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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 […]
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 […]
Ugandan born Jenifa Mayanja has been deeply entrenched in deep house music since the early ’90s, and in those 20-or-so years she has cemented her reputation as an innovative and fearless ambassador for the genre’s culture and a favorite of those who follow it. Her journey began in the midwest but flourished in New York […]
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 […]
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, […]
Futura Resistenza will reissue Laila Sakini‘s Like a Gun EP on vinyl. Sakini originally released Like A Gun digitally in 2019, and it marked the beginning of her solo work. It precedes her four solo albums: Vivienne, Into the Traffic, Under The Moonlight, Princess Diana of Wales, and Paloma; and a. string of EPs: Strada, […]
For West London’s Kessoncoda—the collaboration of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Fil Sowa—it has taken more than 12 years to craft their debut album, Outerstate, which will land next month on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records. They first met in school and became the rhythm section in a heavy metal band, and in the years since—working […]
West London-based duo Kessoncoda—the collaboration of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Fil Sowa—will release their debut album on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records. It has taken upwards of 12 years for the pair to hone Outerstate. We’re told that it stands “firm” between “acoustic tradition and electronica,” while taking influence from rock, ambient, breakbeat, and soundtracks […]
Moor Mother has unveiled a new album. The Great Bailout is the ninth album that Moor Mother, otherwise known as Camae Ayewa, has released, and her third on ANTI- Records. Across nine new tracks, she dissects the ugly realities of British colonialism. The record features production contributions from Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Vijay Ayer, Angel […]
Jlin will release a new album in March. Akoma is Jlin’s first album since 2017’s Black Origami. Across 11 tracks, she “sets a new benchmark” in her personal road map, according to Planet Mu, the label behind it. We’re told to expect a new entry point into her sound and a new approach for both […]
Alex Albrecht will returns to Analogue Attic Recordings for the Australian label’s inaugural release of 2024. Allambie is an immersive exploration spanning house, downtempo, and ambient genres. While it’s characterised Albrecht’s trademark field recordings and enchanting piano motifs, the release integrates new hardware and synth sounds to his palette. Albrecht is perhaps best known for his […]
Over here at XLR8R, we have covered the Romanian hypnotic minimal community extensively—check out our overarching feature here, plus our podcasts from Cristi Cons (and an interview), Amorf, Priku, Dubtil, and Dan Andrei. Plus, there’s a studio feature with Vlad Caia. At the heart of this collective stands one individual we’ve been eager to feature […]
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 […]
Sampha will release his second album next month on Young. Spanning 14-tracks, with contributions from some of Sampha’s closest friends and peers, including Yaeji, Léa Sen, and Yussef Dayes, Lahai sees Sampha (real name Sampha Lahai Sisay) exploring the many ways in which we as humans connect to each other, and to something bigger than […]
Pablo Arrangoiz, who releases music as Bauzer Vep, Señor Faxwater, Glue Boy, Goiz, and more, will release a new EP as El Gusano. Saka La Bolsita will be the inaugural release of Impacto, the new label launched by Miami producers Nick León and Jonny From Space. Sonically, we can expect a “sonic conglomeration” of acid […]
Sparkle Division, William Basinski’s electronic lounge-jazz-dance collaboration with Preston Wendel and Gary Thomas Wright, will release a new album on Temporary Residence Limited. Foxy is the group’s second album, following 2020’s To Feel Embraced. More material has followed: an EP called Classified in 2021 and a one-off track “Piccadilly Beast” that came out last December. […]