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Kiasmos—the collaboration of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen—have shared a new EP on Erased Tapes. Flown is the pair’s first new music since 2017. It comprises three songs that introduce an almost otherworldly feeling, somewhere between electronic, classical, ambient, and rave. “We’re excited to share this new release, which differs slightly […]

Studying mathematics for years in Morocco triggered an unexpected journey for Anechoic, who today is based in Paris, France. “As I delved into the intricacies of mathematical concepts, I found myself intrigued by the possibility of translating abstract theories into tangible sonic experiences,” he says, and he began experimenting with music mixing program VirtualDJ. To […]

Kamasi Washington will release a new album on Young. Where Washington’s previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, “an exploration of life on earth.” we’re told. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. […]

Machinedrum (a.k.a Travis Stewart) will release a new album on Ninja Tune. Stewart’s journey to making 3FOR82 began, fittingly, on March 4 last year. For his 41st birthday, he ventured out to Joshua Tree National Park, California, to seek clarity and inspiration for a new album. “I’ve been to Joshua Tree many times and I’ve […]

Earlier this month, Cyphon Recordings continued their run of form with a mini LP from Ewan Jansen—with six tracks of crisp, colourful, groove-heavy house and techno. Originating from Perth, Australia, Jansen cut his teeth in the early ’90s producing hardware-saturated house music using an Amiga 500 that his parents bought him for school assignments. Since […]

Arushi Jain will release a new album on Leaving Records. Delight follows on from 2021s Under a Lilac Sky, which also landed on Leaving. The album carries, at its core, the simple proposition that delight is accessible and that the practice of cultivating it is a worthwhile endeavour. Across nine tracks, Jain aims “to instil […]

Squarepusher, otherwise known as Tom Jenkinson, is releasing a new album. Dostrotime is the British artist’s first album since 2020’s Be Up Hello. In the years since, he’s released an EP, Lamental, and remixed artists such as GoGo Penguin and Danny Elfman. It’s inspired by the “novel, eerie, sublime silence” of lockdown. “The cancellation of […]

Doc Sleep, real name Melissa Maristuen, will release a new album on Dark Entries. Cloud Sight Fade is Maristuen’s first album since Birds, her ambient and IDM-leaning debut album. We’re told to expect seven tracks sitting between “muscular New York house, Berlin twilight techno, and funky West-coast breakbeats.” They draw heavily on her years of […]

The life of Rubi, who has been following and dancing to electronic music ever since she turned 18, took a turn in 2013, when she was living in Barcelona, Spain. One day, two close friends—Eric (a.k.a CMYK) and Will Kaze—approached her, wanting to organize events in bars. They mentioned that they liked her taste in […]

Alex Albrecht will returns to Analogue Attic Recordings for the Australian label’s inaugural release of 2024. Allambie is an immersive exploration spanning house, downtempo, and ambient genres. While it’s characterised Albrecht’s trademark field recordings and enchanting piano motifs, the release integrates new hardware and synth sounds to his palette. Albrecht is perhaps best known for his […]

Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa will release a new album as Lost Souls of Saturn. On Reality, we’re told the pair go “even further into the vortex” than on their first album, metamorphosing into sci-fi comic characters John and Frank who’ve explored the galaxy and returned. Although Reality still possesses the “wigged-out conceptual brilliance” of […]

Light in the Attic Records, in cooperation with Laurie Anderson and the Lou Reed Archive, will present a definitive reissue of Reed’s Hudson River Wind Meditations. Originally released in 2007, the album provides the best example of Reed’s decades-long exploration into drone and ambient music. It’s Reed’s final solo album before he died in 2013. The ambient compositions were initially […]

Sean La’Brooy is an Australian musician based in New York, perhaps best known for his work as part of the duo Albrecht La’Brooy—a collaboration with Alex Albrecht. Aiming to showcase “the gentle side of electronic music down under,” the pair have been putting out a bewitching hybrid of techno, house, ambient, experimental, and jazz for […]

Mexican artist Leslie García, better known as Microhm, will release a new EP on Infinite Machine. On Desvanecer, Garcia takes a glimpse into a world of abandoned spaces and hollowed structures. Across seven tracks, she explores the limits and crossovers between noise and ambience, utilizing rhythms of the Latin diaspora to conjure “an electroacoustic future.” […]

Satoshi Tomiie will release a new solo album. Over the past three years, Tomiie has dedicated himself to creating the music on MagicHour, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources. It’s his first solo album under his birth name in eight years. Tomiie’s previous release as Sato, Blue, Black and Grey on Chapelle XIV Music […]

Icelandic group ex.girls will release their debut album on Bjarki’s bbbbbb recors. ex.girls, previously known as Russian Girls, consists of frontman Tatjana Dís on vocals alongside Guðlaugur Einarsson and Gylfi Sigurðsson. (Dís and Einarsson also form the rock band Skrattar, whose album, Hellraiser IV, landed on bbbbbb recors in 2021.) The group’s sound palette paints […]

Woody92 is something of a hidden gem of the thriving Dutch electronic music community. As a DJ, he explores psycho-active strains of left-field electronics, rhythmic tribalism, and hypnotic techno, showcasing an inherent focus in finding and contextualizing his favorite finds. Born in the unassuming town of Delft on the west coast of Holland, he began […]

The techno of Detroit DJ-producer DJ 3000 (born Franki Juncaj) can be distinguished by its heavy sampling and instrumentation drawing from his Albanian heritage. A longtime Underground Resistance associate, he was raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, a city within the Detroit borders that is heavily populated by immigrants from Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. He […]

Jake Muir has released a new album of “soft-focus, sensual electro-concrète” on Sferic. Bathhouse Blues is the result of months upon months of digging and research, with Muir utilizing not only awkward lines of dialog, but obscured foley sounds and mutated snippets of music. Back in the ’70s, gay pornographic cinema was often accompanied by […]

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September 26, 2023

CORIN is the alias of Corin Ileto, an electronic music DJ-producer and performer based in Sydney, Australia. XLR8R readers will probably be familiar with her name from Lux Aeterna, her latest album on Lee Gamble‘s UIQ label, or its predecessor, Enantiodromia, which is also an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between IDM, EBM, trance, […]