Veiled under the name of Les Graciés, Paris-based sound artist Gaël Segalen and half of the Deepblak core Afrikan Sciences break down cultural barriers to pull an unique and cohesive output off their own singular heritages. After honing their skills for four years the pair is eventually taking the leap of releasing their longed-for debut joint effort ‘Low Doses‘, due out on Lindsay Todd’s Firecracker Recordings on 25th October.
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Mark Fell curates ‘Geometry Of Now’ festival in Moscow
Experimental electronic producer, visual artist and graphic designer Mark Fell has just announced that he is curating V-A-C Live’s “Geometry of Now” festival. The seven-day event,
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Beatrice Dillon: Contrasting Patterns
After her performance at the first iteration of the Cairo edition of Masafat Festival on 20th September 2016, we took the chance to find out more about what makes Beatrice Dillon tick, her creative process and composition methods.
Name Your Price: Ilkae offer up entire discography via Bandcamp
An experimental IDM / glitch project operating out of Montreal, Ilkae is the joint collaborative endeavour of Canadian artist Aaron Munson and Polish producer Krystian Lubiszewski – Munson
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Baleine 3000: The Nap
This EP – or whatever you want to call it – is indicative of Vlek’s deconstructive/reconstructive spirit. The Nap is a product fusing just about every beloved vinyl-based format: Its 7 tracks gives the sense of an LP, the 20-minute duration suggests otherwise, and an 8-minute track on the entirety of the B side whiffs strongly of a 12” single.
Yves Tumor: Serpent Music
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.
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.