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Roundup, February #2

From Skrillex doing hip-hop to caustic electropunk, these are the tracks you need to hear this week.   Jayda G – Circle Back Around The first single from her freshly announced new album Guy sees producer Jayda G evolve her classic Chicago house sound toward energetic and buoyant eurohouse. The

From contemporary disco bangers to atmospheric synthpop from dance music icons, these are the tracks you need to know about. Listen below.    Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat.   Jessie Ware – Pearls Following last year’s Free Yourself, Pearls

A musician only releases one debut album. It is an understatement to say that it is a special moment in an artist’s creative development. Being a full-length body of work that requires a sizable investment of time, energy, and attention, releasing an album shows the public that an artist is

Bristol’s Tony Williams goes under a few names, like a little someone called Headhunter who happens to be one of dubstep proper’s most prominent artists. But it’s as Addison Groove that Williams really allows himself the space to explore and tear up the dancefloor. In particular, Williams finds inspiration in

In biology, a ‘spandrel’ refers to a part of the body that has no observable function, a perfunctory excess that exists as a byproduct of evolution. It’s in this excess, this dead weight, that Athens art pop artist Evita Manji finds the conceptual core of their debut album, Spandrel? Arriving

It seems that Vancouver ambient producer and composer Loscil is making a habit of starting each new year with a new, and breathtaking, body of work. Last year gave us The Sails, a collection of sound pieces designed specifically for dance, and the year before saw the tranquil and triumphant

When it comes to describing the nature of the house music that Fort Romeau is in the business of making, the word to use is, without a doubt, ‘romantic.’ Only this can describe his affinity for heartstring pulling, emotion stirring sonnets of club music painted in operatic chiaroscuro, swinging between

In 2016, Clara Cappagali and Armand Bultheel happened upon the biggest hit of their careers so far. For a moment, it felt impossible to avoid the New Wave pulse of Prettiest Virgin on indie blogs and playlists, the song becoming a sleeper hit for left field tastemakers and the fortunate

Germany’s iconic house outfit Milk & Sugar return with a new track for 2023, Feels Like, a collaboration with UK DJs Killed Kassette and Skapes with vocals from the Queen of Detroit Blues, singer Thornetta Davis. Bright, upbeat, and bouncy, Feels Like provides some much needed light to banish those

Last year saw Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, release what had been touted as his ‘masterpiece.’ Fragments, while perhaps not as groundbreaking as anticipated, did see Green venturing outside the Bonobo boundaries more than before, and thankfully so. Safety, after all, has proven time and again to be Green’s Achilles heel.

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