Montezumas Rache and Dominik Von Senger’s soberly-titled ‘EP’ has a lot to offer with its mind-bending elixir of eerie funk, ambientish tropes and drawn bars of mesmeric kraut grooves. We sat back with the triplet to find out more about their one-off studio session, MZR’s raison d’être and asked them to select some of their most influential cuts.
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James K talks up “PET”
Ahead of the release of James K eagerly-awaited debut long-player “PET”, we took the chance to find out more about her creative modus operandi and the symbolisms at work behind the album plus her long-haul artistic evolution.
Andy Stott shares ‘Butterflies’ taken from new album “Too Many Voices”
The music video was shot by Michael England in New York late last year and features dancer Rafael Chinx Martin.
Ewan Jansen: Lost Embers EP
It happens that a release strikes such a sensitive chord that it makes you want to devour the whole artist’s catalogue in a row but more rarely does it make up for lost time so impressively.
Sinner DC: MEG/CDG
Minus the overbearing concept surrounding it, MEG / CDG presents itself as a solid if not spectacular point of continuation in Sinner DC’s fairly extensive discography.
BAR: L.A. Düsseldorf
If ‘Welcome to Bar’ offered a beguiling seven-track slab brewing mellifluous kraut tropes with heliotropic synth-pop in a fragile – road movie style, black and white scenario, this remix EP awakens its delicate melodies with particular class.
Tolouse Low Trax: Rushing Into Water
Tolouse Low Trax’s first instalment on Düsseldorf Themes For Great Cities spawns its own frame of significance; scripting industrial tempo automatisms and duplicated instrumental close-ups all the while shaping unexplored sound-dimensions from scratch.
Raw M.T.
Grab your party hat and pop the streamers, we’re celebrating our 200th mix with a very special delivery, courtesy of one of our most favourite producers from the last couple of years aka epic lo-fi pyrotechnist and husky scrum-wrecker Raw M.T.
Aris Kindt premieres and contextualises ‘Floods’ – A film by Rikke Benborg
NYC based Scissor & Thread co-founder Francis Harris discuss his new collaborative project Aris Kindt and takes us through the concept for the 45 minute long music video, directed by Rikke Benborg, that accompanies the album.
Lapti: V Tiraj
Lapti surpasses the cut-and-paste schemes to offer a cohesive and almost organic journey through fully synthetic stratums of sound. A combination of ethereal beauty and melodic tour de force.
Comm•une bring Ptaki, General Ludd, Tom Blip & O’flynn to Dance Tunnel
Comm•une return to Dance Tunnel on Friday 23rd October with Polish duo Ptaki, and Glasgow based production duo General Ludd, plus support from Tom Blip & O’flynn of Blip Discs and Synamatix.
Grant
Grant discusses his new album ‘The Acrobat’ and offers a mix of the tracks he was listening to whilst recording the album, resulting in a scopious mix afar from sparkle and sequins, ranging from ambient scapes, hip-hop to kraut classics.
D.K. | 45 ACP
L.I.E.S. affiliate D.K. aka 45 ACP serves up a chill and suave mix full of exotica-laced, ’80s-inflected grooves, Afro beat percussions and smooth synth melodies.
Stream Torn Hawk (live) via RBMA Radio x Visions Festival
Today we’re offering an exclusive stream of experimental Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Torn Hawk playing live at London’s Visions Festival.
Blond:ish announce debut album ‘Welcome To The Present’ for Kompakt
The duo’s debut album for Kompakt consists of 11 tracks ranging from blissed out electronica atmospherics, downtempo melodies and more house focused tracks.
Ptaki: Przelot
The duo blend popular Polish songs from the ’70-80s together with contemporary rhythms like the trappy hats and hipopisms of Za Daleki Sen and the result is equal in functional bizarreness to the unlikelihood of the encounter.