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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 […]
XL Recordings will release a new EP from Gyrofield, the Hong-Kong-born, Bristol-based producer born Kiana Li. These Heavens is an exploration into the universe and the beauty of nature via a series of shapeshifting sonics that are just as well-suited for personal introspection as they are for sweaty underground dancefloors,” we’re told. “I see a […]
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, […]
Efterklang will release a new album in September. With Things We Have In Common, the Danish trio—comprising Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, and Rasmus Stolberg—close the circle that began with their 2019 album, Altid Sammen, and continued with 2021’s, Windflowers. These three records represent a “simpler, more inclusive” form of expression, exploring themes of human connection, […]
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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