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Altone is Yuki Takasaki, an emerging talent in dub techno. This is evidenced by his latest record, Invincible Nature, which landed on Echocord, the Kenneth Christiansen-helmed label that’s been at the forefront of the genre for more than two decades. (If that’s not enough to tempt you into a listen, it comes with remixes from […]
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,” […]
For around a decade, Philadelphia-based DJ-producer Estoc has been weaving together experimental electronic, industrial, ambient, and hip-hop and even pulverizing hardcore influences into her DJ sets, original productions, and edits. She connected to music through classical and jazz music, before she discovered chiptune, a unique genre of electronic music that utilizes the sound chips found […]
Mike Skinner, otherwise known as The Streets, is up next in the fabric Presents mix series. fabric Presents The Streets is “a sonic journey through the pulsating veins of UK nightlife,” we’re told, and it moves “from the gritty beats of underground garage and bass music to the icy melodies of UK rap and grime.” […]
DJ Sneak is the alias of Carlos Sosa, a legend of house music and one of only a few names who can claim to be been pushing the genre since its earliest iterations. Originally from Puerto Rico, he moved to Chicago in the early ’80s and gravitated towards instrumental music because he couldn’t speak English. […]
The intention of DJ Tara, a resident of New York, is too “amplify artists and uplift the crowds,” she says—through a collage of soulful sounds. She came into music through her childhood, learning from her father, and in particular she fell in love with hip-hop. But through party promoting she decided she wanted to try […]
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 […]
Jaymie Silk doesn’t make straight up-and-down techno or house music. The Paris artist draws from a range of influences informed by his Afro-European heritage and his teenage years in rap, firstly as an MC but then as a beat-maker—before he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2013. While there, he became tired by the lack of […]
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 […]
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