“Shards is ephemeral and painfully rich. Listening to it is like brushing against a sharp memory that leaves blisters—the sting of a dozen paper cuts, shallow
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IA MIX 389 Bjarki
Bjarki Rúnar Sigurðarson is an artist in flux, slipping through definitions as easily as he does genres. His early output on трип suggested a clear trajectory—big-room
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IA MIX 388 Hassan Abou Alam
Hassan Abou Alam, the electronic technician from Egypt’s underground, has been riding a long and high wave of peak performances. Following exhilarating international live shows and
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Jabu: A Soft and Gatherable Star
“A Soft and Gatherable Star touches on themes close to the heart—loneliness and longing, love and quiet drama. Its beauty is immense, especially in the shared
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øjeRum: Ikke En Sjæl
“Ikke En Sjæl” breathes life into phantasmic landscapes of the mind. Pensive melody narratives slither between feelings of comfort and grief.” ‘Not a Soul‘ translates to
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IA MIX 385 Alberta Balsam
A trained classical composer, the internal sonic realm of Aniek De Rooj soon revealed itself as an electronically-amplified demeanour of high voltage, woman and machine introspections
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IA MIX 384 Sam Purcell
Sam Purcell had been circling the peripherals of the underground music scene long before launching Blank Mind, the UK-based record label, in 2011. An early urge
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Lina Filipovich: Music For An Imaginary Dancefloor
“Unpredictable rhythms of teasing techno are co-written with analog synthesisers, sporadically rendering psychological thrill and turmoil” Charcoal skies descend silk tapestries of glazing textures, and the
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Chikara Aoshima reflects on the re-release of ‘Close Down’
Born in Hamamatsu, Chikara Aoshima’s music perpetuates the lightness and the mystery of the regions of Japan. Setting out on his journey as a drummer aged
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IA MIX 381 Gamma Intel
Operating in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, one of its finest electro technicians, Gamma Intel, is a steady and sharp signal in the network of the Dutch
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Low End Activist: Airdrop
“Airdrop is all mutating cyber-bleeps wrung out over agonised writhing blares and cheeky strands of breakbeat flirt with silence” A palpable sense of fear and excitement
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IA MIX 380 Toxido Mask
A Berlin luminary and a serial dreamer DJ and producer, Toxido Mask is known to execute a synaesthetic experience that makes one dissolve on the dancefloor. She
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Laenz: After Sunset
“Obscure and eerie broken beat, dubstep deconstructions dilute reality into an open-ended teaser of tense and physically alert, smokey reverie” Brooklyn-based Laenz‘s debut album “After Sunset”
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Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94
“Carefully woven threads of Sheffield bleep ambience, rave futurism, and soul-synchronised synth pads are dewy drops of pure club-floor epiphany” Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore – do
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IA MIX 379 RONI
With RONI, it’s almost as if suddenly a storm hit the city one evening, and then she was just about on a flyer everywhere. May it
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Teqmun: Worms Still Have To Eat The Dirt
“Squiggly, strictly metered electronics bolstered to fit the dark endeavours of a restless body and intellect” Critical examiners who love a solid imploding experience, if not
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