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Squarepusher Embraces His Emotive Side on Lamental EP
Squarepusher has announced a new EP in the spirit of his more contemplative material — tracks like the film score favs “Tommib” (Lost In Translation) and “Tommib Help Bus” (Marie Antoinette). Due out April 10th through the producer’s longtime label Warp, Lamental builds on the breakbeat-heavy momentum of last month’s Be Up a Hello LP […]
Niklas Paschburg Shares the Stories Behind His New Album
Words NIKLAS PASCHBURG Photography NATALIA LUZENKO The inspiration for my Svalbard album mainly comes from the journey I took to the eponymous Norwegian island. It’s about the time I’ve spent there, isolated and surrounded by snow, ice, darkness, and a stunning landscape. The idea to write my second album in a winter landscape came quite […]
Katie Gately Makes Us
the Ultimate Mixtape
Photography STEVE GULLICK When Katie Gately first sent over the liner notes for her Needle Exchange mix, we weren’t sure what to make of it. Six songs? That’s it? But we quickly realized how irrational that reaction was — how we’ve become a bunch of Fidget Spinning brats, a restless algorithm unable to sit through […]
Humberto Polar Melds Jazz With Experimental and Ambient Music
In the spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s collaborations with Christian Fennesz and Alva Noto, Six Asymmetric Studies pushes Humberto Polar’s electronic productions and experimental riffs into another realm entirely. Created in a constant dialogue with composer/double bass player Mike Sandoval, it alludes to everything from jazz to ambient music — grooves that are avant-garde without coming […]
Wacław Zimpel’s Favorite
Trance-Inducing Tracks
Words WACŁAW ZIMPEL Photography HELENA MAJESKA Trance is mostly associated with repetitive rhythms, like those in Gnawa. But I think it also takes place by concentrating on sound itself, like in different forms of ambient and drone music. I am always looking to achieve this state as a listener and as a player. But you […]
Psypiritual & The Lasso Make Us a Mix Inspired By Their Kirlian LP
Photography MYLKWEED Much like his symbiotic sessions with Lando Chill, Kirlian finds The Lasso finishing the sentences of Psypiritual with live and sampled loops that are as logical as a lucid dream. To put the pair’s many influences in perspective, we asked them to cut an exclusive Needle Exchange mix that works in everything from […]
Aerosmith Embrace Deep Cuts, Early Records At ‘Deuces Are Wild’ Residency
It’s a delicate balance, If there was any doubt as to whether Aerosmith is treating their Las Vegas residency as a TK greatest hits tour, it was obliterated by their all bets are off choice of an opening song:
Kazuya Nagaya Shares the Stories Behind the Psychoanalytic Songs On His Dream Interpretation LP
Words KAZUYA NAGAYA I started working on Dream Interpretation in February 2018. It took around six months to produce — not a very long time, but the internal journey that transcended into the music started a long time ago. It started with a tiny change, which is too small to be recognized as an integral […]