It feels like a long time ago when I asked the question: “Who Is Mr Jukes.” Back then we learned that Mr Jukes was the solo project of Jack Steadman — frontman of the English band, Bombay Bicycle Club. What I hadn’t known at the time was that when the band announced their hiatus in…
There is never not a good time to catch up on a bit of Com Truise’s flavor of psychedelic nostalgia electronic music. It’s like a warm and familiar hug. In Decay, Too is the follow-up album to Com Truise’s 2012 compilation,…
It’s June! Summer is finally here in the Northern hemisphere and the 5 month lockdown in the UK has finished! To celebrate we’ve got new music from Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Nubya Garcia, Channel Tres, Flight Facilities, Mura Masa, Green-House, Caravan…
Geneviève Ryan Martel (aka RYAN Playground) has just released a new 3-track EP under a new moniker: TDJ (Terrain De Jeux). The EP mixes 90s trance with the more mellow side of Euro electro-pop. Under this new rave-minded alter ego,…
As the world reboots Louie Zong’s ‘Hello, World’ is pretty much the anthem we all need right now, a self affirming mantra that we are still here. The expression [“Hello, World”] is often the first program coders learn to write, compelling your…
Music For Living Spaces is the new LP by Los Angeles-based artist Olive Ardizoni (aka Green-House). Olive Ardizoni first came onto our radar in 2019 with the release of their charming debut EP, Six Songs for Invisible Gardens. Ardizoni approaches things with…
“’No Matter Where I Go’ was birthed from longing,” explains Solomon B. Smith — the producer behind Love Montage. “At its core, this song is really just an honest expression of that. Romantic or otherwise, it’s a song about missing…
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…
For the album, Hewitt set out to document his experience of lockdown in New York City. As New York became more and more deserted, he went out with a field recorder to report how the sounds of the city changed. And while the premise was rooted in documenting the present, the project was very heavily influenced by the minimalist Japanese kankyō ongaku movement from the 1980s.
We live in a time when technology and innovation is advancing faster than we could imagine. Will we soon live in a time where technology has outlived us? Will the new innovations that we come up with this century be…