electro
High caloric electronic nutrition from Suburban Knight and Detroit Techno, one of Detroit’s best artist/label partnerships.
XL Recordings will release a new EP from Gyrofield, the Hong-Kong-born, Bristol-based producer born Kiana Li. These Heavens is an exploration into the universe and the beauty of nature via a series of shapeshifting sonics that are just as well-suited for personal introspection as they are for sweaty underground dancefloors,” we’re told. “I see a […]
Breakbeats, esoteric synth riffs, hazy FX and so much else to love from these utterly mad bastards.
The Supreme Court weighs in on the fate of a 1984 breakdancing jam with a wild backstory.
TSHA will release a new album in September. Sad Girl, due for release in September on Ninja Tune, is the UK artist’s second album, following 2022’s Capricorn Sun. Sonically, we’re told to expect her most danceable work to date with strokes of ’00s R&B, rude electro, and techno. It sees TSHA welcoming “a new era,” […]
Thomas Bangalter, founder of French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has digitally released Chiroptera, the soundtrack for a performance created with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jallet. Chiroptera was realised by 154 dancers in the forecourt of the Paris Opera House on November 12, 2023. The soundtrack—which lands on vinyl on August 30—represents merely a […]
Open Space and Domesticated Records have released an album from DJ Fitness, an alias of Pablo Arrangoiz. You might not have heard of Arranzgoiz but there’s a reasonable chance you’ve heard his music. Based in Miami, Florida, the young Mexican artist has quietly been building his back catalog, displaying a variety of styles and genres […]
Justice will release a new album in April. Out through Ed Banger Records and Because Music, Hyperdrama is the French DJ-producers’ fourth album, following 2016’s Woman. It will be available digitally as well as on CD and vinyl, including a limited-edition crystal-clear edition. Ahead of the release, you can listen to two singles: “One Night/All […]
Narcotic glitterball dancefloor fodder and a bonus alt-garage-core Bawrut remix from Milan’s Rollover DJs on Change My Mind.
Pay attention, these are names you will hear again. Bay Area crew As You Like It drop a 14 track V/A compilation dedicated to the late Johnny Igaz.
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 […]
Nihiloxica, the dark electro-percussion group formed between Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Festival and the Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, has recorded a new live set from a performance at Womad Festival. In 2016, English producers Peter Jones (a.k.a pq) and Jacob Maskell-Key (a.k.a Spooky-J) travelled to Kampala to write, rehearse, and record a set of live recordings with […]
Hip hop recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the genre owes a great deal to producers like Man Parrish, whose electro beats helped soundtrack the New York scene of the early 80s. With tracks such as Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop) and Boogie Down Bronx, Parrish was an early pioneer of the urban sound […]
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 […]
Featuring artists such as Decal, Phil Kieran, Americhord, Chymera, Magnetize, Metroneem, John Braine and Takeover Sound, the new Dreams of Electric Bleep compilation (released on Earwiggle’s Bandcamp on 6 October) shines a light on the emerging electro scene in Ireland at the turn of the Millennium – specifically the period from 1999 to 2005. It was […]
Having dipped his toe into electro, drum ‘n’ bass, hip hop, big beat, techno and a myriad of other genres over the years, Freddy Fresh is one of those artists that continues to defy expectations. The Minneapolis native has also released on more than 100 record labels during his more than three decade career, including […]
Sepehr, real name Sepehr Alimagham, will release a new album on Garmo, a sub-label of Canada’s NAFF. Pomegranate Skies explores sonic themes of heaven and hell, dualities, split identities, and chaos. The music is a reflection of “the ever-constant existential chaos in his mind,” we’re told, reflecting a musical journey through all the different influences […]
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, […]