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Studying mathematics for years in Morocco triggered an unexpected journey for Anechoic, who today is based in Paris, France. “As I delved into the intricacies of mathematical concepts, I found myself intrigued by the possibility of translating abstract theories into tangible sonic experiences,” he says, and he began experimenting with music mixing program VirtualDJ. To […]

Ian Nnyanzi, better known as Masaka Masaka, will release a new album on Hakuna Kulala. Growing up in Uganda, Nnyanzi cut his teeth fashioning rudimentary hip-hop beats at a friend’s studio on Makindye, a hill that overlooks Kampala, Uganda’s balmy Murchison Bay, and realized that he wanted more. “Out here, everyone seems okay to listen […]

Jlin will release a new album in March. Akoma is Jlin’s first album since 2017’s Black Origami. Across 11 tracks, she “sets a new benchmark” in her personal road map, according to Planet Mu, the label behind it. We’re told to expect a new entry point into her sound and a new approach for both […]

Australian-Icelandic producer Ben Frost will release a new album in March on Mute. Scope Neglect is Frost’s sixth studio album and his first in seven years. With Scope Neglect, Frost ventures into “new sonic territories,” we’re told. Across eight tracks, featuring collaborations with Greg Kubacki from Car Bomb and Liam Andrews of My Disco, Frost […]

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 […]

Mexican artist Leslie García, 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.” […]

Ryan Crosson has released a new album as Ryan Crosson and The Ridgewood Vanguard on London label FRNTR. We Can Only Ever Be How We Are sees Crosson continuing to explore and push boundaries through his experimental musical output. Across 10 tracks, he brings together an array of friends including Ryan Cavanagh, Violeta Vicci, Emil […]

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 […]

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September 26, 2023

CORIN is the alias of Corin Ileto, an electronic music DJ-producer and performer based in Sydney, Australia. XLR8R readers will probably be familiar with her name from Lux Aeterna, her latest album on Lee Gamble‘s UIQ label, or its predecessor, Enantiodromia, which is also an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between IDM, EBM, trance, […]

In September, Jeff McIlwain, who is better known as Lusine, will put out his latest record, Long Light—and the album will mark two decades since the Seattle-based producer first released on Ghostly International. Between those two points, McIlwain has put out four full-length albums of visceral, kinetically-curious music that broadly fuses techno, pop, and experimental […]

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 […]

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, […]

Deena Abdelwahed will release her new album on InFiné Music. Jbal Rrsas is the Tunisian DJ-producer’s second album, following 2018’s Khonnar. It spans seven tracks of bass, techno, and experimental music, which were produced as part of Consortium Commissions, an initiative set up to showcase emerging artists from the Arab world, run by Brussels-based NGO […]

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 […]