Electronic
Album Review: Niko – Electric Union
Niko’s Electric Union is a late-night, electrasonic long player on ATIC Records. The all new third album from the Seattle born singer sees her pursuing a more focussed dance lounge sound where delicate melodies and accomplished song writing marry with tuff, unpolished beats, gritty synth bass and layers of abstract keyboards. Drawing from a pot …
Album Review: Not My God – Simulacra
‘Simulacra’, answers the bellowing calls from fans for more music, its ten songs that showcase the full range of Skold’s confident voice paired with the raw, cinematic soundscapes and modular synth riffs laid down by Bellum. At once atmospheric and ominous, it is a modern masterpiece in the genre. ‘In Service To The Wolf’ is a …
Album Review: Anika – Change
It’s been eleven years since the release of the debut album by Berlin-based DJ, musician and former political journalist Anika Henderson, known professionally just by her first moniker. The new album is called Change, and it couldn’t be a more appropriate title; how different a world it has become in the decade and a bit …
New Music: Humanoid Gods – Humanoid Gods 02 EP
Humanoid Gods describe their latest EP ( Humanoid Gods 02 ) as a journey which embraces the unexplained, unidentified and unbelievable events which take place in our stratosphere from the beyond. A gripping odyssey from another realm of the cosmos full of darkness, tension and interstellar soundscapes. Opening with impending power, ‘Aguadilla UFO’ is a …
Track: Weval announce new EP “Changed for the Better” out 12 Nov via Technicolour: Lead single out now
Critically-acclaimed Amsterdam synth duo Weval (aka Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) have arrived on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint with news of forthcoming 4-track EP Changed For The Better. Having cultivated a unique sound, they balance high energy electronic funk and emotive synth arrangements with bold, beautifully composed melodies and songwriting. During the time of …
Track: Falle Nioke And Ghost Culture – Ayekouma
After previously blowing us away with tracks and Loneliness and Barké off thier last EP ‘Youkounkoun’, Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture reunite for a brand new EP entitled ‘Badiare’, due 5th November via PRAH Recordings. Today, they share a brand new single ‘Ayekouma’. The song title literally means “talk,” with “Ayekuma be fore” meaning “Say whatever” in Malenki, one of the …
Premiere: mynameisleonidas releases brilliant bass heavy ‘Lands’ for Kitsuné Musique
We delighted to be able to premiere ‘Lands’, the new track from new Kitsuné Musique signing mynameisleonidas right here on Backseat Mafia today. The enigmatic producer / musician has delivered this bass heavy banger, pulling in elements of bass, world and hip-hop together into something both unique and effortlessly present. Saying only “What if the …
Album Review: Sarah Davachi – ‘Antiphonals’
Sarah Davachi is a composer and performer who, like fellow keyboardists Ana Roxanne or Anna Von Hausswollf, relentlessly navigates the tidal intersections between electronic and drone music. As an artist she has serious collaborative credentials, having worked with such luminaries as Basinski, Grouper, Donald Buchla and Loren Connors, but since 2018 Davachi has focused more …
PREMIERE: Canadians Dear Rouge rail against influencer culture on storming return ‘Fake Fame’
It’s been a hot minute since we heard from Canadian duo Dear Rouge; the duo of Drew and Danielle McTaggart have kept a relatively low profile since the release of their second album Phases in 2018, and what have they been up to since then? Well, it hasn’t all been downtime – they’ve completed work …
News: Brisbane’s ‘COLLAR’ drop their new EP ‘Hard Time To Take It’ with focus single ‘Tripping Over Myself
Following on from the success of their bold and self-assured debut EP, 2020’s Strangest Desires, COLLAR’S brand new EP HARD TIME TO TAKE IT is out now and proving to be a hypnotic, grungy beat-driven offering that features flickering percussive production from Charles Murdoch and Spencer White’s signature deep vocals. COLLAR will also be playing one of the very first shows at the newly-restored …