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Sam Shepherd, the artist better known as Floating Points, will release a new album in September. Cascade was devised as a follow-on from Crush, his second album, and it’s aimed and allowing him and his audience to experience Floating Points in its traditional form on a dancefloor once more. We’re told to expect “sumptuous sonic […]
DJ Loser is the alias of Terzoglou Pantelis, an enigmatic Thessaloniki, Greece-based DJ-producer. He began making electronic music as a teenager, “fascinated by the freedom of expression the field has to offer,” he says, and since then he’s been jumping between styles and genres “based on my current needs each time.” “For me it’s more […]
Beginning in 2012, Brooklyn-based duo Francis Harris and Anthony Collins (a.k.a Grant)—who have both released solo XLR8R podcasts—have released a stack of quality house records as Frank & Tony, a collaborative projects that serve homage to the belief that house music continues to bring communities together from its earliest days until the present. Their first […]
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 […]
Anthony Collins‘ and Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread will release a new EP from Will Long. Will Long is an American artist who curates and manages the label Two Acorns. He has been producing music since 2005, in various forms under his own name for DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse Recordings, and as Celer for his own […]
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 […]
Italian DJ-producer Fabio Monesi has quickly carved out a solid reputation through a unique, rough and ready sound that lands somewhere between vintage, dusty Chicago house and analog-driven hardware techno. You can hear this across Piano Vandals, his latest album, which is available on Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. label. The majority of his earlier work has […]
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 […]
Matias Aguayo‘s Cómeme will release a new EP from Bufiman, the German artist born Jan Schulte. For over 15 years, Schulte has been a a resident at Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs venue. You can hear his music on labels including Safe Trip Records and Dekmantel, and as Wolf Müller on Themes for Great Cities and […]
With any DJ set from Rose Kourts (a.k.a Kourtney), the Brooklyn, New York-based DJ, you can expect dynamic, feel-good energy, with sumptuous groove and funky percussion throughout. (She grew up playing the drums and has always had a particular inclination towards these rhythms,” she says.) She is a resident DJ at Sweet Kicks, one of […]
Wata Igarashi is one of the leading figures of Japanese techno—an XLR8R favorite who featured in our XLR8R+ series and delivered a podcast of deep, sci-fi tinged hypnotic techno in 2019. What we haven’t covered so much before are his productions, which have been released on labels including Figure, Semantica, Time to Express, The Bunker […]
Yussef Dayes will release his debut album in September. Across 19 tracks, Black Classical Music is anchored by Dayes’ distinctive drum licks and Rocco Palladino’s bass. The album also features Charlie Stacey on keys and synths; Venna on saxophone; Alexander Bourt on percussion; and a whole host of others including Chronixx, Masego, Tom Misch, and […]
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