Deft Makes Us a Mix
Featuring Brockhampton,
Jimmy Edgar, and More
Photography SILVIA DRAZ Having recently launched his own B4 Music label with a cutting-edge Lewis James collab (Teleporter), Yip Wong continues to elude any easy been-there-done-that descriptions with his Deft project. To help put the London producer’s ever-evolving past, present, and future in perspective, we asked Wong to send over an exclusive Needle Exchange set, […]
Alex Somers Tackles a
Standout Track From Henrik
Lindstrand’s Piano Trilogy
Photography BELLA HOWARD + ROBIN SKJOLDDBORG As if Alex Somers wasn’t busy enough wrapping two solo records over the past year — Siblings and Siblings 2, his first proper LPs after more than a decade of working alongside Sigur Rós — the producer/composer was keen to recut a cult Henrik Lindstrand classic recently. Streaming exclusively […]
Manslaughter 777
Make Us a Mixtape of
Rhythm-Centric Music
Photography ZACHARY HARRELL JONES With collaborative roots that reach all the way back to the The Body and Braveyoung’s long out-of-print Nothing Passes LP, it was merely a matter of time before Lee Buford and Zac Jones (see also: MSC) would join forces to make a ripper of an electronic record. First unveiled back in […]
Hyunhye Seo Readies
Solo Debut For Room40
Longtime Xiu Xiu member Hyunhye Seo has revealed her first proper solo record. Due out June 11th through Lawrence English’s Room40 imprint, Strands features two very different tracks. “Strands I” is a dark-ambient descent into total sound design territory — the kind of thing that makes you want to rewatch Mulholland Drive and really figure […]
Stian Balducci & Kjetil Jerve
Make Us a Jazz Mixtape
Words STIAN BALDUCCI + KJETIL JERVE Photo JAN TORE ERIKSEN “Extended jazz” is a term used to describe a wide variety of musical expressions. It can be either acoustic, electric, electronic, or all three at once, but it best describes a particular musical ethos that’s prevalent in Norway. Starting in the ’60s with George Russell […]
Joseph Shabason
Makes Us a Mixtape of
Sax-Heavy Jazz Songs
Words JOSEPH SHABASON I would describe this as a sax-heavy playlist of all the major jazz influences that really shaped my new record (The Fellowship) as well as my general musical outlook. It’s chronological for the most part, so you can hear the progression of musicians and styles that I was exposed to from the […]
Function Lets His Ego Dissolve On Awakening From the Illusory Self
Photo FRANKIE CASILLO Between Dave Sumner’s decades of widescreen solo work and his role in the dearly missed Sandwell District collective, techno’s never been just about making people move. As many of us know, it’s got a higher purpose than that — tracks as a form of transcendence, something Sumner’s longtime Function alias dove straight […]
Dauw Readies Second
Wouter van Veldhoven
Retrospective, Shares
Peter Broderick Rework
Dauw has revealed the second volume of its retrospective series around cult Dutch composer Wouter van Veldhoven. Due out tomorrow in a digital edition and limited cassette, Verzamelen II features eight remastered “under the radar” pieces; some have never been heard before, and some are pulled from the self-released experimental records A head stuck in […]
Ishmael Ensemble Shares
Latest Visions of Light Single
Photo JAMES KOCH While producer/saxophonist Pete Cunningham is still at the core of Ishmael Ensemble’s idiosyncratic sound these days, the Bristol collective becomes more of a proper band on the first half of this summer’s Visions of Light LP. Due out August 6th through Cunningham’s own Severn Songs imprint, the avant-jazz album taps into the […]