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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 DÃs on vocals alongside Guðlaugur Einarsson and Gylfi Sigurðsson. (DÃs and Einarsson also form the rock band Skrattar, whose album, Hellraiser IV, landed on bbbbbb recors in 2021.) The group’s sound palette paints […]
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 […]
Bill Kouligas’ PAN will release the debut album of Honour, Àlà áfÃa. Honour is an anonymous act who previously released two mixtapes on PAN which sold out very quickly. They may or may not have grown up in the United States, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured […]
Pablo Arrangoiz, who releases music as Bauzer Vep, Señor Faxwater, Glue Boy, Goiz, and more, will release a new EP as El Gusano. Saka La Bolsita will be the inaugural release of Impacto, the new label launched by Miami producers Nick León and Jonny From Space. Sonically, we can expect a “sonic conglomeration” of acid […]
Voigtmann (born Claus Voigtmann) will release his second album on 20/20 Vision. Crafted over three years, Life Miles reflects on his journey so far whilst looking forward to new ventures. Sonically, we’re told that it blends intricate textures, hypnotic rhythms, and micro sounds as well as delving into territories of low tempo, ambient, and dub, […]
NYC-based producer Past Palms will release a new EP titled Portraits late next month. The Past Palms project is natured-inspired, presenting dreamy, introspective soundtracks best described as “ambient music for watering plants.” XLR8R has featured the Past Palms project since its inception, which started out as a more beat-driven undertaking before evolving into the mostly […]
Released in 2020, Fanon Flowers’ seven track album Detroit Automation is a masterpiece of minimal but visceral ambient and machine-tooled techno.
Chicago trio Purelink will release an album on Los Angeles label Peak Oil. Since forming in 2020, the group—which comprises Tommy Paslaski (a.k.a Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (a.k.a kindtree), and Akeem Asani (a.k.a Millia)—have convened regularly in a shared studio to workshop, swap samples, and hone their collective muse via “the endless possibilities of a […]
Slauson Malone 1, the solo project of Jasper Marsalis, has signed to Warp Records with a new single. Voyager chronicles Marsalis’ move from New York to Los Angeles in a period of doubt and aimlessness following the release of his 2019 full-length, A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 (Crater Speak). It comes paired with a music video […]
Matias Aguayo‘s Cómeme will release a new EP from Bufiman, the German artist born Jan Schulte. For over 15 years, Schulte has been a a resident at Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs venue. You can hear his music on labels including Safe Trip Records and Dekmantel, and as Wolf Müller on Themes for Great Cities and […]
Octo Octa, born Maya Bouldry-Morrison, will release a new EP on her own T4T LUV NRG label. Bouldry-Morrison has spent spent the last three years “perfecting her engineering” on these three “sensual, beautiful, and enveloping” songs, we’re told. For the opening track, “Late Night Love,” Bouldry-Morrison aims to capture not just the subjective experience of […]
Ornaments makes some beautiful vinyl and Wareika recorded some beautiful music for this one. The live electronic trio create a vivid tapestry for explorations in deep, dubby and esoteric sounds on new album Tizinabi.
The Planet Love trilogy is a three 12 inch set pulled from the early 1990s archives of groundbreaking Swiss electronic music producer Marco Repetto.
Dasha Rush will release her first album in eight years on raster. Contemplating is Rush’s first album since Sleepstep, a collection of sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aims at creating a dream-like atmosphere. Across nine ambient tracks, she takes listeners on a transcendental journey through ethereal landscapes and immersive textures. “From the very […]
Manchester, UK label Sferic has released the debut album of Yungwebster, a rapper based in New York who is influenced by the likes of Travis Scott, Future, and Young Thug. The Yungwebster album features eight tracks recorded over the last couple of years, taking mumble rap and dissolving it into pure ambient syrup. Yungwebster is […]
Seattle producer Jeff McIlwain, better known as Lusine, will return with his ninth album in September. Long Light, which surfaces on Ghostly International, marks 20 years since McIlwain first joined the label roster. In recent years, he has pushed his craft of visceral, kinetically-curious music that fuses techno, pop, and experimental composition towards collaborative, song-forward […]