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Tadleeh is the project of Indian-born, Italy-based musician Hazina Francia. Her route into electronic music began when she was a teenager and discovered techno and drum & bass. “Then I’ve moved forward exploring more techniques, genres, and styles,” she says. She released Ego Will Collapse, her club-heavy, brooding debut EP, in 2019 on Berlin’s Yegorka […]
Danilo Plessow, the artist formerly known as Motor City Drum Ensemble, is a man who hardly needs an introduction. He is a DJ renowned for his technical wizardry behind the turntables, and a record-collecting nerd with a curiosity for exploring new sounds and genres. His career started whilst he was incredibly young: he started playing […]
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 […]
Bogdan Raczynski will release a new album on Disciples. Rumoured to have been discovered by Aphex Twin sleeping on a park bench in Tokyo, Raczynski first appeared on the scene in 1999 with three albums. He went on to explore hallucinatory IDM and traditional Polish folk music amongst other paths, collaborated with Björk, produced a […]
CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel—two experimental Australian musicians. Over the past decade, they have released a series of disparate records on DIY labels that share their ethos: Total Stasis, Wichelroede, Efficient Space, Latency and The Trilogy Tapes, where they issued the Snoopy and Orange LPs in 2020 and 2022 respectively. On […]
More than three decades have passed since John Beltran—an iconic American DJ-producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan—released “Aquatic” on Carl Craig’s Retroactive Records. With it, Beltran capsulized his musical interests and influences of the moment—Carl Craig, the futuristic jazz tracks of Larry Heard, and Logic—and earned the praise of the global house and techno community. Through […]
This edition of Influences comes from Efterklang, the Danish pop band comprising childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, and Rasmus Stolberg. In September, they’re due to release Things We Have In Common, their seventh album, which was written in collaboration with pianist and composer Rune Mølgaard, who left the band in 2007 after the group’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the last decade, Haruka—a Tokyo-based DJ-producer—has emerged as a leading figure in Japan’s dance music community. He initially made a name for himself as a resident and co-curator of DJ Nobu‘s infamous Future Terror parties, but since then he has played at major clubs in Tokyo—including Womb, VENT, and Dommune—and globally. These experiences have […]
As a fan of electronic music, the chances are high that you’ve experienced music touched by the hands of John Digweed, the head of Bedrock Records. Over a 40-plus-year career, Digweed, originating from Hastings, southern England, has put out more than 60 mix CDs, produced and remixed over 70 tracks, and played at the likes […]
Satoshi Tomiie will release a new solo album. Over the past three years, Tomiie has dedicated himself to creating the music on MagicHour, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources. It’s his first solo album under his birth name in eight years. Tomiie’s previous release as Sato, Blue, Black and Grey on Chapelle XIV Music […]
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 […]
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