Mourning the loss of techno icon and Detroit pillar Kelli Hand, K-Hand
K-Hand, one of the most powerful voices in techno and house, a friend and irreplaceable community member to so many...
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Weekend mood – Gabber Modus Operandi
Just going to leave it here for Friday. Everyone in Indonesia is in our thoughts at the moment. Gabber Modus...
Fractured – Seefeel revisit their brilliant, tough 90s and reveal what’s coming this decade
The frightening, darkly beautiful music of Seefeel was revelatory from its early-90s debut. And now with a set of reissues...
The experimental sound tech program teaching girls and nonbinary kids that embraces errors
Imagine not just embracing girls and nonbinary and queer trans kids as music students - but encouraging DIY, hot-wiring a...
Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here
The ruins of fractured accordions are reanimated with hybrid mechanical-digital constructions, to sing the imagined love ballads of a wounded...
Music for orangutans, as Lyra Pramuk and Rani Jambak connect to Sumatra’s ecosystem
The music flows easily, entangled like vines, in a production constructed between Berlin and Indonesia over Zoom. But in these...
Premiere: Dark Forces by The Allegorist plunges us into a gorgeously surreal, shamanistic future
It's the ultimate neo-futuristic concept album, complete with invented language for the lyrics ("Mondoneoh") and a protaganist known as Dragon...
Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string
Someone sucked Bochum, Duisburg, and Dortmund into a digital realm full of VR air pollution visualization - and in the...
In pandemic year two, streaming in China builds underground electronic music community
With community radio and online features, the metaverse in cities like Chengdu and Shanghai continues to be a conduit for...
7 Creative Plugins to Spark Inspiration When You’re Stuck
As creatives, we’re all familiar with the dreaded writer’s block. It can come at any time and turn the fluid and...
