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Berlin Bei Nacht

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Inspired by sounds of Berlin's techno scene

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With Berlin’s nightlife attracting people from all over the globe, the city’s reputation has, in turn, radiated outwards, influencing everyone from British electronic pioneers Leftfield to synth-pop standard-bearers Hot Chip, electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso and maverick individualists such as the Dutch DJ Sander van Dijck and the Korean-born, Los Angeles-based producer and songwriter Park Hye Jin.

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DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition

Underworld

DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition

Underworld

To say Underworld's Drift Series 1 is an immersive experience is an understatement. It's an album that invites you to pitch a tent in it and hunker down for a month. Both Rick Smith and Karl Hyde sound inspired.

Musically, the pair have strained and stretched every musical muscle, and probably many they didn’t know they had. Both Rick Smith and Karl Hyde sound inspired by the former steering the music down unexplored avenues while Hyde constantly shows why he is such an underrated, brilliant lyricist with couplets that may be nonsense but could just as easily be the most profoundly brilliant thing you’ve ever heard.

Most remarkably, every track on the album is there on merit as fully formed pieces with developed hooks and melodies rather than failed experiments or abandoned jams. The result is a stunning artistic statement from musicians, not only deeply immersed in the creative process but also liberated by the mad challenge they initially set themselves just over a year ago.

Tracklist

A1 Appleshine
A2 This Must Be Drum Street
B1 Listen To Their No
B2 Border Country
B3 Mile Bush Pride
C1 Schiphol Test
C2 Brilliant Yes That Would Be
D1 S T A R (Rebel Tech)
D2 Imagine A Box
D3 Custard Speedtalk

What Now

Sylvan Esso

What Now

Sylvan Esso

The sophomore album from the electronic pop duo offers a biting, withering take on pop music, full of crisp humor while still finding real moments of tenderness.

There is a bitterness to their Southern bless-your-heart feel, swaddling sharp observations in mannered dance-pop. The most haunting track on the album, “Die Young,” hones in on a burgeoning affair: Meath sings with soft curiosity about how she’s finally prepared to yoke her life to another’s. The lyrics themselves are a bit too histrionic to induce sympathy—“I was gonna die young/Now I gotta wait for you, honey”—but there’s no trace of irony; she is fully sincere to the melodrama over new love atop a pleasingly tinny house-lite pulse from Sanborn. (Reportedly, Meath and Sanborn have done the research, falling for each other after recording the debut.) It’s a moment that almost seems to answer the album’s title: the path forward may be calmer yet ever-curious, with plenty of amusement still to be found within.

Tracklist

A1 - Sound

A2 - The Glow

A3 - Die Young

A4 - Radio

A5 - Kick Jump Twist

B1 - Song

B2- Just Dancing

B3 - Signal

B4 - Slack Jaw

B5 - Rewind

AZD

Actress

Actress’ sixth LP reaches deep into both Darren Cunningham’s clubbiest and most avant-garde impulses, exploring language and Afrofuturism while maintaining a musicality that holds the listener close.

AZD maintains a musicality that holds the listener close. Sometimes this comes through in more danceable techno moments, like the single “X22RME” or the 80s-leaning synth-driven track “RUNNER,”; elsewhere, it’s in the emotive minimalist breaks of “FALLING RIZLAS” or “THERE'S AN ANGEL IN THE SHOWER.” Cunningham participates in a futurist tradition, following an arc set by artists and writers like Rammellzee and Eshun. But that futurism isn’t predictive, something yet to come; rather, his combination of science fictions, music histories, and socio-spatial realities feels deliriously adjacent to the world we’re listening to it in.

Tracklist

1.NIMBUS 

2.UNTITLED 7 

3.FANTASYNTH 

4.BLUE WINDOW 

5.CYN

6.X22RME 

7.RUNNER 

8.FALLING RIZLAS 

9.DANCING IN THE SMOKE

10.FAURE IN CHROME 

11.THERE'S AN ANGEL IN THE SHOWER 

12.VISA 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before I Die

Park Hye Jin

Before I Die

Park Hye Jin

Singing and rapping in Korean and English, the Los Angeles-based electronic producer takes tentative steps toward reinventing herself as a songwriter.

In the past three years,박혜진 Park Hye Jin has moved from Seoul to Melbourne to London to Los Angeles. Before I Die, her first full-length, which she made entirely during the pandemic, excavates the feelings of isolation and vulnerability triggered by those transitions: the injustice of feeling wronged, the ache of familial longing, the loss of her sense of self. 

 

Where 2018’s breakthrough EP If U Want It and 2020’s How Can I EP focused on dreamy house production with forays into experimental club, juke, and techno, Before I Die expands into trap, industrial techno, and downtempo alongside her typical atmospheric house productions. She also incorporates more storytelling into her lyrics this time, using Korean to illuminate specific incidents and English to convey her feelings in broad strokes. 

 

Overall an incredible album, which explores the contours of an emotional journey in space and time.

Tracklist

A1 - Let's Sing Let's Dance 

A2 - I Need You 

A3 - Before I Die 

A4 - Good Morning Good Night 

A5 - Me Trust Me 

A6 - Where Did I Go 

A7 - Never Give Up 

B1 - Can I Get Your Number 

B2 - Whatchu Doin Later 

B3 - Sex With Me (DEFG) 

B4 - Where Are You Think 

B5 - Never Die 

B6 - Hey, Hey, Hey

B7 - Sunday ASAP 

B8 - I Jus Wanna Be Happy 

C - Y Don't U 

D - Clouds

bb u ok?

San Holo

On his second full-length album, bb u ok?, Dutch producer San Holo finds the natural affinity between emo and EDM.

The affinity between much of modern melodic bass music and the indie emo rock of yore has always been apparent. The raw, unabashed emotion, quiet/loud dynamics, and anthemic arrangements are common traits, even if they were rendered with largely different instruments and production styles. This natural progression reaches a full-on convergence on bb u ok?, the second full-length album from Dutch musician/producer San Holo.

Tracklist

A1 i am thinking of you 
A2 IT HURTS! 
A3 new one 
A4 bb u ok? 
A5 black and white 
A6 i just wanna fucking cry 
B1 heal (↑%) 
B2 lonely in LA 
B3 the great clown Pagliacci 
B4 i get lonely around people, too 
B5 thoughts and chemicals 
C1 MY FAULT 
C2 make this moment last 
C3 find your way 
C4 do you see me? 
D1 FEELS RIGHT 
D2 ewing street 
D3 wheels up 
D4 you've changed, i've changed 
D5 one more day 

Bicep

Bicep

On their debut album, the Irish duo Bicep—founders of the blog-turned-party and label Feel My Bicep—offer a lean and consciously paced survey of UK dance sounds with hints of psychedelia.

Bicep are most easily bracketed under the house umbrella, but many of their tracks don’t adhere to the style’s typical 4/4 pulse. Instead, Bicep favour uptempo jungle breaks, bumping 808 electro and hip-hop beats, and grinding disco rhythms. 

 

Their eponymous debut album is a varied document drawing on the rich history and variety of UK dance music, updated with sleek, modern sounds, vibrant psychedelic textures, and impeccable production.

Tracklist

A1. Orca

A2. Glue 

A3. Kites

B1. Vespa

B2. Ayaya

B3. Spring 

C1. Drift

C2. Drift 

C3. Rain

D1. Ayr

D2. Vale

D3. Aura

Late night tales

Hot Chip

Late night tales

Hot Chip

These tunes are practically drenched in sunlight, the kind of music people dance to without inhibitions during sweaty days at a music festival.

Hot Chip are a colorful group compositionally, and their Late Night Tales is no exception. No one mood dominates, no single tempo remains consistent for a long period. After a contemplative beginning with Christina Vantzou’s synthscape “At Dawn”, the record hovers at a slow-to-mid-tempo, then picks up right around Fever Ray’s “To the Moon and Back”.

 

It quiets down again with Matthew Bourne’s “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”, picking up with the chill electro lounge jazz in About Group’s “The Long Miles”, and then gently gliding to a tranquil conclusion with reflective piano-led pieces by Daniel Blumberg (“The Bomb”) and Nils Frahm (“Ode”). 

 

Frontman Alexis Taylor’s father Neil wraps up this 19-track aural exploration with a reading from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, one of the great novels that few have ever actually read. Clocking in at nearly two hours, this Late Night Tales album is a vision of a night full of twists and turns, technicolor in moments, and gloomily monochrome in others.

Tracklist

1. CHRISTINA VANTZOU – AT DAWN

2. HOT CHIP – NOTHING’S CHANGED (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)

3. RHYTHM & SOUND FEAT CORNELL CAMPBELL – KING IN MY EMPIRE

4. PALE BLUE – HAVE YOU PASSED THROUGH THIS NIGHT

5. SUZANNE KRAFT - FEMME COSMIC

6. FEVER RAY – TO THE MOON AND BACK

7. PLANNINGTOROCK - MUCH TO TOUCH

8. CHARLOTTE ADIGERY – 0,618

9. MIKE SALTA – HEY MOLOKO

10. MATTHEW BOURNE – SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELLED (FOR CORAL EVANS)

11. HOT CHIP – CANDY SAYS (EXCLUSIVE VELVET UNDERGROUND COVER VERSION)

12. KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – WHO I AM AND WHY AM I WHERE

13. ABOUT GROUP – THE LONG MILES (CD / DIGITAL ONLY)

14. BEATRICE DILLON – WORKAROUND TWO

15. HOT CHIP – WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)

16. DANIEL BLUMBERG - THE BOMB

17. NILS FRAHM - ODE

18. HOT CHIP – NONE OF THESE THINGS (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)

19. NEIL TAYLOR - FINNEGAN'S WAKE EXCERPT (EXCLUSIVE SPOKEN WORD PIECE)

Don't Let Get You Down

Wajatta

Don't Let Get You Down

Wajatta

The virtuosic beatboxer and comedian Reggie Watts teams with techno legend John Tejada for a loose, punchy set of house anthems.

On paper, Reggie Watts and John Tejada make a strange pair. Watts is now a household name to millions of Americans, after his virtuosic beatboxing and stand-up comedy landed him a regular gig as bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden. 

 

By contrast, John Tejada is a beloved techno legend whose reticent nature would make it difficult for even the most ardent raver to pick him out in a lineup. What they have in common is casual mastery of their respective crafts: performance and production. With their joint project Wajatta, the two Los Angelenos stretch out and show off that formidable musicianship.

Tracklist

A1 - Renegades

A2 - Little Man

B1 - Don't Let Get You Down

B2 - Realize 

B3 - Tonight

C1 -138

C2 - January

C3 -Marmite

D1 - Depth Has a Focus

D2 - Another Sun

D3 - All I Need Is You

 

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