Future Classic: Mark Pritchard “Under The Sun”
via Juno: Given the length of his career, it’s rather surprising to find that Under The Sun is Mark Pritchard’s first under his given name. As critics have pointed out, it’s an overwhelmingly beautiful and poignant set, built around an intoxicating fusion of ambient electronics, soft touch instrumentation, bubbling beats, …
Tribute to KENLO CRAQNUQUES – Selected by LEXIS
I love our tribute mix series which, like the website, covers a wide range of genres from house masters to jazz legends back to more experimental beats. This is one that has been on my mind for some time. Kenlo Craqnuques is one of our homegrown heroes (grew up in Quebec …
Exclusive Preview: FRIS “movinglike” (forthcoming on “U HUNGRY”, on UKNOWY Records)
via UNKOWY: “Leuven, Belgium, based producer FRIS, makes synthy, low-slung beats that sit somewhere between hip hop and funky up-tempo music. He gathered big influences from the LA beat scene that let him play around with the SP404 in order to come up with his own unique style. His first …
Future Classic: Kaytranada “99,9%”
It no secret Kaytranada has made his impact on the music scene felt in recent years. Perhaps, the biggest of all the new era of producers to rise in the new age of Soundcloud, Basecamp and other DIY platforms. With the highly antipacted release of his debut album on XL Recordings, featuring …
Exclusive Preview: Jolly Mare “Hungry Angry” (Phil Gerus Remix)
It’s a Worldwide Ting! Great upcoming producer from Russia remixes multi-instrumentalist wizard from Italy released on a red hot American label. And here is the exclusive first look! Moscow’s Phil Gerus is a natural musical talent who oozes sound from every pore. Fusing together cassette pop, house, soul, r&b and …
Future Classic: Exile “Tears for a Prince”
via Exile: “I woke up April 21st to the news of Prince’s passing. Before I could fully digest the news I receive numerous text from friends about his passing and how I should honor his passing with making music with Prince samples, in honor. I thought to myself I’m not …
Exclusive Preview: YellowStraps x Le Motel “Pollen” (Nikitch Remix)
via Tangram Records: “Mellow” was the name of the first self-released collab-LP between YellowStraps and Le Motel, two brothers and one of their best childhood friends. We immediately felt the urge to ask some of our best musical friends to make a remix of the record. To our biggest surprise …
Future Classic: Benedek “Coolin’ – EP”
via Leaving Records: Nicky Benedek was born and bred to funk in the City of Angels. He spent his early creative energy observing and integrating outsider dance and funk scenes in underground music culture into his own breed of production for his first full-length on the influential PPU label. His …
Future Classic: Jamma-Dee “Vol 2” (Arcane NY)
In the past 30 years of underground dance music many labels and artists have gone for the tried and tested strategy of “mysterious marketing”: ultra-limited vinyl runs, cryptic information on the release and the artist, hand-made artwork. Part of the fun lies in trying to figure out who is hiding behind the …
Exclusive Premiere: Paper Tiger “Weight In Space” with Shafiq Husayn
via WahWah45’s: Just a month after releasing the back-from-a-two-years-hiatus track I’m A Cyborg (But That’s Okay), Paper Tiger announced they are launching their second album – Blast Off. To kick things off, the band unveils Weight in Space, the first single to be taken from the LP, featuring the Grammy …
Future Classic: Photay “Sadie EP”
via Astro Nautico: Photay returns in force with Sadie EP, his sophomore release on Astro Nautico. Though inspired by club sound systems, Sadie is more than a quadrilogy of club tracks, instead mixing tropes, with all of Photay’s signature playfulness and expansive imagination applied to driving, functional templates of body …
Exclusive Premiere: Quiet Dawn “The First Day Remixed”
Quiet Dawn follows up last year’s debut album ‘The First Day’ with an EP of remixes. The Parisian producer has grown from his hip hop roots (including an EP on Feelin’ Music as part of Beat Consortium) adding broken beat and house to his soulful musical palate. Released back in …