Electronic
News: MARK LANEGAN BAND Announces Still Life With Roses Remix EP/Tour
Following “career-best” reviews for his tenth album Gargoyle and a sold–out UK tour, Mark Lanegan Band announce the release of Still Life With Roses, a 6 track EP of remixes from the LP by various producers whose work he admires. The EP, released 29th September (Heavenly Recordings) will be available as 12” vinyl and download. It’s a …
Meet: Pattern Language aka Chris Frain
Colorado-based synth-electronic crafter Pattern Language has just released his debut mini-album ‘Total Squaresville’ via London’s Happy Robots Records. In these six tracks, he has managed to create a sound and vibe similar to krautrock legends like Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, and La Dusseldorf. Pattern Language is the new project of Chris Frain. Currently based in Boulder, …
Say Psych: Premiere: BLACK’EX #1
Belgian label EXAG Records announce the arrival of their BLACK’EX split series and Backseat Mafia are honoured to provide you with the premiere. The concept for the series is to take two artists, from two different countries, press on top vinyl and in doing so create connections between artists from around the world, building bridges …
News : Bureau B to release Moebius Story Leidecker album ‘familiar’
Dieter Moebius (1944–2015), was one half of German experimental Krautrock pioneers ‘Cluster’, along with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The pair collaborated widely and released various other albums; the Moebius & Plank (as in Conny, legendary producer) album ‘Rastakraut Pasta’ being one of the more interesting and bizarre. Now Hamburg indie label Bureau B will release in October, recording sessions …
See: Broen release video for You (Detective)
Alongside the announcement of their album, I <3 Art to be released on October 20th (Bella Union), Norwegian five-piece Broen have shared their self-made visuals for latest single “You (Detective)” Their second track from their debut LP, it’s all gorgeous twinkling synths, squelching bass and funky, cool as hell jazz drums with soulful vocals from …
Album Review : Com Truise ‘Iteration’
Yeah, I know that name annoys some people. It doesn’t me, but I get it. Seth Haley’s musical project Com Truise has been making retro-futuristic electronic music since the release of 2011s Galactic Melt. Musically he’s somewhere between Tron and Vestron Video opening sequences with some serious bass crushing the low end of even the …
See: Romare releases live video of Come Close to Me
Boasting the sort of beats and gluey synths that most producers would prostitute themselves for, Romare has long encaptured us at Backseat Mafia with this ability to build delicious slices of disco house and 80s electro. Alongside the announcement of his largest headline show to date – he’s at Koko in London on November 11th, …
Album Review : R. Missing’s ‘Unsummering’ EP
There’s both a quiet cool and a dark tension that permeates R. Missing’s EP Unsummering. Even in their promotional material it says “You won’t find love songs here. You’ll find unloved songs. You won’t find summer, you’ll find Unsummering.” Now if that’s not enough to convince you of something dark and mysterious what will? Maybe …
See: 99 Trees reveal new video for ‘Broken’
99 Trees new video for ‘Broken’ is a transcendental, tropical treat. Albeit a smoother and more psychedelic sound, 99 Trees ‘vibe’ shares a familiarity with the summer soundtracks made of hits by Moloko, Bextor and Winehouse. The singers, not a firm of solicitors! 99 Trees Danish born vocalist Pia Blixen reveals that “the track is …
Track: Zola Jesus – Exhumed
Nika Roza Danilova aka Zola Jesus has just announced her new record, Okovi, is to be released on September 8th, and sees her return to Sacred Bones Records. It consists of 11 electronics led tracks and she drafted in a number of collaborators to work on the record, including longtime live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician …