Reviews

Joeski releases ‘Mind Funk EP’ on Dirtybird
The NYC-based artist Joeski has been making beats for a quarter century, and after listening to both tracks on his “Mind Funk” EP, you can hear how skilled a producer he is. His drums, rhythms and layers of sound sit perfectly together, and in an era of top 10 hits being banged out on laptops,... Read more »

Andres Campo makes his Intec Debut with ‘Cyclone’ EP
One of the hottest artists to come out of Spain in recent years, Andres Campo makes his Intec debut this month, with the three-tracker ‘Cyclone’, out November 30th. With releases on Second State, RUKUS and Odd Recordings this year alone, and on the cusp of launching new label ‘EI8HT’ with close friend Eats Everything, Campo... Read more »

Agoria delivers new DRIFT genre to BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
Following the release of his recent single ‘Embrace’, widely acclaimed producer and composer Agoria (aka Sebastien Devaud) delivered an eclectic essential mix for BBC Radio 1, lacing the performance with his innovative new DRIFT style. A fast-emerging new genre expressing freedom in musical taste, Agoria’s DRIFT concept the idea of listeners flowing between genres, creating... Read more »

Giorgia Angiuli presents debut album on Stil Vor Talent titled ‘In A Pink Bubble’
Giorgia Angiuli’s debut album ‘In a Pink Bubble’ channels the artist’s effervescent persona and own bubbly style in a 12 track-long, honest musical expression. Drawing inspiration from her first worldwide tour, where life on the road was impacted by personal loss, the album title In a Pink Bubble captures the essence of the artist’s mindset,... Read more »

Premiere: Darlyn Vlys returns to the Polymath with a peak-time 2 tracker
Polymath mainstay Darlyn Vlys returns to the label with a peak-time 2 tracker. Showing just some the range of the artist’s influences, Runner and Clash reflects what dance music should be about in all respects – diversity. The package also includes a rework from Kompakt artist Sebastopol. You can listen to the full premiere of ‘Runner’... Read more »

CamelPhat & Cristoph team up to deliver eagerly anticipated Ibiza anthem ‘Breathe’
Fresh from a huge summer residency at Balearic superclub Hï Ibiza, Grammy nominees CamelPhat have teamed up with fast-rising UK producer Cristoph to deliver ‘Breathe’, one of this year’s most widely popular productions. Having wreaked havoc across dancefloors at Hï all summer, ‘Breathe’ utilises the emotive vocals of Jem Cooke, and displays the slick signature... Read more »

Shadow Child unveils new alias POLYMOD with new Pets Recs release
If ever a label was to officially let the cat out of the bag it’s Pets. So here goes… Polymod, the anonymous producer who emerged on Dusky’s 17 Steps earlier this year with the piano-rippled ‘No Other’, is actually longstanding, genre-smelting machine meddler Shadow Child. Suspected by few, the technoid polymath’s analogue signature is scorched... Read more »

ANNA remixes Jon Hopkins ‘Singularity’ out this Friday on Domino
In what has been an incredibly successful 2018 for Jon Hopkins; from the release of his critically acclaimed album, ‘Singularity’, to sold-out worldwide touring, today Hopkins is happy to share a heavy-hitting remix of the album’s title track by ANNA – one of techno’s most captivating and in-demand new producers. After cutting her teeth in... Read more »

Boys Noize drops new ‘Sueño’ Ep on Diynamic under new alias ELAX
After presenting his Diynamic debut ‘Reaktor’ on the Four To The Floor series back in August, ELAX (a.k.a. Boys Noize) is returning with his own EP named ‘Sueño’, which is Spanish for ‘dream’. And the title track sounds just like one – otherworldly frequencies shifting phases up and down like racy episodes of REM phase.... Read more »

Croatian duo PEZNT pay homage to arguably the best meal of the day, “Breakfast” on Dirtybird
The Croatian duo PEZNT pay homage to arguably the best meal of the day, “Breakfast”. With vocals from Born I Music, Claude started playing it this Spring and the song quickly started to get the ‘Birds on the hunt trying to find out what it is, hitting a fever pitch when he played it at... Read more »