Music
Must-listen: Claudia Khachan and Ziad Moukarzel in musical dialogue
Have you ever, half-asleep, felt a melody drift with ease through your brain, humming with electricity, only to lose it again? In The Vapornet, Claudia Khachan and Ziad Moukarzel mind-meld in a collaboration that makes that moment come alive.
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TROVARSI x ALX-106 deliver brutal techno fed by serious live chops
Nothing puts life back in the groove quite like playing live. In a pairing of two total legends, Trovarsi and ALX-106 team up to drop some hard-slapping techno in the classic mold out on DC-based Black Techno Matters. And it’s got all the animation of their live sets combined with pitch-perfect production. It’s top-quality techno right when we need it: no hype, no TikTok genres, just a devastating kick from the kick.
Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025
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Worlds of sound from hacked hard drives, piano-triggered modular
NYC-based Purplish Records releases music on cassette in batches, and this double release is a serious gem. Ipek Eginli creates a magical cloud world of prepared piano interconnected with modular synths, as Jad Atoui transforms discarded hard drives into mechanical compositional machines.
Peter Kirn - February 7, 2025
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Journey to the forests of the Amazon and Poland with blind artist Izabela Dłużyk
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024
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Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release
Peter Kirn - March 23, 2023
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