After announcing a worldwide tour ending in May, Dekmantel lift the veil on their full program of Opening Concerts, featuring Cabaret Voltaire, James Holden, Tony Allen and more.
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Results2475Kris Wadsworth
Detroit-via-Berlin techno operator Kris Wadsworth serves up a deep and moody one-hour-long cocktail of helicoid grooves for warehouse-scale dancefloors.
Nu Guinea: The Tony Allen Experiments
Extending the wide-ranging savoir faire of illustrious afrobeat pulse-machine Tony Allen with a fresh blend of retro-laced and path-clearing vision, Nu Guinea’s debut long-player stands as an original creation in its own right.
Guy Andrews: Our Spaces
“Our Spaces” is absurdly crammed with powerhouse belters, of blistering and emotive electronic music, of tentative air and formidable listening. In its entirety, Guy Andrews has created a perfect mix of otherworldly techno and distorted post-rock, strewn together then torn right back up again, a palpable irony against the laws of electronic music, that works so, so well.
Anenon: Petrol
Anenon, hailer of LA, lover of jazz, proportionate improviser and dedicated musician has brought out his third effort – ‘Petrol’, a remarkably poignant and daringly experimental album.
Open Society bring Evan Baggs to Dance Tunnel
New York based producer Evan Baggs will be joining Ma Dahu for an evening of stripped-back raw house at Dance Tunnel on Friday 22nd April.
William Basinski: ‘A Shadow In Time’ at Union Chapel
Just like many other musicians who defiantly do things their own way, William Basinski clearly loves the music he makes, which is abstract enough to be utterly malleable in its interpretation or profundity, a unique experience for each listener. He is kind of a rockstar.
12z premiere ‘Of Roots Hardly Known’ – Directed by Máté Bartha
Following the release of Hungarian duo 12z’s second album ‘Trembling Air’ on Nicolas Jaar Other People imprint, we’re now glad to premiere the music video for the chilled downtempo ‘Of Roots Hardly Known’ cut, directed by Máté Bartha.
Always Human Tapes drop 50th cassette ‘Transi’ and offer free download
Denver based record label ‘Always Human Tapes’ celebrate the release of their 50th release ‘Transi’, an 8-track mini album courtesy of label honcho Ryan Wurst under his Yellow Hyper Balls guise. Name your price!
Hessle Audio announce new EP from Bruce
Following two releases on Livity Sounds sub-label Dnuos Ytivil, the Somerset based producer Bruce returns to Hessle Audio with a 3 track EP, succeeding his debut on the imprint in 2014
ASOK debuts on Crème Organization with ‘A Mind Forever Voyaging’
Liverpool-based producer Stu Robinson aka ASOK has announced his debut full-length ‘A Mind Forever Voyaging’ for Crème Organization arriving in March.
Paul Marmota: Aire
Paul Marmota projects the interplay between our minds’ fantasies fueled by the Internet, video games and the omnipotent media and compares them to the brutality of everyday life which can come scarily close to these illusions.
Nico Purman to release ‘AOM002’ on Art Of Memory
After a two-year break, Argentinian producer Nico Purman makes a comeback via his own Art Of Memory imprint with ‘AOM002’, a record thought and shaped as a diptych.
Listen back to Antepop’s February radio mix on Balamii
At just under 2-hours long this radio mix winds through Germanic house and techno, plus some oddballs thrown in for good measure.
Mixtape: Africaine 808
We caught up with DJ Nomad to speak studio work ethos, creative freedom, youth influences and chunks of their Berlin experience. Icing on the cake, the Vulkan Dance sachem selected 10 of his favourite African folk songs and a bit more than that for y’all to enjoy!
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.