Music for orangutans, as Lyra Pramuk and Rani Jambak connect to Sumatra’s ecosystem
The music flows easily, entangled like vines, in a production constructed between Berlin and Indonesia over Zoom. But in these...
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Premiere: Dark Forces by The Allegorist plunges us into a gorgeously surreal, shamanistic future
It's the ultimate neo-futuristic concept album, complete with invented language for the lyrics ("Mondoneoh") and a protaganist known as Dragon...
Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string
Someone sucked Bochum, Duisburg, and Dortmund into a digital realm full of VR air pollution visualization - and in the...
In pandemic year two, streaming in China builds underground electronic music community
With community radio and online features, the metaverse in cities like Chengdu and Shanghai continues to be a conduit for...
7 Creative Plugins to Spark Inspiration When You’re Stuck
As creatives, we’re all familiar with the dreaded writer’s block. It can come at any time and turn the fluid and...
Flying Lotus is scoring Yasuke – African Samurai anime for Netflix
Everybody could use something to look forward to these days, right? How about Flying Lotus plus African samurais, mechs, and...
Escaping tuning’s restrictive default setting – a conversation with Khyam Allami
This year has kicked off with a renewed conversation about tuning in electronic music. Khyam Allami has helped ignite that...
Keep the faith: bangers for Bandcamp Friday, even without the dancefloor
For every person cut off from their vocation, their livelihood, their reason to go to work, in any industry -...
Inside a note: explore minimalism with Björk home studio visits
"It's very brave to look complex things in the eye and say, calm down." Some Björk TV clips from the...
Don’t miss the gorgeous, shuffling loops of glia [bandcamp picks]
In self-released sounds emanating from the state of Virginia, glia's studies in rhythm and phrase are absolutely essential. The post...
