Electronic
Les Ardentes Festival, Liege, Belgium. 2016 Edition
Belgium’s Les Ardentes Festival is now over ten years old, so this year it added an extra day, making it a five-day extravaganza. I’ve been to every one, and my role for most of them as onstage announcer has given me fly-on-the-wall access to it and how it operates. Unlike in the U.K., where the …
See: DM Stith releases new video for Amylette
Brooklyn singer-songwriter and producer DM Stith had announced the release of his second album Pigeonheart due in late of July. Stith’s last album, Heavy Ghost, was released in 2009 and since then he’s ventured into a side project with John Mark Lapham called The Revival Hour, designed some album covers for some artist, played some …
Preview: 10 Bands to see at Tramlines 2016
It’s almost that time of year again, when Sheffield comes alive with hours of live music hosted in every possible corner of the city, bringing people closer to the bands they love. Tramlines is now in its 7th year and it’s bigger than ever; the Ponderosa Main Stage will host thousands of guests as they …
See: Anil Sebastian releases new video for track Human
Human is the first single taken from ‘Mesonoxian’, the debut album from London-based artist Anil Sebastian, who is also founder and leader of the London Contemporary Voices Choir. Well versed in creating soundscapes, both vocal and otherwise, ‘Mesonoxian’ (which means “pertaining to the hour of midnight”) was produced Produced by Anil, his brother Ingmar and …
Album Review: The Avalanches – Wildflower
On their 2000 debut ‘Since I Left You, The Avalanches took the art of sampling to an entire new level. Made up entirely of snippets from other people’s work, it was perfectly put together, and in doing so they created a sound totally of their own. With tracks like the uber chilled out title track, …
Album Review: Bright Light Bright Light – Choreography
Could ‘Choreography’ be the perfect title for Welsh electronic singer/songwriter Rod Thomas AKA Bright Light Bright Light’s third album? Why? Well first of all it goes perfectly with the gloriously eighties inspired styling of the album; from the fashions, to the artwork, to the big synth sounds that have already dominated all his albums to …
Track: Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul + exclusive Interview
Dr. Meaker are a Bristol based eight piece band, live instruments, samples, studio electronics and big voices create some heavy underground drum and bass covered in liquid deep soul. ‘Dirt & Soul’ is their debut album and it’s going to turn some heads. Already getting the crowds going at Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown Fair, Snowbombing, Isle Of Wight festival and …
Track: Crayon – Bones
Ahead of his forthcoming 4 track EP via seminal french label Rouche Musique, which drops on July 15th, Parisian illustrator turned producer/DJ Crayon has revealed a new track, Bones, taken from the release. Luxuriating comfortably somewhere between future soul and electronica, it’s built over these initial jazz piano chords, which, when beats are added become …
Album Review: Highasakite – Camp Echo
The inexorable march of Norwegian five piece Highasakite continues with the release of their second (at least internationally, pendants will no doubt note its their third) album, Camp Echo. Those that fell in love with their frankly astonishing last long player Silent Treatment, which some two years later is still skirting around the charts in …
Track: Brolin – Time After Time
In 2015 man of mystery Brolin delivered one of the album’s of the year ‘The Delta‘. Its tight production and emotive vocals gave us something unlike anything else around, with brilliantly unique tracks such as ‘Nightdriving’, ‘NYC’ and ‘Swim Deep’. The next track to be released off the album is ‘Koln’, and is part of …