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Cover art by Walmer Records UK On Fancy That, PinkPantheress continues her shimmering, hyper-referential excavation of UK dance music’s past. This time, she’s less archeologist than medium, summoning ghosts of garage, jungle, emo, and mid-2000s mall pop into a tight, iridescent 20-minute séance. The result is a record...
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Carpenter Brut is a titanic force that has redefined the intersection of 80s horror nostalgia, metal...
Berlin-based duo Soft Changa returned with an intoxicating new track ‘Surely’, which dropped on May 9,...
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Fresh off the release of her new single ‘fries, bb’ on May 9 via Beeline Records,...
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We sat down with Gabriel Brasil, a São Paulo native and sonic trailblazer whose spellbinding live sets blur the lines between the precision of the studio and the raw energy...
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Multi-modal creative OKADOSH is gearing up to release his IDM debut album Through All on 4 April. The album has been in the making for nearly a decade, and is...
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