Hiro Kone aka Nicky Mao has the instinct for texture and shape of a metallurgist or a milliner, coaxing a...
Winston Mann
Carefully crafted out of wind chimes, modulated voices, and the quick turns of oscillator rate knobs, the beauty of the...
Radio signals interfere and bleed through carrying messages from the past and future, interacting with special alchemy on tracks that range from creepily chill to pregnant with late-night energy. Launching off deliriously distorted kicks and snares disguising a sneaky acid line that cranks up and descends and bounces around like...
Beautifully crafted and buoyant with sonic wonder, this synthesizer-heavy release from HRZL captures an enthusiasm for the often overlooked fundamentals...
The third VA release on the Georgian imprint relatively new to the scene Murder Tbilisi explores ominous territory with the...
Indira Paganotto’s debut on Pan-Pot’s Second State label delivers intriguing, disorientingly global vocal samples alongside spacey, restrained techno cuts. The filtered opening kick bounces like a ball in a silent room, warning chords swelling larger and building a tension that is broken most unexpectedly into a psytrance-nodding stampede. A major...
An unmitigated stomper that thrills in multiple iterations before stripping itself back and revealing the undergirding logic of its own...
A cohesive collaboration of two Irish and Scottish artists is lush with atmospheric house shimmer and deceptively chilled out eddies...
Dreamy crystalline melodies that sound like whole lives unfolding in the vapory beachtowns existing only in the most regenerative of daydreams, this blissful release from VIQ is a sparkling example of something that might be called “chillsynth.” Music, in its best and most rare form, can deposit you somewhere completely...
For Detroit Techno fans, Terrence Dixon hardly needs an introduction. He laid the global groundwork of the Detroit minimal scene...
Deep and primal, operating on ancient, pre-hominid circuits of ritual sound; this release from Dutch producer Rambadu achieves something slightly...
Skillfully merging the strangest of bedfellows from DNB to early aughts Madonna samples to arcade music like DJ sets in miniature, this release from France’s Seul Ensemble cultivates an icy-cool ambience with skittering drums and walls of nostalgia. Opening with a flash of oldschool breaks, a snappy kick, flying in...
