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Salamanda
Make Us a
Genre-Less Mix

Words + Mix SALAMANDA With only two months away from the end of the most eventful and memorable year of 2021, we decided to make a mix that reflects what we felt during these unusual days. It was a year where we spent so much time far from the fresh air and dazzling sunlight, but […]

Clinic Share a Playlist
of Manic Pop Music

Words ADE BLACKBURN Photography SENTINEL The playlist is a compilation of inventive and strange pop music that influenced Clinic’s [new album] Fantasy Island. Growing up, I really admired groups like Fun Boy Three who could get into the charts on their own terms. They still met all the pop criteria, but with far more imagination […]

Alter Ego Readies
Unreleased Recordings
With Matmos and Pan Sonic

Alter Ego has announced two limited Die Schachtel LPs tied to previously unreleased recordings with Matmos and Pan Sonic. Due out November 12th, Microwaves and Pranam – A(Round) Giacinto Scelsi are prime examples of how the Italian ensemble pushed experimental and electroacoustic music past their limits over the course of their two decades together. (Their […]

Sissi Rada Shares Her
Latest Avant-Pop Single

Photography ALKISTIS VOUTS + MELETIS KOROPOULIS “One day I thought of simplicity,” Sissi Rada says of the latest single from her upcoming album Nanodiamond. “And then of trying to subtract — fewer harp strings, only two harmonies, and a sample from an old vinyl with Greek chants from Smyrna.” A beguiling blend of electronic and […]

Marco Shuttle Shares the
Shots That Inspired His
Cobalt Desert Oasis LP

Words MARCO SHUTTLE Photo RICCARDO MALBERTI The best “drawback” of what I do for a living is that it very often (never enough, if you ask me) involves going to many different, beautiful places in this world. Somehow driven by the desire of collecting my visual impressions as much as the auditory ones, making the […]
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New Age Doom’s
Guide to “Drone Jazz”

Words NEW AGE DOOM Drone is a primeval and ubiquitous musical concept that’s magnificent in its simplicity. It establishes the base layer for melodic, harmonic and rhythmic exploration and is endemic to genres that emphasize improvisation. Japanese art gives us the concept of ma, which can be loosely translated as “negative space.” Ma is the awareness […]

Marissa Nadler
Breaks Down Her
Entire Discography

Photo NICK FANCHER 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. This week’s entry is a special Bandcamp Friday edition featuring the many phases of Marissa Nadler, who recently unveiled her ninth solo album […]

Fragments Editions Readies Limited Renaud Bajeux, Mike Majkowski LPs

Fragments Editions — the book imprint of Hands in the Dark co-founder Morgan Cuinet — has announced its first two vinyl releases. Due out December 10 and 17 respectively, Four Pieces and Seeking a Vision feature solo pieces from composers based in Berlin (double bassist Mike Majkowski) and Paris (sound designer Renaud Bajeux). Both records […]

Lubelski Explains the
Modular Synth Madness
Behind Happy Accidents

Photo GALEN OAKES While Claude VonStroke has always been partial to the truly progressive house tracks of Lubelski, he certainly didn’t expect the producer to spend most of his LA-based lockdown churning out modular synth clips for Dirtybird’s Twitch channel. As unhinged as the weekly broadcasts were — sometimes for hours at a time — […]