Carly Paradis Taps Michael Stein of S U R V I V E For Heady Remix
Photo KRIS DEWITTE As if Carly Paradis wasn’t busy enough scoring acclaimed TV shows (Netflix’s The Innocents, the BBC drama Line of Duty) and top-notch film trailers (True Detective, Homeland, Hugo), the composer recently wrapped her third solo album. Due out November 29th, Nothing Is Something features writer / performer Polarbear and such liked-minded guest […]
SARIN Channels the
Horrors and History of
War on Moral Cleansing
Photo RICHARD SÖDERBERG From marching songs to psychological torture, music has played a role in military operations throughout the world since what seems like the dawn of time. Last month’s Moral Cleansing LP flips this fact on its head, as Emad Dabiri melds the tense industrial techno melodies of his SARIN project with subversive and […]
J Colleran Makes Us a Heady Mix Featuring Susumu Yokota, Ulla Straus, M.E.S.H. and More
Having recently launched his Oyae label with a woozy EP of experimental ambient works — see if you can spot its YouTube-sourced motorbike engines — J Colleran has now shifted his focus towards curating a collection of mission statement music. Consider the following mix a trial run featuring some recent favs and likely compilation listens. […]
Magda Drozd Searches For Meaning in Cactus Samples
Photography PHILIP FROWEIN As countless trend pieces have pointed out over the past couple years, plants are really having a moment right now — their strongest zeitgeist showing since the ’70s, from stylized cacti shops to the long overdue reissue of a cult electronic record written for the ferns and philodendrons around us. Magda Drozd […]
Arp On… The Songs That Shaped Him, From Alice Coltrane to Can
Soundtrack of our Lives is a recurring feature where we examine our favorite artists’ lives through the lens of their most prized LPs. Normally, we ask people to pick 10-15 formative songs and/or albums from a list of prompts like The Record That Reminds Me of Being a Kid or The Record I Bought For Friends […]
Anne Müller’s
Favorite Cello Pieces
In the spirit of her spellbinding new album Heliopause (now available on Erased Tapes) and previous work alongside pianist Nils Frahm (7fingers) and violinist Alex Stolze (Solo Collective: Part One), we asked cellist Anne Müller to make us a mixtape of songs that star her chosen instrument. Care to guess who made the cut twice? […]
ØxØ Discuss the Big, Post-Digital Ideas Behind Their Debut EP
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Richard Fearless On…
The Songs That Shaped Him,
From Bauhaus to the Bee Gees
We weren’t sure exactly what to make of Richard Fearless when we first heard a song by his band Death In Vegas. Coming across like a far more chaotic and fierce version of the trendy ‘electronica’ tunes that infiltrated MTV in the late ’90s, Andrea Giacobbe’s “Dirt” video was downright terrifying — about as menacing as […]