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Huerco S returns to Incienso with a landmark album of strange, cascading beats inspired by trap, drill and a childhood love of carsHuerco S returns to Incienso with an album of strange, cascading beats inspired by trap, drill and a childhood love of cars

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David McKenna , May 18th, 2021 08:14 David McKenna ponders the influence of Paris’ Seine-Saint-Denis suburb and samples Marseille rap, mongrel folk and prepared pianos. Home page photograph: Sourdure by Eloïse Decazes Recently I’ve been reflecting on the outsize impact of one of France’s smallest administrative departments – Seine-Saint-Denis, which covers a little over 90 square miles and is known informally as le quatre-vingt treize or le neuf-trois – ‘the ninety-three’) afte...

Spitfire Audio Teams Up With Hainbach Landfill Totems sample library features sounds from his new concept album      09/04/21 Spitfire Audios latest release with SA Recordings comes from electronic innovator, composer and sonic mastermind, Hainbach . They tell us that it features his mind-blowing new concept album, Landfill Totems, and a sample library of the same name which comprises an extension of the highly unique sound palette of the record. Heres more details direct from Spitfire ...

Veil Daryl Worthington , April 7th, 2021 08:14 Opal Tapes founder Stephen Bishop and avant-turntablist Mariam Rezaei make audible the latency of a socially distanced world for Daryl Worthington Early cinema-goers were more fascinated by the background action of dust, leaves, and crowds than what happened in the foreground, so a popular anecdote goes. Minds were blown by the camera’s ability to capture these incidental movements. Transfixed, for instance, by spooky actions of steam from a lo...