Lushlife Goes the Free-Jazz
Route On Exclusive Mix
Words + Mix RAJESH HALDAR With nowhere to DJ for the moment, it was nice to have an opportunity to make an espresso and sit in my studio one morning and put down this set. Lushlife DJ sets are usually pretty well rehearsed; I definitely come from that school of ’90s hip-hop mixtape DJs that […]
Squarepusher Embraces
His Experimental Jazz Side
On GoGo Penguin Remix
GoGo Penguin have shared the latest single from their upcoming remix album GGP/RMX. Streaming exclusively below, “F Major Pixie” is taken in a fitting jazz-fusion direction by the one-and-only Squarepusher. Building upon the producer’s background as a bassist — beginning with a Metallica-inspired thrash-metal band, no less! — it’s both a fresh riff on the […]
Jas Shaw Readies the
Second Part of His
Sollbruchstelle Trilogy
Jas Shaw has barely taken a breather in the nearly three years since the last Simian Mobile Disco LP (the compelling Deep Throat Choir duet Murmurations). Aside from cutting album-length collaborations with fellow producers Gold Panda (On Reflection) and Bas Grossfeldt (Klavier), Shaw launched a 12-part solo outlet series (excerpted in the compilation Exquisite Cops) […]
Machinefabriek’s
Rough Guide to
Machinefabriek
Photo EMIEL EFDÉE Setting the Records Straight is a new series where we ask our favorite artists to walk us through the most important and meaningful songs in their sprawling back catalogues. On deck today: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek. The Dutch producer dropped one of his most daring projects yet earlier this week, […]
Todd Hyman Toasts
Carpark’s 21st Anniversary
With a Special 7” Set
Words + Mix TODD HYMAN Photography ALEC MOSS Here is the best of the best of my collection of early ’90s indie rock singles. Right around the time I was 21. And it’s Carpark’s 21st anniversary. Get it? I was in college in Chicago at the time. Also DJing at our college radio station. These […]
LABOUR Make Us a Mix
of Sublime Music, From
Stockhausen to SOPHIE
Words + Mix LABOUR For this self-titled mix, Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam (aka LABOUR) focus on notions of the sublime within various musical traditions both historical and contemporary. The sublime is an awareness and experience of a liminal space, one that opens-up in the transition from the rational and known to that which is […]
Sebastian Plano
Shares the Latest Single
From His Save Me Not LP
Building on his classical background and the boundless peaks and valleys of last fall’s sprawling & LP — a collaboration with fellow cellist Maarten Vos — Save Me Not finds Sebastian Plano in top form as a solo performer. Using nothing but his voice, piano, and cello, no less, with electronic loops kept to the bare minimum of a nearly […]
Warp Reveals
Seefeel Reissues,
Rare Autechre Remix
Warp has unveiled a special reissue campaign focused on the mid-’90s phase of Seefeel. Due out May 14th in CD and digital editions, Rupt + Flex pairs expanded versions of the group’s long-out-of-print Succour and (Ch-Vox) LPs with an EP compilation simply titled St / Fr / Sp. The latter is particularly enticing, as it features […]
Photay Unveils Film Version
Of On Hold, His Collection Of
Ambient Call Waiting Music
Now that Bandcamp Day is essentially a national holiday, can we all just admit how overwhelming it all is — that there’s gotta be a ton of crucial music falling through the cracks before, during, and after this one 24-hour period every month? We’d like to change all that by calling your attention to exclusive […]