A Magazine for Craftmakers
Machinefabriek’s
Rough Guide to
Machinefabriek
Photo EMIEL EFDÉE Setting the Records Straight is a new series where we ask our favorite artists to walk us through the most important and meaningful songs in their sprawling back catalogues. On deck today: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek. The Dutch producer dropped one of his most daring projects yet earlier this week, […]
Todd Hyman Toasts
Carpark’s 21st Anniversary
With a Special 7” Set
Words + Mix TODD HYMAN Photography ALEC MOSS Here is the best of the best of my collection of early ’90s indie rock singles. Right around the time I was 21. And it’s Carpark’s 21st anniversary. Get it? I was in college in Chicago at the time. Also DJing at our college radio station. These […]
LABOUR Make Us a Mix
of Sublime Music, From
Stockhausen to SOPHIE
Words + Mix LABOUR For this self-titled mix, Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam (aka LABOUR) focus on notions of the sublime within various musical traditions both historical and contemporary. The sublime is an awareness and experience of a liminal space, one that opens-up in the transition from the rational and known to that which is […]
Sebastian Plano
Shares the Latest Single
From His Save Me Not LP
Building on his classical background and the boundless peaks and valleys of last fall’s sprawling & LP — a collaboration with fellow cellist Maarten Vos — Save Me Not finds Sebastian Plano in top form as a solo performer. Using nothing but his voice, piano, and cello, no less, with electronic loops kept to the bare minimum of a nearly […]
Warp Reveals
Seefeel Reissues,
Rare Autechre Remix
Warp has unveiled a special reissue campaign focused on the mid-’90s phase of Seefeel. Due out May 14th in CD and digital editions, Rupt + Flex pairs expanded versions of the group’s long-out-of-print Succour and (Ch-Vox) LPs with an EP compilation simply titled St / Fr / Sp. The latter is particularly enticing, as it features […]
Photay Unveils Film Version
Of On Hold, His Collection Of
Ambient Call Waiting Music
Now that Bandcamp Day is essentially a national holiday, can we all just admit how overwhelming it all is — that there’s gotta be a ton of crucial music falling through the cracks before, during, and after this one 24-hour period every month? We’d like to change all that by calling your attention to exclusive […]
Deft Makes Us a Mix
Featuring Brockhampton,
Jimmy Edgar, and More
Photography SILVIA DRAZ Having recently launched his own B4 Music label with a cutting-edge Lewis James collab (Teleporter), Yip Wong continues to elude any easy been-there-done-that descriptions with his Deft project. To help put the London producer’s ever-evolving past, present, and future in perspective, we asked Wong to send over an exclusive Needle Exchange set, […]
Alex Somers Tackles a
Standout Track From Henrik
Lindstrand’s Piano Trilogy
Photography BELLA HOWARD + ROBIN SKJOLDDBORG As if Alex Somers wasn’t busy enough wrapping two solo records over the past year — Siblings and Siblings 2, his first proper LPs after more than a decade of working alongside Sigur Rós — the producer/composer was keen to recut a cult Henrik Lindstrand classic recently. Streaming exclusively […]
Manslaughter 777
Make Us a Mixtape of
Rhythm-Centric Music
Photography ZACHARY HARRELL JONES With collaborative roots that reach all the way back to the The Body and Braveyoung’s long out-of-print Nothing Passes LP, it was merely a matter of time before Lee Buford and Zac Jones (see also: MSC) would join forces to make a ripper of an electronic record. First unveiled back in […]
Hyunhye Seo Readies
Solo Debut For Room40
Longtime Xiu Xiu member Hyunhye Seo has revealed her first proper solo record. Due out June 11th through Lawrence English’s Room40 imprint, Strands features two very different tracks. “Strands I” is a dark-ambient descent into total sound design territory — the kind of thing that makes you want to rewatch Mulholland Drive and really figure […]
Stian Balducci & Kjetil Jerve
Make Us a Jazz Mixtape
Words STIAN BALDUCCI + KJETIL JERVE Photo JAN TORE ERIKSEN “Extended jazz” is a term used to describe a wide variety of musical expressions. It can be either acoustic, electric, electronic, or all three at once, but it best describes a particular musical ethos that’s prevalent in Norway. Starting in the ’60s with George Russell […]
Joseph Shabason
Makes Us a Mixtape of
Sax-Heavy Jazz Songs
Words JOSEPH SHABASON I would describe this as a sax-heavy playlist of all the major jazz influences that really shaped my new record (The Fellowship) as well as my general musical outlook. It’s chronological for the most part, so you can hear the progression of musicians and styles that I was exposed to from the […]