NTS’s ‘Amapiano Now’ compilation places South Africa’s underground centre stage
Image by Yaseen Brink / Copyright Prolific Media The music of Amapiano is infamously distributed to its followers via grassroots modes, most popularly via WhatsApp groups. This byp
Weekly Roundup: what we’ve had on repeat
Image by Toma Kostygina Featuring new material from electronic music veterans to captivating and bewitching new voices, we round up the releases that caught our attention this week
Hybrid return to form with the stunningly cinematic new album, ‘Black Halo’
Image by Steve Gullick It’s criminal that Hybrid aren’t as instantly recognisable as their peers such as Aphex Twin or Massive Attack. The group’s acclaimed debut Wide Angle
Marcel Dettmann embraces bad taste on the electric EP, ‘Commander’
Image: Seilscheibenpfeiler Berghain is basically the techno’s answer to Mecca. The venue is paradigmatic of underground nightlife and techno culture, the epoch seat of techno’s
‘Na Zala Zala’ is the savage debut from Rey Sapienz and The Congo Techno Ensemble
Image: Nyege Nyege The music East Africa refers to as ‘techno’ stands in stark contrast to what we understand as techno in the Western canon, taking the form of mind bending ab
Losoul remains the master of house loops on the new EP, ‘Individual Sin’
Image by Klaus Wäldele Peter Kremeier chose a moniker that would speak directly towards his preoccupation with the soul at the core of house music. As Losoul, his obsession with t
Darkside return with the triumphantly trippy new album, ‘Spiral’
When electronic music composer Nicolás Jaar and jazz multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington unleashed their collaborative project Darkside onto the world in 2013, they changed the
Nene H explores grief on the striking debut album, ‘Ali’
Image by Elif Demiroglu Electronic music exists as a testament of man turning toward the machine to process things that are deftly human. This is particularly true for moments of f
Weekly Roundup: what we’ve had on repeat
Image by Frank Casillo From abstract hyperpop sound collages to an unexpected dance pop take from one of techno’s icons, these are the releases that caught our attention th
F.S Blumm and Nils Frahm explore dub on new song Desert Mule
Image courtesy LEITER records F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm are no strangers to collaboration. The renowned German experimentalists have consistently returned to each other time
