Electronica

Music for listening and sometimes for dancing, “Electronica” is what we call everything else — well-produced electronic music that fit everywhere but nowhere, in many genres but none specifically.

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Jordan Gardner & Martyn Bootyspoon shine on the dark house nodder “Doubletap”

In the grand tradition of beat tracks that beat it so hard they can only be called beatdown tracks, Jordan Gardner and Martyn Bootyspoon take a five word sample and loop it into oblivion.
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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.
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An Unspeakable Tragedy: Remembering Silent Servant, Simone Ling and The Soft Moon

Three artists with deep roots and human connections in this scene died last week, in what appears to be an unspeakable tragedy.
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Infinite Health: Tycho releases new album

Two time Grammy nominated producer and musician Scott Hansen aka Tycho has released Infinite Health, the sixth Tycho album and one that hearkens back to his more solo-driven and electronic albums of early 2010s — Dive, Awake and Epoch.
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Screen Play: Phil Kieran on the making of The Strand Cinema

Phil Kieran's latest album is a vibrant tour de force inspired by the old movie palace where it was made.
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Toribio: Public Service

Rodrigo Salazar meets the eclectic Brooklyn-based DJ, producer, instrumentalist and apostle of the dance floor.
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As We Are: An unaddressed letter with no words from Tevo Howard

There has been a hole in the Chicago music scene for the last several years in just about the exact shape of Tevo Howard. It's an absence, and it's not one that can be easily filled.

DJ Rocca – Code Rush

Code 041 is another brilliant musical excursion from the wildly eclectic but always on point DJ Rocca
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Change My Mind: Space Disco & Italo-Balearica from Rollover DJs

Narcotic glitterball dancefloor fodder and a bonus alt-garage-core Bawrut remix from Milan's Rollover DJs on Change My Mind.
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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.
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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.
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Triton: Five point five minutes of neon garage from Lone

Out of the blue, Lone dropped a track just as the year was winding down and "Triton" may make all of the bullshit of 2023 worth it.
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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.
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Music from the deep archives of Marco Repetto comes alive on the Planet Love Trilogy

The Planet Love trilogy is a three 12" set pulled from the early 1990s archives of groundbreaking Swiss electronic music producer Marco Repetto.
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Rooted: Laurent Garnier in the new issue of 5 Mag

Electronic music pioneer Laurent Garnier, Monty Luke, Petals In Sound, Henna Onna, Paul Johnson and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, released May 2024.
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Dance music pioneers Utah Saints reissue their debut LP for National Album Day

The first repress of Utah Saints' self-titled first album is packed with additional remixes from David Morales, CJ Bolland and Andrew Weatherall among others.
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Wareika channels the Holy Ghost on Tizinabi

Ornaments makes some beautiful vinyl and Wareika recorded some beautiful music for this one. The live electronic trio create a vivid tapestry for explorations in deep, dubby and esoteric sounds on new album Tizinabi.

Live Alive: Seven Davis Jr. in the new 5 Mag

There are probably people in this scene with more innate talent than Seven Davis Jr, but we haven't met them. The brilliant producer, DJ and musician is subject of the latest 5 Mag cover story, plus Nick V and the 17 year strong La Mona Paris, Chicago's viral Elevator Music, disco archeology and more inside 5 Mag 214, out now.
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Partial Light is a double 12″ of witchy electronic psalms by STL

The second release from Chateau Chepere is possibly the most anti-commercial record you'll find in the racks this month: a 4 track, double 12 inch from Something Records' STL.
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“Ghetto Capitalism” is a radical electronic manifesto from Jaymie Silk

Ghetto Capitalism is an eclectic and wonderful EP and there's a vital message behind Jaymie Silk's latest for !K7 but "You Can Do It" is music that sounds like it's having a heart attack and I love it.

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