Jungle
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 […]
Last month, Seven Davis Jr.—the Texas-born, California-raised singer, songwriter, and DJ-producer—returned with Stranger Than Fiction, a new album. Since 2012, Davis Jr. has put out music on Secret Angels, the label he launched in 2016, but also Classic Music Company and Ninja Tune, which is where he released his debut album, Universes, on which he […]
The work of Khalil is heavily influenced by the multicultural fabric of London’s nightlife. His sets weave everything from hip-hop and R&B to soul, dancehall, and afro-beats, and they play between the lines of the expected and unexpected, bridging the old and the new, to create a distinct style and sound of his own. It’s […]
Ian Nnyanzi, better known as Masaka Masaka, will release a new album on Hakuna Kulala. Growing up in Uganda, Nnyanzi cut his teeth fashioning rudimentary hip-hop beats at a friend’s studio on Makindye, a hill that overlooks Kampala, Uganda’s balmy Murchison Bay, and realized that he wanted more. “Out here, everyone seems okay to listen […]
DJ Lucky, real name Lashawn Riley, will release his debut album on Teklife. Triple 7 follows on from “Rupees,” a single featuring PlainJames released in October. It features DJ Manny, Taso, and Weezy, and delivers “pure modern footwork tailor-made for the dancers,” we’re told, “but with tons of rave-friendly sonics in-between.”sonics We’re also told that […]
Ivy Lab, also known as Sabre and Stray, will release a new EP on Future Classic. Demon Dust stems from a love of UK bass but “plays with tempo and collides hip-hop with jungle, LA humidity, and London grit,” we’re told. It follows releases on Dirtybird and their own TWTW London imprint. “We’ve built a […]
Lee Gamble will release his new album in October. Across the record, Gamble advances theories that he put forward on his 2012 album, Diversions 1994-1996, when he vaporized interludes from his collection of jungle tapes into ghosted echoes. He surveys musical history in much the same way here, but swerves sampling completely and isn’t in […]
DJ Python (a.k.a Brian Piñeyro) and Ana Roxanne will release a new album as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept via Mexican Summer. Piñeyro and Roxanne, an American ambient musician and vocalist, first met in New York in the winter of 2020. Having praised one another’s work online for years, the two finally bonded by driving around […]
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