Premiere: Emaenuel – Contact 7
All Centre goes about its business quietly. Based out of London, the DJ Pitch and Simkin-helmed label slowly built a back catalogue overflowing with sonic curiosities and electronic innovation. Quality over qua...
Premiere: Nandele – Impact 61+
Cotch International have signed up a prolific artist spearheading an effort to establish a Mozambican sound independent of the pop mainstream. Based out of Maputo, Nandele is the most distinctive and idiosyncra...
Premiere: Tolouse Low Trax – The Incomprehensible Image
Jean-Claude Carrière is reputed to have said, “starting with a cliché so as not to end up in a cliché.” The context is unclear, but when asked for a quote to accompany this premiere, Detlef Weinrich, AKA Tolous...
Premiere: Gacha Bakradze – Inside
Is it surprising the Die Orakel back catalogue seems to breathe an all-enveloping mysticism? With a name that literally translates to "The Oracles", probably not. Unsettling dancefloors with the murky and eerie...
Premiere: Désaccord Majeur – Sat
Australian label A Colourful Storm is just that: a whirlwind that whips all the sounds in its path into an airborne pirouette resembling the flurry of cows and furniture in that absurd Wizard of Oz tornado sequ...
Premiere: Heap – Rethink Your Reality
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.” That’s what Walter Benjamin said in praise of a condition that has become familiar to many during lockdown - but one of which we shouldn’t be too ...
Premiere: Endless Mow – Insect
Our pals at Mega Metal have assembled a taut, lithe, essential compilation. Drawing deep from disparate pockets of ascendant metallurgists – from local London familia to further afield, Iceland to Hong Kong – t...
Premiere: Overland – Doubtful
Sweat Equity is the sixth label Overland's released with thus far, but perhaps the most fittingly named. The weight of her kicks alone are enough to moisten brows of even the most seasoned techno fans. At full ...
Premiere: RIP Swirl – Antisocial
If RIP Swirl's 9TEEN90 plays like the illegitimate lovechild of Boards of Canada and Iglooghost, Jai Paul must have been invited to help conceive the followup. A shimmering amalgam of the glitched-out textures ...
Premiere: Taxa – Atlas
Incarnate perspective; our sweet Mirror Zone cracks open again, a wide new message flooding deep from the mouth. The wash blows through with elated thunder, direct and loud – an urgent deluge of blinding fact, ...