the music that Russia’s Yana Kedrina conjures up, like modern folk songs that are told through the intersection of man and mac
Native Soul’s debut album ‘Teenage Dreams’ begins the future of amapiano
Image: Awesome Tapes From Africa To say that South Africa may be experiencing a cultural Renaissance may not be completely unfounded. From the meme sensation of Jerusalema to Beyon
Soshi Takeda’s ‘Floating Mountains’ uses vintage machines to create fantastical, crystalline chillhouse
Image: 100% Silk When Japan’s Soshi Takeda set out to create a collection of tracks inspired by painted Chinese landscapes and the changing of the seasons using only vintage anal
DJ Stingray 313 returns with environmentally conscious techno
Image: Micron Audio Electronic music is one of our most deft forms of futurism, divining ideations of what the world might feel like beyond our present moment. It’s a quality tha
Weekly Roundup: what we’ve had on repeat
Image: Never Normal Records From groundbreaking new work from some of electronic music’s most subversive new voices to a comeback from pioneers of the form that draws from their
Tommy Genesis moves beyond the bedroom on sophomore album, ‘goldilocks x’
Image: Downtown Records / Interscope The sexually explicit rap song has a long history in hip hop, but its lineage becomes markedly more important and subversive when bars like “
Shackleton- Departing Like Rivers
Pigeonholing the sort of music that elusive English producer Shackleton creates toward any sort of categorisation is likely a futile exercise. While the Woe to the Septic Heart! fo
Nils Frahm and F.S Blumm craft meticulous dub on the new album ‘2X1=4’
Image: LEITER When Nils Frahm and F.S Blumm dropped Dessert Mule, the first single off their fourth collaborative album 2X1=4, out now on LEITER, it became apparent that this recor
Slikback summons an army of disruptors on the intense new album, ‘Melt’
Image: Björn Holzweg Nairobi born and Kampala based producer Freddy Njau, aka Slikback, has slowly been infecting club music with his abrasive and entirely future focussed sound o
