Recently prone to immaculately produced ’80s smooth jams (The Serious EP) we must admit that it’s with a touch of trepidation that we fire up “Phantom Brickworks”, Bibio’s latest long player on Warp Records. However, true to form, Wilkinson surprises with an about turn focus on deeply pensive and emotive ambience.
GenreAmbient
Results1108Premiere: Fia Fiell – Caju
After a successful first number released last year which gathered the likes of Daze, Albrecht La’Brooy and Mic Mills, Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head
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Emra Grid: Shay’s Vacation House
Shay’s Vacation House isn’t always a pleasant stay, yet there is something compelling about it, like tonguing an ulcer to feel the rush of pain and withdrawing only to feel the throb beckoning you back for another prod.
Fis launches Saplings Records in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects
Following releases on Tri Angle, Subtext and Loopy, abstract experimental producer Fis, real name Oliver Peryman, announced the launch of his own imprint Saplings Records by sharing
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Premiere: John Beltran – The Returning Dance
Whether it is his early collaborative works with Derrick May or Carl Craig, or solo releases under multiple monikers, it is for more than 20 years
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Celestial Trax delves deep for Newtype Rhythms
Brooklyn based producer Celestial Trax steps up for the next edition of Newtype Rhythms, opening up about his perception of social media, living in the concrete jungle (NYC) and the evolution of his sound and new album “Nothing Is Real”.
Premiere: Franck Gérard – 146 Arcades
Record store, label, independent structure with a host of exciting projects underway… you’d have a hard time drumming Groovedge Records in the usual shelves and boxes neurotic collectors
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Lost & Found: Bing & Ruth sheds light on ‘Dorsal’ EP
Following the release of ‘No Home Of The Mind‘ LP earlier this year on 4AD, today Bing & Ruth announce the release of a digital-only sophomore extended player featuring three compositions that were recorded during the same sessions as the album’s recording. To celebrate the drop of ‘Dorsal‘ we caught up with David Moore to discover what spurred him to release this new EP.
KEMAA
Berceuse Heroique label boss KEMAA serves up an addictive two-hour mix that spans ambient, techno, electro, house and obviously much more than any regular club mix could encompass. No interview supplied this time – sometimes it’s better to live by the word of Proust, “Real art doesn’t require proclamations, it is accomplished in silence”. We hope you’ll enjoy this variegated floor-oriented mix as much as we do.
Premiere: West 2 West – Eternal Ways
September 2016 marked the release of John Daly’s sophomore LP as ‘The Smoke Clears’ – an eight-track album of soothing electronica and immersive atmospheres we had
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Music Video: Valiska – Heavy Riser
With the release of Valiska’s fifth studio album ‘On Pause’ out now on Trouble In Utopia imprint, we caught up with Krzysztof Sujata and Francis Redman to discover more about the makings of the video and the atmosphere they have captured within it.
GAS & Huerco S. live at the Barbican
Huerco S. and GAS are both expert purveyors of seriously deep electronic music, of excavating sounds that envelope and surround the listener…Armed with the power of the Barbican’s soundsystem, both were given the freedom to build their own vivid universes, ones totally removed from the dark city that surrounds.
Kompakt detail Pop Ambient 2018
It’s that time of year again! Kompakt’s iconic compilation series Pop Ambient returns for its 2018 instalment, with series curator Wolfgang Voigt presenting another batch of
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Premiere: John Wright – Partial Object
Just like its envelope suggests, the music contained within John Wright‘s ‘Partial Object‘ presents a dynamic and kaleidoscopic picture of a range of genres and aesthetics:
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Listen back to Meemo Comma’s extrasensory mix for Newtype Rhythms
Meemo Comma, the new alias of Objects Limited founder Lara Rix-Martin is a project that exists between sound perceived and sound achieved. Her album ‘Ghost On
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Channeling the inner light: Laraaji talks up his next two albums on All Saints Records and more
With a double delivery for All Saints Records – the mesmeric ‘Sun Gong’, followed by the double LP ‘Bring On The Sun’, and another album underway for Warp, Laraaji proves he’s lost nothing of his golden touch and keeps pushing boundaries with unmatched spirit and energy. Interview + stream of Matthewdavid’s psychedelic revamp of ‘Enthusiasm’ inside.