Lost (and Found) in Space: United Sounds of Joy Transmit From Another Universe
If beauty and horror were two parallaxes in the vast expanse of the galaxy, somewhere between those points you might hear these songs.
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Making a Sene: The Rise of Brian Marc
Brian Marc, AKA Sene, manages a minimal but heavy discipline of turntablist groove; his dream-washed music appropriates the rhythms of a casual stroll through city streets.
An Anxious Eroticism: The Flesh and Machinery Grooves of Elyas Khan
Elyas Khan's sensuously-disquieting music, in his own words, is a hallucinatory event: it embodies the kind of fear, alarm and agoraphobia we sometimes feel when we've read too many headlines for the day.
The Sound and the Warmth: An Interview with Cardiknox
New York's Cardiknox are taking more steps in their goal of world domination. With their debut record Portrait out, the band are dreaming big, wanting to transcend the indie pop scene.
Come to Dada: Maestro Gamin’s Hip-Hop Surrealism
Maestro Gamin's surreal and irregular grooves court hip-hop culture as much as they do jazz, his music transmitting from some Dadaist aperture of sound.
PURSES – “Clementine” (audio)
PURSES' latest single, "Clementine", offers further proof that their debut record should contain equal parts jangle, indie-pop guitars, noise, harmonies, and anything else in between.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: The Rise of Toronto’s Nixxon
Redressing the issues of a troubled past, Toronto's Nixxon, a one-time musical associate of the Weeknd, cuts his own swath with the release of his new album -- a gothic-futurist exercise in R&B.
Adian Coker – “Been There”
The British rapper's latest material sees him minimizing the aggression of his grittier excursions for a cooled and measured flow of liquid rhymes.
90BPM – “Istanbul” (video)
A strange and catchy sampling of what is brewing in Turkey's underground hip-hop scene, 90BPM offer their latest single from their premiere album.
Spoken-Hearted: An Interview With OVEOUS
Finding a softly sensual counterpoint to the minimal robotic grooves, rapper OVEOUS employs a haunting and hot-blooded practice in humanizing the machine.
Speak of the Blue Devil: The Moody Grooves of Andy Kayes
Andy Kayes' latest album of mercurial hip-hop finds the rapper putting the boom back in boom bap, one beat at a time.
MNSR Frites – ‘The River Wandle’
A set of chilled hip-hop funk, these are tunes designed for summer's lazy days.