Premiere: Mars89 – New Dawn
The big bang was not a flash of light but an explosion of vibration, the originary sound event that has rippled and responded through space-time forever. Mars89 and the Bokeh Versions crew understand this. New...
Premiere: Piag3t & Tristan – Curved Spring
Petrola 80 is where hyperpop and UK bass music collide. This was clear when we previewed Yelzin’s debut release last year, and crystallises on the Danish label’s latest compilation: Exchange. It is the third i...
Premiere: Malasod – A fight back
Tomorrow has been cancelled. It's a pretty nihilistic sentiment with which to introduce your debut release. Yet Malasod touches upon something that we have probably all asked ourselves recently: what on earth ...
Premiere: Gooooose – Ion
Super Hexagon were playing electro and booking artists like Helena Hauff on wet midweek nights in Leeds before it was cool (they also booked DMX Krew to play live at the local social club, which is a fun tale ...
Work Hard, Play Hard: Rian Treanor’s digitally DIY creative process
They say that you only get out what you put in. Even with all of our tools for automation and infinite banks of online resources and so-called "life hacks" to make life breezy, there is still a lot to be said ...
Premiere: HANAH – GPT-3
It’s December and, despite vaccine news, the electronic music scene is still releasing Bandcamp compilations in response to lockdown restrictions and the continued closure of clubs. But what else is there to d...
Premiere: picnic – folds and rips (Huerco S. version)
Releasing their debut album on esoteric ambient label Daisart, picnic's two anonymous members are almost antipodal in their geographical home-bases: one is in Kansas City, the other in Melbourne (for those int...
Premiere: Redeye – Ride With Aracknid
Die Orakel, one of the Frankfurt school of electronic music’s newer think tanks (led by Robert Johnson resident Oliver Hafenbaurer), has probed an especially fruitful period of the city’s history in a new comp...
Premiere: Bufiman – Members Of Warning Theme
How many "theme" tracks can you name? My friend once put this challenge to me. It turns out there are loads in dance music, and they tend to be pretty iconic. There's the deepness of the 'Blaze Theme Track'; U...
Premiere: Om Unit meets Seekersinternational – Krnch
Both Om Unit and Seekersinternational have earned a buy-on-sight reputation over the past few years. Fans of bass-heaviness, rhythmic complexity and dubbed out dread will be wetting themselves at the sight of t...