Premiere: Lilipulu – B1
Born out of a plan to collaborate on some straightforward edits comes Lilupulu, the unscripted collaboration between four Moscovite artists. With the promise of a stroll through Moscow's Elk forest escalating i...
A track-by-track guide through Antinote’s Afro/cosmic compilation, Studiolo
Afro/cosmic can be traced back to the late 1970's, as Italian DJs like Daniele Baldelli tore up the rule book, crossing genre boundaries and slowing records down with reckless abandon to pioneer a new sound. A ...
Premiere: Flegon – Intruder On The Loose (Private Mix)
The fifth release from Disques Flegon sees label-bosses and Rinse France regulars DJ Stalingrad, Greita, and Cebrak 2000 assemble for the first time as a three-piece hybrid dance band picking up props from Pari...
Premiere: Sam Mallet – 40 Day Desert Voodoo
Wetlands is a labour of love: the product of eternities, lodged in the archive of a half-imagined Antipodean Space Agency. Rowan Mason (Sanpo Disco/Recurring Dream) and Tony Remple (Musique Plastique) plumb the...
Premiere: Meo – Fine Corsa
Hailing from the Romagnola Riviera in Northern Italy, Meo was part of a collective of local DJs who, in the late '70s and early '80s, defined a movement and genre known as Afro/Cosmic or Afrodun music. These in...
If-Only Podcast #18: Lamusa II
A Red Bull Music Academy inductee in 2016, Lamusa II is plotting his trajectory in a relatively unhurried fashion. That quality is also a feature of his music, as proven on Club Mondo 2000, the mini-album relea...
If-Only Podcast #15: Jonny 5
In contrast to his quiet demeanour, Jonny 5's musical exploits are bold, unconventional and brimming with playful eccentricities. Specialising in the cut n' paste, a recent 12" under his Blindsign project stirr...
Trance – Tapes
Hamburg’s Growing Bin Records have been steadily amassing an impressive catalogue of releases since the micro-label put out its first material in 2013 – proof of this hot streak lies within the music itself of ...
The Mystic Jungle Tribe – Qvisisana
Optimistic and light-hearted, the latest offering from the Neapolitan triumvirate of Dario di Pace (Mystic Jungle), Raffaele Arcella (Whodamanny) and Enrico Fierro (Milord) treads a fairly similar path to 2015'...
Premiere: Elleorde – Europa From Mars
Scanning the surface as it prepares to land, the Starship Europa slowly descends onto the face of the Red Planet. Donning a spacesuit, the starry-eyed traveller sets off across the dusty terrain in his planetar...