Having solo-helmed the milestone tenth ‘Pure Trance’ outing, Solarstone reflected at the time that it was: “a transitional moment’ for the series. A natural temporal point, where one ‘chapter’ would close and another open.” And that new “chapter” is where we find ourselves today.At their core, ‘Pure Trance’ albums has always had an ethos – […]
Fusing two generations of artistry along a single conceptual thread, Fisherman (Isaac Vissers) lands his debut album with a project as deeply rooted in family as it is in music. ‘Metamorphosis’ takes inspiration from a series of twelve graphic works created in the early 90s by Isaac’s father, painter Jack Vissers, with the meaning of […]
For Solarstone, ‘Slowmotion’ was supposed to be just-so-simple … Hop over to Helsinki. Do a track with Orkidea. Fly home … and release it. Here we all are though, running up on twenty years later, and somehow one ‘single’ single has turned into the longest running release chain in electronic music history. While Binary Finary […]
Two decades into his ever-evolving career, today Mark Sixma opens a new chapter for it. Through the launch of Karakter Recordings, the Dutch producer’s new imprint arrives with its mission statement already hardcoded in its tag. And that goes twice for its debut release – the bass-rich, tech pressured and flawlessly vocalled ‘Like You Do’. […]
For an artist long notable for the strong melodic undercurrents that lie at the core of his productions, Somna’s ‘Pathways’ album represents something more ambitious than a simple progression. It is the sound of an artist very definitively redrawing his own creative map. Across a triplet of EPs, released over the last twelve months, he’s stepped […]
Victor Ruiz continues the unfolding narrative of his forthcoming debut album “VICTOR” with the release of “Sundance,” a new single created in collaboration with legendary Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. Arriving as the third release from the LP ahead of its full launch on July 10 via VOLTA, the record marks another striking turn away […]
