A Magazine for Craftmakers
Masayoshi Fujita
Makes Us a Dub Mix
Words + Mix MASAYOSHI FUJITA Photography ÖZGE CÖNE For me, dub means the manipulation of time and space, often with effectors, and the texture it creates. Here are some examples to illustrate my interpretation of dub-ness….. VLADISLAV DELAY – THE FIRST QUARTER It took me a while to digest this song. It was kind of […]
Tomas Nordmark Cuts a
Crackly Mixtape Inspired By
His New Album Exit Ghosts
Words + Mix TOMAS NORDMARK Photography MARTIN CROSER I recently got my vinyl turntable shipped to me in London after it had collected a significant amount of dust in a storage in Sweden, with the stylus being in a really sad condition. I did however like this gritty sound, as if adding an extra layer of […]
Vassilena Serafimova &
Chloé Ready Sequenza
LP For a Fall Release
Photo ALEXANDRE GUIRKINGER Chloé and Vassilena Serafimova have finally revealed an ETA for their long-awaited Sequenza LP. Due out this fall through the former’s Lumière Noire label, the record is rooted in a recording session for Sourdoreille’s Variations series but the result of several other residencies and countless hours in a proper studio. Good luck finding […]
Matt Christensen Shares
The Latest Single From His
Looming Constant Green LP
Matt Christensen is going country. In spirit, at least. While the dust hasn’t quite settled from last year’s Hold You Up record — the first album from Christensen’s band, Zelienople, since 2015 — the singer/guitarist is already back with a lonesome highway LP “that puts the weight somewhere between Johnny Cash and Slowdive.” Featuring recurring […]
Pierce With Arrow
Make Us a Moody,
Dream-Like Mix
Photography CORNELIA THONHAUSER As much an art piece as it is an album — an early pressing even included a “limited incense leaf” — Shatter could easily be construed as the spiritual successor to the Louderbach project Troy Pierce pursued about a decade ago with Dais co-founder Gibby Miller. Only this time, Natalia Escobar (aka […]
James Heather Shares
Piano-Driven Playlist,
Recent Track From
Brainfeeder Session
Photography SUKI Considering how inseparable James Heather and his piano are (see: EP1 and EP2 of his Modulations series on Coldcut’s Ahead of Our Time imprint), we thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask the composer to share 10 songs that also slay on the tickled ivory front. Check out his liner notes below, along with Heather’s solo […]
Concentric Records Unveil
Latest Ambient Comp,
Exclusive HOLOVR Cut
Concentric Records have revealed the final installment of the ambient compilation trilogy they launched last summer. Due out July 9th, Radiant is defined by a couple loose concepts: “radiating rays, reflecting beams of light,” and “vividly bright and shining, glowing marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness.” Contributors include ASWA, Max Loderbauer, Petre […]
Misantrop Shares the
Stories Behind Their
Deeply Personal Debut
Photography GEORGE NEBIERIDZE We’ve all been there before. We certainly have, at least — that moment where the night’s about to end (make that early morning, actually) and revelry turns to regret. Nicolai Vesterkær Krog dials right into the before and after of every last detail on their Opal Tapes debut Reproaching the Absurd, an art […]
Pinkish Black, Pallbearer
Members Unveil Italo Disco
Project, Information_Age
Photography JOHN DURBIN + ELIZABETH L. CLINE It shouldn’t come as a total surprise considering what Joseph D. Rowland (Pallbearer) and Daron Beck (Pinkish Black) have been up to over the past year — solo synthcapades and Zombi-led soft-rock covers — but the two former tourmates just revealed their first proper Italo-disco project. Due out […]
Phil Manley
Makes Us a Mixtape of
His Favorite Guitarists
Photography PETER ELLENBY If anyone knows their way around a riff, it’s Phil Manley — the guitar-toting demigod best known for his barn burners with Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, and Oneida. And now there’s the not-quite-NPR-related Terry Gross. A power trio in every sense of the word, it features Manley (pictured on the far […]
Mother of Mars
Singer Jaiko Suzuki
Makes Us an Ecstatic Mix
Photo RONNIE ARDEN While she’s now seizing the spotlight in Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi’s post-Rapture project Mother of Mars, Jaiko Suzuki’s roots are in New York City’s underground club scene as both a DJ and dancer. With that in mind, we asked her to ring in the trio’s recent I Hear record with the sort of mix […]
Lawrence English Turns
Amazon Trip Into an
Immersive New Album
While he’s not exactly new to field recordings, Lawrence English has never wrapped a record quite like A Mirror Holds the Sky before. Due out September 3rd through the producer’s own Room40 imprint, the 36-minute album was actually drawn from more than 50 hours of raw Amazon recordings. Not quite the New Age effort you […]