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PRAED Make Us a
Limitless Mix In the Spirit
of Their Live In Sharjah LP
Photo TONY ELIEH When we ask PRAED to summarize the ecstatic Shaabi sound that fills Egypt’s streets every day and night — and inspires much of the duo’s own music — they capture it perfectly by calling it “spaced-out, very psychedelic. Two bars and you hope it goes on for ever.” Raed Yassin and Paed […]
PAN Readies Latest
ENTOPIA Soundtrack
Photo BRIGITTE HART After lying low last year — who can blame them? — PAN’s soundtrack-driven ENTOPIA series is back with its fourth welcome entry this Friday. Scored by Civil Civic co-founder Aaron Cupples, with additional field recordings from Leo Dolgan, the award-winning Island of the Hungry Ghosts examines a controversial Australian territory known for keeping […]
Patriarchy Shares Remix
Album, Favorite Songs
From Light Asylum,
Drab Majesty and More
Photography MICHAEL DELEON ROMERO When we last spoke to Actually Huizenga, she was planning on touring behind her brash Patriarchy project — bringing the performance art side of its Asking For It album to life the way her self-produced videos often do. And then COVID happened, of course, leaving the restless, multi-medium artist with a […]
M. Caye Castagnetto Helps
Us Make Sense of the Many
Layers Within Leap Second
Considering how unclassifiable Leap Second is, we were eager to hear how M. Caye Castagnetto arrived at what Castle Face co-founder John Dwyer aptly calls “a truly interesting conglomeration of loose inspirations and conjurings,” featuring a “sprinkling of Catherine Ribeiro, Dr. John, Terje Rypdal, and Nico.” Or as Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice puts it, […]
Bartosz Kruczyński
Makes Us a Dance Mix
Under His Earth Trax Alias
Words + Mix BARTOSZ KRUCZYŃSKI Photography ANNA BYSTROWSKA The idea behind this mix was to expand on my last album, LP2 – Ambient Dance. It focuses on both new and old tracks, the majority of which are from Bandcamp. I think we are in this transition period where a lot of the older generation DIY […]
ACT! and Mixed Media Artist Karen Vanderborght Give Their Younger Selves Advice
When David Psutka mentioned a special augmented reality project in passing last year, it sounded par for the course, to be honest. After all, the Toronto producer / Halocline Trance founder shed his longtime Egyptrixx alias in favor of the far more avant-garde ACT! a couple years back, and it’s lived up to his left-field […]
Tomahawk Announce First
New Album In Eight Years
Photo ERIC LIVINGSTON Tomahawk — the longtime outlet of Mike Patton (Faith No More), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), and John Stanier (Battles) — have shared the lead single from their first proper LP in eight years. Dubbed “a mocking look at the life of work in America” by Denison, “Business Casual” was first teased […]
Om Unit Channels
Basic Channel, Deadbeat
On Acid Dub Studies
Photo KHALI ACKFORD Om Unit has revealed his latest self-released solo record. Due out February 19th, Acid Dub Studies is exactly that: a 303-driven tour de ambient techno and woozy reggae melodies. Jim Coles hinted at the heady project on last year’s mini-LP Secret Location, a killer Seekersinternational collab that’s worth a look and a […]