An accomplished artist of the Parisian electronic scene, FKJ, also known as French Kiwi Juice, is one of the flag bearers of the New French House musical genre. A native of Tours (France), but now based in Paris, FKJ is a leading talent and one of the most emblematic artists of the Roche Musique...
For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force – an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it. As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with...
Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. And like the best techno, kraut, and psychedelia have proven throughout time, sometimes the most minimal framework is the strongest container for transcendence. Which is what...
Martin Glover, better known as Youth, the founder member and bass player OF Killing Joke, a Grammy award winning producer and collaborator with Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney & The Verve amongst many, and Chris Bowsher from Radical Dance Faction (RDF) have had an association since the early 90's when...
The latest release from Pascal Comelade & The Liminanas on Because Music!
London-based, Australian-born Teneil Throssell, aka HAAi, is known for a strain of sonic psychedelia that metabolises precise sound design, melodic techno, electronic pop and thundering beats. Following the release of her acclaimed 2022 album, Baby, We’re Ascending, HAAi has reached what she calls...
‘Return to Archive’, Matmos' 14th album, is constructed entirely from the “non-musical” recordings released by Folkways Records in the mid-20th century. It contains sounds sourced from dozens of LPs, from Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Sounds of Insects to...
Mort Garson’s Road To Cool Cultural Cache And The Sublimity Of Plantasia Meant A Decades’ Long Journey Through An Underworld Of Sophisticated, International, String-Laced Dreck (I. E., Your Great-Grandparents’ Record Collection) To Arrive At Music From Patch Cord Productions, This Set Of...
A pioneer in his field, Etienne de Crecy remains more than ever one of the pillars of house music made in France. In his three-decade career, the French producer has recorded some of the world's most important electronic music albums, including Tempovision, released in 2000, arguably his most...
Maya Shenfeld’s expansive, kaleidoscopic music is as illuminating as it is exquisite. Classically trained, Shenfeld has fast grown into one of contemporary music’s most exciting, vital voices. Every aspect of her dazzling, multifaceted output interrogates the way we experience the world around us...
The Body & Dis Fig are a natural pair. Each has pioneered instantly recognizable worlds of sound all their own that defy any traditional categorizations or boundaries. The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, continually challenge any conventional conception of metal, collaborating with myriad artists...
Embarking on an unprecedented musical odyssey, Meril Wubslin unveils their highly anticipated fourth album, “Faire Ça,” a sonic journey recorded in Kwake Bass' South London studio. This nine-track masterpiece defies genre boundaries, seamlessly merging blues, folk, post-rock, and dub, resulting in...
Heavee is a Queer Chicagoan DJ & producer with a long history in footwork. His 2022 ‘Audio Assault’ EP on Hyperdub showcased synth-driven, melodic footwork, but ‘Unleash’ goes much further into audio world-building, with a fresh, spongy and citrus-y sound palette and rich, bright chord sequences....
Written and produced by Kieran Hebden. Photography by Jason Evans. Design by Jason Evans and Matthew Cooper. P+C Text Records 2024.
Kaleida are the transatlantic duo whose darkly mystic soundworld finds glimmers of hope in the disquiet. Spanning an ocean, the pair have nurtured a long-distance partnership that withstands the shifting patterns of life. They first formed in 2013 when a friend introduced them over email. Christina...
The history of BBC Maida Vale Sessions is familiar to The Utopia Strong. As musicians, and lifelong music fans, the legacy – the importance – of such recordings is not lost on them. Space and place influence creativity, as is the case here, and the sleeve is a loving homage to those classic BBC...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal debut, iconic French duo AIR releases a 2CD/1BLU-RAY edition with rare and even unreleased material of their most legendary album “MoonSafari”. The package includes a Spatial Atmos audio version of the original album, along with a remarkable...
Highly anticipated debut album from UK junglist, Nia Archives. Nia Archives is the star at the forefront of the latest era of jungle. Since her emergence in 2020, her collagist soundscapes have helped bring the sound to a new generation of clubgoers (though fair warning: don’t call her a revivalist...
The Virgin Suicides, AIR's second album and the evocative soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut is reissued as The Virgin Suicides Redux for its 25th anniversary. A brand-new analogic mix of the original album deepens and updates the haunting and beautiful soundscapes that have only...
Strictly limited edition CD with 4 bonus tracks & a 3D effect, lenticular slipcase. Maya (stylised as /\/\ /\ Y /\) is the upcoming third studio album by British-Sri Lankan recording artist M. I.A., set to be released on 13 July 2010 on her own label, N. E.E. T Recordings, through XL Recordings and...