The Predatory Wasp
Danish-Chilean artist Molina’s new album When You Wake Up is due out in October, and last week she shared the latest single, teaming up with TPW favourite ML Buch on Organs. According to Molina, Organs is “a fusion of our individual approaches to perceiving melodies, recordings, and sound in general” while incorporating their “mutual attraction to catchy melodies”.
Following a limited two-track vinyl edition earlier this year, The Smile have now officially released Don’t Get Me Started alongside The Slip, now accompanied by a typically hard-to-watch-without-your-eyes-melting music video from audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who has previously created videos for Charli XCX, Radiohead and perhaps most strikingly Aphex Twin.
Yetsuby is the solo experimental electronic and ambient-focussed project of South Korean artist Yejin Jang who also records of one half of the excellent duo Salamanda. If I Drink This Potion is taken from her new album, b_b, her debut release on Seb Wildblood’s all my thoughts label; a striking mini LP that features some of the most arresting, engrossing and detailed production of any I’ve heard this year.
Reunion Island is Ashley Leer, Matt Leer, and Brad Loving, and that’s about as much information as I can find out them. Their second (I think) album Night Words came out last month, and it’s really very good; ambient techno one minute, shoegaze the next, and various things in between. Lost New is dubby, hypnotic techno, as soothing as it is stimulating.
As recommended by Philip Sherburne in his excellent Futurism Restated newsletter, Total Blue is a the Los Angeles-based trio of Nicky Benedek, Alex Talan, and Anthony Calonico whose self-titled debut album came out earlier this month. Working with digital synths, an Akai EVI wind synthesizer, fretless bass, and guitar, the trio masterfully balance texture and colour, evoking expansive vistas and crafting a supremely chilled vibe.
Triumphant, emotionally resonant techno from JakoJako’s eagerly awaited Segmente EP which is out today on NovaMute.
Berlin based modular synthesist and DJ JakoJako’s, aka Sibel Koçer, recently announced a new four-track Segmente EP which will be coming out 18 July on NovaMute, and Introspection is the second single to be released from it. Pretentiously, nauseatingly described by Resident Advisor as ““fragile techno written in the key of wonder”, I feel slightly sick quoting this level of dewy-eyed fawning, but here we are.
Illuvia is the music project of Ludvig Cimbrelius who also releases music as Purl, Eternell and Abraço de Vapor. New album Earth Prism is his third under this ambient drum n bass leaning alias, and does pretty much exactly what you’d expect, with atmospheric pads and lush melodies combined with lo-fi drums filtered almost out of existence.
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/earth-prism
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Earlier this year, London-based Mia Koden put together a mix of unreleased material and let people vote what three tracks should be on her new EP 34U, which landed last month. Expect moody dubs and junglist movements with Inna Fear the clear standout.
