JUSTICE – STOP
2018-05-14Justice drop a new video for their single Stop. Directed by Mrzyk and Moriceau, a French creative duo who have also worked with the likes of Sébastien Tellier and Air.
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TweetREALMZ – MINDFOLD
2018-05-07Realmz returns with an infectious well rounded four cut extended EP entitled “Mindfold”. Straight out of Pittsburgh the steel city capital of the USA Realmz has been involved in electronic music since the last decade of the 20th century.
TweetGROUPER – GRID OF POINTS
2018-05-07The first Grouper album in 4 years finds Liz Harris stripped of FX, pairing her vocals with skeletal piano gestures in beautifully pregnant space. For anyone familiar with the miasmic fuzz of Grouper’s previous releases, the relative clarity is quietly shocking in effect, revealing her songs and sound at their most vulnerable, and, in the process, locating a newfound strength in fragility.
Grid Of Points was recorded in Wyoming shortly after Liz finished recording Grouper’s Ruins out in Aljezur, Portugal, and on the most immediate level it seems to describe the difference in recording locations between windswept Atlantic coastline and sparse, landlocked insularity. The seven songs were written over a week and a half, with the process curtailed by a bout of what she describes as “high fever”. What remains forms some of Grouper’s most legible lyrics and intimate instrumentation, with each piece framed by stark, unprocessed space working in the same role usually occupied by her billowing sheets of harmonic distortion.
TweetCHILDISH GAMBINO – THIS IS AMERICA
2018-05-07New video drop from Childish Gambino aka Donald McKinley Glover Jr.
Directed by Hiro Murai
MAX COOPER – BALANCE 030
2018-05-04Balance has long been a series that elicits the greatest efforts and most original thinking from artists when it comes to the concept of what we know as a DJ mix. On a technical level, 118-minute odyssey is drenched with subtle detailing, editing, rearranging — even binaural processing only audible on headphones that appears to make sounds move around the listener’s head in all directions.
Exclusives come in the form of Coopers’ own Balance (Perc Tool) — self-explanatory — and the blissful depths of Music of The Tides, constructed using an intricate binaural particle cloud simulator plugin created by Rob Clouth. “I wanted to create moving clouds of sound and similarly swelling clouds of melodic synthesis with soft pads and delays” Cooper says of the majestic composition. Clouth also provides three other tracks on the mix (“you can spot which tracks are his by the mastery of intricate productions and beautiful sound design”). More unreleased material comes via Deapmash’s Blocks — a fixture in Cooper’s sets of late — and fellow Balance compiler Patrice Baumel’s remix of Cooper’s Organa, which Baumel wanted to scrap until he witnessed the amazing reactions when Cooper played it at a festival they both featured at last year. New English act Brecon provide sumptuous broken beat electronica on another exclusive, Half Light, and Cooper’s remix of Nils Frahm’s Juno-60 based live jam, For, which finally gets an official release.
Available at Balance030MaxCooper
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LOIDIS (HUERCO S) – A PARADE, IN THE PLACE..
2018-04-30New twelve on Hank Jacksons Anno label by Loidis aka Huerco S. aka Pendant aka The Royal Crown of Sweden.
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