Jack Milwaukee Unveils Latest M!R!M LP
M!R!M is the solo project of Jack Milwaukee, italian multi-instrumentalist based in London since 2011. Inspired by early 80s synth pop, cold and dark wave, M!R!M has been releasing material on labels such as Fabrika and Manic Depression. Since his debut album, Milwaukee has been touring and playing shows all around Europe building an important […]
Five Lessons Logan Nelson Learned From Hans Zimmer
Photography LAUREN DESBERG Logan Nelson first started working on his debut EP (Lavender Echoes, due out today through 1631 Recordings) during the down time of his film (Monsters and Men, Green Book) and TV (Dear White People, For the People) projects, but it’s hard not to see it as part of a bigger picture. One […]
Razen Channels Robotic Engineering, Witchcraft on New Hands in the Dark Album
Photography LAURENT ORSEAU Razen has revealed the details around their latest double LP. Due out March 27th through Hands in the Dark, Robot Brujo is described as six improv pieces “made up of the barest of materials, relying on a limited combination of tones… which creates a narrowing of consciousness, and feels something a bit […]
Kazuya Nagaya Shares the Stories Behind the Psychoanalytic Songs On His Dream Interpretation LP
Words KAZUYA NAGAYA I started working on Dream Interpretation in February 2018. It took around six months to produce — not a very long time, but the internal journey that transcended into the music started a long time ago. It started with a tiny change, which is too small to be recognized as an integral […]
Aerosmith Embrace Deep Cuts, Early Records At ‘Deuces Are Wild’ Residency
It’s a delicate balance, If there was any doubt as to whether Aerosmith is treating their Las Vegas residency as a TK greatest hits tour, it was obliterated by their all bets are off choice of an opening song:
Psypiritual & The Lasso Make Us a Mix Inspired By Their Kirlian LP
Photography MYLKWEED Much like his symbiotic sessions with Lando Chill, Kirlian finds The Lasso finishing the sentences of Psypiritual with live and sampled loops that are as logical as a lucid dream. To put the pair’s many influences in perspective, we asked them to cut an exclusive Needle Exchange mix that works in everything from […]
Wacław Zimpel’s Favorite
Trance-Inducing Tracks
Words WACŁAW ZIMPEL Photography HELENA MAJESKA Trance is mostly associated with repetitive rhythms, like those in Gnawa. But I think it also takes place by concentrating on sound itself, like in different forms of ambient and drone music. I am always looking to achieve this state as a listener and as a player. But you […]
Humberto Polar Melds Jazz With Experimental and Ambient Music
In the spirit of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s collaborations with Christian Fennesz and Alva Noto, Six Asymmetric Studies pushes Humberto Polar’s electronic productions and experimental riffs into another realm entirely. Created in a constant dialogue with composer/double bass player Mike Sandoval, it alludes to everything from jazz to ambient music — grooves that are avant-garde without coming […]
Katie Gately Makes Us
the Ultimate Mixtape
Photography STEVE GULLICK When Katie Gately first sent over the liner notes for her Needle Exchange mix, we weren’t sure what to make of it. Six songs? That’s it? But we quickly realized how irrational that reaction was — how we’ve become a bunch of Fidget Spinning brats, a restless algorithm unable to sit through […]