Last month, Max Graef returned to Tartelet Records with his third solo album under his own name. Like the two that have come before it—2018’s Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma and 2014’s Rivers Of The Red Planet—Natural Element is filled with psychedelic, starry-eyed jams. Amongst these releases, Graef—a resident of Berlin, Germany, who first became known for his hip-hop and jazz-inspired take on house music—has kept himself busy with Tax Free Records, his own label where he releases electronic, dancehall, modern jazz, and synth punk, and an assortment of offbeat collaborations and proje ..read more

Kode9’s Hyperdub will release a new album from Tim Reaper and Kloke. In Full Effect is the British label’s first ever jungle album, though it’s the fourth release that the UK and Australian artists have released together—following the “Foundation” single on Reaper’s own Future Retro London label. In 2021, they released the Tunnelvision EP on Tunnel Vision Records. On this occasion, they’ve delivered eight “energetic” tracks that bridge the prehistory of jungle with the sounds of its new wave. Earlier this month, Hyperdub released “slob air,” a new single from Mica Levi. Tracklisting 01. Conti ..read more

DEFTR, the alias of Answer Code Request and Jan Wagner, the Ostgut Ton mixing engineer, pianist, and producer, will present an album on npm. We’re told to expect “a captivating fusion of ambient and techno.” In that way, the collaborative project marks a departure from Answer Code Request’s renowned 4/4 techno framework, venturing into expansive auditory realms enriched by Wagner’s classical expertise. Having previously released three EPs, including Kreuzberg 05, that hinted at this direction, DEFTR solidifies their unique sonic identity with this Run Away. The interplay between Answer Code R ..read more

In May, Kenneth James Gibson released Murals For Immersion, a collaboration with saxophonist Paul Carman who played and recorded with Frank Zappa. It was the latest ambient album that Gibson—a musician based in California—has released under his own name. Active since the early ’90s, after being born in Canada but raised in Texas, he has led several musical lives spanning everything from experimental dub to country and psychedelic rock. But his drive towards the immersive ambient music he shares as Kenneth James Gibson began in late 2021 when he started a new label called Meadows Heavy Recorder ..read more

Kelly Lee Owens will release a new album in October. Dreamstate is the Welsh artist’s fourth studio album, following 2022’s LP​.​8 and Inner Song. It will land on her new home, dh2, the electronic imprint of Dirty Hit. There’s an “incredible feeling of freedom and escapism” found throughout Dreamstate, we’re told, born from the experience of inner evolution in the aftermath of a break-up. It’s the sound of a person “letting loose and letting go while encouraging everyone else to do the same.” The album is produced by Bicep, Tom Rowlands from The Chemical Brothers, and George Daniel, the drumm ..read more

San Francisco event series Texture Summit will celebrate its fifth anniversary this Saturday, July 13. Texture Summit was launched in 2019 as an avenue to provide “beautiful, immersive experiences of art and music that bring community together.” With a focus on local US talent, Texture Summit‘s events have hosted Sunset Soundsystem’s Solar and Galen, Carlos Suffront, Eric Cloutier, Liquid Earth, Huerta, Zacky, and Texture Summit founder, Louiv, among others. Recent international headliners have included Move D, Truly Madly, Velasco, Bruno Schmidt, and Dr Banana. The fifth anniversary will be ..read more

Mica Levi has released a new single on Hyperdub. slob air is Levi’s first release on the UK label. Their most recent long-form work comes in the shape of a score for Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” the artist and director’s reunion after “Under the Skin.” Levi’s last studio albums were the grungy Ruff Dog and Blue Alibi, and last year they teamed up with Alpha Maid for an EP, Spresso. The single lands alongside a video starring a skateboarding Madi Swain, made with Izzy Moriarty Thompson, Joe Auborn, and Jack Parton. Tracklisting 01. slob air slob air is available digitally now with ..read more

Sam Shepherd, the artist better known as Floating Points, will release a new album in September. Cascade was devised as a follow-on from Crush, his second album, and it’s aimed and allowing him and his audience to experience Floating Points in its traditional form on a dancefloor once more. We’re told to expect “sumptuous sonic chasms to lose yourself in again and again.” This is also a record forged in an adolescence spent in Manchester, “discovering the mind-expanding power of electronic music in all its forms.” Though devised as a continuation of Crush, it nonetheless pushes Shepherd’s sou ..read more

Pacific Rhythm has released a new album from ZG, a collaborative effort from Zansika Lachhani and Grant (a.k.a Tony from Frank & Tony). Out Of The Unknown is the followup to the duo’s first self-titled LP that landed back on New York label Scissor and Thread in 2022. Over the course of seven tracks, ZG takes their sound “a step further,” we’re told, building rich, deep, and complex rhythm patterns with the voice of Lachhani. For more information on Grant, check out his XLR8R podcast of swinging house here. Tracklisting 01. Feels Like Home 02. Good Feeling 03. Meet You There 04. Call To Mi ..read more

Ross From Friends, the artist otherwise known as Felix Clary Weatherall, has returned to Brainfeeder under his new Bubble Love alias. On Love Divide / The Knife (Bubble Love Remixes), Weatherall breathes fresh life into two Ross From Friends tracks: “Love Divide,” from 2021’s Tread album; and “The Knife” from his 2017 debut, Family Portrait. We’re told that Weatherall “retains all of the emotional heft of the original whilst ramping up the four-to-the-floor elements to deliver a peak-time remix.” Bubble Love was conceived as a way of bridging the gap between the energy of the Ross From Friend ..read more