Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum is one of those artists that has become a staple food in the diet of electronic music listeners. Across his 25 years
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IA MIX 402 P Relief
P&D, the record label run by P Relief and Suzanne Kraft, has patiently been putting out works from one P and one D for the past
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Inferno, Decoded: Boards of Canada’s Most Symbol-Laden Album
Now that Inferno, the heavily anticipated fifth studio album by Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, has been out in the world for a few weeks, the
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K Wata: Give U Space
“Give U Space is a complete story that’s based on the many smaller chapters of material leading up to now, all of which have seen K
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Jacob 2-2: Dreams of Indoor Ghosts
“Looking back in time at Stones Throw and Brainfeeder, it is the music that influenced those labels which now influences Jacob 2-2.” On a YouTube upload
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IA MIX 400 Hoavi
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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