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10 Records That Shaped Kangding Ray, From DJ Shadow to Drake
Photography MARIE STAGGAT Between the launch of Kangding Ray’s artful new ara label and the release of his excellent Predawn Qualia EP, the experimental techno producer has certainly hit the ground running in 2019. With that in mind—along with nearly 15 years of back catalogue beats on Raster-Noton and Stroboscopic Artefacts—we asked David Letellier to […]
Lussuria Makes Us a Mix of Influential Music, From Thomas Köner to Ennio Morricone
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Plaid Share the Stories Behind Their New Album Polymer
Photography TIMOTHY SACCENTI As Plaid started working on their tenth album—Polymer, the latest release for their longtime home (since 1997!) Warp Records—Ed Handley and Andy Turner kept coming back to our complicated relationship with chain-linked molecules. Namely the materials that make up so many everyday products, from plastic straws to food packaging. “The problems and benefits of […]
Miss Red Makes Us a Mercurial Mix Inspired By The Four Bodies EP
Words + Mix MISS RED Photo ITAY PELEG This year was a big one for me, marking my last year hanging out in Berlin, and my new year moving to Porto. A lot of changes, a lot of realizations, and primarily a lot of new inspiration coming from those shifting circumstances. I have now channeled […]
Jtamul Makes Us a Dizzying Mix Featuring Dead Can Dance, Alice Coltrane, Abul Mogard and More
Similar in spirit to last week’s otherworldly Lubuni (Objects Limited) EP, Jtamul made us a Needle Exchange mix that sounds as if it were beamed from another space-time continuum entirely. Here’s what the Turkish producer/linguistic student had to say about the eerie set, which features everything from Alice Coltrane to Abul Mogard…. These tracks are […]
Petrels Shares the Stories Behind His First Album in Three Years
Photo THOMAS HACK Much like the rest of Oliver Barrett’s Petrels material, The Dusk Loom is a heady listen worth diving into—music that’s mythic in scope and pulls its reference points from literature, art, and nature. To help make sense of his expansive songs, we asked Barrett to break down the entire record, the singer/multi-instrumentalist’s first in […]
Merz Taps Laraaji, Shahzad Ismaily For ‘Industrial Devotional’ Album
Merz has announced a collaborative album with cult ambient figure Laraaji and figureightrecords founder Shahzad Ismaily. Due out July 5th through Dampfzentrale Bern, Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound is culled from live performances Merz coordinated during his residency at the Swiss venue. Not to mention separate recording sessions in solo and duo settings […]