Music production

Music production

UNTER STRØM debuts with “Orynth,” an exhilarating track released through the renegade label Breathing Records. The duo, comprised of seasoned artists Alex Gonzales (known for his work as Matte Blvck) and John Kunkel (of The New Division and John Grand fame), seeks to broaden the horizons of techno, melodic house, and industrial music.

Now serving window number three. Welcome to the United States Immigration Center. Can I see your passport? Green card? Birth certificate, please? And what is your occupation, sir? A rapper? A rapper? OK.

“Pushing the most Iranian elements right up against the most American ones brought me a certain kind of joy.” As the United States has escalated its attacks on Iran, there's something pleasingly transgressive about bringing Iranian elements into such overtly Western music-so much so that the songs without Yaghmai's playing seem a little subdued in comparison.

“I've been a music producer for well over 12 years, trying to crack the electronic music scene for a very long time,” says Pearce. But it wasn't until Pearce became a father that he cracked a market no one saw coming, toddler techno! “I was in my home studio trying to make bangers, but the only melodies in my head were nursery rhymes,” he says.

“Together” features Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss in a pastiche of samples and electronic melodies that play like the stuttering but pleasant memories of a floppy disk over a dance beat. The song strikes an emotional, dream-like tone midway through with the singer conjuring nostalgia through technology: “Staring at a picture on my phone/ Staring at a memory that's old.”

“Black,” the second single from Ray Noir's forthcoming EP Gothstar, is a vibrant blend of high-camp rave and metalcore that navigates themes of excess, identity, and queer empowerment. This audacious track is designed for both the dancefloor and the mosh pit, showcasing a sound that's both loud and unapologetically eccentric.

In 2023, she begged for time in Smith's shuttered archives, discovering hours of non-American music, before learning to perform and share it. Marisa Anderson: The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol 1 Here, Anderson interprets nine of these tunes, pointedly taken from regions shaped by major US conflicts since her birth in 1970. While her fascinating liner notes track what is lost and found when trying to translate these compositions, their universal musicality still cuts through.

Twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz are back with their first Ibeyi album in four years. Offering, the follow-up to 2022's , is out June 26.

Like many dot-com era ideas ushered into use just below the radar in the early 2000s, the Discogs project was poised to solve a niche problem. Floating among the flotsam web forums and message boards were calls for what, in theory, would be an IMDb (Internet Movie Database) for vinyl records-an online place to catalog and organize data for physical albums.

The “lightbulb” moment behind Electronic Music Club (EMC) started when Erik Carlson, founder of EMC and a piano teacher of 12 years at the time, was in the middle of a lesson when his student announced that he was “sick of piano” and would rather be making techno instead.

She didn't click for me until earlier this year, when I heard her reach a flow state over Gloworm's 4XL white tee era trap horns on " Hello Moto." A few months back, I went to a Bushwick bar to see her perform, but showed up too late and only caught one song, which I could barely make out through a wall as a couple tongued each other down next to me. It still sounded pretty cool, though.

Some days I think about quitting this whole thing/Seems like I sulk in my own shit/Oh Loraine, but where's the passion?

He called her Roxanne. He spent, by most accounts, an afternoon on the thing. Possibly a long lunch. Certainly less time than I will have spent writing this column. That song, in February 2022, helped Sting hand his entire songwriting catalogue, some six hundred tunes, to Universal Music Publishing for a reported $300 million. Roughly £240 million in real money. For lyrics scribbled on hotel notepads, in the back of tour buses, occasionally in the bath.

Having survived both the wild winds of the pandemic and the wild swings of the music industry, the Pacific Mambo Orchestra remains grounded and surprisingly invigorated. Led since 2010 by co-founders trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, the Grammy-winning, 20-piece ensemble recently released a new MP3 single, “Suite Tito Puente.” In the track's 12:33 minutes can be heard the unexpected mix people ironically expect from PMO: modern arrangements of classic Latin jazz music, traditional salsa tunes and boleros, covers of American jazz standards and R&B hits, and classical music such as Tumalan's mambo arrangement of Rachmaninoff's “Concerto #2 for Piano and Orchestra.”

Since its release in early March, the song has soundtracked nearly 150,000 videos on the platform. For Nimino, that doesn't just mean more exposure for his music. It means money. A lot of the sports-world accounts that have used his track are businesses-Atlético de Madrid, the "Men in Blazers" podcast, Major League Baseball, the LPGA, and the Philadelphia Eagles-that accessed the song via TikTok's growing Commercial Music Library (CML), which ensures artists are paid when their music is used commercially.

Globally influential Afro house tastemaker Joezi launches his brand new label Butterfly fx with a new single alongside Rbør & Berin. Joezi brings soulful, uplifting grooves and crafts immersive soundscapes that connect deeply with listeners. With over 60 releases on top labels, including the global hit 7 Seconds which has been streamed over 40 million times, Joezi's infectious beats ignite dance floors worldwide. His music reflects his life experiences, spreading joy, connection, and the euphoric energy of Afro-house wherever it plays.

Smythe died Saturday at 53 after suffering a cardiac emergency on a hiking trail, according to the coroner's online database. His cause of death was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, in which plaque builds up in arterial walls and can lead to a heart attack. The Sierra Madre Police Department said Saturday that a man - at that point unidentified - died after having a medical emergency on the trail and that no foul play was suspected.

Route 66 was 20 years old and World War II had just ended when Bobby Troup, an aspiring songwriter from Pennsylvania, decided to go west. As it turned out, that drive in early 1946 did more than anyone could have imagined to establish the road as a symbol of footloose American freedom.

“Coconut Water” is all about the staccato fairy smacks and the pools of latent energy around them. Things go in cycles, ratchet music included. But when I watch that Rolling Loud clip, I don't see nostalgia bait; I see a rising regional rap star in a sea of awkward, brainrotted kids, bringing her local flare to our feeds.

One of his visions was to upgrade the game experience make it feel bigger, more like an NBA broadcast. Part of that meant adding music. In what I can now recognise as both practical thinking and classic family logic, he turned to me. The outlier was drafted in. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads In many ways, this was a family operation, so I never officially applied for the role.