“I upgraded Google Magenta’s DDSP algorithm from mono/16kHz to stereo/48kHz,” described Josh, the producer behind Flex Council when talking about one of the projects he is working on. It’s just the kind of nerdy music-related thing that makes me curious. What the hell is he talking about? If you really want to know what all…
As a child of the 80s, I’m a sucker for anything that has a bit of dance music nostalgia in it. So when a DJ / producer called SHIHA sent me a remix of “Dr. Beat” from Miami Sound Machine,…
A new dance paradise: Kala festival debuted in 2018 and has quickly become a gem in the music festival calendar. With limited capacity and a secluded location, Kala is the ultimate boutique festival escape. Set on a stunning beach location…
La Femme is a 9-piece French psych-punk rock band established in 2010 by guitarist Sacha Got and keyboardist Marlon Magnée. (wow, that’s a mouthful of an introduction!) For the first three years, the band released a series of EPs and…
This month’s mixtape features new music from The Avalanches, JUNGLE, Mac DeMarco, BICEP, Connan Mockasin, TOLEDO, Kraak & Smaak, Royksopp, Robyn, Solomun, Tommy Guerrero, Janko Nilovic & The Soul Surfers and much more. It’s the “End of lockdown” mix, part…
To announce his upcoming EP, Old Smile has just teased a brand new psychedelic single: “Blurry Sign.” The track has a floating quality — wandering melodies and a gentle snare hit lift the listener up into a sort of drifting…
LONDON, April 1st: With the first 70+ ºF day recorded this year, and the announcement that a few Summer festivals are going ahead here in London, we thought it was high time that you got your raving shorts on and…
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
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…