Song of the Day: A woozily dreamlike, spring-inspired piece of retro-feel electronica designed to conjure the whimsical image of hamsters happily dancing in a field, from the forthcoming new debut LP, Music for Living Spaces, by the Los Angeles-based artist Olive Ardizoni
Read moreSong of the Day: Falle Nioke & sir Was - Rain
Falle Nioke
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming new EP, Marasi, a beautiful number by the Margate-based artist from Guinea, who sings in West African Coniagui, here with Joel Wastberg (aka sir Was) the Gothenburg-based electronic artist
Read moreSong of the Day: Mammal Hands - Oni
Mammal Hands
Song of the Day: From the tumultuous sound of Don’t Problem’s Whale, to another creatural connection and a great jazz instrumental by the brilliant Norwich trio of Jordan Smart on saxophone, Nick Smart on piano and Jesse Barrett on drums and tabla
Read moreSong of the Day: Llyr - Powergraze 3D (Binaural headphones version)
Llyr’s EP: 3D Reworks 003
Song of the Day: With surging voluminous dynamics and a huge range of sounds, an astonishing electronica experience that requires listening through headphones from the EP 3D Reworks 003 by Berlin-based artist Gareth Williams
Read moreSong of the Day: Julie Pavon - Jealous
Julie Pavon
Song of the Day: “I think I might be jealous of my own mind”. Addictively Idiosyncratic, stripped down electronica-funk-pop filled with wonky sounds by the Honduran and Danish artist based Copenhagen, with echoes of Billie Eilish
Read moreSong of the Day: FYI Chris - Scum of the Earth (featuring Thick Richard)
On the button: Earth Scum by FYI Chris
Song of the Day: The final track on the album Earth Scum by the Yorkshire and Macclesfield duo of Chris Coupe and Chris Watson features viscerally acerbic, self-deprecating gallows humorous delivery by Mancunian poet and performer Thick Richard
Read moreSong of the Day: S.A.A.R.A - Forest
S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-theme of horticulture after Billie Marten, plus William Doyle and Chad VanGaalen in the album section, a fabulously catchy new single by the London multi-instrumentalist who mixes funk, disco and electronica sprinkled liberally with flute and saxophone
Read moreSong of the Day: Bontan - Kalambo
Cover art for Kalambo by Bontan
Song of the Day: A vivid fusion of club beats, electronica and field recording samples of African tribal chanting, with a dash donkey braying by the Liverpool-based artist who among other guises is also known as Melé
Read moreSong of the Day: Anushka - You My Love
Anushka are Victoria Port and Max Wheeler
Song of the Day: Hypnotic, bleepy funk and soulful vocals pour into this entrancing jazz-electronica fusion by Brighton singer-songwriter Victoria Port and producer Max Wheeler, released on the Tru Thoughts label
Read moreSong of the Day: Sofia Kourtesis - La Perla / By Your Side
Sofia Kourtesis’s new EP Fresia Magdalena
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s by Nicola Cruz from Ecuador, next is the mesmeric work of Berlin-based Peruvian electronic artist who uses field recordings and beats on which to build her dance tracks, with these two taken from her new EP, Fresia Magdalena, out on Ninja Tune
Read moreSong of the Day: Nicola Cruz - Individuality Riddim
Nicola Cruz’s new EP Subtropique
Song of the Day: A mesmeric mix of beats, voices and electronica by the artist and producer from Quito, Ecuador, taken from his latest EP Subtropique
Read moreSong of the Day: Misc - Mad
From the animated illustration from Misc’s latest release, Mad, from the album Partager l'ambulance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s GoGo Penguin track and remix, another clever fusion of piano-based jazz and electronica in the form of this charming, cross-rhythm experimental release by the Montreal-based trio from their new album Partager l'ambulance
Read moreSong of the Day: GoGo Penguin - Atomised (and Machinedrum remix)
Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, left, remixes Manchester trio GoGo Penguin
Song of the Day: Intricate, pace-changing and with beautiful narrative arcs, two versions of the recent piece by the Manchester experimental jazz trio of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner with a new dance remix by American producer Travis Stewart
Read moreSong of the Day: The Umlauts - Boiler Suits and Combat Boots
The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
Read moreSong of the Day: SOPHIE: UNISIL / Faceshopping
SOPHIE: 1986-2021
Songs of the Day: Following inventor Lomond Campbell yesterday, another musical pioneer from Scotland of a different kind – two tracks by the extraordinary genre-pushing electronic trans artist who tragically died last month
Read moreSongs of the Day: Lomond Campbell - We Go Slow / Otherly - from LŪP
Lomond Campbell’s LŪP incorporates cassette tape
Songs of the Day: Ingenious, mesmerising and strangely beautiful, these two opening tracks from the LŪP album by the Scottish Highlands inventor involve his tape-looper instrument that moves in and out of sync with itself
Read moreSong of the Day: REAL DOGS - Video Game
Fragmens III by REAL DOGS. It’s not the first …
Song of the Day: This delightful instrumental composed of the retro sounds of old 1980s video games comes from the experimental electronica artist’s latest, and bitty album, Fragments III, all full of wonderfully oddball whimsy
Read moreSong of the Day: CARM – Song of Trouble (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
Read moreSongs of the Day: Stats: Come With Me / Naturalise Me (from Powys 1999)
The latest album by Stats
Songs of the Day: Gloriously uplifting, clever dance electro-pop by the band led by songwriter Ed Seed, inspired by his childhood in and recorded in Wales, where the natural environment co-exists with the less so, from farming, forestry, tourism, and military activity
Read moreSong of the Day: Avalon Emerson – Rotting Hills
Avalon Emerson’s EP - 040
Song of the Day: Majestic electronica that builds from beats and scratches into shimmering synth waves by the New York artist from her latest EP, 04), out on the AD 93 label
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