Lots of international superstar DJs end up making cosmic and exploratory records when they tire of – as the late Andrew Weatherall, albeit with tongue firmly in cheek, put it – “that ghastly oompty-boompty music.” Lots of them do quite well at it, too. But they are just daytrippers in the galactic expanse compared to […]

Lavender Networks marks the Warp debut of Fire-Toolz, Angel Marcloid’s hard-to-pin-down new age cybermetal project, which has issued albums on tape-friendly experimental labels like Hausu Mountain and Orange Milk. Coming several months after a Danny Brown album loaded with guest features from the hyperpop and digicore scenes, Marcloid’s presence on Warp shows that the label […]

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, and house music. Download: Electronic Forest – #8 – Jun 19, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:58 Wide Awake Empyre One, Koni Blank 03:56 C’est La Vie Dagny 07:24 C’est La Vie Twin Diplomacy, Kate Morgan 10:51 Where’s The Fun? Eileen Alister … Continue reading Electronic Forest – #8 – Jun 19, 2026 →

What is so captivating about a pitch-shifted vocal sample? Is it just good old existing IP, scratching the same itch for the trillionth time? Is it the thrill of hearing a sound you thought was fixed respawn somewhere totally new? Loukeman’s eggs are in the latter basket. The Toronto-based producer’s wistful, anemoic dance tracks trawl […]

Every other year, club culture is allotted one perfect track that punctures the underground-commercial barrier; one god-tier banger uniting both the 6 a.m.-arriving Nowadays member and the casual Friday-night goer-outer. In 2024, it was Nick León and Erika de Casier’s “Bikini.” Before that, the now platinum-certified (in four countries) “B.O.T.A.” This year, Jump Source, the […]

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists. Download: Northern Lights – #8 – Jun 17, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:56 Temporary Alexander Stewart 03:28 Save A Tear CMAGIC5 06:07 Heaven Can Wait JUNNY 09:33 Oh! Johnny Orlando 11:58 Wasting Away Zach Riley 14:42 Feel … Continue reading Northern Lights – #8 – Jun 17, 2026 →

Make your first listen to Seismo a naive one. Don’t think about its makers, and the many excellent projects they have worked on. Don’t think about how exciting it is to hear a bold percussionist like Valentina Magaletti collaborate with a producer who can match her inventiveness and unrestricted approach to form and genre. Try […]

Daily 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die selection: New Order – Technique – Rating: 2.75 / 5 This album and the challenge as a whole is a good example of why DEI is needed. Too much white mediocrity, and too much minority excellence missing. Favorite Videos: Hatchie – FullPerformance (Live on KEXP) Bubba Sparxxx x Cadillac Chronicles ㅣ ONE TAKE ㅣ blah – 빈틈 , All The Pain , Time Slip Movie…

Glissandro 70 is a Canadian experimental duo consisting of Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo, formerly of Great Lake Swimmers) and Craig Dunsmuir (Kanada 70, Dun Dun Band). They issued their self-titled first album, Glissandro 70, on Constellation in 2006, and its five songs are generally spacious and hypnotic, exploring areas related to Afrobeat, minimalism, abstract pop, […]

Is there more than mere semantics to the difference between remodeled and remixed? A remix takes the components of an original track, breaks them down and puts them back in a different order. A remodel may also include new components. AGATE is a set of “material refined through repeated performance.” The more Meitei performed pieces from his […]

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, and house music. Download: Electronic Forest – #7 – Jun 12, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 01:01 You Got The Look A*Teens 04:00 I Like Marlon Hoffstadt, southstar 07:06 In Your Eyes Alesso, OneRepublic 10:40 Silence MEDUZA, RANI 13:37 Signs John O’Callaghan, … Continue reading Electronic Forest – #7 – Jun 12,…

From hand-tracking music software to sold-out tours, the New York creative technologist is proving code can be just as creative as a guitar.

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists. Download: Northern Lights – #7 – Jun 10, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:56 Getting Good At Losing Control Dallas Rodin 03:02 Runaway Luminati Suns 05:49 Wonder elijah woods 09:11 Thank You For Loving Me Alex Sampson 12:08 … Continue reading Northern Lights – #7 – Jun 10, 2026 →

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, and house music. Download: Electronic Forest – #6 – Jun 5, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:56 To The End RAEM 04:18 Sad Girls Bebe Rexha, David Guetta 07:04 Memories VIZE, ESKE 09:14 Go Play Yourself Lena Leon 12:01 Too Little Too … Continue reading Electronic Forest – #6 – Jun 5, 2026 →

A unique and brilliant collaboration between the legendary dub/reggae pioneer and German electronic production duo Mouse on Mars (aka Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma). Lee “Scratch” Perry’s last ever official album project before his passing in 2019. Recorded in 3 days at Mouse on Mars’ Paraverse Studio in Berlin in 2019. Lee, Jan and […]

The Chemical Brothers have released a new compilation called Go: Apex and Beyond. The career-spanning collection arrives just as their 2015 track ‘Go’ explodes again on streaming, thanks to its inclusion in the Netflix film ‘Apex’. “Beyond ‘Go’… Welcome to The Chemical Brothers’ universe,” the duo wrote on Instagram. “Listen to the new collection.” Crucially, […]

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists. Download: Northern Lights – #6 – Jun 3, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:51 Bigger Than Dreamers Matt Pridgyn, Vikkstar, Jex 04:21 The Last Encounter Sofia Camara 07:21 Vague Lindsay Schoolcraft 11:42 Torture of the Heart DVBBS, Nelly … Continue reading Northern Lights – #6 – Jun 3, 2026…

Producer and composer Hannah Peel first worked with percussionist Beibei Wang on Manchester Collective’s 2023 album Neon, which included compositions by Peel as well as Lyra Pramuk and Steve Reich. The two artists then performed a fully improvised concert together as part of Peel’s artist residency in London. Afterwards, they spent five days improvising and […]

Consistency may be disparaged as staid, or celebrated as style. “Art is the place where liking what we like, over and over, is not only allowed but is the essential skill,” writes George Saunders in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, asking, “How emphatically can you like what you like? How long are […]

Since she started making music with a Buchla synthesizer in 1968 — an obsession that landed her a job actually manufacturing the machines, soldering iron in hand, until she saved up enough money to buy her own — Suzanne Ciani has embodied electronic music’s spirit of limitless possibility. Instead of imitating other instruments and conforming […]

Under myriad monikers and as part of other bands since the late ‘80s, Düsseldorf-based musician Stefan Schwander has followed his nose for finest blends of Pan-African and Mid-Eastern rhythm threaded thru the lens of Ruhr region machine music minimalism. His 9th LP proper as Harmonious Thelonious, Grumpy Pieces naturally continues his custom-built trade with no […]

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, and house music. Download: Electronic Forest – #5 – May 29, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:56 Better Times Robin Schulz, BARBZ 04:04 Heaven On Your Mind Kygo, Dan Tyminski 07:45 Never Apart Yohann Warren, Edmondsski 10:40 Light Up Kylie Minogue 13:54 … Continue reading Electronic Forest – #5 – May 29, 2026 →

The tapes started arriving on April 7, VHS cassettes stickered with the Boards of Canada hexagon sun logo, sent from Warp Records to the homes of various people who’d previously purchased something from their Bleep.com retail site. The purposefully degraded footage contained therein featured various mysterious images including a Greek Christogram and a distorted image […]

There was a time when Djax-Up-Beats was spoken of in the same breath as Tresor, R&S, Soma and Peacefrog: a cohort of labels that shaped the sound of European techno. Founded in 1989 by Saskia Slegers, AKA Miss Djax, the Eindhoven label operated as a vital transatlantic conduit, connecting sounds from Chicago and Detroit with […]

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists. Download: Northern Lights – #5 – May 27, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:57 Dive Preston Pablo 04:18 Robot Girl Kerrington Gillespie 07:03 Woman Like Me Anjulie 10:45 Colorado Loud Luxury, ZOHARA 12:37 What Now Lennie Rayen 14:59 … Continue reading Northern Lights – #5 – May 27, 2026 →

Where has Ecca Vandal been? Nine years have passed since NME labelled the artist’s self-titled album “one of the year’s brightest debuts” for the way she attacked storming guitar riffs as easily as punchy synth beats. Much like Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes or Nova Twins, Vandal juggled her fiery punk spirit with plenty of […]

Emerging from Cairo’s experimental underground, Mi3raj is a duo comprising poet/vocalist Mohamed Tarek Moussa and producer/muti-instrumentalist Abdelrahman Shaat. Their hypnotically immersive album, Callings of the Owed, centres on six poems written in contemporary Arabic by Moussa, which ventriloquise the thoughts of characters drawn from Cairo’s fringes. ‘I write to the locusts / whistle into…

Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, the eight-piece collective Fauna offer up a colourful tapestry of sounds in which Eastern instruments and styles interweave with psychedelic guitars, atmospheric effects and electronic beats. Swedish compatriots Goat are an obvious point of reference, though Fauna’s focus is more firmly rooted in the dancefloor. The band are at their best […]

Electronic Forest plays the week’s best new electronic dance, pop, trance, and house music. Download: Electronic Forest – #4 – May 22, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:54 Repeat It Martin Garrix, Ed Sheeran 04:03 Utopia Alex M.O.R.P.H., Christina Novelli 06:55 Home (Infinity) Mecdoux, The Palm Tree Boy 09:11 Double Vision Final Request … Continue reading Electronic Forest – #4 – May…

Northern Lights plays the week’s best new pop, rock, and electronic music from Canadian artists. Download: Northern Lights – #4 – May 20, 2026 (MP3, 80 MB, 58m00s) TIME TITLE ARTIST 00:57 Ginger Lemonade Good Kid 03:54 Back To Life Daijo 06:44 From The City To The Ocean Alex Henry Foster 11:14 Wait Thunder Queens 14:07 … Continue reading Northern Lights – #4 – May 20, 2026 →