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Handsome Boy
Modeling School
Reveal New Album,
Music To Drink Martinis To
February 26, 2023
Handsome Boy Modeling School have quietly released their first batch of new material in nearly two decades. Now streaming via your favorite DSP and featuring guest spots from Justin Warfield and Emi Meyer, “How Does It Feel?” and “Case Study” are taken from Music To Drink Martinis To, a long overdue mini-LP underwritten by the […]
Pedro Vian & Mana
Collide on Cascades,
Experimental Set
February 5, 2023
Words + Mix PEDRO VIAN + MANA Our mix reflects the same attitude we had during the recording of Cascades. We put our broad taste in music together in one constant flow of sensitiveness and melancholic hyperbole…. TRACKLISTING: Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka – Behind The Hill Holy Similaun – Mode Det Flios On Kenji […]
Rival Consoles Makes Us a
Restless Techno Mix
February 5, 2023
Words + Mix RYAN LEE WEST Photo DAN MEDHURST With this mix, I wanted to explore the kind of techno that I love and listen to at home. Tracks which are slightly industrial and stark, yet addictive and upbeat. I generally like techno to have proper urgency and momentum to it — with quite heavy synths […]
!K7 Shares a Short Doc
On Theo Parrish’s
Detroit Forward Mix
November 29, 2022
When Theo Parrish sat down to curate and sequence his contribution to !K7’s iconic DJ-Kicks series, he treated its 19 tracks as a fully invested survey of the city that’s as much a part of him as music itself. “Detroit creates, but rarely imitates,” Parrish says in his track notes, “Why? We hear and see […]
FaltyDL On… The Songs
That Shaped Him, From
DJ Shadow to Frank Zappa
November 11, 2022
Soundtrack of Our Lives is a recurring feature where we ask our favorite artists to process their past via their favorite records. On deck this week: FaltyDL, the elusive producer who just released a doozy of a record (A Nurse to My Patience) that’s been described as his “biggest departure yet”…. Stay Close To Music […]
Kasper Bjørke Makes
Us an Ambient Mix
November 3, 2022
Words + Mix KASPER BJØRKE On my new Quartet album Mother, I included choir arrangements on two of the six compositions (performed by the female performance duo Philip | Schneider). I decided to include one of these (“Abiogenesis”) as the opening track of this mix. Then I remembered “A Study in Vastness” by Ana Roxanne […]
Deru Makes Us a
Piano-Driven Mix
October 24, 2022
Words BENJAMIN WYNN Photography SETTTA STUDIO The process of writing my new record (We Will Live On) for a digitally-controlled analog piano brought up some themes: Humans embedding themselves in electronics. Machines living past us, failing. The world without us. Why? Watching a piano play my music ‘by itself’ is a somewhat magical and surreal […]
Ron Trent Walks Us
Through What Inspired
His New WARM Project
October 18, 2022
When our editor spoke to Ron Trent for a Bandcamp feature over the summer, the deep-house developer surprised us by saying his looming What do the stars say to you LP was more than just another solo outlet or expansion of his evolutionary sound. It’s actually the beginning of a proper band that’s been in […]
Benoit & Sergio Compile
‘Askance Dance’ Playlist
September 26, 2022
Words + Playlist BENOIT & SERGIO This is a playlist of songs we were listening to, and thinking about, as we made our album Lost Decade. There is an “askance dance” quality to most of the items here — the hint of a bubbling acid house bassline that has been acid-washed by the acid rain […]