Musique Mystique: Finetune drops the stellar Impulse LP on Sengiley Wax
Across ten tracks of eclectic electronic gems, Finetune's Impulse album is the third installment is experimental music in the best sense - unique, challenging for sure, but very listenable.
Electronic Fantasia: Mar De Novo broadcast from the Last Disco On Earth
Last Disco On Earth is Mar De Novo's Winding Road debut, drawing in the history of disco, Italo, trip hop, downtempo, synthwave and a million other genres both real and imaginary. The results are spellbinding: one of the best front-to-finish plays of 2026.
On Repeat: Joe Morris and Some Kind of Paradise
Harold Heath selects 2025's best electronic music albums, including Joe Morris and Shades of Sound's Some Kind of Paradise.
On Repeat: 15 years of A Love From Outer Space
A Love From Outer Space celebrates 15 years of Sean Johnston and Andrew Weatherall’s legendary/infamous A Love From Outer Space club night.
On Repeat: A decade of Ron Trent tracks come together on “Lift Off”
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including Ron Trent's Lift Off, an album a decade in the making and released on Rush Hour.
Lo-Fi & downtempo by design: adventures with Orange Dreams
ZAK Sound's revised plugin packs a bundle of creative power inside a small package.
Chicago’s We Love Soul celebrates 15 years this weekend
The Chicago community of soul lovers marks their 15th anniversary this Sunday April 6 2025 at The Promontory with Sean Alvarez, Duane Powell, Joe Kollege and Jay Illa.
First Word to reissue Tall Black Guy’s seminal 8 Miles to Moenart LP
Special edition with new material from Detroit producer's debut album, which hasn't been on wax since the original 2013 run.
True, Necessary, Kind: Gems from Lay-Far’s album remix project
Seventeen remixes of five album tracks from Lay-Far's True, Necessary, Kind album, covering various flavours of house, broken beat, bass, techno and drum & bass.
Manifesto is an esoteric downtempo masterpiece from Glo Phase
Glo Phase takes an excursion into left-of-field downtempo and electronica with an oily vaporwave sheen on Manifesto.
Ladies & Gentlemen: the fantastically dope Degabah System
Fantastically dope, dirty and elegant by turns, the space-minded cosmonauts of Culture Power 45 present us with The Degabah System, an "interstellar" trio with their debut album Saqqara.
Claremont Editions Vol 3: A warming winter Balearic treat from Claremont 56
The third edition of Claremont 56's compilation series gathers low-tempo high-temperature grooves via label rarities, unreleased versions and brand new music too.
Tour-Maubourg releases the gently introspective Spaces of Silence
Different shades of deep house on the 2nd album from Tour-Maubourg, thematically based around the ideas of noise and silence.
ZG is Zansika Lachhani and Grant, and their debut album is an out-of-nowhere masterpiece
Coming just at the end of 2022, ZG is a new project of blindingly beautiful work and one of the best albums of the year.
San Mateo creates an ambient masterpiece on Exspiravit Luminaria
Exspiravit Luminaria "feels organic and human throughout, blurring boundaries between classical and electronic music with its palette of warm strings, subtle sound design and mournful drones."
More Ghost Than Man: The Worlds We Made There
Terry Grant didn't break up with club music - they're just taking a break. Inside the More Ghost Than Man project and the new album The Worlds We Made There.
Moodymanc samples downtempo vibes on Vault’s Cows on a Beach
As "Vault," Moodymanc blows the dust off some tracks more than a decade in the making on "Cows on a Beach."
Jon Delerious drops acid, lofi jazz and more on Can’t Hold Back
Two b-side tracks highlight an EP full of flavor by Jon Delerious for Luke McKeehan's Nordic Trax.
ChilledCow on notice: Steve Roach launches 24/7 ambient YouTube channel
Following in the footsteps of the independent YouTube streamers putting up "beats to relax/study to," ambient artist Steve Roach has created a 24/7 ambient streaming channel.
The Politik: making soul music for an alternative universe
One of the best cult albums of the '00s: Mark de Clive-Lowe on the The Politik — his one-off collaboration with Bémbé Ségué, with appearances from Daz-I-Kue, Waajeed and more.
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