Patriarchy Shares Remix
Album, Favorite Songs
From Light Asylum,
Drab Majesty and More
Photography MICHAEL DELEON ROMERO When we last spoke to Actually Huizenga, she was planning on touring behind her brash Patriarchy project — bringing the performance art side of its Asking For It album to life the way her self-produced videos often do. And then COVID happened, of course, leaving the restless, multi-medium artist with a […]
PAN Readies Latest
ENTOPIA Soundtrack
Photo BRIGITTE HART After lying low last year — who can blame them? — PAN’s soundtrack-driven ENTOPIA series is back with its fourth welcome entry this Friday. Scored by Civil Civic co-founder Aaron Cupples, with additional field recordings from Leo Dolgan, the award-winning Island of the Hungry Ghosts examines a controversial Australian territory known for keeping […]
PRAED Make Us a
Limitless Mix In the Spirit
of Their Live In Sharjah LP
Photo TONY ELIEH When we ask PRAED to summarize the ecstatic Shaabi sound that fills Egypt’s streets every day and night — and inspires much of the duo’s own music — they capture it perfectly by calling it “spaced-out, very psychedelic. Two bars and you hope it goes on for ever.” Raed Yassin and Paed […]
Die Schachtel Line Up
Latest Decay Music LPs
Die Schachtel has unveiled the third and fourth volumes of its Decay Music series, the Milan imprint’s look at “inspired contemporary experimental efforts in ambient, ethereal, and emotively abstract music.” Due out on February 19th, Rueben and Downtown Ethnic Music are two very different efforts from Sandro Mussida and Giovanni Di Domenico (pictured above). While […]
Frederik Valentin Readies
Two New Posh Isolation EPs
“At this point of my career I don’t wish to make esoteric music,” says multi-medium artist Frederik Valentin. “I’m attracted to the simplicity of music and the idea of creating something universal that apply to people from different social cultures in various stages of life.” That’s certainly the vibe we get from 0011001, a devastating […]
Thys Reworks Amon
Tobin Collab With the
Noordpool Orchestra
Here’s the thing about orchestral takes on electronic tracks: they’re often terrible. Mostly because the opposing forces of clubs and concert halls never quite sync up. They’re in an eternal struggle instead, with no clear winner… or leader for that matter. Thys was determined to break that chain with the Noordpool Orchestra collab he recently […]
Adrian Sherwood Unveils
Another Outtake From
New Age Steppers Box Set
Photo KISHI YAMAMOTO Adrian Sherwood has shared the second official single from Avant Gardening, a collection of outtakes and rarities from his New Age Steppers collective with the one-and-only Ari Up. Streaming exclusively on this very site, “Some Dub” is an echo chamber expression of “Some Love,” the lead track on the group’s Foundation Steppers […]
Ivan Zoloto Makes
Us a Massive Playlist of
Songs For Drinking Alone
To help set the scene of his most widescreen work yet, Ivan Zoloto shares a particularly intense passage from Canadian writer Miriam Toews: I drive around the perimeter of the city like a dog marking its territory, over bridges and under bridges, the way I used to stalk the edges of my small hometown. This […]
Mother of Mars
Announce Debut Album,
Recruit Singer Jaiko Suzuki
Photo RONNIE ARDEN Longtime The Rapture bandmates Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi have revealed their first proper Mother of Mars LP. Due out March 5th through Ransom Note, I Hear brings underground DJ / drummer Jaiko Suzuki (Electroputas, The Crystal Ark) Jaiko Suzuki into the fold full-time as the trio’s windswept lead singer. Mother of […]