It’s a blistering afternoon in Ibiza, and the sun feels laser-trained on the Hard Rock Hotel, where the International Music Summit is taking place. The...
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Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and...
“We’ve always liked the term ‘mutant’,” write Daniele Guerrini and Francesco Birsa Alessandri when asked to describe the abstract sounds of their label, Haunter Records...
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An hour of slippery tones, asymmetrical rhythms and Technicolor club sounds from The Lot Radio resident, Human Pitch co-founder and sound designer extraordinaire Tristan Arp...
“I’ve always been super fascinated by sound itself, and seeing how I can mould it into new forms,” says Tristan Arp, a New York-based producer...
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London experimental music platform Edited Arts readies its third release, mutate3k’s ‘Static’. Hear the spellbinding title track, featuring PAN affiliate Kareem Lotfy, now
London’s Edited Arts, an experimental music platform and event series, will share its third release, mutate3k’s ‘Static’, on 8th November.
Featuring six original tracks and...
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J Colleran launches his new Oyae label with a five track EP of sensational sound design and weightless ambience. Hear ‘2Hydra (ft. Nami Sato)’ now
Irish experimental and ambient producer J Colleran has launched a new label, Oyae.
Kicking off the label with an EP of his own, the RBMA...
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Held in Berlin's jawdropping Kraftwerk building, the radical and avant-garde ethos of Atonal has solidified its status as one of the most crucial experimental music...
There’s hardly a festival that embodies Berlin’s free spirit better than Berlin Atonal. Launched in 1982 by Dimitri Heggemann at the legendary SO36 venue, Atonal...
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Celebrating inventive sounds and dynamic collaborations above all, this year’s edition of Wysing Polyphonic, guest-curated by Somerset House Studios, pushes the boundaries of experimentation in...
Inventive DJing, mind-altering live sets, and absurd explorations in artificial intelligence make for an unparalleled late-summer day out at Wysing Polyphonic 2019. Marking its tenth...
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'Athena' is due via Stones Throw on 1st November
Following the release of new single 'Confessions', Sudan Archives has announced her debut full-length record, 'Athena'.
'Athena' is due via Los Angeles-based label Stones Throw...
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Amazondotcom steps up with an hour of maximum-intensity club sounds and animated bass manoeuvres as part of our Fresh Kicks series
On her debut EP, ‘Mirror River’, Los Angeles producer Amazondotcom carved an uncanny niche in club music – familiar enough to dance to, but intoxicatingly...
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Experimental sound artist, rkss, delivers a high-intensity mix of pop manipulations, Jersey club, footwork and frenzied EDM as part of our Fresh Kicks series
rkss’ Fresh Kicks mix opens with a frenzied mash-up of metallic flutes, propulsive kicks and the isolated vocal from Rhianna’s ‘Diamonds’. It’s a striking opening...
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Experimental artist and producer Lighght readies debut album, ‘Gore-Tex In The Club, Balenciaga Amongst The Shrubs’. Hear the thunderous club cut ‘Dark Rush’ now
Following the release of his debut EP, ‘The Skin Falls Off The Body’ in 2018 on Dream Catalogue, Cork experimental club producer Lighght will release...
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Looking bigger and better than ever...
Berlin’s Atonal Festival has capped its incredible 2019 lineup.
The latest additions include rRoxymore, Forest Drive West and Mala, who join previously announced names like...
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The clip was designed for the 'Cornucopia' tour...
Björk has shared a new video for ‘Losss’, a track that featured on her 2017 'Utopia' album.
The surreal clip is directed by Tobias Gremmler...
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The EP drops later this month
Laurel Halo, Varg, Nkisi, BADSISTA and Wilson Phoenix will feature on LYZZA’s five-track ‘IMPOSTER’ remix EP.
The EP first dropped in 2018, and deals with...
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The EP is due later this month
object blue has announced a new EP, set to drop this month.
‘FIGURE BESIDE ME’ features two tracks object blue wrote around the time she...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
As Ethiopian Records, Endeguena Mulu’s vision for electronic music recontextualizes tradition. With a view to evolving the sounds of his home country, the Addis...
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Dedicated to breaking down cultural binaries and taking on the music industry juggernaut, SOPHIE has obliterated the lines between underground dance music and commerical pop...
Recognise is DJ Mag's monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music circuit. This month, we catch up...
A couple of weeks ago, Oliver van der Lugt, aka producer, DJ, designer and label head Air Max ‘97, was at a family reunion...
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Peruvian DJ and producer Valicha joins NÓTT’s second compilation with a vibrant and experimental effort. Listen to ‘Traído Por El Viento’ now...
Peruvian DJ, producer and Arista Festival founder Valicha teams up with Colombia’s feminist collective NÓTT on a new compilation EP, out 11th July.
Entitled ‘Austral’...
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The hallowed experimental festival takes place at the end of August...
Berlin Atonal has revealed the second wave of acts joining its 2019 line-up.
The festival runs across five days from the 28th August to 1st...
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Mesmerising techno and reflective, rolling rhythms from Berlin-based Sierra Leonean artist, DJ and Sci-Fi & Fantasy label founder, Lamin Fofana...
Lamin Fofana’s music is reflective and complex, lucid and transportive, absorbing and beautifully abstract. More crucially though, for the Berlin-based Sierra Leonean artist and those...