It’s clear from the beginning that 7FONSO has a purpose with “Nothing to Hold”. The track immediately starts to pulse and then it just doesn’t let go of the room. 7FONSO is active in all kinds of dance styles, incorporating urban beats as well as more club oriented beats. That spectrum provides him with a more comprehensive array of tools […]
Pop/Review The New Citizen Kane – FREE to FEEL
The New Citizen Kane has assembled an EP reminiscent of waking up slowly and choosing to stay awake. “Free to Feel” unfolds across seven tracks, which build upon one another. By the end of the day, you’ve really been somewhere. An artist who has worked for years to create his own world, not inside the traditional production model, and creating […]
Synth-Pop/Review The New Citizen Kane – metalLIC
From the opening bars of the new song metaLLIC, The New Citizen Kane draws you into a late-night vibe. The track has a mysterious quality, but it’s also easy to get into. It’s a song for quiet times, when the rest of the world is still. The bass line is what drives the song. It is consistent and assured in […]
Pop/Review Aurealis – Cursed
Cursed is Aurealis’ new song and it’s truly captivating from start to finish. At the same time, there’s something intriguing and a little bit sinister about it, but that’s what makes it hard to overlook. It’s a song that will stick with you after it ends. One of the biggest elements of the track are the synths. Their rich and […]
Pop/Review MrGeorge – Wake up
MrGeorge’s new song Wake Up is a song that makes you feel like you are beginning a new day with a positive feeling. It has energy from the start, it makes you want to get up and enjoy the moment. It is a way to attract attention in a natural manner that still provides a strong direction to the song. […]
Pop/Review SEBASTIAN RYDGREN – night hours
Sebastian Rydgren’s new song “night hours” stays with you after the music has stopped. It’s about loving somebody who doesn’t love you back. That’s evident throughout the entire song. There’s nothing forced or artificial about it. It is straightforward and simple. Much of the feeling in this song is in his voice. He is not trying to sing too much […]
Synth-Pop/Review CARLOS UCEDDA – The DJINN
From the get-go, Carlos Ucedda’s “The DJINN” takes you on a path that leads you far away from the mundane. It has the feeling of being on a late-night dance floor and in a mythical place at the same time. The song has a continuous electronic beat throughout. It gradually penetrates your mind, and you don’t really know what it […]
EDM/Review Neodym – Midnight Flow
There are some songs that feel like their own little world. That’s how I feel about Midnight Flow. It immediately takes you into this late night ambiance, energised by the quiet and neon lights. It is really full and engaging. This is a city around you, if you shut your eyes, you can imagine it. That’s a rather unusual sensation. […]
Electronic/Review MOMARZ – Party Moves
Some tracks simply get you moving. That’s it! Party Moves does what it says on the tin and it does it with a real sense of fun that is contagious. You’re nodding your head before you even realise that the main synth groove has kicked in. There’s a really easy energy to the track from the start. Nothing feels forced […]
Electronic/Review The New Citizen Kane – PSYCHEDELIKA Pt.1
Psychedelika Pt. 1 is a comeback of The New Citizen Kane that is not really a comeback but rather a reopening of a door that has been closed a long time. The album was constructed over seventeen tracks and traverses the nightlife not as spectacle but as emotional landscape, and the dance floor is not a place where anxiety, desire, […]
EDM/Review Adai Song – River Run
It is something really exciting about the song of Adai Song, River Run, that hits you the moment you hear it. It is overflowing with this fullness of energy–shiny synths over a sounding percussion–that is both fresh and simultaneously eternal. It is one of the songs in “The Bloom Project” album, which has also been nominated for the Grammy Award […]
Pop/Review Micki XO – Power Outage
Micki XO has hit something that we can all relate to with Power Outage- that particular brand of being exhausted as you are, overloaded with media and loving everything that is going on in the world and somehow still expected to show up and work. The genius of this song is that it does not merely narrate that feeling but […]
Pop/Review Katie Belle – Bad Dreams
It is somehow paradoxical and beautiful that Katie Belle created a song about bad dreams, when she makes the tiresome fact of insomnia turn into an irresistible escape into the realms of electro-pop. Here, the Atlanta-based artist has created something special; a song that recognizes the restless, twisting-and-turning nights that we all had and at the same time provides three […]
EDM/Review Carlos Ucedda – DOSE OF LOVE
The fact that you hear operatic singing on techno beats that are hitting hard is something truly lovely, and Carlos Ucedda makes the collision of these two elements so natural and needed. Dose of Love is a genre bending announcement by an artist who has continuously engaged with music, showcasing a vision that cannot be put in a box. Since […]
Electronic/Review Luke Tangerine – Retrodelic
Some artists chase trends. Others build time machines. The Retrodelic EP by Luke Tangerine does so, with five straight tracks of nothing short of mirrorball euphoria and less nostalgia and more of rediscovery. It is the response of the golden age of disco and funk filtered through the modern production sensibilities without losing a drop of analog warmth, in Frankfurt. […]
Electronic/Review Ophelia Moon– Muse Maestro Melody Maker
The Ophelia Moon project is not planning to cease its journey into the depths of life and its mysteries with the song Muse Maestro Melody Maker, possibly their most alluring contribution so far. This partnership between Darren O. Moon and Maya Mikity reflects the interest of the project in analyzing the transformative strength of creativity in the form of truly […]
Pop/Review The New Citizen Kane – CAUSING A COMMOTION
CAUSING A COMMOTION by The New Citizen Kane is one of those releases that creep upon you. What at first seems to be yet another electronic collection soon turns out to be something much more than that- an emotional rollercoaster that is somehow introspective and at the same time impossible to resist at the same time. Something truly fascinating about […]
Electronic/Review Consequential – Cravin’
Consequential has produced something truly special with Cravin’- a track that manages to embrace everything that is great about liquid drum and bass whilst exploring beyond the boundaries with the influences of trance and dub. Originally from Bury St. Edmunds, this gifted musician has produced a slice of electronic music that is both refined and at the same time easy […]
Pop/Review Sundrift Sky – Home in my heart
It is so wonderfully human to seek comfort and comfort in the presence of another person, and Sundrift Sky does so with such beautiful sensitivity on the track, Home in My Heart. It is not just another electronic pop ballad, but rather a sonic hug that envelopes you in the same feeling you get when you are surrounded by someone […]
Electronic/Review Ophelia Moon – Banter of Wolves
It is somehow mystical to come across a song that is like a dim memory of a dream, and Banter of Wolves by Ophelia Moon is all in that sense of being in between worlds. The project, based in Philadelphia, conceived by Darren O. Moon with the luminous contributions of Maya Mikity, produces sonic landscapes that are simultaneously archaic, and […]
Electronic/Review Larry Karpenko – The Horizon
‘Combining such elements as world music and electronics and more like opera and classical music in the way it is performed, Larry Karpenko’s ‘The Horizon’ is one of those songs which move beyond a typical song.’ A deeply philosophical audio experience blending electronic soundscape, historical document and spiritual inquiry, it demands attentive listening and lingers on long after the final, […]