Pittsburgh sound artist Davis Galvin is the next to contribute to our first season of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By (an ambient, minimalist and new age label, designed to accompany the peaceful act of planting seeds).

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In Flagranti – The ‘Altered Currents’ Ransom Note Mix Marking a quarter-century of, Swiss duo In Flagranti present a mix steeped in their patchwork aesthetic, stitching together threads of 70s disco, 80s post-punk, and 90s US house.

With latest album, ‘Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love, ‘ he examines lo-fi dance, post-punk, and new wave. “It’s hefty in places, tender in others, with surface noise folded in,” he says of his sound, which draws from influences like Jah Wobble and The Creatures.

Joe Armon-Jones Announces First Solo Album in Six Years Armon-Jones, known for his work with Ezra Collective and collaborations with Mala and Tony Allen, will release the album through his newly established Aquarii Records.

Review: Kahn and Neek – (Having A Sick Time) In The Mansions Of Bliss It’s been an eventful few decades on the post-UK Garage frontier. From the initial rise of grime and dubstep, with seminal British releases garnering both critical and commercial appeal to being cast into the shadows by the likes of its distant American cousins, brostep and trap.

Pittsburgh sound artist Davis Galvin is the next to contribute to our first season of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By (an ambient, minimalist and new age label, designed to accompany the peaceful act of planting seeds).

Bytes* is a London/Dorset electronic label and an offshoot of Ransom Note Records formed in 2019.*Named after the 1993 Black Dog album that was part of Warp’s influential Artificial Intelligence series.

Pittsburgh sound artist Davis Galvin is the next to contribute to our first season of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By (an ambient, minimalist and new age label, designed to accompany the peaceful act of planting seeds).

A Soundtrack for the Sea: Ian Urbina talks about the musical counterpart to his book ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ It’s approaching almost two years since Ian Urbina’s book ‘The Outlaw Ocean’ was first published, a collection of tales and stories told first hand focussed on crime and extralegal activities at sea. The book was critically acclaimed and heralded for shining a spotlight on the ...