In 2022, Australian experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi teamed with musicians Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin for an immersive album of percussion and guitar. Ghosted features four numerically titled […]
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The Ariwa Sounds UK lovers rock dub legend meets Japanese Japanese trip-hop duo Silent Poets for a collection of modern downtempo dubwise tunes. Featuring dubbed out versions of […]
3 years after her last release ‘crystal princess vol.1’ , Yu Jing named this new EP under the same series. The opening track is an ambient wave of […]
“Live at Sound City” is an instrumental collaboration between bassist Pino Palladino, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills, and LA-based saxophonist Sam Gendel. Recorded in one day at the legendary Sound […]
“The Theater of Eternal Music performed music consisting of long sustained tones and unconventional harmonic combinations, which were explored via improvisation restricted by strict ‘laws’ laid out by […]
For the third tape on CWPT, Palms Trax’s label makes space for the storied collections of Greg Belson. A self-described ‘vinyl archeologist’, club DJ and Los Angeles radio […]
Futuristic East Coast club beats meet experimental rap on New Jersey-born DJ Haram and poet/rapper Moor Mother’s debut LP as 700 Bliss on Kode9’s iconic Hyperdub imprint. 1/2 […]
Starting in 2018, LA-based guitarist Jeff Parker set up camp at the Enfield Tennis Academy in Highland Park for an extended residency. Parker, who earned acclaim as a […]
Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse” by Pitchfork, Moor Mother is announcing ‘Jazz Codes’. Coming out on July 1, it is her second album for ANTI- and […]
Legendary Japanese trumpet player Kazufumi Kodama meets Undefined aka Kazuhiro Sahara (keyboards) & Ohkuma (Drums) on the pandemic dub album 2 Years / 2 Years In Silence. The […]
Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Changes Book Prize, Rachel Mannheimer’s debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with […]
Bradley Miller aka CKtrl is a reed player, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who has previously released on South London-based label and event series Touching Bass and collaborated with ISC […]
Star in the Hood is a collection of abstract drone r&b sound collage pieces from experimental darling Klein, the South London based multi-disciplinary artist, singer-songwriter, producer who was […]
Limited 7″ featuring two early tracks from the Baltimore-based XL Recordings artist Nourished by Time. Don’t miss! The Erotic Probiotic is an intimate glimpse into the world of […]
A dozen instrumentals by the LA-based bassist/multi-instrumentalist whose regular gigs at the Enfield Tennis Academy with Jeff Parker have become the stuff of legend, Anna Butterss’ debut album […]
Folie 2 is an exciting new project from Düsseldorf-based musicians Marlene Kollender, Gregor Darman and Sebastian Welicki. Their debut self-titled album is a delightfully strange cosmos of sounds […]
Santa Cruz’s Smiling C and celebrated selector Charles Balsey (curator of the excellent Club Meduse comps) team up for America Dream Reserve, an hour-long Casio-powered journey through lo-fi Americana, […]
Danish artists Cæcilie Trier (CTM), Jakob Littauer and Mads Kristian Frøslev come together as the TLF Trio to present their debut album, Sweet Harmony, a collection of chamber […]
Committing to and supporting the music of Makaya McCraven while he’s still in his thirties feels like both a no-brainer – nobody’s currently making better jazz records – […]
In certain electronic music circles, 2022 felt like the year of downtempo and trip-hop. The slow, chilled-out breaks and ambient textures seemed to perfectly capture that post-pandemic mood […]
Cate Kennan’s first solo record comes by way of the Los Angeles-based label Post Present Medium. Dreamy, contemplative, and full of mystery, the album’s 12 vignettes build a […]
The followup to Dutch keyboardist Ronald Langestraat’s recently unearthed 1984 self-recorded living room gem Searching… Light Years Away is a collection of new recordings from the now 81 […]
Music from Memory has shifted gears slightly in recent times focusing as much on new music as they are on archival reissue and compilation projects. Montreal-based electronic artist […]
Time is Away is the London-based DJ/musical storyteller/artist duo Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney. Their first officially licensed compilation, Ballads is a divinely curated collection of deeply heartfelt songs and devotional […]
The sophomore release for Portland-based artist Patricia Wolf, See-Through weaves together a balmy sonic chamber that’s womblike. The release is transportive, and each track acts as a separate […]
Emerging from the Argentinian experimental scene, composer Ailin Grad, a.k.a. Aylu, debuts on the always quality Mana imprint with Profondo Rosa, a gorgeous collection of free form electronic compositions […]
South London community-come-club night, record label, NTS Radio staple, concert series and creative studio Touching Bass presents Soon Come, a landmark compilation celebrating the talents of their now […]
“Four years after Nuova Napoli, Nu Genea are back with Bar Mediterraneo, a new album and journey, which projects the sounds of the Neapolitan duo formed by Massimo […]
Previously unreleased post-Brenda And The Beach Balls pre-Walatta hip-hop inspired boogie, street soul, and pop house from Brenda Ray? YES, please! Only the second album from the enigmatic melodyist-rhythmist, Perfume […]
The latest release on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited imprint expands on the label’s next-level aesthetic with a hyperjump out of the club and into the heart. Named after […]
Our friends from Forager Records continue their streak of impeccably curated compilations with Sky Dust Drifter “a cosmic medley of sun-soaked AOR, psychedelic folk, and soft rock.” Collected […]
Hosted a great release party for this one at the shop a few months ago… Canadian singer-songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage leans into his “Tatsuro Yamashita and Elliott Smith […]
After a seven-year hiatus, Jack J, the Mood Hut records mainstay and Pender Street Stepper, has released his debut album after a series of hit singles. It’s worth […]
Upon first listening to Seoul-based electronic production duo Salamanda’s Ashbalkum, I was briefly taken over with memories of my childhood neighborhood. The days of exploring trails, jumping fences, […]
Just in time for summer, we have a beautiful new full-length from the holy father of deep house via his own Alleviated imprint. Larry Heard’s fifth release under […]
LA neighbors and sonic composers Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Emile Mosseri have introduced a gorgeous collaborative record that fuses their dreamy melodies and warm textures to create a […]
The first release on our label ISC Hi-Fi Selects, Live at Sound City is an instrumental collaboration between bassist Pino Palladino, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills, and LA-based saxophonist Sam […]
Anthony Naples has been an important figure in the NYC dance community for the past decade, first with the label Proibito (2013-2017) and later by co-founding Incensio. Through […]
Smoke Point is L.A.-based artist-musicians Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory), and their eponymous first album vibes like the soundtrack to such ’90s […]
Viento Sur is a sublime compilation of breezy classics from the southern shores of South America compiled by Argentine DJs and collectors Bárbara Salazar and Alejandro Cohen (dublab). […]
“Not your typical Brazilian compilation,” Aquarium Drunkard’s latest Atenção!: Novos Sons do Brasil presents 10 tracks from a new wave of Brazilian artists influenced as much by American, […]
Tibor Szemző is presenting two compositions on his new album Snap #2 – The Other Shore and the first release of his CUBA. As the title implies, Snap […]
