Electronic
Track: 19EIGHTY7 – Let’s get it on (Youthonix Remix)
Discovered at this years Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), London prouducer (or beat mechanic as he prefers) 19EIGHTY7’s first release is this intoxicating mix of soul, house, funk and electronica, titled ‘Let’s get it on’. Driven by this epic (I use that word carefully) soulful vocal, it’s been given the once over from producer YOUTHONIX, who’s …
Track: RKCB x Demo Taped – Open Arms
Ahead of heading down to SXSW, and fresh from playing a sold out show in their hometown Los Angeles, RKCB have teamed up with Atlanta producer and artist Demo Taped for a new soul/RnB infused single – Open Arms. Demo Taped himself is revving up for a US tour with Vallis Alps. Open arms has …
Album Review: Låpsley – Long Way Home
Holly Lapsley Fletcher (aka Låpsley) is from Merseyside, but it’s easy to imagine she’s from Scandinavia based on the icy electronica melting under the warmth of her soulful vocals on debut album ‘Long Way Home’. This contrast of hot and cold is an interesting juxtaposition on album opener ‘Heartless’ and it’s a theme that continues …
News: LUH release details of new album, watch album trailer here plus UK/European dates
LUH, or Lost Under Heaven as it stands for, are Amsterdam based duo Ellery Roberts, better known as frontman of WU LYF and audio visual artist Ebony Hoorn. Over the past two years they’ve been releasing all manner of art, music, photography, film and more, including the rather beautiful ‘Lost Under Heaven’ music and accompanying …
Album Review: Jack Garratt – Phase
Jack Garratt at first sight and listen is a swirling mass of contradictions. Aged just 24, he’s the latest recipient of both the BRIT award Critics’ Choice (previously won by Sam Smith, Tom Odell, Emeli Sande, Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, Florence + the Machine, Adele) and the BBC Sound of… (previously won by (Years & …
Track: Take Berlin – Motion
Out today is Motion, the new track from Brooklyn duo Take Berlin. It took a chance meeting between the pair, both musicians, Yvonne Ambrée who does backings for little boots and sleigh bells on occasion, and Jesse Barnes, who plays guitar in aloe blacc’s band. We asked the band “are you guys always in “motion”? …
Album Review: Thug Entrancer – Arcology
I think I’ve always liked electronic music in some form or another. From intros to 80s cartoons to being enamored by Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” at the age of 9, there’s always been a connection for me to that buzzing and humming musical world. Unfortunately properly articulating that fondness has always eluded me. “I really like the …
Track: Ideomotor – Away from here (ILARI remix)
There’s a distinct Finnish flavour to ‘Away from here’, the new track from Ideomotor. The pair, Erkka Wennonen and Kimmo Myllviita, hail from Helsinki and have been mixing up the intoxicating mix of pop, indie and synth/electro since 2014. They in turn have allowed fellow countryman, producer and one half of White Balance, ILARI, to …
Track: Protoje – Who Knows ft Chronixx (shy fx remix)
Legendary London drum and bass producer/DJ Shy FX has got hold of the Who Knows from Jamaican artist Protoje. Already no stranger to radio play, the track comes from his breakthrough 2015 album Ancient Future, and features fellow Jamaican Chronixx on the vocals. Originally a straight up reggae belter (do people outside Wigan refer to …
Track: Beyond the Wizards Sleeve – Diagram Girl
It was always going to be brilliant, the collaboration of Erol Alkan and former Grid member Richard Norris, under the moniker of Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, and their many reanimations (as they refer to their remixes) as well as a 2012 single ‘Black Noise’/’Door To Tomorrow’ proved the assumption to be correct. Now there’s a …