Stream Alessandro Adriani’s Morphic Dreams LP and Read the Stories Behind Its Mercurial Techno Music
Since last week’s Morphic Dreams double LP is as close as Alessandro Adriani has come to crafting a full-on concept album, we asked the Mannequin Records founder to share the personal stories behind its mood-altering shades of techno music. Much like the left-field releases on his own record label, everything from electro to EBM is […]
Penelope Trappes Reveals the Latest Rework From Redeux
A lightly embellished new look from Jófríður Ákadóttir
Devon Church Unveils “We Are Inextricable” Video
Would you be into premiering this video this Thursday along with the tour dates they have with felte labelmates Chasms? “We Are Inextricable” music video: https://youtu.be/TvqedcfCuPU Devon explains, “‘We Are Inextricable’ is a song that explores karma, eternal recurrence, dreams within dreams & dangerous entanglements – a moth’s infatuation with a flame.” VOIID Studios, creators […]
Nathan Micay’s Top 5 Katsuhiro Otomo Titles Beyond Akira
This month’s stellar Blue Spring LP (now available on LuckyMe) isn’t the first time Nathan Micay channeled his love of anime and manga culture in the studio. The promising 2016 mixtape Capsule’s Pride was largely inspired by Akira, the stone-cold masterpiece written and directed by the legendary Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo. Micay keeps Otomo’s iconic […]
Hugar Share the Latest Single From Their New Album Varða
Photo INGA & LILJA BIRGISDOTTIR Hugar have signed to Sony Music Masterworks for their long-awaited second LP. Due out August 23rd, Varða features 14 tracks “awash in stark piano chords, gusts of lyrical brass, high-powered strings, off-kilter guitar, and brushstrokes of electronic swells.” Dramatic stuff then, living up to its album title, a nod to […]
Tangerine Dream Unveil Previously Unreleased Oedipus Tyrannus Piece From New Box Set
Tangerine Dream has shared the latest exclusive track from their looming box set In Search of Hades. Due out June 14th through UMC-Virgin, the sprawling collection is an exhaustive look at the group’s most beloved era (1973-1979, to be specific), including remastered, expanded versions of Rubycon, Phaedra, Ricochet, Stratosfear, Encore, Cyclone, and Force Majeure. A […]
Kevin Richard Martin Makes Us a Deeply Personal Mix, Loosely Inspired By His Sirens LP
Photo MORISA MARTIN Kevin Richard Martin has never shied away from making intense music, whether that meant the air-locked ambience of King Midas Sound, the bass-heavy beats of The Bug, or the bombastic hip-hop of Techno Animal (Death Grips a couple decades early, essentially). The UK-born, Berlin-based producer has never done something as deeply personal […]
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 […]