Serpent Music, the new album by Mykki Banco associate Yves Tumor, may only feature lyrics on a few of its tracks, but it somehow manages to convey a painfully vivid narrative. A diverse collage of sound that lurches from meditative to viscerally evocative.
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Major Problems
Former resident at Dublin’s reputed nightclub Twisted Pepper and not-to-miss three-day event Out To Lunch, Barry Redsetta also captains the excellent Major Problems. With a stunning self-titled debut from on-the-rise local producer DJ Après Ski on the horizon, Barry steps up with a polyamorous combine of ganjah-flavoured grooves, Afro-folk polyrhythms and fruity disco nectars. Lock in!
Premiere: Middle Sky Boom & Eliezer – With Screening
Their name probably don’t ring a bell to you yet but Tel Aviv-based producers Middle Sky Boom and Eliezer‘s debut on Days Of Being Wild shall strike a chord with
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Premiere: Portable – This Frozen Lake feat. Kinoo (Bodycode Remix)
Following on from the release of his seventh long player as Portable, the very intimate ‘Alan Abrahams’ released via !K7 earlier in the summer, Alan returns with a three-track remix platter featuring the lead track ‘This Frozen Lake’ plus a pair of reworks from dubstep legend Shackleton and another one from his own hand.
Dekmantel Festival head to São Paulo
For the first first edition, Nicolas Jaar will perform his new album live, whilst Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Ben UFO, and Joy Orbison will showcase why they have been Dekmantel regulars for years.
Premiere: rkss ‘Load’
“Cutoff EP” presents perhaps the warmest, most direct sounds yet heard from the London based artist. Its combination of glowing reverb soaked pads, housey kicks and twisted electronic detritus coming across like Wolfgang Voigt played through a futurist filter.
Mixtape: Charles Drakeford
With FTD’s new instalment – Georgia’s high-in-vitamin ‘Import Fruit’ – freshly out in all good record stores, we took the chance to discuss label evolution, visual identity and recent favourites with bossman Charles Drakeford as he selects some of the tracks that played a significant role in his musical growth.
Premiere: Mono-Enzyme 307 – Inner Skill
Effusive acid heater ‘Inner Skill’ roots deep into off-kilter psychotropic grounds. Interlocking helter-skelter 303 lines with screeching keyboards gone astray, it’s a frantic safari ride across a lost mystic jungle ; colours and shapes flickering dangerously as the rhythm revs up and totemic percussions hammer out a fierce archaic pulse. Savage.
Convextion: 2845
Just as its retro science fiction cover art suggests, “2845” is all about timeless space music. Convextion’s first LP in a decade is the soundscape of a journey through the final frontier, and one that highlights Gerard Hanson’s effortless blending of organic and mechanic sounds from above.
Betonkust & Palmbomen II talk up “Hotel Breukelen”
Dutch duo Betonkust & Palmbomen II are back with their piping hot ‘Hotel Breukelen’ for Marsman’s royal-blue-clad label Pinkman. We caught up with the pair to find out more about the mysterious place from which the EP draws its title, the influence of environment on their work and studio mechanics.
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek release collaborative album ‘Schaum’
It has been six years since the release of the duo’s first collaborative album “Bird, Lake, Objects”. Their new album presents 8 meditative and ambient tracks, composed of instrumentation and percussion from Masayoshi Fujita with subtle electronic loops and layers from Jan Jelinek.
Blood Room: Dendera Lite EP
Following up to excursions on Cloud Bank and Speaker Footage, Blood Room makes his debut on rising intercontinental outlet SØVN with ‘Dendera Lite’, a nine-tracker featuring fellow Seagrave affiliates Graham Dunning, A I W A and 99LETTERS and more on remix duties. Stream the full release within.
Berlin Atonal 2016
Berlin Atonal is a Pandora’s box, bringing forth a wide array of expectations before it was even open. We were fortunate enough to attend the festival in Berlin Mitte and witness at first hand cutting-edge performances. Here’s our day-by-day report.
Tolouse Low Trax to release vinyl triptych on Antinote
Over Düsseldorf’s multifaceted bastion for arts Salon des Amateurs hovers the shadow of Det Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax, eternal pathfinder and crafty sound twiddler in his own right; a
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Motion Graphics: Avoiding Sentimentality and Nostalgia
Following the release of Motion Graphics debut self-titled album via Domino Records we caught up with the NYC based producer over Skype to discover more about his album writing process and how day-to-day technology interface sounds, device notifications and even the sound of household appliances have helped shape his album.
Dan Hayhurst: Critter Party
Where Sculpture come across as a kaleidoscopic exaggeration of our media saturated milieu: audio collage, noise and sleek techno built into a strange overdriven universe, Critter Party latches onto the human at the centre of it.