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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Phil Kieran’s latest album is a vibrant tour de force inspired by the old movie palace where it was made.
Croatian Amor is the project of Loke Rahbek, a Danish artist who grew up in Copenhagen, listening to his father’s record collection: Brian Eno, Massive Attack, David Bowie, and Talking Heads. For years, he made synth pop as Lust For Youth and ear-bleeding noise as part of Damien Dubrovnik with Christian Stadsgaard. It’s with Stadsgaard […]
Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]
“It’s not possible to be indifferent when someone died for delivering a hamburger.”
Courtesy (a.k.a Najaaraq Vestbirk) will release her debut album in September. The album’s title, fra eufori, Danish for “from euphoria,” hints at what to expect from the record. She has distilled classics of trance-infused dance and pop music productions from the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s to their core by re-recording them on her compact […]
DJ Python (a.k.a Brian Piñeyro) and Ana Roxanne will release a new album as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept via Mexican Summer. Piñeyro and Roxanne, an American ambient musician and vocalist, first met in New York in the winter of 2020. Having praised one another’s work online for years, the two finally bonded by driving around […]