A Magazine for Craftmakers
Pessimist Unveils
Stigma Alias,
Benefit Album
Pessimist has revealed a new solo outlet that builds on the blunted, urgent beats of his Boreal Massif project with Loop Faction. Due out August 13th through his No Fuss imprint, Too Long is the deeply personal debut of Stigma, a trip-hop take full of “texture, feel and tone.” In an effort to recede into […]
Lauren Doss Leans Into the
Liminal Space of “Integer”
Photo MARCUS HESSENBERG Here’s something that’ll put your mind at ease as we head into the weekend: Spaciousness 2, Lo Recordings’ latest ambient compilation, has finally dropped across all major DSPs. Just in time for Bandcamp Day, no less. With that in mind, we’re psyched to share an exclusive from the audiovisual artist Lauren Doss […]
Khruangbin
Turn the Tables On
Mordechai Remixes
Photography POONEH GHANA Khruangbin has always had a strong connection to DJ culture, from the Thai-funk nod in their name to their string of releases on the largely mix-led UK label LateNightTales. With that in mind, it’s merely been a matter of time before the Houston-based trio would devote an entire record to hand-selected remixes. […]
Fred und Luna Tap
Peter Kruder, In Flagranti,
Mathew Jonson and More
For Im Remix EP
At the risk of making today sound like Remix Day (see also: this Khruangbin playlist), we’d like to point you towards the newly available Fred und Luna EP Im Remix. Now streaming via Compost Records, it imagines a world where downtempo don Peter Kruder sets the stage for such like-minded left-field producers as Mathew Jonson, […]
BON Link Up With
Laraaji On “Aya”
BON have shared the latest single from their looming Pantheon LP, a weightless exchange of sound waves and abstract ideas with ambient pioneer Laraaji. “‘Aya’ was a track that almost wrote itself,” explains Yerosha Windrich and Alex Morris. “We started making these sounds that sounded like the inflight music to a shuttle docking at a […]
Steve Moore Turns
Up the Tension In
MirrorBoxx Track
Nervous Curtains frontman Sean Kirkpatrick has tapped Steve Moore for a welcome one-off from his new solo project MirrorBoxx. The pairing makes perfect sense when you consider all the overlaps between Kirkpatrick’s cruise-controlled synthcapades and Moore’s own dimly lit dance music as a solo producer and one-half of the horror score / prog duo Zombi. […]
Wing Vilma
Looks Back At
Their Detroit Life
With an Exclusive Mix
Words + Mix WING VILMA Photography SIDD FINCH This July my partner and I packed up our things from Detroit — where we’d been living for the past few years — and moved ourselves and our two cats across the country to Portland, Oregon in our Subaru. For this mix, I pulled tracks from Detroit […]
Gordan Fuse Traditional
and Experimental Music
on Morphine Records LP
Photo DENIS LANER Morphine Records has finally revealed its first release of the year: Down in the Meadow, the avant-garde debut of Gordan, a new Berlin-based trio featuring world renowned singer Svetlana Spajić (Antony and the Johnsons, William Basinski, Marina Abramović), multi-instrumentalist Guido Möbius (Shitkatapult, Karaoke Kalk), and drummer Andi Stecher (Orchestre Les Mangelepa, Dean […]
Domingæ Shares the Latest
Video From Her Solo Debut
Photo EBRU YILDIZ Föllakzoid co-founder / filmmaker Domingæ has unveiled the second part of a special audiovisual trilogy she produced around her looming solo LP Æ. Due out digitally through Sacred Bones on September 10th — with a limited vinyl pressing set to drop a month later — the record is rooted in a farmhouse […]
Dot Allison
Shares Her Favorite
Andrew Weatherall Songs
Photo MARIA MOCHNACZ Words DOT ALLISON Andrew has had an immense effect on my musical tastes, and my path in music in terms of my label and me being signed and championed and mentored by him in a very informal way…. He was always sharing music and made me many compilations over the years. He […]
Anika Breaks Down
Five of Her Favorite
Peel Sessions
Photography SVEN GUTJAHAR Words ANIKA John Peel had a way of coaxing special, intimate performances from people. The curation was just incredible — snapping up acts before their major breaks and before they became too sure of themselves, resulting in vulnerable and risky behaviors. The recording is also top standard: great mixes and great gear, […]
Nadja Make Us a Mixtape of
Their (Supposed) Influences
Photography JANINA GALLERT Words + Mix NADJA The need to compare bands in album reviews is understandable; it is a quick way to let people know what you are dealing with musically and sonically. Sometimes these comparisons are spot on…. Sometimes they are weird or unexpected…. Sometimes they are flattering…. Sometimes you have to wonder […]