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SEE: Black Country, New Road – ‘Science Fair’: a potent experimental tale
AFTER an agonisingly lengthy wait, South London experimental rock group Black Country, New Road have finally released a new single, bearing word of a debut album set to be released next February. Having burst onto the scene in January last year with debut single “Athens, France”, released on acclaimed label Speedy Wunderground, and following it …
See: Bicep release new video for the warm, bubbling techno of ‘Apricots’
BELFAST duo Bicep have returned with a new video for ‘Apricots’, the lead single taken from forthcoming second album Isles, out on January 22nd next year via the brilliant Ninja Tune label. The single features a couple of notable samples – traditional Malawian-singers recorded in 1958, and a 1950s’ performance by The Bulgarian State Radio & Television …
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …
Track: PVA – Talks
London’s PVA arrive today with the announcement of their signing to Ninja Tune’s taste-maker label Big Dada. In celebration they have also released a new track – ‘Talks’ taking from their debut EP ‘Toner’ due November 20th Ella, Josh and Louis said of their decision: “We are really over the moon to be joining the …
BRONSON announce a trio of remix EPs; hear the Cassian mix of ‘KNOW ME’
BRONSON, the epic, bass-shakin’ progressive house project of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, of ODESZA, and producer Tom Stell of Golden Features, has announced a series of three remix EPs as an exciting and exploratory coda to their self-titled debut album for Ninja Tune. The trio of rerubs will feature names such as Riton, HAAi, TSHA, Patrick Topping, Prospa, Krystal Klear and …
TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja
IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress. Cryptic, obtuse, secretive and illusive, Cunningham has been the checkpoint of the techno/electronic border crossing for over a decade now. There have been seminal releases …
TRACK: Machinedrum feat. Father – ‘Spin Blocks’: glimmering lyrical flow ahead of the new album
MACHINEDRUM, the Ninja Tune artist who delights in pulling hiphop, electro, R’n’B, grime and other such musics into curious new shapes, is releasing his first album in four years and his ninth in total for beats purveyors extraordinaire Ninja Tune next Friday. And he’s dropped a little taster of the new album, A View Of …
Track: Actress releases new track ‘Walking Flames’,featuring Sampha
Following on from his recent Bandcamp exclusive album 88, which he released with a days notice on Twitter for free, Darren Cunningham. aka Actress. is back again with a new single ‘Walking Flames’ featuring Sampha on vocals. It also heralds news of another new album this year – Karma & Desire, out on 23rd October …
NOT FORGOTTEN: The Irresistible Force – ‘It’s Tomorrow Already’: the loud, great finale of British rave-ambient
“IT’S TIME to lie down and be counted”: so goes Mixmaster Morris’s brilliant call to very relaxed arms for the 90s’ British ambient scene. It was a manifesto banner that he jointly flew with The Orb’s Alex Paterson in that era, 1991-95, when the appetite for strange interweavings of found sound, Krautrock washes, environment recordings, …
SEE: Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu – ‘Renegade Breakdown’: electro chill and strength
MONTREAL’S Marie Davidson, veteran of that city’s DIY scene, musical polymath, fierce declaimer; like Grace Jones, you wouldn’t mess, frankly. Have a watch of the lyric video for the latest track “Renegade Breakdown”, which she’s just dropped for Ninja Tune and see if you’d dare. It’s a pulsing, dirty slice of electro-house over which Marie …