Tagged: electronic/dance
GEN F: Slava
Slava Balasanov is 30, with a precise bowl cut and a surprising fondness for the plain black dress shoes of a bank teller. The son of two mathematicians, he spent his first 12 years in … read more »
Stream: Becoming Real’s Solar Dreams/Neon Decay EP
Becoming Real’s new EP, Solar Dreams/Neon Decay, is named for brightness and warmth and decay from a hot light, but there’s such an icy chill to the production that we’re put in an extraterrestrial mindset—you … read more »
Stream: Fatima Al Qadiri, “How Can I Resist U” (Girl Unit Remix) + “D-Medley” Video
While there is a great deal of texture to Fatima Al Qadiri‘s music, what’s so striking about it is how steely it can be. “D-Medley,” a song that heavily uses a steel pan, the Caribbean’s … read more »
Stream: Bam Spacey’s Land EP
Bam Spacey, the production alias of Malmö, Sweden’s Magnus Johansson, has at last prepped his debut EP, Land, for the great little label Ceremony. Despite its terrestrial name, Land is music for star gazing, with … read more »
Stream: Jessie Ware, “What You Won’t Do for Love”
Jessie Ware shares this cover of Bobby Caldwell’s 1978 smash, “What You Won’t Do for Love,” produced by previous collaborator Sampha, who replaces the original’s swaying, end-of-a-wedding brass with dotted cell phone ring tickle and … read more »
How To Dress Well, “Ocean Floor For Everything” MP3
After How To Dress Well released Love Remains, an album’s worth of meditations on love and, more specifically, loss, cloaked in a dense fog of rumbling low-end, I wasn’t sure where he could go without … read more »
The XX to Tour America This Summer
After a few small shows in London where they debuted new music, The XX are currently making their way through Europe. North American fans need not fret, though, as the band has announced that will … read more »
Stream: Lapalux, “Time Spike Jamz”
The best Lapalux songs are indeterminately biological, his smooth synths taking on waveforms usually reserved for the curves and warps only found in flowers and heard through stethoscopes. “Time Spike Jamz,” released on his Many … read more »
Download Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix
It seems pretty fitting that Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix begins not with Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, but with Badalamenti talking about the score, while the key dramatic bit plays in the background. It feels … read more »
Stream: Teengirl Fantasy, “Motif”
New York based knob-twisting and gym-going duo Teengirl Fantasy will release their second album, to feature “more sophisticated production” and “compositional focus,” this summer on True Panther and R&S. New track “Motif,” where piano is … read more »
