The Urban Essence Show – 2017 Roundup

‘Twas the season to do round-ups so, in keeping with tradition, messirs Adam, Jack and Rhemayo gathered only the finest musical gifts from throughout the year for a sonic summary of sorts featuring Thundercat, Vels Trio, Jack Peoples, Objekt and … Read More

Premiere: Andre Salmon – Math & Candy

Another year, another stellar various artists compilation from Hector Couto‘s prolific Roush Label. A platform for label favourites and new talent alike to flex their musical muscle, the series has a reputation for leaving no stone unturned when it comes … Read More

Premiere: Fluxion – Flick

Athens based veteran producer Fluxion will later this month release his twelfth 12″ on Danish imprint Echocord. While his evergreen two decade production career spans other labels like Chain Reaction and Subwax Bcn, with the often fleeting relationships between artist … Read More

Premiere: Dragosh – Step

Dragosh has been fusing club-ready functionality with soulful richness since first appearing back in 2009. Fast forward to the wintery bluster of January 2018 and it’s business as usual for the Romanian artist, who follows up a couple of EPs … Read More

Premiere: Noah Skelton – Looped Reflections (Laughing Man’s Terminal Edit)

Our first premiere of the year comes courtesy of a Dublin based triumverate. Happy new year to you, Dublin.

Pear is a collective and record label with only a couple of releases under their belt so far from some of … Read More

Digging Deep: Rings Around Saturn

Melbourne-based artist Rory McPike has had a fruitful couple of years. A meandering Live techno cassette for Altered States Tapes as 2200; a couple of club-focussed, genre-spanning EPs as Dan White; a full IDM-meets-Drumfunk long player as Pickleman amongst others… … Read More

Premiere: Reykjavik606 – Lake Nakaumi

Reykjavik606 is the latest signing to Bilbao based label Forbidden Colours, the mind space for experimental Basque producer Aitor Etxebarria that pays homage to Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s timeless classic.

The group is comprised of self-confessed ‘modular nerds’ Kino Internacional and Borja … Read More

UE.43: Bernard Baum

A couple of weeks back we introduced you to Panatype and Bernard Baum. The former, a new record label from Peckham-via-Paris trading in warm electronica and glitchy micro house; the latter, its co-founder and production wunderkind whose reverb drenched ‘Atoll’ we premiered. Read More

Premiere: Amandra – Matisa Anse

Ahrpe Records co-founder Amandra navigates a unique space between droning ambience and polyrhythmic funk on Dame De Bahia, his first release to emerge on Italian imprint Obscura. This is the French, Warsaw-based producer’s second album and follows a string of … Read More

Premiere: Traffic Report – Velo

Traffic Report are Christian Rütz from Copenhagen and Marc Brauner from Berlin. They met in the summer of 2016 in Berlin and soon after started jamming, producing and readying a live set, culminating in their debut album Traffic Jams on … Read More