The visionary Berlin duo focus their inexhaustible curiosity, considerable production chops and irresistible playfulness in the direction of the dancefloor, assembling jagged vocal shards into sinuous, polyrhythms on the latest banger from new album AAI.

Listen to "Youmachine" now

A huge tip for fans of the outernational, rhythm-driven output of labels like Principe Discos and Nyege Nyege Tapes.

AAI is out on the 26th February and is available to pre-order now on limited-edition gray vinyl.

Named after a Native American sacred place and hiking trail near his home in Portland, guitarist Dewey Mahood here sculpts hazy guitar drift around sombre horns into a space for reflection and meditation.

Listen to "Wind Mountain" now

Plankton Wat's new album Future Times is due out on February 26th, available to pre-order now on limited-edition red vinyl. 

The new trio featuring Phil Manley of Trans Am / Life Coach channel their cosmic energy and considerable chops into a sinuous space-rock jam on the first single from their debut album, Soft Opening.

Listen to "Specificity (Or What Have You)" now

A kind of in-house band at El Studios, run by Manley along with studio co-owners Donny Newenhouse and Phil Becker, Terry Gross began as an opportunity for the trio to test the boundaries and gear of the studio. With the tapes rolling on rehearsals, Soft Opening captures the sheer exuberance of playing together, “Specificity…” in particular managing to distil the improvised sessions into a tight pop-structure without losing any of the expansive energy of the trio’s live performance.

Terry Gross debut album Soft Opening is available to pre-order now on limited-edition pink vinyl. 

Welcoming, enchanting, and bewildering - French composer Cecile Schott’s music as Colleen transmutes memory and emotion into transcendent splendor.

New album The Tunnel and the Clearing, due out May 21st finds Schott at her most vulnerable and confident, honing her hardware intuition so that she can truly sing and speak through her machines. Charting a turbulent period of change and personal growth for the composer, Schott here transumates complex emotions into harmony, melody, rhythm and sound, recalling Arthur Russell at his most contemplative, or the astounding vision of electronic pioneers like Laurie Spiegel and Delia Derbyshire.

Listen to first single "Gazing at Taurus - Santa Eulalia" now

The Tunnel and the Clearing is available to pre-order now on limited-edition color LP ahead of it's May 21st release date.

A huge statement of intent from the new duo of Lee Buford (The Body) and Zac Jones (MSC), Manslaughter 777’s debut singles "Arc" and "Do You Know Who Loves You" mine electronic and dance music’s nebulous outer reaches with the same wild imagination we’ve come to expect from both musicians.

Listen to both tracks now

Showcasing two different aspects of their sound, from “Do You Know Who Loves You”s astral ambience to “ARC”s ruffneck Amen breaks, Buford and Jones strafe elements of darkside drum ‘n’ bass, hip hop and dub while sounding resolutely like themselves.

Manslaughter 777's debut album World Vision Perfect Harmony is due out March 19th, and is available to pre-order now. 

With just over a fortnight until the release of their monolithic new album I've Seen All I Need To See, The Body have shared pummeling new single "Tied Up and Locked In".

Listen to "Tied Up and Locked In" now

“Tied Up and Locked In” captures the astounding weight and bludgeoning force of The Body’s live sound in stunning detail - a much-need cathartic eruption of energy.
Make sure you spin this one suitably loud.

I've Seen All I Need To See is available to pre-order now on limited-edition silver vinyl.

 

Mouse on Mars provide a much-needed injection of positive energy, blasting away from the cobwebs from 2020 and fast-forwarding to utopian dancefloor futures with the euphoric sci-fi funk of new single “Artificial Authentic”.

Listen to "Artificial Authentic" now

Forming the emotional heart of new album AAI, few tracks better capture the Berlin duo’s delicate balance between heady sonic adventurism and playful pop bounce, twinning luxuriant sound design and an impeccable grasp of space and texture with unapologetically ecstatic club sonics. Pure bliss.

AAI is available to pre-order now on limited-edition grey vinyl, featuring beautiful full sleeve art by digital artist Casey Reas.

One of the most prolific and inventive guitarists in the contemporary psychedelic underground, Portland multi-instrumentalist Dewey Mahood has announced his latest solo album as Plankton Wat, Future Times, due out February 26th.

Listen to first single "Nightfall" now

First single "Nightfall" sees Mahood sculpt a cinematic, new psychedelic and beautiful pastorale, building from distorted guitar figures and smouldering synthesiser drones to peaks of lysergic bliss.

Future Times is available to pre-order now on limited-edition red vinyl.