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This week’s XLR8R podcast comes from Sean Patrick, the Los Angeles DJ-producer and owner of Willis Show Bar in Detroit. Patrick began DJing at clubs right after he left school, more than 20 years ago, first spinning sets of post-punk, new wave, and industrial. But over time, his sound has increasingly shifted towards house and […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Nihiloxica, the dark electro-percussion group, has released a new album on Crammed Discs. Source of Denial comes more than three long years after Kaloli, their album debut. It points a (middle) finger at the hostile immigration and freedom of movement policies implemented in the UK, as well as across the world. Fuelled by their frustrations […]

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, […]

In a time when Electronic Dance Music has become a cultural phenomenon, two pioneering entities, SIZE Records and Tomorrowland Music Records, unite. The two have masterfully converged to celebrate both a shared history and an exciting future. Today, we witness the simultaneous release of a groundbreaking collaborative project that stands as a testament to the […]

A “dazzling innovator of this art form,” Nini Nobless broke new ground in electronic music in the early 1980s with synth disco duo Lime.

Bjarki, born Bjarki Runar Sigurdarson, will relaunch bbbbbb recors with a new single called “Rave Daddy.” Launched in 2016, bbbbbb recors is a project that introduced raw and off-kilter electro and techno projections from a wealth of Iceland’s finest electronic music talents, including Volruptus, EOD, and Kuldaboli alongside Sigurdarson under various guises. There were also […]

First Cut welcomes TR One, Giles Armstrong and Reflection Port Assembly on shiny black wax on Crossing The Red Line.

Hailing from Derry in Northern Ireland, Future Skeletons has been producing tracks – as well as being a regular on the clubbing scene – since the early 90s. Recently, he teamed up with electronica maestro Carl Finlow to produce a series of four EPs, as well as an album, Abandon Hope, which blends a myriad […]

Aint About Me is the project of producer Jan Wagner and Lukasz Polowczyk, a sound artist, poet, and educator based in Berlin, Germany. Its origins date back to 2020, when the pair put out a self-titled debut album in celebration of spoken word, whereby lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken instead of sung—which is the […]

Code 041 is another brilliant musical excursion from the wildly eclectic but always on point DJ Rocca