The Brooklyn-based producer Reed Kackley (aka BAILE) first came onto our radar when he teamed up with KAUF for their collaboration on his track “Leave Me.” In a lot of ways, collaboration is part of Kackley’s process — the past few years he has worked with a wide range of artists including Sasha, Beacon, and…
The Tim Carman Trio is no-frills, timeless, B3 organ trio jazz. Tim Carman plays the drums, Ken Clark is behind the organ, and Steve Fell is on guitar. Their music harkens back to an age of honest, raw, musical interaction…
Baalti began as a medium for Mihir Chauhan and Jaiveer Singh to explore old Indian records and global sounds that they felt were missing from dance music. “Our sound comes from our love of sample-based music,” explains Singh. “We’re trying…
Tim Rose and producer Darien Newton (aka D Did That) have been on a lo-fi hip hop road trip. They make beats in the van’s recording studio “Vanna White” as they go. The final destination is unknown — pit stops along the way include…
Austrian saxophone player and composer Yvonne Moriel makes music that is hard to categorize. It is rooted in jazz but also combines elements of hip hop, lo-fi, and electronic. And in that way, she achieves the her goal of making…
From new interpretations on Turkish folk music, to 1970s disco crossed with a house beat — September’s Mixtape has a little something for everybody. This month, James comes to you live from Field Day festival in East London as Autumn…
We last caught up with Blake Robin — the LA based producer, multi-instrumentalist and synth master behind LUXXURY — in a virtual interview during lockdown. Robin didn’t let the global pandemic slow his production down during 2020; he released his…
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…