Posts tagged "New Music"(Page 11)

Interview: Five minutes with At 1980

       Image credit: Nima Elm A little old school, a little new school. A little pop, a little synth. All in all, what it really comes down to is some good synthpop, dressed up to the nines and ready to be taken out for the night. At 1980, a duo comprised

Image courtesy Nadiem Shah / Eskimo Recordings Over the past few years Greek producer NTEIBINT (pronounced n-thaï-bint) has become renowned for producing the kind of emotional disco that is guaranteed to move bodies, minds and souls. The musical alter ego of Greek producer George Bakalakos, the gifted producer is known

Image by Yaseen Brink / Copyright Prolific Media The music of Amapiano is infamously distributed to its followers via grassroots modes, most popularly via WhatsApp groups. This bypassing of conventional or commercial methods of distribution is somewhat synonymous with the spirit of the genre, and largely the dance music culture

       Image credit: Jon Simo Many a musician embarked on an inner Odyssey this year, taking the time to learn more about themselves. Michael Oakley has chosen to share his latest LP, Odyssey earlier this year, which reached  #8 in the Worldwide Album Charts on Bandcamp while peaking at #4 on

Image by Toma Kostygina Featuring new material from electronic music veterans to captivating and bewitching new voices, we round up the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat:  Sofi Tukker / Carl Cox – Drinkee (Carl Cox Remix) Sofi Tukker

When electronic music composer Nicolás Jaar and jazz multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington unleashed their collaborative project Darkside onto the world in 2013, they changed the game. It was the sort of musical meeting of minds that felt entirely serendipitous and to this effect, a bit precious. The fuzzy psych rock of

Image by Keiki Knudsen  Peaches’s seminal hit F*** The Pain Away is sort of revolutionary. An outré display of feminine desire and sexual identity, it finds power not in the sultry but rather the abject. The explicit lyrics and grating, industrial synths that shape the track refuse submission to the

Image courtesy LEITER records  F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm are no strangers to collaboration. The renowned German experimentalists have consistently returned to each other time and again, feeding off one another’s respective points of view to produce increasingly mind-bending records. Though, it’s not hard to imagine the meeting of such

Image by Dan Medhurst From audaciously explicit hip-house to ambient chamber pop, we roundup our favourite new releases from some of electronic music’s iconic and emerging female artists. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Azealia Banks – F*** Him All Night Azealia Banks is one of

   Image credit: Tony Nicholson Finnish producer Axel Thesleff ventures back into the realm of Eastern world music with his latest release as he joins ShiShi in reworking the single ‘Sajani (feat. Ben Parag)’, drawing in electronic elements and perfectly enshrining the Hindustani lyrics. ‘Sajani 2.0 (feat. Ben Parag)’ is released

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