Welcome to August, where remixes and new singles give us a further taste of things to come from some of the hottest artists in the game right now. We roundup our favourite of the week. Listen below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we
afrobeats / Alt-Pop / ambient / bubblegum bass / experimental / highlife / loops / Minimal
When we last spoke to Italian born producer and label head Davide Squillace, he showed no signs of slowing down. As one of the most in-demand tastemakers in the game right now, this remains true. Like Squillace, fellow Italian producer Santos is renowned for his game-changing work in tech house,
SoundCloud is set to lay off a significant number of its employees. According to an email acquired by both Billboard and Resident Advisor, the company plans to layoff nearly 20 percent of its total workforce. In the email, SoundCloud CEO Michael Weissman notes how, though difficult, the move is necessary
When Rina Sawayama unleashed her seminal album SAWAYAMA upon the world, it became apparent that we were not just witnessing the birth of a new pop star, but a true creative tour de force. Together with producer Clarence Clarity, Sawayama engineered a sound that, although fuelled by nostalgia and her
Grab a coat and slip on your wellingtons because producer Dante Klein is taking 2022 by storm. Not only has he released a striking new house record, titled ‘La Musica’, but has also announced that, moving forward, he will be releasing his music under his very own record label by
When Canadian record producer Kaytranada walked away with the Grammy for Best Dance / Electronic Album in 2021, it felt like the beginning of a process of reclamation that would see house and dance music return to the hands of its Black pioneers. To this, Kaytranada is essential. His music
American electronic duo Odesza occupy an odd space in the future bass lineage. While their sound has arguably been fairly essential to the establishment of the EDM off-shoot, they’ve become less prolific to the genre than the likes of, say, Flume or Bonobo. A reason for this is likely Odesza’s
Bass / Future Bass / House / Melodic Techno / Post-dubstep / Tech-House / Techno
A new music streaming service trademarked by TikTok could be on the horizon. According to Insider, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance filed a trademark for TikTok Music in May at the US Patent and Trademark office. From the filing, it appears that TikTok Music will be a key competitor to current
Beyoncé welcomed us into what she’s calling her Renaissance with a sample of a seminal house music classic. The bassline of Robin. S’s Show Me Love would become the bassline for our expectations of the singer’s eighth studio album, which promised to be her most definitive pivot toward the dancefloor
Singer Kelis has called out Beyoncé and her team of producers, including Pharrell Williams, for use of an uncleared sample from Kelis’s Milkshake on a song called Energy. The song appears on Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance. Speaking about her frustrations via an Instagram live, Kelis revealed that she learnt of
