Replicant - Heaventsent

Chicago dark synth trio Replicant are back with a new 2-track single "Heaventsent", that promotes an upcoming full-length album due out later this summer.

NC Ives - Saturn Devouring

Nicholas Ives is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist, painter, sculptor and producer based in Melbourne, Australia. I discovered him by chance a few weeks ago, and his music totally took over my speakers lately. We're working on putting out his album "Breaking Dawn" on a cassette tape via Dagger Forest right now, but today I wanted to share his latest album "Saturn Devouring". It's a sonic response to his recent art exhibition entitled Saturn Devouring at Oigall Projects in Melbourne week ago. 45 minutes of sound collage, warped electronica and abstract beats that can bring to mind works of AFTA-1, Dem Hunger and Yuk, a psych-trip through delirious deserts and hazy hills of an imaginary Australian wasteland. So so good.

Buy the album here (including a super limited tape edition), and stream it below.

Pale Palace - Lost

Pale Palace is a mysterious producer from Sweden who stole my dark heart with his incredible witch house remix of Zola Jesus' "Lost", from her last LP. On replay for three days straight. Check it out above, and cop some singles on Bandcamp here.

Couronne de Merde - Thiruvananthapuram (Sniper Bait Remix)

Couronne de Merde is a French experimental producer who just released his latest LP "Policy of Trust". The last track on the album is a remix from John Katsav's Sniper Bait project, who turned the drone/dark ambient original into a spooky industrial composition that sounds like it was recorded late at night by a hauneted pond. Fantastic. Buy the whole album here.

Pictureplane - XPizza

Massive tunes from Travis, DJing a sick jungle set in a pizza shop in Manhattan. The set took place in March 2023.

dirtr4t & D0G99 - Reathe ★★★

Boys from Stay Healthy are back, on a collaborative track "Reathe". It has the same gritty vibe I fell in love with on "Dirt", featuring some unknown female vocals and sick rap from Tommy. Stream above, there may be something bigger cooking...

Sexes - Placer Displacer (Akira Kintsugi Vocal Mix)

Akira Kintsugi is a Mexico City-based producer who's relatively new to the scene (as far as I know). His solo bandcamp debut comes in a form of a remix of SEXES' "Placer Displacer" track. The original is a indie pop/rock composition that would be banging on the radio in the 90s. Akira's remix is a deconstructed, minimal edit of the single, focusing on the ethereal, choir-focused ambient interlude there, and expanding that into a whole new composition. Think Julianna Barwick or Holly Herndon's voice manipulations. Download here.