Minor Rain: Tomorrow’s Sunrise
Straddling a line between downtempo, sound design and wild electronica, Tomorrow's Sunrise by Minor Rain is exquisitely rich, textured so dense, so precise, so distinct that the music feels like it leaves a mark when it passes by.
S-Man & Huxley ft Aimee Sophia: Wasting Time
Roger Sanchez is S-Man and his releases on UNDR the RADR have been a welcome throwback to a deeper and more sensual sound. On Wasting Time he teams up with Huxley and vocalist Aimee Sophia for a pitched reminder that he wrote a chapter in the book we're reading.
9West: Retroscope
"Retroscope" hits its stride with the title track, a hard techno production that manages to marry the grimy hook of something like L.I.E.S. with a drone that is all 9West's own. It's the centerpiece and title track of the new EP by the Greek duo, out now on USM Recordings.
Plaster: Transition
Plaster's TRANSITION represents the distillation of some 50 years of European electronic music history.
TenGrams: SpaceLab
The Italian dance music pioneers Alessandro and Davide Piatto from N.O.I.A. showcase their new project, the dreamy and classic techno sound of TenGrams on the SpaceLab EP.
John Carpenter’s Lost Themes Remixed
Silent Servant, Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley and more have their remixes of maestro John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" pressed to wax.
Nat Wendell: Theoretics from the Depths of (His) Soul
Nat Wendell bangs out tracks like a man in rapture on Theoretics, on vinyl from Depth of My Soul.
Kaoru Inoue’s Em Paz Is a Mystical Delight from the Master of Japanese Electronica
Groovement Organic Series hails an ambient masterpiece in Em Paz, a new album from Kaoru Inoue, the master of Japanese electronic music.
Fresh Meat Records Drops Frankie Vega’s Chord Shift
Veterans of the Chicago underground hook up on Frankie Vega's Chord Shift, released by Fresh Meat Records and featuring an Audio Soul Project remix.
Fish Go Deep Release Don’t Need Me on Large Music
Veteran producers who've simply never missed a step in over two decades, Fish Go Deep make idiosyncratic, uncluttered deep house that satisfies the mind, body and soul.
A Thorough Rinse from DJ City’s Teenage Sexdrive
Review: DJ City's Teenage Sexdrive is sure to be one of those mid-set pressure cookers for this summer.
Dan Only: The Wurly Chronicles
ListenUp: The Wurly Chronicles sounds like a career-defining EP right from the needle drop and all the way into the run out.
More Ghost Than Man’s The Courage To Lie To A Dying Man
More Ghost Than Man's first single from his black music box of peculiar delights.
An Ear to the Chicago Underground: FUCK ACID
Bend your ears and listen up to Dcook, Isoke, Chicago Skyway, Julio Bishop and more on Eargasmic's latest EP FUCK ACID.
Earth Trax & Newborn Jr: Maze EP
From aggressive acid to delicate ambient with Polish production duo Earth Trax and Newborn Jr on the Maze EP from Dopeness Galore.
Prince: (Sticky Like Glue) The House Is Ours
Timmy Regisford and Joe Claussell's "very special unofficial edits, overdubs & unreleased remixed promo 12 inch" of Prince.
Christopher Rau & Hakim Murphy: Geopolitical Problems Yet To Be Solved
Christopher Rau and Hakim Murphy collaborate on the luscious Geopolitical Problems Yet To Be Solved.
C. Scott Blows Our Minds Again with Distance Fog
Listen up: Distance Fog is another eclectic EP from the Pittsburgh wunderkind C. Scott on hometown label Pittsburgh Tracks.
shutdown: after death.
Late night lo-fi downtempo grooves from shutdown, a producer that hails from Monterrey, Mexico and a sound that brings the ghetto palms of a pre-gentrified Brooklyn boulevard to life. Bits and pieces (drums, mostly)...
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