Kowloon is a musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. His debut album, ‘Come Over’, was written, performed, recorded and mixed in his home-studio in the industrial outskirts of the city. Taking inspiration from bands like The Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and Sly Stone, Kowloon blends vintage synths, drum machines, and bubbling bass lines with…
Dutch indie duo, Silver Lake, have a brand new single entitled “Beaches.” The track reminds us that you can always find beauty and hope in the things around you (no matter how dark things seem). The song aims to give…
Based in the deep south of Texas, Armstrong Tanyi Orock aka ArmstrongWW first came on my radar with his heartfelt story of “For You” that takes you on a journey of losing his best friend and uncle, paying respect in…
It’s June everybody! And we’ve got a brand new mixtape filled with summer sounds from around the world. This month’s mix includes new tracks from Khruangbin, Nightmares on Wax, Pool Boy, Molly Lewis, Baba Stiltz, Minyo Crusaders, Private Agenda, LDRDO,…
Born in Luanda, Angola in 1953, Mário Rui Silva dedicated his life to Angolan music. In his fifty-year career he has rubbed shoulders with Cameroonian musicians Francis Bebey and Ewanjé, recorded with fellow Angolan musician Bonga, and drawn influence from Brazilian…
If there has been a musician that has been on my radar for the last 10 years, it has been the English producer George Evelyn (aka Nightmares On Wax). He’s created a catalogue of music that seems to be both…
Minyo Crusaders breathe new life into traditional Japanese folk songs (‘minyo’) on their new 10-track record called “Echoes of Japan.” The album merges traditional Japanese folk with Latin, African Caribbean rhythms and flourishes of exotica. By doing so, the 10-piece…
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…