No man is an island and no one musician is the island, but for a producer who became the near physical embodiment of Balearic Trance, Solarstone’s affinity with Ibiza is clearer than most. This summer, 20+ years on from ‘Seven Cities’, Solarstone recorded an...
Mirroring a musical region that’s had a particular impact on him has been the M.O. of Sneijder’s ‘Afterdark’ album run since it embarked back in 2018. Its ‘Buenos Aires’ and ‘Los Angeles’ compilations sent a clear signal of intent, but 2020 – as we...
It’s not the first time that preconceptions have required resetting on this channel. In the instance of Aleksander Stawierej though, before we pierce some, we’re going to proliferate a few! Aleksander is the Warsaw-based keyholder to monikers like Raw Tech Audio & ACIDØ; the...
What did you do during the big stay-home? Solarstone wrote himself an album – an unplanned one obviously, and one – by his own acknowledgment – he wouldn’t have gotten to write in more conventional times. ‘A lockdown album’ by any other name –...
TENTH ARTIST ALBUM FROM THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC LEGEND OUT NOW // INCLUDES OUTSTANDING COLLABORATIONS WITH BO BRUCE, VINI VICI, SUE MCLAREN, WILL ATKINSON AND MANY OTHERS So here we are, and at long last, in the late summer of 2020, here it is: PvD’s...
Different times mean different pleasures, which musically has taken producers to some less expected places of late. Not least Cold Blue, for whom the six months – following the December release of his debut album – have not been the anticipated ones. That said,...
It feels like an almost indecent amount of time since Mark Sherry served us a Prism collection… On second thoughts, there’s no “almost” about it – it has! Captain Outburst has been anything but idle though, spending the interim DJing, A&Ring, label running, ‘Confirm...
It took a shade under thirty months for Pure Progressive to rock past its one-hundredth release. That was time enough for the label to bring music from near enough every prog operator of note through its doors and onto floors. Penner, Barone, O’Glue, Saint-Jules,...
LP DEBUT FROM CANADA’S SOMNA DROPS MAY 8 // ‘BESIDE YOU’ – THE SINGLE – FEATURING NOIRE LEE ON RELEASE NOW // WIN AN ALL EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO A SOMNA EVENT OF YOUR CHOICE!! ‘Secret’, ‘Long Way Down’, ‘Stars Collide’ and its limitlessly...
Other tracks may have announced their arrival, but ‘Right In The Night’ was the one that poured the concrete that internationally cemented Jam & Spoon’s rep. The intoxicating, atypical combination of bass pulse, flamenco strings and Plavka’s smouldering song turned it into a pan-European...
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