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...
Premiere: Smurphy – Instinct
Smurphy’s long-awaited Spheres of Consciousness EP is probably Bokeh Version’s most polished work to date. Where they commonly dredge up the dirtiest sounds from the murkiest of dubby swamps, Smurphy’s album is...
Premiere: Yelzin – Hammertone
Yelzin is the solo project of producer and DJ Hjalte Lehmann. You may have heard him bringing a quirky Danish charm to UK bass stylings as one half of Lyra Valenza, and retaining a virtuosity with breakbeats, h...
Premiere: ELLLL – Sooty Turn
Where Sneaker Social Club may have once been pretenders to the throne of hardcore, or possibly court jesters experimenting with breaks, it is now time to arrange their coronation. In a busy five years they have...
Premiere: Hybryds – Lust
Belgian producer Hybryds is obsessed with rituals. His music is specifically made with them in mind: see '92s Music For Rituals, '94s Rhythm of the Ritual, '95s Ritual of the Rave and so on. Like a cyberpunk wi...
“She wasn’t solid”: In conversation with Lucrecia Dalt
“All that is solid melts into air”. So said Marshall Barman in 1982 to describe the mercurial experience of modernity. He was inspired by Marx’s nightmarish “melting vision” of a free market, fuelled by the fra...