Quakers is an international collective made up of Australian DJ Katalyst, Stuart Matthews (aka 7STU7) and English producer Geoff Barrow (aka Fuzzface). Some might call them a triple-threat. Last week the triple-threat released a new double LP entitled II: The Next Wave. The release includes 33 tracks — yes, 33 friggin tracks! — and collaborations…
We first came across Sirens Of Lesbos earlier this summer with the release of their single “How Many Miles” (a track inspired by “How Many Mics” by The Fugees). From that point on, we just fell in love with the…
“Out of sight, out of mind. Temporary by design. ‘Cause it’s easier.” This is one of the opening lines of “Easier” — the latest single from San Francisco-based dark-pop indie group, New Spell. The song is a dystopian anthem that…
Stiletto Feels started life as an experimental project in 2015 by Texas-based songwriter, Geoff Earle. The early days of the project consisted of Earle collaborating with studio musicians who would improvise over his demos. The recordings were collated together over a…
“Find me a pen,I’ll do the crossword again.I wait for the night,When the rondure is right.I’ll make sure the garden grows tomatoes and a butternut” The opening verse of Guma’s new single “Butternut” gives you a feeling of calm and…
This month we’ve got new music from Session Victim, Tiga, Hudson Mohawke, Disclosure, Verdance, Khi Infinite, Solomun, Monkey Safari, Old Smile and O’Flynn. I’m designating this mix as the lockdown dance-your-face-off-at-home mix. It starts off smooth with some psychedelic indie and jazz…
For the Bosnian-German DJ and producer Mladen Solomun, music isn’t just a tool to make people dance. With all of its diverse manifestations, music is a vehicle for moments and memories to be made. “In every place, music can find…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…
For the album, Hewitt set out to document his experience of lockdown in New York City. As New York became more and more deserted, he went out with a field recorder to report how the sounds of the city changed. And while the premise was rooted in documenting the present, the project was very heavily influenced by the minimalist Japanese kankyō ongaku movement from the 1980s.
We live in a time when technology and innovation is advancing faster than we could imagine. Will we soon live in a time where technology has outlived us? Will the new innovations that we come up with this century be…
What started as an experiment on the streets of Hamburg, Germany has quickly evolved into a world-acclaimed phenomenon. MEUTE combines techno and the brass band in order to free electronic music from the DJ desk