File somewhere between DJ Shadow and My Bloody Valentine… New York based post-rock trio Bowery Electric blend shoegaze guitars and downtempo drum loops on Beat, their sophomore LP […]
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Husikesque is a collaboration between Washington D.C. singer-songwriter Lida Husik and British ambient electronic musicians Beaumont Hannant and Richard Brown. Their lone album Green Blue Fire follows up […]
A masterpiece album from C-pop icon Faye Wong, 浮躁 (Impetuous) follows the dream pop oriented sonic foundations set by 1994’s 胡思亂想 (Random Thoughts), which included covers of the Cocteau […]
The Flying Lizards’ David Cunningham “remixes” unreleased source material recorded by Jah Lloyd. Cunningham recalls the process taking a long time and working on it as a sort […]
Released on Andrew Weatherall’s Emissions Audio Output, Mexican Church by Cambridge duo Blue is an extremely slept on experimental electronic dub album from the mid-90’s. Much like their […]
Easily one of the best albums from Japanese duo Silent Poets, Firm Roots featured a minimalistic trip-hop sound blending jazz, dub, bossa, and dancefloor elements with the typical […]
Somehow still an underrated gem from the golden era of hip-hop despite its chart success and cult status, Kollage is the classic debut album from Philly-born rapper Antonia […]
In 1994, the British label Mo Wax tapped into a global movement to release a series of collections called Headz. Combining the rhythms and tempos of hip hop […]
Originally released on CD-only in 1996 on the cult Brussels-based label Les Disques Du Crépuscule, Fidelity continues on the downtempo chill-out themes of the group’s final outing on […]
Sweetback was an English band comprised of members of the band Sade, but not including front woman Sade Adu. The group’s members Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denman and Andrew […]
An Estonian indie classic originally released on cassette only, Cafe De Flor by Bizarre is a gorgeous collection of dreampop and trip-hop featuring intimate, often whispered or spoken […]
Wamdue Kids is the short-lived house music project by three guys named Chris – Brann, Clarke, and Udoh. The Atlanta based trio was first discovered in 1995 by […]
Sampling soul, jazz, rock and R&B tracks in hip hop had been around since the genre’s birth in the late ’70’s, and had expanded across the next two […]
