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Mumdance, born Jack Adams, is behind some of the most innovative dance records of the last decade—including his collaborations with MC Novelist (“1 Sec” and “Take Time” released on XL Recordings and Rinse), a series of club 12″s with Pinch, and his 2019 album, Proto, in collaboration with Logos. His sound is one that twists […]

Christian Löffler has shared a new single called “Roused.” On “Roused,” featuring singer Malou, the German musician brings together powerful, punchy, and dreamy sonic musings to do what he does best: convey emotions. Löffler’s driving beats are softened by Malou’s laid-back singing style. Vocals, beats, and arousing, spine-tingling textures climax together in the track, exploding […]

German composer Ben Böhmer has released an ethereal new single on Ninja Tune. “One Last Call,” featuring Felix Raphael and co-written by Oh Wonder, is Böhmer’s first solo output since 2021’s Begin Again, an emotional album written entirely during a period where Böhmer and his fiancé found themselves separated on other sides of the world […]

German producer Tim Engelhardt has announced the launch of a new label, Lifeforms, which sees him team up with AI specialist and producer Dr. Nicolas Pinto on a project that ‘aims to empower artists through innovative technologies’. Engelhardt, who has released on labels such as Scenarios, Stil Vor Talent, Watergate and Poker Flat, will inaugurate […]

Giulia Fournier-Mercadante, better known as GiGi FM, is a French-Italian DJ-producer who was raised in Paris but moved to New York during her teenage years after being given a scholarship by Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. But she made her name as a fixture of South-London’s close-knit music community, DJing at the city’s squat parties as […]

Toada, the Portuguese producer born Valdir da Silva, will release a “contemplative and immersive slow-paced” EP. Slow​-​Paced Tangents comprises six lush and organic tracks and showcases Toada’s “musical prowess” through heartwarming synth sounds and simultaneously groovy transient drums. While the release incorporates contemporary music production aesthetics, its genesis is rooted in the sonic landscapes of […]

Moritz von Oswald will release a new album in November. Silencio is a collaboration with the 16-voice Vocalconsort Berlin choir. Across 11 tracks, the album explores the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices. It draws inspiration from composers such as Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti, […]

One of the biggest acts in dance music will be playing at the prestigious Berghain in Berlin for the very first time. Skrillex has been booked to play PAN party on Friday, October 27th. The PAN 15 event also has sets planned from Tzusing, Crystallmess, Amnesia Scanner, Doss, and Objekt. Pan is a storied Berlin-based […]

Yoyaku‘s YYK No label has released the debut album of People People, a collaboration between André Baum and Gulp, born Gonzalo Perez Scartascini. On Out of Our Hands, the Berlin-based pair—coming from New York and Argentina respectively—deliver a “cinematic world built from dynamic instrumentals, intimate lyrics, mysterious melodies, drone riffs, and subtle distorted effects,” we’re […]

Bill Kouligas’ PAN will release the debut album of Honour, Àlàáfía. Honour is an anonymous act who previously released two mixtapes on PAN which sold out very quickly. They may or may not have grown up in the United States, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured […]

Joseph Kamaru, better known as KMRU, will release a new album to launch his own OFNOT imprint. Dissolution Grip emerged from Kamaru’s studies at Berlin’s Universität der Künste. The Kenyan composer and sound artist is best known for his field recording work, and as he traveled across Europe and the wider world for regular live […]

There is a free and anonymous drug testing program in Berlin that is currently going through a sticky situation. According to German news outlet RBB, there are between 30% to 50% of tested drugs in the program that now have warnings on them. This Berlin drug testing program began in June and the Senate Department […]

John Dimas has shared with XLR8R a recording of a recent set at Strichka Festival in Ukraine, which took place in May. Influenced by the underground clubs of Thessaloniki, where he started DJing as a teenager after moving from his native country Albania, Dimas has established himself as a highly respected DJ-producer known for his […]

Minor Science—the UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson—will debut on Albert Salinas’ and Philip Sherburne’s Balmat with a new album. Absent Friends Vol. III is the third instalment in a series of the same name. And with it, Finlayson pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely mood-setting atmosphere, but rather […]

Laurel Halo will release a new album in September. Atlas is the American DJ-producer’s first album in five years, since 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a “potent” set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and hallucinatory […]

David August will release a new album in October. VĪS, which is Latin for energy or force, is the Italian-German composer’s fourth album, following 2018’s D’Angelo. It’s the result of a lengthy process of self-discovery, collaboration, and research during which August took time out in and around Rome to write music and process ideas, using […]

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 […]

German producer Johannes Brecht has announced the launch of a new, independent label, 0b16a9, with which he his seeking to being ‘authenticity and community’ to both his own music and the wider industry. The first release on the new album is the A New Day EP, and the plan is to follow this with two […]

Courtesy (a.k.a Najaaraq Vestbirk) will release her debut album in September. The album’s title, fra eufori, Danish for “from euphoria,” hints at what to expect from the record. She has distilled classics of trance-infused dance and pop music productions from the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s to their core by re-recording them on her compact […]