stream RAMZi’s transportive new album cocon
Montreal artist Phoebé Guillemot aka RAMZi just dropped her playfully shimmering and immersive new album cocon...
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stream Peaking Lights’ sprawling neon dub-disco double LP The Fifth State Of Consciousness
LA-based duo/married couple Indra Dunis + Aaron Coyes, aka Peaking Lights, are set to release their sprawling, vibrant 80-minute dub-pop disco journey The Fifth State Of Consciousness this week, just in time to soundtrack your psychedelic summer...
Kiki Hitomi – Galaxy
Taken from Kiki Hitomi's wonderful new solo debut LP Karma No Kusari, a vivid and haunting collection of "Japanese enka, 8-bit psychedelica and mutated digi dub" out now on Jahtari:
premiere: Peaking Lights - Conga Blue
LA duo Peaking Lights usher in spring with a glorious new psych-disco jammer: the balmy, epically grooving "Conga Blue" beams with the kind of feel-good tropical/cosmic vibes that the group always does so well, and will see a proper 12" vinyl release this summer (complete with instrumental and a bonus b-side track) as part of a series of singles and 12"s that the duo will be re
Animal Collective takeover: Stir it Up
Animal Collective's giddily vibrant and colorful new pop record Painting With (the band's 10th LP!) dropped last week, and to celebrate, we've asked the guys to take over the site for the day. So stick around to hang with Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist all day, and stay up on their posts throughout the day right here...
listen to another John Talabot remix of Jamie xx’s Loud Places
Barcelona's John Talabot drops his sprawling "Loud Places" "higher dub" (not to be confused with his "loud synths reconstruction"), out now on white label 12" from Young Turks:
Domenique Dumont – Comme Ça
This one was a last-minute entry on our records of the year (SO FAR) list, from a mysterious artist named Domenique Dumont. Even Domenique's own label, the Paris-based Antinote Recordings, claims to know nothing about the artist (please), but he/she has created a blissful, dreamily aquatic world via an elegant collision of dub, tropicalia, chillwave, ye-ye, bossa nova, techno, balearic, and every
new James Blake – “Voyeur (dub)” + “Digital Lion”
New dub version of James Blake's Overgrown track "Voyeur," ripped from today's Benji B show on BBC Radio 1.
Update: Blake's label 1-800-Dinosaur just posted up another new track from Overgrown, "Digital Lion" featuring Brian Eno :
premiere: Taken By Trees – Dreams 12″
We've already heard the beautifully transportive lead single from Taken By Trees' forthcoming Hawaiian Islands-inspired full-length Other Worlds, and today the group drops the other two tracks featured on the Dreams 12", which is out next week on Secretly Canadian...