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Curses will release a new album later this month. Known for making dark, romantic, cinematic new wave, Curses, real name Luca Venezia, has previously released two full length albums on Dischi Autunno—the latest, Incarnadine, coming in 2022. Another Heaven, his new album, lands on synth label Italians Do It Better, and it’s once again soaked […]

Hiroshi Watanabe is a Japanese DJ-producer best known for his interpretations of ambient, deep house, and trance on German label Kompakt, He comes from a family of musicians: his father was a composer and his mother a jazz pianist, and at the Tokyo College of Music Watanabe learned to play the double bass. After moving […]

Soela—the DJ-production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based pianist and vocalist—will release a new album on Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread. Having released material on such labels including Kompakt, Lawrence‘s Dial, and Shall Not Fade, Shorokhova joins the ranks of the Brooklyn, New York label for this “exquisite album,” we’re told. Across Dark Portrait, […]

Alessandro Cortini will release Nati Infiniti, a 40-minute piece of music based on an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill in Lisbon. Nati Infiniti, commissioned by Sónar Lisboa 2022, captures the ambience of the original piece, where each of the floors […]

Robert Henke, the artist better known as Monolake, will release a new album in September. Studio is Henke’s first studio album as Monolake since 2020’s Archaeopteryx. It’s a “celebration of human-machine interaction,” were told, and an “all-killer-no-filler masterclass in the true potential of an electronic long-player.” Across 11 new tracks, Henke reshapes deep abstract dance, […]

Eaux will release a collaborative mini-album from Rrose and Polygonia, the music project of Lindsey Wang from Munich, Germany The story behind the release starts in 2022, when Rrose reached out to Wang after noticing that her tracks were appearing in their sets more frequently than any other artist. Never before had Rrose proposed a […]

Last month, Max Graef returned to Tartelet Records with his third solo album under his own name. Like the two that have come before it—2018’s Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma and 2014’s Rivers Of The Red Planet—Natural Element is filled with psychedelic, starry-eyed jams. Amongst these releases, Graef—a resident of Berlin, Germany, […]

Skee Mask, or Bryan Müller, has shared a surprise album on Ilian Tape. Resort is the Munich artist’s fourth solo album as Skee Mask, following the inimitable Compro, which he released in 2018, and Pool, in 2021. In 2016, he also released Shred. Sonically, it comprises 12 tracks of ambient, breakbeat, IDM, and techno. Tracklisting […]

Ben Böhmer will release a new album on Ninja Tune in September. Bloom is Böhmer’s first album in three years, following 2021’s Begin Again. Bloom is “a reset,” we’re told, and “a confident reassertion of his own desires and more improvisational origins.’ Across 11 tracks, we’re that that we “hear and feel Ben’s growth, the […]

Inspired by the early era club culture in the US, Robin Flux—a German DJ-producer based in Copenhagen, Denmark—bought his first turntables as a teenager and taught himself to mix records. “My journey into electronic music began at a very young age through the love of dancing, which has always been a big part of my […]

Grand River has teamed up with Abul Mogard on a new album for Caterina Barbieri‘s light-year’s label. On In uno spazio immenso, they pair’s first collaborative album, the pair “gaze longingly into the abyss, capturing atemporality, splendour, and tranquility with confident, impressionistic sonic strokes,” we’re told. “Dynamic and poignant,” the record “balances on a knife-edge […]

Paula Koski, who was born in Finland but now lives in Berlin, specializes in fast-paced, groovy techno—and you can hear her play out at Tresor, where she DJs regularly as a resident, or at Berghain. Her first production, true to her chosen style, recently saw the light on Soma Records. Her journey towards music began […]

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 […]

DJ Paypal is giving away his music on Bandcamp. On X, formerly known as Twitter, yesterday, the Berlin-based producer wrote that he is making his entire Bandcamp catalog available for a name-your-fee price, with no minimum. This includes 164 tracks, spanning singles, EPs, albums, and edit packs like Fuck It More Muzik, Drake Edits, and […]

FJAAK will release a new album in May. Fuelled by the Berlin-based duo’s “love of club music in all its forms,” we’re told, FJAAK THE SYSTEM is FJAAK’s “most definitive” album to date, a “winding sonic odyssey that surveys the rave landscape, dipping between frantic euphoria and deep contemplation.” It comprises 23 tracks, which have […]

Bruno Pronsato will release a new album on Foom. Rare Normal is Pronsato’s “most adventurous and ambitious” work to date, we’re told. While immersed in the work of Charles Ives, Pronsato, real name Steven Ford, produced all eight tracks over the past 12 months. The album grew out of a period spent experimenting with mixing […]

The life of Ceri Owens, the English DJ-producer better known as just Ceri, changed when she bought a one-way ticket to Ibiza on a whim. Having graduated from university, where she’d fallen in love with house and techno through nights out in Fabric and Plastic People, she couldn’t think of a better way to spend […]

Nils Frahm will release a new collection of solo piano music. Day is Frahm’s first album since 2022’s three-hour Music For Animals. Recorded in the summer of 2022 in complete solitude, the album contains six tracks, three over the six-minute mark. We’re told that it’s best enjoyed in the manner in which it was recorded: […]

Skee Mask has shared a new batch of archival tracks via his Bandcamp page. C is the third batch of previously unreleased tracks that the Munich, Germany DJ-producer has shared since March 2022. B was released in December 2022 and A landed some months earlier. All of these tracks were made between 2016 and 2020, […]

Marco Shuttle will release a new EP next month. MSP01 is the Italian DJ-producer’s first release on MSP, short for Marco Shuttle Productions, a new platform for his more dancefloor-oriented productions. It comes after a relatively long break following more downtempo and abstract endeavours on his album on Incienso. For more information on Marco Shuttle, […]