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Fly Anakin's debut studio album Frank is out now, and draws influence from the classic R&B and Soul his dad played him as a child, showcasing a gift for songwriting alongside the breathless raps he’s known for Recorded at the same time as FlySiifu’s, it features Pink Siifu on the DJ Harrison produced ‘Black Be The... -
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On their fourth album BGM, YMO continued where they left off with X∞ Multiplies, by venturing further into synthesizers, drum computers and experimentation with rhythm, sequences and speeds This album is more focused on atmosphere and mood, some even say this album is a turning point for YMO and the international Pop music...
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I Told Bessie is the third solo album from New York City rapper/producer Chaz Hall aka ELUCID The title is a reference to his paternal grandmother, Bessie Hall, a powerful presence in his life until she passed away in 2017 From childhood afternoons running around her apartment in the Red Hook projects, to living under the same...
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Church is the new project from billy woods, produced entirely by longtime Armand Hammer collaborator Messiah Musik The album is a tightly wound exploration of memory and faith, marijuana and fate, the price of love and the cost of doing business Equal parts memoir and sativa-tinged fever dream, Church moves from Jamaica, Queens to...
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Coming full circle, Vålnad Av Fornskog is the fourth and final part in Arv & Miljö's suite of seasonal ambient albums initiated with Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott, 2018) and continued with Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Ensam Är Nattens Rymd Över Vita Vägar (Discreet Music, 2021) Heavily inspired by the...
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Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town somewhere in the USA After a comet hits the town, mysterious things starts to happen The Gothenburg-based artist Magnus Jäverling started to develop the concept and story around 2016, which included a scale model of the town and now the culmination of the project; his 10-track debut album...
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On Bridge Variations, the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle Mostly recorded to tape under different bridges around Stockholm during 2021, partly for the sound but also because of their importance to the geographical make-up of the place, the album is like a modern take on...
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ten years in the making, finally the debut album of this belgian sextet with members of Mote, Joe Speedboat and Annelies Monseré arrives Cello, flute, harmonium and violin blend in with the traditional guitar-bass-drums trio – making them land on a unique spot at the crossroad where ancestral doom folk, heady dronerock and...
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In January 2021, Eelco Topper (Felbm) went into hermit mode by way of a two-week residency at Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a former monastery on the outskirts of his hometown of Utrecht, Netherlands He had already intended to use only natural elements for inspiration, such as naturally-occurring textures and patterns, and the...
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Ulla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by...
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The prolific German musician Christian Schoppik is dropping his second solo record of 2022 under the moniker Läuten der Seele, following up his critically acclaimed self-titled debut album released at the start of the year Once again, 'Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage' (The Mother Mary Grotto as a Drinking...
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We are very happy to present 'Extended Play 1 & 2', a double vinyl compilation of the two latest, masterful EPs from Londoners TOMAGA The first was released on vinyl in 2019 in a limited edition, and today is almost impossible to find The second, released digitally the following year, now has its first vinyl release on this...
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Daniel Avery's most ambitious and accomplished studio album to date, 'Ultra Truth', is out now on limited edition double white vinyl, CD and blue cassette 'Ultra Truth' offers a very different listening experience to any of Daniel Avery’s previous records It inhabits its own world of sound, a construct built in his Thames...
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Widely-loved electronic maestro Gigi Masin returns with ‘Vahinè' – a mini album of beautiful and distinct music that is unmistakably his, sounding better than everMasin always pours his heart into composing, but here it takes on a potent new level of heavy emotion – as it’s a tribute to his late wife, who sadly passed...
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Moin, Tara Clerkin Trio, Roxane Metayer, TRjj, Pat Benjamin, Valentina Magaletti and many more are snaffled in World of Echo's butterfly net for a lovely 4th year anniversary DIY survey Hoxton-based label and record shop World of Echo have emerged as a vital part of the DIY music landscape during their years in operation since...
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Mahogany Brain forged their unique audio dialect with their debut release, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) for the legendary Futura label in 1971 More Avant-Garde than Prog, it spoke to the souls of the dedicated one percenters — such as the ESP Disk set — specifically patrons of The Godz and Cromagnon But in...
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Samurai Champloo Music Record: Impression is the fourth soundtrack album in the series of the anime show Samurai Champloo It contains tracks by Nujabes, Force of Nature, Fat Jon and MINMI The lyrics on “Hiji Zuru Style” are written and performed by S-Word and Suiken The lyrics on “Who’s Theme” are written and...
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Samurai Champloo Music Record: Departure is a soundtrack album, originally released on June 23, 2004 It is the second of four soundtrack albums released for the show The album was produced by Japanese DJ / producer Nujabes, and American MC/producer Fat Jon, and featured Japanese rapper Shing02 and Japanese singer-songwriter...
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Aethiopes is billy woods’ first album since 2019’s double feature of Hiding Places and Terror Management The project is fully produced by Preservation (Dr Yen Lo, Yasiin Bey), who delivered a suite of tracks on Terror Management, including the riveting single “Blood Thinner” The two collaborated again on Preservation’s...
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Ride announce details of the reissues of their early classic EPs and albums, embark on a 'Nowhere' 30th anniversary tour and release a live film Ahead of their ‘Nowhere’ 30th anniversary UK tour starting 20th April, shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via...
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Crack Cloud’s new album Tough Baby is both a clarion call and a life-manual for the listener Unsurprisingly, it is a record with purpose and resolve Nothing is wasted Sometimes the music feels deliberately compressed, the essences extracted and bottled into an overpowering cordial, as on ‘115 At Night’, which sounds like an...
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Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian recording artist, songwriter, and producer currently based in Berlin, Germany Dalt channels sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia on her eighth studio album ¡Ay!, where the sound and syncopation of Tropical Music encounter adventurous impulse, lush instrumentation, and metaphysical sci-fi...
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Reissue There's not another album on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal's eccentric, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, Drum Dance To The Motherland Thirty years after its release, the album's tapestry of sound, fearless abstractions, relentless grooves, cool swing, flashes of ecstasy, and pan cultural...
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For Patrick Flegel, Cindy Lee is more than just a recording music project It is the culmination of a lifelong exploration of art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression “Singers like Patsy Cline and The Supremes carried me through the hardest times of my life,” explains Flegel, “and also provided the...
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Liai's debut LP, Pome, via Quiet Time Tapes "On “Pome”, Liai has given us a stunning work of expertly crafted rhythmic ambience, inspired by the intimacy and solitude of the midwestern countryside Having grown up in rural Missouri, Liai channels the mixed feelings that can accompany solo contemplation in nature -...
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The Chameleons (arguably the best band to come out of Manchester) with their critically acclaimed classic third album, Strange Times Recorded on the legendary Geffen label, it sees the band’s atmospheric post punk anthems with soaring guitars and driving rhythms at their peak, and Mark Burgess’s compelling vocals coming...
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Elle Andrews & Jon K’s MAL label pushes left with FOQL’s new album of polyrhythmic sidewinders and blacklit electronics, edging into crankier spaces on a tense flux somewhere between Raime's blasted-earth topographies and Anthony Manning's crystalline FM sequences Hailing from Łódź, Poland, Justyna Banaszczyk aka FOQL...
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FKA twigs’ highly anticipated mixtape CAPRISONGS is now on vinyl The mixtape documents twigs’ “journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and friends” and showcases an evolution and expansion for this prolific artist who continues to thoughtfully push at the edges of her art “CAPRISONGS… it’s bronzer in...
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We are finally set to reissue Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn-based hip hop trio Digable Planets The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the...
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Following the release of his album trilogy (Kwaidan, Komachi and Kofū), Meitei has established himself as a defining voice in contemporary Japanese music By sharing intricate sonic stories and impressions of his nation's rich culture, he has built an aural world around his notion of the ‘lost Japanese mood’ His latest...
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Coby Sey steps out with his remarkable debut album 'Conduit' "'Conduit' is a statement of intent, reaffirming my dedication to transcend the tangible through music – it’s my way to continue and contribute to the musical lineage laid by those before me, locally and worldwide" - Coby Sey Written, performed, instrumentation...
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First vinyl pressing of Baroque by Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Yokota The full-length album was originally released by United Sounds Of Blue in 2004, a subdivision of Frogman Records in CD format Now it is being re-released by Barcelona-based record label Modern Obscure Music as a double LP and in digital...
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Sounding simultaneously from the past, the present, and the future, the debut album 'MLDE' by Marxist Love Disco Ensemble seeks to eradicate both the trite from disco and the sobriety from political music Half poetic, half tongue-in-cheek, this stunning compact eight-track album is influenced by Eastern European and Mediterranean...
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Reissue, originally released in 1989 After Dinner's Paradise of Replica is a concise nugget of tomfoolery that occupies a whimsical no man's land between art pop, Japanese folk music, and full-assed Art Zoydian avant proggery Gentle, arcane and covertly sweeping, it typifies that friendly strain of experimentalism that Eastern...
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Written between 2020-2021, “Cerulean” is a ten-track album which delves into the isolation of the emotion of blue The tracks flow between UK genres, combining sliced breaks, emotive melodic synths and deep pulsating low end to audibly display Jeigo’s intricate and melancholic production qualities The album was produced in...
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The musical partnership of Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich orbits around a shared center of earnestness, slice-of-life poeticism, and the subtle everyday banality that becomes beautiful, even absurd, under their slight redirection Where 2020's Philadelphia placed domestic interiors under a microscope, documenting the indoor...
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”Krökta Tankar Och Brända Vanor” is the first proper release by Gothenburg’s Amateur Hour since 2019’s ”Framtiden Tillhör Inte Oss” Julia, Hugo & Dan are no strangers in the Gothenburg Underground scene, and have performed in acts such as Westkust, Sewer Election, Enhet För Fri Musik, Makthaverskan, Typical...
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The highly sought after debut album originally released through Förlag För Fri Musik, finally reissued! Pressed in 500 copies with updated cover art & contains an insert with liner notes written by Mattias Rörström (Happiest Place...
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The follow-up album from 2019, originally released through Happiest Place Records - sold out since release & finally back in print! 500 copies pressed & comes with a poster insert reproducing the original promo...
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700 Bliss is the forward-thinking duo of DJ Haram and Moor Mother On their first full length release for Hyperdub, Nothing to Declare, the duo create an album of noise rap, one that ties together the raw edges of club music and hip hop with punk energy, jazz, house-party catharsis, loud percussion-heavy analogue sound design, and...
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Gather your loved ones, Together is here Duster's fourth album is a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and overdriven rhythm tracks "I know people say, 'Oh Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before," Clay Parton said "But it's a lot...
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Big City - "Liquid Times" A Recurring Daydream on zero gasoline Pixelating to exaltation on a big city night cantaloupe runs hard in the dungeon then car home at 6am "Firestarter walk with me" you like saxophones I like the kinks A guitar virtuoso and a big bass bliss 5 songs 45...
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In 1997 and 1998, the late great Japanese composer, producer, and DJ Susumu Yokota released two of the most eclectic albums of his decades-long career, Fruits of The Room and Greenpeace Recorded under his Stevia alias for Tokyo Techno pioneer DJ Miku’s Newstage Records/NS-COM, they were Yokota-san’s homage to the foundational...
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Second Circle are delighted to announce a five track EP from Kaifeng born, Vancouver based musician Yu Su, titled ‘泉出通川为谷 / Roll With The Punches' Recorded on the Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, three tracks on the EP grew out of a live set Yu Su began developing in 2018 for a series of performances The record...
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Sarah Davachi's most satisfying album yet is a love-letter to early music that expertly spans her interests in instrumentation, synthesis, minimalism and tradition Rooted in the past, it's guided into the present by Davachi's unmistakably prudent hand - a patient examination of the through-line between choral, meditative drone and...
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The first full-length vinyl collection by Tokyo-based producer Zefan Sramek aka Precipitation crystallizes his evolving synthesis of new age ambience, tape hiss, and house music into a riveting suite of motion and mirage: Glass Horizon Conceived and recorded between two formative trips to Sado Island in the spring and late summer...
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"I'll never forget the first time I heard JJulius I was stumbling down the waxed marble steps of the Sunset Marquis, sipping in vain from my empty flask, when David Bowie pulled up in a tangerine Hummer H3 he "borrowed" from one of those Kraftwerk guys, either Hans or Franz Michael Stipe was sitting shotgun (this was his pre-fame,...
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Joe Chambers's The Almoravid, originally released in 1974 Terrific session just released on influential independent Muse A modal masterpiece verging on spiritual jazz with a series of excellent players: from Richard Davis and Cecil McBee on bass to Ray Mantilla on congas and percussion,...
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