electronic tracks
Track: WaqWaq Kingdom, aka DJ Scotch Egg & KiKi Hitomi, reveal new track – Positive Sound
Japanese electronic royalty Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg / Seefeel) and Kiki Hitomi (ex-King Midas Sound) have teamed up for a new EP, Dokkoisho, under their WaqWaq Kingdom moniker – out on 18th September via Phantom Limb. From it the pair have released a new track, Positive Sound. Dokkoisho is a Japanese word, an informal interjection roughly equivalent to …
See: I Break Horses release live video for ‘I Live At Night’
Fresh from the release of her new album Warning, which dropped in May 8th via the ever brilliant Bella Union label, I Break Horses, aka Stockholm’ Maria Lindén has released a new video for the track In live at night’ recorded in her back garden. Built around this slightly wonky synth line, that chimes and …
Track: James Blake – Are you even real?
With co-writes from Starrah, Ali Tamposi alongside himself, Are you even real?, the new track from Grammy award winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Blake certainly has the buzz. Written as part of Apple’s global ‘Behind the Mac’ campaign it comes off the back of Blakes recent fourth album ‘Assume Form’, which has currently clocked …
Track: Monograms – American Dreamz
Monograms, aka Brooklyn based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Jacobs, is gearing up for the release of his new album ‘Only a Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever’, out on PaperCup Music on July 31st, and ahead of it he’s released a new single from it American Dreamz. Of the album, written in these Covid times and …
Track: The Nix – All is Well (Feat. Laetitia Sadier)
Out now on Moshi Moshi Records is ‘Until Now, All is Well’ by Nix, a collective of musicians, headed by Nick McCarthy, formerly of Franz Ferdinand. ‘All is Well’ is based around an original composition by Mal Waldron and features on vocals, Laetitia Sadier, founding member of Avant-Pop band, Stereolab. The track itself, has a dub-reggae edge, …
Track: Eli Brown remixes Sub Focus & Wilkinson’s ‘Just Hold On’
Out now is the incredible new track ‘Just Hold On’ from electronic music royalty Sub Focus and Wilkinson. Don’t just take my word for it – between them they’ve racked up one billion streams. In its original form, its this hopeful shaft of electronic light, with bubbling synths and earworm melodies and Vula Malinga of …
Track: Sparkle Division – You Go Girl!
An unusual partnership it may be, that of renowned composer and tape loop pioneers William Basinski, and young up and coming studio assistant Preston Wendel, but nevertheless, the pair got together under the moniker Sparkle Division and Basinski hauled out his Saxophone as the pair made an album – To Feel Embraced, which mixes up …
Track: Warriors of the Dystotheque / Howie B – No Borders
Released this month in aid of the Black Minds Matter Charity is a new collaboration between Warriors of the Dystotheque and Howie B, made remotely under lockdown, and put together remotely. It’s exclusively on Bandcamp for free or a charity donation. Warriors of the Dystotheque are composed of DJ, Producer, Engineers and Musicians: Jonny Mac …
See: Roosevelt releases new video for Sign
Marius Lauber, aka Roosevelt, has released their first new single since his 2018 sophomore album, Young Romance. It’s accompanied by a video produced by Ohad Ben-Moshe, and both play into this vintage synth-pop / early house sound. Smoky synth chords open up, with street sounds decorating the mix, but these give way to this popping …
MNRØ – I’m not running to you
Out right now is the debut single by Manchester singer-songwriter MNRØ, I’m not running to you, and it marks her out as something to watch out for in the rest of 2020 and beyond. Over bubbling electro beats, MNRØ lays down her expletive laden rejection of continually being used, and taking charge of her own …