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Recommended: I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome

It’s been a good year for Dublin outfit I Am The Cosmos. They saw in the new year playing with the mighty Nightflight collective in The Grand Social, and later that month they released their debut album Monochrome on Elastic Witch, and premiering on Noisey. Strong reviews followed, and rightly so. It’s a sterling effort, […]

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Recommended: Freeze-Tag – Eskimo EP

Freeze-Tag (real name Marcus Alan Ward) is a Cleveland based multi-instrumentalist making dance-based ambient R&B. Described as a “prisma-chromatic” sound on his website, Ward is inspired by “retrograde and futuristic tones, as well as the unification of visual art and music”. He has great admiration for artists like Matisse, Rothko, Warhol, Van Gogh, Magritte, Basquiat, and […]

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Recommended: Music For Your Plants – Expedition Chant Cup EP

Music For Your Plants’ Expedition Chant Cup hones in on that real sweet spot between library and club music, just where we like it. It’s a vivid journey through digital detritus handled with a welcoming lightness of heart. In this respect, MFYP belong to a group of artists who are at once satirical, confusing, ambiguous, hyperreal yet […]

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Recommended: Jay Daniel – Scorpio Rising EP

2013 has seen quite a meteoric rise for the young producer/DJ from Detroit known as Jay Daniel. Starting as a DJ and co-organiser of the Detroit-based Fundamentals parties with Kyle Hall, Jay now has a record on one of the most esteemed labels in House, namely, Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature label, not to mention the fact […]

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Recommended: C L N K – Black Ecstacy

Error Broadcast have had a good year. They’ve been sparing with their offerings, but if nothing else they’ve given us the beautiful melancholy of Soosh’s Colour Is Breathe. Closing out the year they’ve released an album from Romanian producer C L N K, who previously released on the label as Montgomery Clunk. Black Ecstacy, an […]

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Recommended: RVDS – Moon On Milky Way

Despite joking with his friends that his music alias RVDS could be an abbreviation for a number of things such as “Rich Violet Detroit Sound” or “Rude Visions Destroys Science”, it’s relatively easy to see where producer Richard von Der Schulenburg got his inspiration from. Based in Hamburg, Schulenburg has been a resident DJ at […]

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Recommended: Akkord – Akkord

Akkord. Δkkord. Whichever. The shadowy Manchester duo surfaced early last year, dropping a well regarded, self-titled EP on their own label. Having provided a mix for the esteemed Electronic Explorations blog early on, they subsequently featured on the weighty EE compilation the following summer. It was appropriate, then, that they would join the ranks at […]

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Recommended: Mosca – A Thousand Years’ Wait EP

One thing Tom Reid can never be accused of is a lack of versatility. Whether he’s been channelling UK garage or producing pared-back house tracks, all of his records under his Mosca moniker seem to pursue different sonic territories. It’s perhaps no surprise that the man is yet to release on the same label twice. […]

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Recommended: NYMA – Windows To A Newdelic World

It’s All In You is a label set up by Berlin-based DJ, producer and audio professional Nima Chatrsimab, aka NYMA. Inspired by the chaos and pain in the world and keen to steer himself and others on a better path, he set up the label to connect with the universe. To paraphrase Rakim, as he […]

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Recommended: MssingNo – MssingNo EP

You know a release has really resonated with you when it dominates your listening time disproportionately; receiving a battering on loop for days-on-end despite all the other music you should probably be discovering, writing about or whatever. You know its special when it garners a track ID request from your usually resolutely disinterested girlfriend for […]

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Recommended: Mr Beatnick – The Synthetes Trilogy

We first covered Mr Beatnick upon the digital release of his Synthetes EP in the summer of 2011. A late pass, indeed, but we’ve been watching him and Don’t Be Afraid, the label he calls home, very closely ever since. He was even kind enough to give us our 42nd Truancy Volume. Over the past […]

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Recommended: Night Slugs Club Constructions 2013

Although it began as a club orientated label in 2010, the evolution of Night Slugs had taken it to more abstract territories of late. Last year, to ensure that at least one of the label’s feet was firmly on the dance floor, the founders Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990 inaugurated the Club Constructions series with […]

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