Happy August everyone. This month we’ve got some jangley summer indie music on the mix as well as some soul, electronic and just a pinch of hip hop. New music from Polo & Pan, Solomun, Rögg Collins, Mano La Tough, Always You, The Orb, Madlib and many more. The New LoFi mixtape is also available…
Green Man is a GO! Green Man festival will be taking place from the 19th to the 22nd of August. Described as one of the friendliest and most beautiful festivals in the UK, Green Man festival is set in the…
The long-time scene supporter, dancer, DJ, producer and self-described “human hotdog” Olive T joins the Rhythmic Culture podcast series this summer with her new mix. Why do we love Olive T? Her mixes tend to span a wide range of…
If you’ve been following the blog for any amount of time, you will know that Bestival was one of our favorite major music festivals. The music selection, the location, the size, the dressing up — and the fact that it…
Always You is an LA-based duo comprised of identical twins Christoph and Anton Hochheim. Drawing from the raw grandeur of the 60’s, the melodicism of soft 70s pop and the sophisticated side of romantic 80s synth pop, Always You stand…
The new US-based label, Freq has launched the first compilation in what will be a 10-part series. Vol. 1 is a 6-track EP which includes tracks from SVNF8, UCH and Buhoo (pronounced boo-oh, and meaning “owl” in Spanish). Our favorite…
Here’s the thing… Phonox is my favorite club in London. Every city has that one club. The club with the best sound system, just the right crowd, a great selection of music. In New York that club was Output. In…
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…