Electro
Track: Senior Citizen x Tim Walker share the electro ode ‘The Foreign’
FREDRICTON, New Brunswick musician Bob Deveau, who you’ll find jaunting out and about in synthy surroundings as Senior Citizen away from the drum stool he usually occupies with bands like The Olympic Symphonium, Grand Theft Bus and Force Fields, is primed to release an album with sometime bandmate Tim Walker at the beginning of next month for …
Premiere: Cathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee ready for broadcast as Telefís and offer you ‘Mister Imperator (Maurice and Charles remix)’
MICRODISNEY fractured so long ago now, but their end birthed two great talents to the world, so not all was lost; Sean O’Hagan gave us the baroque brilliance of The High Llamas, and Cathal Coughlan – who we’re concerned with here today – led us on a pied piped and merry dance to weirder, more …
Track: Jakuzi share the Italo disco bliss of new single ‘Hiç Işık Yok’ – EP ‘Açık Bir Yara’ is out now via City Slang
Istanbul synth-wave specialists Jakuzi are sharing their first new music in two years via the new EP Açık Bir Yara, out now through City Slang. The EP comprises two tracks: Açık Bir Yara, (produced by Jakuzi’s vocalist Kutay Soyocak and Kerem Brumend) and Hiç Işık Yok, also produced by Kutay Soyocak and Maurizio Baggio, who …
See: Logan Lynn & Bitch take ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ out for a spin in the dark electro pulse of the dancefloor to celebrate Kill Rock Stars’ 30th birthday
HOW THE hourglass casts its sand; believe it or not, and I’m struggling with this, 2021 actually marks 30 years – 30! – of releases from Portland, Oregon’s Kill Rock Stars. I ain’t countin’ no more. Special releases and fun things are promised all year from the label that began back in ’91 with releases …
From The Vaults: Mark Archer – Arch-ives
Mark Archer (Altern 8, Nexus 21, Slo Moshun) brings together a collection of tracks released over the past twelve years on various labels. A superb collection of House/Acid/Techno quality, that only a oldskool veteran DJ/Producer could create. You know the deal, your either in the know, or your not. Over the last couple of decades, …
Track: Melbourne’s Meghna releases ‘My DNA’: a haunting and atmospheric elegy to poverty and struggle.
Meghna Mitra releases the most sublime music under her name Meghna and her new single ‘My DNA’ belies her youth with its world weary tones and chilling themes. Over a sparse trip-hop electronic beat, Meghna’s evocative vocals recount the experiences of her Indian parents and grandparents and the horrors and realties of a life in …
Album Review: Debasser – The Invitations Are Real, The Party Is Not – Album Review/Exclusive Interview/Guest Mix
Drawing on inspiration and experience from a wide range of scenes including UK Bass, Breaks, Jungle, Electro, Garage, and more, Debasser follows up singles ‘Separation Anxiety’ and ‘Bad Behaviour’ with his second long-player ‘The Invitations are Real, The Party is Not’ via his WIDE Records label. Active throughout the early 000’s on labels such as …
See: Rising Toronto electro-disco outfit Tush drop visuals for the soulful ecstasy of ‘Chrysalis’ en route to their July album
TUSH; who they? You enquire, entirely within your remit. Well, if the groove is in you, they’re someone whose acquaintance you should make forthwith. Coming from the dancefloors of Toronto with a love of disco, soul, electro, Nineties’ house and more, the twin pillars of Tush are the dulcet vocal talents of Kamilah Apong and Jamie Kidd. They’ve …
TRACK: Psymon Spine – ‘Confusion’: glimmering psych-disco heralds February album
IF YOU’RE absolutely beloved of that glimmering, du-jour intersection where hazy, technicolour psych meets sweeping synths with a healthy dose of funk – y’know out there deep in there, where MGMT intersect with Tame Impala – then you really need to be letting a little of Psymon Spine’s louche groove into your world. The Brooklyn …
TRACK: Fujiya & Miyagi – ‘Feeling The Effects (Of Saturday Night)’
BRIGHTON’S cool groovers Fujiya & Miyagi used what we can now refer to as period of history known as Lockdown One wisely, and kept on creating. They dug back into the archives, blowing the dust from abandoned hard drives and found a fragment of an idea dating all the way back to 2000. Socially distanced …