Electronic
Premiere: Score – Modern Wreck exclusive album stream, plus track by track
Score, aka Chris Tate of dance / electronica group d_rradio, is back with a new album Modern Wreck, out this Friday (5th June) on Cruel Nature Records through Bandcamp as a stream and as a limited Cassette. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the release exclusively ahead of its release here today on Backseat …
Track: Genevieve Artardi – Living like I know I’m gonna die
Taken from the forthcoming album from. Dizzy Strange Summer, out on Friday 17th July on Brainfeeder Records, ‘Living like I know I’m gonna die’ is the new single from LA vocalist, composer and producer Genevieve Artadi. It’s her second album, but first for Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, and her first self-produced release on any label. …
Track: KIDSØ – Childhood
Out right now is the new single from live-electro duo KIDSØ, out via Springstoff. It’s the title track of the German duo’s forthcoming album, out later in the year, and features African rhythms and a childrens choir. The band shared a little about the journey behind creating the track, saying: “The single ‘Childhood’ is the …
Track: Timo Maas – Utopie
German techno titan, Timo Maas joins forces with the Stripped Down label for a brand new single ‘Utopie’ due 19th June. The Hannover based artist joins forces with Claudio Ricci’s excellent Stripped Down Records for his latest musical offering which features vocals from singer/guitarist Rottler. The lack of structure creates a hypnotic collection of sparse …
EP: Sreym Hctim – Turn Tail
Brooklyn artist Sreym Hctim otherwise known as Mitch Myers is set to release his second EP via Illuminated Paths. Titled ‘Turn Tail’ it is five individual pieces of music playing with composition, soundscapes and DIY instrumentation. ‘Jigsaw Pieces’ plucks from a miniature harp, vinyl like scratching and soft female vocals opens the track before the …
See: Enter Shikari reveal new video for The Great Unknown
From their new album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’, the electronically orientated Alternative Rock band, Enter Shikari have released a music video on YouTube, of their tune ‘The Great Unknown’.Bristling with mood and atmosphere, the song and the music video evoke the Dypstopian character of both the movie, Blade Runner and it’s soundtrack …
Premiere: DIVE INDEX releases new video for ‘Waving at Airplanes’
Out today via Neutral Music is Waving At Airplanes, the fifth full length release from electronic composer/producer Will Thomas, aka DIVE INDEX. We’re absolutely delighted to premiere the video for the title track right here on Backseat Mafia today. The track, featuring Natalie Walker of trip-hop collective Daughter Darling, is this beautifully hazy slice of …
Track: Frase & SkiiTour – Too hot, too cold
Out now on Westwood Recordings is the new single from British Columbia singer, producer and mult-instrumentalist Frase and Whistler DJ/Production team SkiiTour, ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’. These gluey, hazy synths open the show on ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’, but it quickly loosens the shackles into this electro soul head nodder, the pulls in brass (synth) …
Track: Highschool Jacob – Stacey
Highschool Jacob is actually former Wesleyan music student Jacob Masters, who’s been trading in funky, feel-good songs since 2017. He’s released a new singer ‘Stacey’, and announced “HSJ 2020,” a collection of music and corresponding video games (yes video games) the press elevate claims is ‘highlighting his continued growth as an artist’, but we all know that it’s …
Track: 2Squared/Mark Gardener (Ride) – Chained
Ride‘s Mark Gardener has collaborated with 2Squared (Stephan Haeri of France’s Télépopmusik) in the depths of isolation in his new purpose-built OX4 Sound studio to produce a very nice slice of chilled, reflective electronica – ‘Chained’. The lyrics reflect a very difficult time for Gardener following the break up of Ride. Gardener explains: I wrote …