Premiere: planet love – bird song
Timeless 90s techno unearthed by new label return_backspace.
Latest
(Extended Mix): Heels & Souls
Four hours of ambient, dub and electronica from the London duo behind the not-for-profit party and label.
Premiere: FAFF feat Meg – Ooh La La
Daytimers and Big Dyke Energy team up for compilation celebrating Pride.
Premiere: Caravan – Searchin’ (Extended Mix)
Balearic rhythms on Mike Who’s Planet Trip Records.
Monday Morning Mixtape 371
Love-inspired ambient and temperate lo-fi hip hop, dark floating kizomba and uplifting house.
A Brief History of Japanese Visual-Kei Music
Kuunatic vocalist Fumie Kikuchi explores a unique genre-hybrid that coalesced during the late 80s.
New Music
Premiere: Will Hofbauer – Morning Dip (Beach Mix)
Organic rhythms from the Third Place Records boss on Turbo Guidance.
Premiere: Modula – Party Crime
A marriage of electro wave, Italo and Balearic on Bordello A Parigi.
Premiere: Powder – If I Could Get Out
A celebration of dance floor epiphanies on Swiss label Proxima.
Mixes
Self-Portrait: Martyn Bootyspoon
Stripped back, raw material from the Fractal Fantasy producer and ghetto house revivalist.
Monday Morning Mixtape 376
Absorbing ambient and warming electronica to moody dance and probing instrumentals.
Reduced By Johanna Elina Sulkunen
A hybrid of live recordings and original material from the Finnish vocalist and composer.
Long Reads
Reflections: how can the music industry learn from Covid-19 to become more sustainable?
Katia Mullova explores the lessons we might learn from Coronavirus lockdown to create a more environmentally-friendly gig economy and community at large.
Reflections: is Spotify Wrapped designed to celebrate artists or big data?
Katia Mullova assesses the wider implications of this annual focus on data sharing.
“A tiny parallel universe”: inside ELSE, Renate’s open Berlin party space, in mindset and makeup.
A behind the scenes look at Berlin’s unassuming open air party spot.