Premiere: No Moon – Mallet Fury
Already in rude health, Glaswegian juggernaut Craigie Knowes steamrolled through the early stages of 2018 with assistance from Textasy and Voiron. Staying on course, No Moon follows the hardcore, acid and techn...
Premiere: Wolfram – Automatic Dub (Samo DJ Automatic Remix)
The first release for Public Possession in 2018 is startling – it comes from Wolfram, making a neat segue away from DFA to turn out some unapologetic, anthemic Italo, which particularly remembers ‘Take a Chance...
Premiere: Pavel Milyakov – B.A.D.
Absolute madness on this one. Delivering the soundtrack to another Gosha Rubchinskiy runway show, RASSVET Records founder Pavel Milyakov (AKA Buttechno) delicately explores tirelessly inclining, heady trance lo...
Premiere: Indianizer – Mazel Tov II (Don’t DJ Remix)
The second release on Musica Altra swerves from the earnest beatsy pining of the debut into the hyper-energetic “psychedelic Italian Cumbia” of Indianizer, concealing a choice weirdo cut from Don’t DJ. Borne ou...
Premiere: Dust-e-1 – Ruff Cold
Soundboy’s strained call sounds stretched, warped in slowed motion then answered with a corrupted dub siren's faltering warble. The choppy Amen hi-hats and flurries of pitched, forward-leaning snares twitch fre...
Premiere: Patrick Conway – Stab City (Fit Siegel’s Stab Back Mix)
Slack flexin’ in downtown Detroit. Self-assured dips from a modified man, the fuck you strut which knows the stunt; Fit hammers the track into a mechanised 808 grid, washing away any traces of cracked jazz and ...
Premiere: K. Leimer – SHM
Yawning harmonics and languid chimes, a soft tape hiss and life is stirred into a warm, edgeless existence. Dislocated rhythms, pliable and fluid, a well met marriage of the soft, perfumed keys of a grand piano...
Premiere: D104 meets Professor Raj – PALTRX004
Treading softly through the deep, padded inspiral terrain of heady, hash-stained drum and bass, nascent junglists D104 take us confidently into the Lyon’s dimly lit backroom with optimistic bass pressure, a low...
Premiere: Matti Bye – Loneliness Of Earth (Varg’s Ursviken Version)
Swedish pianist and composer Matti Bye is a name perhaps not often circulated over here; his work (predominantly scoring contemporary and silent film) is blue, grey and violet, similar to the forests which ador...
Braindance in Reykjavík: Volruptus talks naked landscapes and electro
The sounds of the universe. Bleak, chilly, organic, mysterious, we’re beamed messages from distant galaxies - harmonies and rhythm; could these be mathematical renderings of emotion?
Volruptus makes exceptiona...