CHLOÉ ROBINSON & DJ ADHD – PAX

Posted on 2022-08-29

Chloé Robinson and DJ ADHD’s Steamin EP has all the markings of a club hit – hefty doses of catchy bass and jackin’ energy are thrown together on a set of four tracks at a pulse-raising 135+ bpm throughout, with a killer Four Tet mix to finish. Firstly, Chloé Robinson and DJ ADHD pull out the jack on title track Steamin, with cut-up vocals amidst 909 drums, and the bass-driven, caffeine-fuelled syncopated beats of Redbull create a stir with some seriously infectious energy on the second track. Pax leans more towards techno, but utilises the same pallette used throughout the EP of hi-hats and swung beats. Lastly, Four Tet exercises masterful control of focus using a redefined sample from the seminal ‘Pulse X’ to ramp up the energy.

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MOUNT KIMBIE – IN YOUR EYES FEAT SLOWTHAI & DANNY BROWN

Posted on 2022-08-29

Mount Kimbie’s diverse and all-embracing spirit has never been so pronounced as on MK 3.5. Coming a year after their last drop of Love What Survives unreleased tracks ‘Black Stone’ and ‘Blue Liquid’, MK 3.5 marks not only a new release but a completely new era in Mount Kimbie’s artistry. After years of exploring their separate talents on opposite sides of the world, Dom and Kai present their new working process in singles split between the two of them.

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YANN TIERSEN – KERBER (REMIXES

Posted on 2022-08-29

Here Yann Tiersen has now handed over Kerber’s reigns to some of the brightest contemporary voices in experimental electronic music for this new Kerber Remixes EP. Alongside expectedly beguiling versions from Beatrice Dillon, Laurel Halo, and Iku Sakan are two winners of a remix contest hosted on SoundCloud, Sote and Simon Sky. Given nothing but the stems to ‘Ker al Loch’ Sote and Simon Sky beat out over a hundred other entries to land their remixes on the tracklist. It’s easy to see why: Sote’s foreboding mix accentuating the extra terrestrial qualities of the original composition and Simon Sky’s take locking firmly into a driving techno production.

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ROMARE – QUIET CORNERS OF MY MIND

Posted on 2022-08-22

Archie Fairhurst’s music as Romare has been described as “patchwork”, “collage”, and “kaleidoscopic” ever since he started releasing back in 2012. Ten years later, he dives even deeper into his collagist aesthetic than he has before, taking the road less travelled and entering a land of sonic adventure where anything is possible on his fourth album Fantasy.

Fantasy acts somewhat like a point of culmination for Romare as he forges his own path, inaugurating his very own label You See Records. He has taken in a vast array of sounds over his musical career – from footwork meditations and churning house rhythms, to swirling jazz and funk mixtures. Fantasy finds room for all of these influences to mingle, brought together by soulful samples abstractly sculpted across each track. Gargantuan club rhythms are interwoven with fleeting snippets of mediaeval incantations, and papery beats are cut with craft knives, glued together by samples sourced from 70s fantasy films and Fairhurst’s own vocals.

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DUET EMMO – OR SO IT SEEMS

Posted on 2022-08-22

Newly remastered from the original tapes, Duet Emmo’s “Or So It Seems” is released via Mute. Duet Emmo is the legendary collaboration between Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis (both of Wire and Dome) and Daniel Miller (The Normal and founder/owner of Mute). The album was originally released in 1983, and was the act’s only release. The result was the perfect amalgamation of Miller’s hard-line electronics and Gilbert and Lewis’ abstract and sparse textures, exhibiting why the anagrammatic combination of Dome and Mute was a fitting name for this project.

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KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – HAVE YOU FELT LATELY?

Posted on 2022-08-22

Composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns to Ghostly International with Let’s Turn it Into Sound, her most ambitious, intuitive, and inviting work to date. Though ambient and modern new age circles have embraced Smith’s catalog, Let’s Turn it Into Sound favors a more baroque and robust form of avant-pop. The music bursts with vertiginous vocal harmonies and detailed sound design, forming a truly unique sonic vision.

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