Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt reflect on Metallic Life Review, recording live, and honoring Susan Alcorn. For nearly 30 years, Matmos — Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt — have […]
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Our favorite new releases from Detroit, Chicago, Paris, Edmonton, Italy, Ireland, Berlin via Senegal, and more… New music continues to be a major focus for us here at […]
Join us this Friday at JACCC for a conversation, listening party, and dance from the great LA-based Latin music label ZZK Records. Anyone who has spent any time […]
Though no longer active, the magazine’s preserved works continue to influence and inform diggers and obsessives. The news landed quietly, and it still hasn’t fully sunk in for […]
Jelinek’s 2005 album warps time through shifting, eroding textures. The vinyl reissue arrives as he prepares for a rare performance at the Lodge Room. Known for working under […]
Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar fused Persian tradition with synthesized experimentation, crafting a sound both timeless and otherworldly. Long overlooked, his visionary work has resurfaced on […]
How a decade of innovation, frustration, and reinvention led to Ultramarine’s most defiant statement—now reissued on vinyl by WRWTFWW Records. Ultramarine’s A User’s Guide is getting a long-overdue return to […]
Going deep with a self-taught electrical engineer and his wild gadgets and devices. “Bruce has been informing me that electronic music perhaps is the thing of the 70s,” […]
The greatest Serbian band you’ve never heard of… Here’s a Serbian band that we came across in this beautiful daytime set by Belgrade-born DJ Vladimir Ivkovic from the […]
Todd Rundgren on computers, Apple, interactive music, PatroNet, and more. Here’s another archival nugget from the Japanese music book Todd Rundgren – Born to Synthesize: “There Goes the […]
Punk rock, world obscurities, and “deranged” mix CD’s from Keiji Yamabe’s Los Apson? record shop in Koenji, Tokyo. The best record shops in the world are much more […]
And Thomas Brinkmann drops a new post-election track called ‘Deep Trouble.’ Music can help lighten dark days. Can’t it? This morning, German techno genius Thomas Brinkmann issued a […]
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 […]
“I would like to create the 0.1-second sound which condenses all emotions in the universe. When I listen to it, maybe my mind and existence itself will collapse.”
Steve Roach will perform an all night set on October 26th at the Lloyd Wright constructed Institute of Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree. A bonafide living legend, the desert-based […]
Join us this Friday, September 13th for Yu Su’s debut live Ambientale performance at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ. Born in Kaifeng, a city in central China’s Henan province, […]
Hear Daedelus discuss extra terrestrial communication, intellectual property and sampling, the views and expectations of the new generation of musicians, and more. Across more than 130 episodes, the […]
Words don’t need to introduce a lovely piece of recorded music. Sometimes, as below, the best curtain-raiser is the thing itself. That’s American choreographer, dancer, actress and educator […]
Essential footage of early electronic music pioneers Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire. In the 1960s, weird new sounds were infiltrating mass media. Cosmic tones generated through electricity, first […]
The pitch behind Beat Connection, writer Michaelangelo Matos’ newsletter, is basic. Described, simply, as “DJ mixes and the DJs that play them,” the Substack-published column goes deep on […]
The summer is halfway over and you’ve been scrolling for like, what, six weeks straight now? Step away from your phone (after reading this, of course). An analog […]
A few days ago on his Blissblog, the LA-based writer and scholar Simon Reynolds highlighted a recently released 8-hour, brilliantly crafted ambient and post-rave experimental electronic mix and […]
For more than a decade, Optimo was one of the hottest clubs in the world. Few club nights have made more of a dent in the international psyche […]
The 1990s were a transformative decade for ambient music, a genre whose name had been coined a mere 15-odd years earlier by Brian Eno with the release of […]
A few spots are now open for the record club. Join today for personally curated records delivered to you monthly! Last month a package arrived from Los Angeles […]
Although everyday is Hosono day, those in need of a specific boost on this Monday might find fuel in some video game music by Haruomi Hosono. Inspired by […]
At the end of World War II, the US military loaded up all the equipment it used for communication and warfare against the Nazis and brought it back […]
This is a post about New York musical collective the Sonic Arts Union, but it could be about the magical intricacies of virtually any earthen revelation. Push aside […]
LA-based DJ and choreographer Colored Craig shares the record from his first solo dance routine. One of our favorite DJ’s in Los Angeles, Craig Hollamon aka Colored Craig […]
Loveshadow’s sophomore album II is out now via Dark Entries. Two of our favorite DJs / musicians from the Bay Area, Anya Prisk and Izaak Schlossman make up […]
Join us for a listening session today 2-5pm featuring favorites from Ontario-based label Séance Centre. Founded in 2017 by Brandon Hocura and Naomi Okabe, Séance Centre is an […]
The Music from Memory and Rush Hour affiliate plays Sound of Make Believe this Saturday in Los Angeles. Madrid-born, London-based DJ & record collector John Gómez is known […]
A transcendental futuristic sounds experience in Philadelphia… Three weeks ago, a group of us traveled from Los Angeles to Philadelphia in search of a transcendental experience. Most us […]
Josh Dibb aka Deakin shares five favorites with us in celebration of Animal Collective’s new album. Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist meet genius producer […]
If you’ve never done so or it’s been a while, you should cue up “Metronomic Underground,” the opening track on Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup. Released in March, 1996, […]
Back with our recent favorites from Los Angeles, Xiamen, Sweden, UK, Ghana, Chicago, New York. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and […]
Remembering a musician and thinker whose work created a singular kind of bliss. When Stars of the Lid started releasing music in the mid-1990s, critics and tastemakers had […]
When it tore through London before taking over the world in the early 1990s, the jungle/drum ‘n bass scene was unlike any other in the world. Harnessing samplers, […]
Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground. In a disputed territory called Fashaga near the border of Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea lives a man whose name, […]
Join us Saturday at ISC HQ to celebrate Brin & Dustin’s album release on Leaving Records. Two of our favorite local electronic artists come together on Texture II, […]
Dive into a favorite from our collection at In Sheep’s Clothing NYC and join us for a listening party Thursday 4-8pm. The story goes that Hydroplane, the self-titled […]
Planet Q is available for pre-order now via In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi Selects and Pure Person Press! To explore and absorb Planet Q, the new record by artists […]
Epic concerts and excerpts that illustrate why the Boredoms’ mesmerizing tribal explorations are unlike anything else on the planet. We’ve celebrated the Boredoms before, and recently added DJ […]
It’s not a coincidence that the birth of electronic dance music coincided with the rise of animated computer graphics. Scene: It’s 1993 and you just called the rave […]
Making Time ∞ returns to Fort Mifflin with 100+ acts. Check out some of our favorites. This site generally focuses on happenings in our home turf of Los […]
First-ever vinyl release of the artist’s Eno-mixed 1989 concert near the World Trade Center. We’ve previously written about Jon Hassell’s legendary 1989 performances at the Financial Center in […]
Folklorist Derek Piotr speaks with Austrian experimental electronic producer and guitarist Christian Fennesz. I am pleased to tidy up my “Heroes Series” with a fifth and final entry […]
“Imagine the future” with Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum and Los Angeles-based rave project DISCOSXXX. One of the great UK chill-out room legends, Jonah Sharp began his career […]
The event will include a Ras G streetwear drop and performances from Dibiase, Mndsgn, Koreatown Oddity, and AshTreJinkins. On April 4th aka “Ras G Day”, Roland, Poobah Records and dublab are […]
John Jones in conversation with South of North founder Dominik Rodemann. I was first introduced to the Amsterdam-based label South of North by way of their 2018 debut […]
39 minutes of futuristic electronic music and psychedelic visuals on MTV’s Amp program. As one of the earliest artists on the essential 1990s label Astralwerks, Future Sound of […]
Recent ISC favorites from Malmö, Kingston, Newcastle, London, and Los Angeles. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks […]
Dip into the world of Tokyo’s 5AM and Thinner Groove ~ no matter what time you at ~ Perfectly out of time, 5AM’s debut album Pre Zz hasn’t […]
Two years ago, the Barcelona-based DJ, writer and electronic music expert Philip Sherburne teamed up with Albert Salinas to launch Balmat Records, a boutique label devoted to experimental […]
“An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.” Next year will mark the singular British label Hyperdub’s 20th anniversary, […]
Going deep inside a hypnotic recording derived from a Serbian brass band. It’s up to you to choose which of the below pieces you want to listen to […]
Abstract, ambient and classical music from the legendary Cologne-based electronic label. In 2001, electronic music was at a crossroads, one that felt more like a massive highway interchange […]
‘Raven’ is out now with contributions from OCA, LSDXOXO, Junglepussy, Bambii, Asmara, and KAYTRANADA. “When the world needed her most… she vanished.” Last Friday, after a six year […]
A new mix series from your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. Happy New Year! Wow, it’s February already. It’s been a little quiet on the playlist front here […]
In the third issue of Synapse, a mid-1970s magazine devoted to news and features on the burgeoning field of electronic music, editors Douglas Lynner and Angela Schill offer […]
By the year 2000, various forms of electronic dance music had begun consuming global music culture, part of an evolution that began with the rise of home computers, […]
With his passing, celebrating the great drummer, singer and composer through video footage With his metronomic timing, calm vocal delivery, and movie-star good looks, musician Yukihiro Takahashi left […]
The 5+ hour, 79-track mix moves from Coil to the Scientist to Eno, YMO, Model 500, 808 State, and beyond. Got plans this weekend? Autechre’s got the dance-all-night […]
Richard D. James has never released a sanctioned DJ mix. Fans have stepped in to meet the demand. More than three decades into his career, Richard D. James […]
“When I found out E2-E4 was played in clubs, I couldn’t imagine people dancing to it…” When the great German musician and thinker Manuel Göttsching passed on Monday […]
More music is always better… So here are more favorites from 2022. Where are we now? 2022 was another big year of change for us at In Sheep’s […]
Heels & Souls are pressing Pilgrims of the Minds’ West Coast classic What’s Your Shrine? for the first time ever on vinyl. Turn the dial back to 1996. […]
As the remarkable series approaches its 10th anniversary, a look at the musician-producer’s online project. In 2013, the musician and producer Jim O’Rourke started releasing a series of […]
Absolutely essential Detroit ambient from the legend Neil Olivierra a.k.a. the Detroit Escalator Co. By the mid-1990s, synthesizers had fully integrated with computing software, resulting in a kind […]
Deep and dubby electronic selections from Crates LA… Those of you who have been following along should be well aware of music blog / record seller / DJ […]
Cosmic Americana recorded in a two room cottage in Los Osos, California. I can clearly remember the first time I heard Jon Iverson’s music. It was a quiet […]
Sun Ra improvising on a Prophet VS synthesizer in 1986? Pump it straight into our veins. In the summer of that year while in Boston with his band, […]
Going deep with cult Detroit electro-techno outfit Drexciya. Sometimes submergence is the only way to explore and understand the mission of a particular artist: dive in, ignore everything […]
The experimental guitarist’s latest album Shebang! has arrived on Chicago-based independent label Drag City. To discover Oren Ambarchi’s discography is like coming upon a shimmering labyrinth in the […]
German rave classics and modern dance grooves from Kompakt Records’ Perel. Annegret Fiedler aka Perel has come a long way since her early years singing and playing in punk […]
John Oswald’s deconstructionist ‘Plunderphonics’ collage approach meets the Grateful Dead. In the early 1990s, the Canadian sound artist John Oswald was granted full access to the Grateful Dead’s […]
A look into one of our favorite new labels from Dublin, Ireland. In the last few years, a new wave of left-field artists has emerged from the lush […]
The Melbourne duo has released a live video and album recorded at Syndey Opera House. If you were lucky enough to catch Melbourne-based duo HTRK on their international […]
Mellow indie, sweet downtempo, electronic pop, and more! It’s been a few months since we did one of these! We hope everyone has made it through the summer […]
Remembering an iconic ’90s track that bridged Northwest indie-pop and sample-based electronic music. In mid-1990s America, the independent underground music world was frustratingly balkanized. Detroit was producing sturdy […]
ISC’s John Jones speaks to the “bubblin’ up” production trio from Chicago. At In Sheep’s Clothing, we’ve quickly become fans of the Chicago three-piece outfit Purelink. Their first […]
Mid-80’s digital new age meets the voices of Lyra Pramuk, Holly Herndon, and Mindar the Buddhist Robot on the Seahawks’ latest album. Let’s talk about headphone music – […]
All hail the Sims 2: Nightlife soundtrack. In the late 1990s a trio of 10-inch records by a little known London beat-based duo called Lemon Jelly hit the […]
Derek Piotr continues his ‘Heroes’ interview series with Finnish audio sculptress Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF. I am delighted to introduce Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka poemproducer, aka AGF. Antye and […]
Recently one of the great mix CDs of the so-called electronica age, Kruder & Dorfmeister’s The K&D Sessions from 1998, finally landed on streaming services a quarter-century after […]
Two legends of German music deliver nearly two hours of improvised bliss. In 1999, two towering figures of electronic music, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius, stood onstage in […]
We’re back with another staff selects playlist! Haven’t done one of these in a minute! Thanks for following along as always. We love putting these together and so […]
Step into the world of chillout pioneer Morris Gould aka Mixmaster Morris aka Irresistible Force. “The sampler changed my life,” the British DJ and producer Mixmaster Morris told […]
How a 4-hour drive between Midwestern cities transformed electronic beat music. It’s no coincidence that two of electronic beat music’s most important subgenres, house and techno, were born […]
The extended composition’s best known version is 75 minutes long and features harmonizing by Tom Waits. In the early 1970s, the British minimalist composer Gavin Bryars had begun […]
Exploring the wild world of YouTube channel Are Sounds Electrik? It’s been about 50 years since the synthesizer began easing its way into the mainstream, and man were […]
Hear a pair of revelatory versions featuring Brian Eno on “splintered” Minimoog. Last week two David Bowie tracks recorded during the Low sessions in 1976 showed up on […]
Six essential new releases to get you through the week. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Shoegaze, indie, and synthesizer magic live at Zebulon on April 16th. We’ve been patiently waiting for this one… Suzanne Kraft aka Diego Herrera will perform songs from his […]
Peak Oil’s Brian Foote and Brion Brionson chat ’90s raves, indie rock, and faceless techno bollocks. In the early ‘90s, rave culture exploded across the United States. Generator […]
A book that “travels from the rainforests of the Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.” Earlier this week we […]
Downtempo beats, soaring ambient, and dubby electronics for spring. Spring is here and with it comes another playlist from your friends at In Sheep’s Clothing. We’ve been picking […]
The best book on the rise of electronic dance music turns 25 next year. The introduction to Simon Reynolds’ essential book Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno […]
Check out a video explainer on an instrument used by Eno, Bowie, Mark Mothersbaugh and more. The ad copy says it all: “Sound like a pro—make music instantly, […]
TIOH Arts & Culture and dublab proudly present Morton Subotnick’s ‘As I Live and Breathe’ on Thursday, March 31. Our good friends over at dublab bring you an […]
The Amsterdam-based label has released a 17-track compilation with all proceeds donated to Red Cross Ukraine. One of our favorite labels doing more great things… Music from Memory […]
A selection of restrained, melodic IDM from 1997. Twenty-five years ago, a barrage of wild, speedy albums came onto the market that propelled the subgenres drum ‘n bass […]
Archie Shepp, Jack J, Troth, Psychic TV, and more selects from In Sheep’s Clothing. Hello friends… It seems a dark cloud is forming just as a bit of […]
The lost 1984 follow-up to ‘Kakashi’ and ‘Utakata No Hibi’ will be released on NYC label Palto Flats. Japanese experimental saxophonist, producer, and composer Yasuaki Shimizu needs no […]
Five mesmerizing tracks by the Austrian experimental electronic producer and instrumentalist. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hotel Paral.lel, the first solo album by Austrian experimental guitarist […]
A tipsheet on the trailblazing British duo, who formed after Throbbing Gristle’s early ‘80s breakup. Let’s talk about industrial music. Wait – come back! Not the relentless aggro […]
Dive into the origins of Weatherall’s personal mantra “Fail We May, Sail We Must.” Yesterday, February 17th marked the second anniversary of the passing of Andrew Weatherall aka […]
John Jones chats with Lifted’s Andrew Field-Pickering (Max D) and Matt Papich. Lifted is an ever-shifting music ensemble anchored by their two founding members, Andrew Field-Pickering (Max D) […]
Touch Music celebrates 40 years with a three day festival at 2220 Arts produced in collaboration with dublab. Touch Music, notes the company on its website, is “not […]
Key moments and tracks from On-U Sound’s premier dub group. You could spend the rest of the winter researching producer, musician and On-U Sound founder Adrian Sherwood – […]
Classic indie acts, your favorite DJ’s, and the McIntosh-powered Despacio soundsystem all in our backyard. Goldenvoice along with some friends of ISC have recently announced a new festival […]
Another strange year in the books. In 2021, we finally begin to crawl out of this once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. It hasn’t been a smooth transition by any means, but […]
Another installment of deep cuts, this time we take a look at an ISC patron saint, the enigmatic and genre-defying ~ John Martyn. Before what some consider […]
KLF, The Orb, Plastikman and more ambient classics from the 1990’s. At the beginning of the year, the essential Music from Memory label issued Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations […]
Moody and nostalgic fall/winter songs to close out the year. Selections by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing. Strangely, this year is coming soon to a close… and […]
“Like the last embers of a fire burning” Our friends at Motion Ward have announced their final release of the year with a “CD of dimly lit tunes […]
Synthesized Satie for home listening, the dance floor, and beyond. You’ve heard groundbreaking French composer Erik Satie’s slow, existential sounding pieces in numerous films, shows, animations, and documentaries. […]
“My Definition Of Techno House Is A Shrimp.” Earlier this year, German electronic label Transmigration released the much anticipated Space Teddy Collection, a 2xLP compilation of tracks from […]
Austin Brown shares his journey into sound system culture and deep listening with 5 recent favorites. Several years ago Parquet Courts cofounder Austin Brown started going to the […]
The Promises saga continues with new behind the scenes footage released by Luaka Bop. From the very first notes of Promises, it’s clear that something magical is about […]
Downtempo and abstract electronica selections from one of the principal architects of modern Japanese pop music. It’s virtually impossible to find an individual as prolific and influential as […]
Suzanne Kraft joins us for an intimate live show at In Sheep’s Clothing HQ this Friday with friends. Earlier this summer, Los Angeles native Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne […]
Better late than never… A new playlist from all of us at In Sheep’s Clothing. Oh my October has creeped up on us! Apologies for the missing September […]
Rest in power Richard H. Kirk. We revisit 5 tracks from the electronic music pioneer’s multitude of projects. Richard H. Kirk, sadly, has passed at 65. Besides founding […]
Revisiting a lost Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder collaboration recorded at George Martin’s AIR studio. Mention a Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder collaboration and most people will likely […]
New Tara Clerkin Trio, spiritual free jazz, Chinese dreamscapes, and more of that “Now Sound” selected by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening […]
New releases selected by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues and restocks. As music freaks who […]
Hey friends! Somehow we’re still here and still listening. We hope you are too <3 Here’s some music we’ve been listening to this past month. This month’s playlist […]
Multi-instrumentalist, drummer (CMON, Drugdealer), and NTS radio host Josh da Costa shares five gems. CMON (Confusing Mix Of Nations) is the studio project of Josh da Costa formerly […]
A quick dive into Brian Long’s influential ‘Excursions in Ambience’ compilation CD series. In 1993, Brian Long, a New York-based music freak who’d recently left Los Angeles and […]
Contemplating summer with moody guitars, sunset electronics, and vanishing ambience. Hello friends! It’s been over a full month since we’ve started our dedicated listening residency at Neuehouse. Apologies […]
An adventure of textures and patterns in a visual form. You’re at a rave in an English field. It’s 1992. Sorted for e’s, your pill just kicked in […]
Five “fingertracks” from Andrew Hogge aka Lovefingers. It is without exaggeration to say that Andrew Hogge, aka Lovefingers, is one of our absolute favorite selectors. His pre-social media, […]
An introduction to aural therapy with two artists exploring the healing qualities of sound. Have you noticed that days without music tend to be the low-energy days? If […]
Abstract, experimental electronic music from one of our favorite local labels. Shimmering. Foggy. Warm. Hypnotic. These are all words that have been used to describe the abstract electronic […]
A new “electronic travelogue” full-length from Toronto-based C.R. Gillespie arrives today via Séance Centre. We’ve been closely following the introspective, highly conceptual sonic works of Colin Roy Gillespie […]
Music from the 12th Isle via Glasgow’s underground. Glasgow’s 12th Isle has been steadily releasing some of our favorite genre-bending electronic works since 2016. The label takes a […]
A timeless synth played by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Alessandro Cortini, and Wendy Carlos. Introduced by Bay Area synthesizer innovator Don Buchla’s company in 1973, the Buchla Music Easel […]
Sublime deep listening works from the founder of seminal electronic label Kompakt. In the early 1990s, Germany was a country undergoing a profound transition. The wall that separated […]
Fish scales. Video Stores. Jazz. The multi-layered world of Munich-based label Squama Recordings. Martin Brugger is a producer and bass player for the modern jazz quintet Fazer. Max […]
Our friends at dublab have released George Martin’s incredible “Ray Cathode” electronic tracks. During his storied seven-decade career, producer, composer, and music executive George Martin actively nurtured his […]
After 21 years, Beats in Space will be “taking a break.” Though it may not be the end, here’s a tribute to one of our favorite radio shows. […]
A primer on Japanese experimental masters EYE, Yoshimi, Seiichi Yamamoto and the hypnotic mess they’ve made. The Boredoms aren’t an easy group to nail down. One of the strangest-ever […]
Daft Punk forever. French electronic music duo Daft Punk announced their retirement today after 28 years of iconic dance music. They broke the news with an 8-minute video […]
A look into the influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer who arranged the electronic opening theme of Doctor Who. Delia Derbyshire’s fascination with electronic music started when she was […]
One common language issue among serious listeners and the writers who pander to them has to do with the adjective heavy and the ways in which it is […]
