IA MIX 400 feels like a natural moment to reflect on the artists who have shaped our musical taste over the years. Few have done so
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Polar Inertia: MTY314 – π
“As is true for the best techno, Polar Inertia’s final offering, π, puts you into stasis while it slowly transforms everything else around you.” They say
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Inside Aionia’s Kein Klub: A New Wave of Brooklyn Club Culture
In her 2024 memoir Health and Safety, journalist and The New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt wrote: “In the depth and clarity of the tangle of
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IA MIX 399 Rob Clouth
Producers like Rob Clouth are operating on the other side of a technological wormhole. He and his cohort are just beyond the paradigm shift we’re all
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markmechanik: Invest in Rest
“Invest in Rest is an especially vinyl-appropriate record, perhaps in part due to markmechanik’s plunderphonic style, or maybe it’s an artefact of him being a vinyl
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Davorama: Low Enforcement
“What makes Low Enforcement a special record is that it creates a compelling, unified story with very little.” Davorama’s Low Enforcement immediately feels at home on
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8004: 8004
“8004’s work is a reminder that dub techno is a weather condition. The six tracks need to be turned up to a volume where the kick
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IA MIX 398 Intertoto
Siccar Point follows Intertoto’s 2023 debut album Thermal Shadow, alongside the heavy-hitting 12”, If I Take You Home, released on What About Never in 2025 and
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Markus Guentner: On Brutal Soil, We Grow
“There is a narrative to follow on this album, one that evokes the exploration of human grief and hope, but as it exists across our species
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A Taut Line: Self-Surveillance
“You have to be thankful for work like Self-Surveillance. Despite the mountains of garbage that are heaped onto us every day, there is still real art.”
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Musicentrydelete: Selfless
“Hashman Deejay’s debut full-length on Mood Hut as Musicentrydelete reminds me of this cocktail of magic and technology, of atmosphere, of chance, of luck and unluck.
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Aris Kindt: Now Claims My Timid Heart
“Aris Kindt’s new album ‘Now Claims My Timid Heart’ is about as good as downtempo, ambient, electronic soundscapes can get.” Recent releases on Quiet Time, from
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