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Laurel Halo will release a new album in September. Atlas is the American DJ-producer’s first album in five years, since 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a “potent” set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and hallucinatory […]
Príncipe will release a new label compilation in August. DJs Di Guetto features 10 tracks taken from the DJs Di Guetto Vol.1 compilation that originally dropped in September 2006 with original tracks by DJ Marfox, N.K., Jesse, Pausas, Fofuxo, and Nervoso, then collectively known as DJs Di Guetto. It was a “big bang” moment for […]
Andre Espeut’s latest song, “The Journey,” is a sultry, jazzy soul masterpiece that combines the sounds of Rotary Connection and Air in a live broken beat fusion epiphany. Produced in collaboration with Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel, this track now comes with Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel Rework and Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel Rework […]
David August will release a new album in October. VĪS, which is Latin for energy or force, is the Italian-German composer’s fourth album, following 2018’s D’Angelo. It’s the result of a lengthy process of self-discovery, collaboration, and research during which August took time out in and around Rome to write music and process ideas, using […]
Zaumne will release a new album on Manchester label sferic. Zaumne is the alias of Polish sound artist Mateusz Olszewski, who blends elements from ambient, dub, minimalism, field recordings, and spoken word samples across his work, which he describes as “emo dub.” He released Élévation, his last album, in 2021 for Mondoj in Warsaw. Parfum, […]
Readers of my reviews will know that I’m quite reluctant when it comes to identifying someone as a legend but with John Rocca we all can agree this is a fact. In the late 70s Rocca formed Freeez and many jazzy funk classics like ‘Southern Freeez’, ‘I.O.U’ or ‘’Flying High’ followed and the band […]
DJ Koze, born Stefan Kozalla, has a new EP and an album on the way. Wespennest/Candidasa is the German DJ-producer’s first new music since 2018’s Knock Knock album on Pampa. It features two tracks, “Candidasa” and “Wespennest,” both of which are the result of Koze’s stay in a secluded Benedictine monastery on the enchanting island […]
With any DJ set from Rose Kourts (a.k.a Kourtney), the Brooklyn, New York-based DJ, you can expect dynamic, feel-good energy, with sumptuous groove and funky percussion throughout. (She grew up playing the drums and has always had a particular inclination towards these rhythms,” she says.) She is a resident DJ at Sweet Kicks, one of […]
Wata Igarashi is one of the leading figures of Japanese techno—an XLR8R favorite who featured in our XLR8R+ series and delivered a podcast of deep, sci-fi tinged hypnotic techno in 2019. What we haven’t covered so much before are his productions, which have been released on labels including Figure, Semantica, Time to Express, The Bunker […]
Mind Against just launched their eagerly awaited Habitat Imprint via their first single, ‘Criseide’ with Sideral. The track features pounding bass, with the melodic synth singing beneath, and the lyrics conveying an edge of alarm: ‘if you think it couldn’t happen to you…’ The duo plans to release a full 15-track compilation, entitled METAFLORA, on […]
Peggy Gou has returned with her first new music on XL Recordings. Following in the footsteps of previous Peggy Gou anthems, on her own Gudu Records and Ninja Tune, “(It Goes Like) Nanana” features Gou herself on vocals. It’s the first track to be released from her upcoming debut album. “There’s a feeling we all […]
No CamelPhat ID has been more hotly anticipated than “Hope.” And now it’s here to kick the duo’s high-priority album rollout. “Hope” is a chilling deep house record that places a strong emphasis on the voice behind the lyrics. Bringing in the talented Max Milner, the first two minutes of “Hope” is nearly just the […]
Djs Pareja are Mariano Caloso and Diego Irasusta, an Argentinian duo of queer DJ-producers who are core members of the Cómeme record label run by Matias Aguayo. Since they met in the early ’90s and began releasing music a decade later, they have become integral in defining the new-school of house and techno made in South America, […]