May’s mixtape features new music from The Chemical Brothers, Kraak & Smaak, KOKOROKO, Old Smile, Maya Jane Coles, La Femme, and the latest single from Gaspard Augé’s solo project (Gaspard Augé is one half of the electronic duo, Justice). Full playlist, and links to where you can find and support the music are below. The…
Early in 2020, the music community was forced to close its doors. Not only to the outside world, but to each other. Creative partnerships were lost, performances cancelled, studio time scrapped. In response to these limitations, as is often the…
A couple of years ago, the Berlin-based record label BPitch released a couple collections of remixes from Ellen Allien’s album Alientronic. Today we were just digging through the second batch of remixes and found this terrific Alien Rain rework and…
London’s cutting edge venue, E1 unveils lineups for its much anticipated return. From 25th June, E1 will host events through summer, culminating in the first of their 2021 ‘E1 Presents’ series. The lineup includes some of electronic music’s finest producers,…
“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.…
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…
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…