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Strut Records will release a new compilation compiled by Kampire, a revered East African DJ. Forging her reputation through memorable performances for Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda over the last decade, Kampire is celebrated for her sets spanning the full range of African music styles, from the ’70s and ’80s to the present day. Born […]
West London-based duo Kessoncoda—the collaboration of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Fil Sowa—will release their debut album on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records. It has taken upwards of 12 years for the pair to hone Outerstate. We’re told that it stands “firm” between “acoustic tradition and electronica,” while taking influence from rock, ambient, breakbeat, and soundtracks […]
Kevin Richard Martin, better known as the The Bug, has collaborated with Joseph Kamaru (a.k.a KMRU) on a new album for Phantom Limb. Martin first became aware of the Kenyan musician after watching the short 2020 documentary “Under The Bridge.” He found his approach to sound and music “so instantly impressive,” he says, and that […]
Seven years…that’s the time between Mount Kimbie‘s third album, Love What Survives, and their fourth, The Sunset Violent. During that time, Dominic Maker relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he wrote for artists including James Blake, Travis Scott, Slowthai, Rosalía, and Jay-Z; meanwhile, Kai Campos, his partner, whom he met at London Southbank university, remained […]
Over the last decade, Haruka—a Tokyo-based DJ-producer—has emerged as a leading figure in Japan’s dance music community. He initially made a name for himself as a resident and co-curator of DJ Nobu‘s infamous Future Terror parties, but since then he has played at major clubs in Tokyo—including Womb, VENT, and Dommune—and globally. These experiences have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 GarcÃa, 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 […]