Inside the long shadow of The Blue Nile, whose second album Hats is available now in our webshop. The flat was small and rectangular, so narrow, recalled singer […]
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From the pulpit to the stage, D’Angelo spent his life chasing transcendence through rhythm — a body of work that burned bright, vanished, and returned to remind us […]
Across three unnumbered discs and four expansive pieces, the Necks turn duration into devotion, suggesting that attention can be its own kind of grace. “Attention, taken to its […]
The latest vinyl arrivals from Osaka’s EM Records reveal how much wonder can live in small, deliberate gestures. For more than thirty years, Osaka’s EM Records has quietly […]
Experience the brilliance of Lentz on record: album playbacks, shared stories, and a night of deep listening at the ISC HQ. Is anything more life-affirming than being blindsided […]
From How to Kill the DJ Pt. 2 to his all-Arthur Russell Barbican set and Boiler Room x AVA mix, Keith McIvor’s genius is preserved in the mixes he left […]
On September 30, the Past, Present, Future series continues at Zizou Los Angeles with a dedicated night of deep listening to eight African synth classics. A single sustained […]
A conversation with Ansonia’s Liza Richardson and Souraya Al-Alaoui about the label’s history, revival and future, tracing a catalog of merengue, jibaro, bolero and salsa that has anchored […]
In celebration of the composer at ninety, we re-up his 1977 Holland Festival video and gather at JACCC for Cosmic-Classical Sounds of Terry Riley — a garden listening session […]
A quiet collaboration between Kevin McCormick and David Horridge returns, newly remastered and repressed after the label’s sought-after 2021 reissue. Kevin McCormick met David Horridge in 1970, both […]
DJ Olive, We™, DJ Wally, DJ Spooky, and others turned dub, decay, and sample science into something stranger than genre. In the twilight of the 20th century, before […]
Trip hop compilations, ambient elegies, and emotional messes: A half-dozen albums that skipped the spotlight but stuck with us. Long before we opened our doors in the Arts […]
What happens when a little extra cardboard changes everything. In record packaging, no format carries more weight, physically or symbolically, than the gatefold sleeve. Oversized and deliberately tactile, […]
From Lustmord to unnamed techno bangers, these tapes survived long after the machines that played them. When dublab moved into its new building in late 2021, they found […]
Released in November 1974, it was the Big Bang of electronic dance music. “Autobahn” starts with a spark — a key turns, igniting cylinders in synchronized rhythm, the mechanical […]
Recent mailbox arrivals from Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald, Sandy Bull, Vanishing Twin, and Ø. Although the basic machinations that occur behind the scenes of the In […]
Let’s allow the great dance music writer Barry Walters set the scene, which takes place not long after Larry Levan’s friend Frankie Knuckles started DJing in Chicago. There, […]
Let’s talk about Roberto Musci, the Milanese experimental composer whose work both alone and with kindred spirit Giovanni Venosta starting in the 1980s has been gaining attention and […]
In 1994, the late Japanese electronic producer Susumu Yokota was just getting started but only a few years away from releasing a string of brilliant, inventive ambient electronic […]
Join us at ISC NYC for a Brian Eno Dedicated Listening Session today. If history has taught us anything, it’s that when Brian Eno starts talking about art, […]
A love letter to curated collections and the people who make them. Seventy-five years ago, Folkways Records began issuing a series of themed albums that corralled recordings made […]
Join us 2-5pm at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC for a listening session dedicated to jazz-funk classics. For a long time, “fusion” was a dirty word in jazz circles, […]
There are records that are as potent as psychedelics. Records that whoosh you into another realm the moment the stylus locks into the groove, embrace you in their […]
For our first Featured Collection, we invite you to dive into Deep Listening, a selection of albums inspired by the quiet daytime hours at ISC. If you’ve visited […]
