Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams: The Acid Bass Sound and Where It Went
A Cleveland Producer’s Dark-Wave Single Pairs an Acid-House Bassline with Long Digital Strings Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams is dark wave built for the dancefloor.... Read More
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Why the Chillwave Era Keeps Coming Back on Dreams of Yesterday by Formoe
Formoe, Producer Alf Emil Eik and Singer June Baltzersen Turn Memory Into Slow Synth-Pop Dreams of Yesterday takes its production from the chillwave playbook: atmospheric... Read More
A Madonna Sample Runs Through Troye Sivan’s Party
Troye Sivan in the video for Party The production choice that defines “Party” is a borrowed one: a sample of Madonna’s 2000 single “Music” threads... Read More
Dobi Dobi: Alterkix Puts a Robot Voice on Analog Synths, and How to Hear It
A Belgian Bass Player Turned Analog Synth Artist Packs a Robotic Hook Into 108 Seconds A Korg Monologue started all of this. Sabine Vermeylen, a... Read More
A One-Word Hook, and How to Hear It in HELLO by André
The Colombian-Born, LA-Based Artist Turns a Missing Greeting Into a Latin Disco-Pop Breakup Song HELLO by André runs on one English word dropped into a... Read More
Kylie Minogue Flew Over the MCG to an Unreleased Dom Dolla Remix
The last track of the set was a file nobody outside the production could buy. As Kylie Minogue rose above the Melbourne Cricket Ground on... Read More
Soft Cell’s Danceteria Is One New York Night That Ends Back at the Club
Soft Cell: Dave Ball and Marc Almond The music for Danceteria was built in Dave Ball’s studio in South London. Ball sent the instrumentals to... Read More
The Swedish Fishing Village Behind Tove Lo’s ESTRUS
The first sound on Tove Lo’s ESTRUS is a whirling metallic pulse. It rushes in fast, hard to place, and then the track it opens,... Read More
Slayyyter Booked Thirty Shows Across Three Continents
The Basement East in Nashville holds a few hundred people. The Roundhouse in London holds around three thousand. Both are on the same routing sheet,... Read More
Empire of the Sun Follow a 220,000-Ticket Tour With 31 More Shows
Two hundred and twenty thousand people bought a ticket to the last one. That is the figure sitting underneath the Ask That God: Afterlife tour,... Read More
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Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams: The Acid Bass Sound and Where It Went