Welcome to this long overdue edition of Armchair Dancefloor. Below, as ever, you'll find The Playlist, featuring a cluster of new and forthcoming releases worthy of investigation. But first... Focus: Mount Kimbie talk Cold Spring Fault Less Youth I can'»
It's that time of week again when we distil the greatest hits of everyone-with-a-record-out-this-week into a column of singular brilliance. Included in this smorgasbord of tunage are a resolutely ridiculous emo-pop outfit, a trio of sisters from LA and singer-songwriter from New York. The Strokes are also from New York; their new single sounds like they can't bothered any more. The feeling is mutual.»
Alongside the Meltdown Festival, Ether is an undeniable highlight of the Southbank Centre's calendar. An annual celebration of inventive, genre-hurdling music, it's previously yielded the sort of unmissable results that range from Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke's appearance alongside the London Sinfonietta (2005), through to last year's breathtaking screening of Stanley Kubricks' seminal 2001: A Space Odessy, in which the presumably problematic task of scoring the film live was effortlessly handled by the Philharmonia Orchestra. This year's programming signals no deviation from the festival's creative, groundbreaking repute. Some of DiS's highligts can be found below, with the full list over at Ether's minisite. At the bottom of the list, you'll find a Spotify playlist featuring some of the artists playing this month's festival.»
Our quarterly video round-up from a chap who watches a lot of music videos... »
It's 2011... it's Field Day... it's Field Day 2011! »
Welcome to the second Drowned In Bristol column of the year, hopefully providing a bit of a round-up of a few of the music-related things going on and coming up around the start of the summer.»
The albums' of the year countdown hots up with the main body of the list. The top ten follows tomorrow but for now, some thoughts from site founder Sean Adams who compiled this list... Somewhere, somehow, there is a link to be found between the rhyming i»
Reykjavík is a beautiful city. That’s the first thing that springs to mind when we arrive within its limits during the pitch black early hours, virtually nonexistent street light during the drive from the airport sending a striking vista of stars rolling out across the night sky. Despite Friday morning dawning cool and cloudy, it’s no less impressive in the morning light: old-style buildings and expanses of green are interspersed with modern touches and unfinished constructions, perhaps continued relics of the country’s monetary collapse. But for all that event’s devastating economic and social impacts, the city’s yearly Iceland Airwaves festival couldn’t feel more open and welcoming in 2010, with a diverse and friendly crowd and an almost unnerving volume of excellent music. »
Our Drowned in Manchester columnist kicks off a day dedicated to In the City...»
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring hand-picked tracks from British Sea Power, No Age, Uffie, Peter Broderick, Small Black, Errors and some more. »
The world of electronic music is so littered with sub-genres now that it is far too difficult for many to keep track. More than anything, the awareness that terms for certain minutiae of change in a sonic spectrum is journalistic. But sometimes such defining words can feel appropriate – encapsulation will be impossible forever,»
This week, for the first of 10 weeks celebrating Drowned In Sound’s tenth birthday, we put together a week of features about the explosion of sounds currently emerging from the scene surrounding dubstep. This list gathers together all of the articles for easy browsing, ranging all the way from interviews with the likes of Mala and FaltyDL though lists of labels and artists, to exclusive mixes and more.»
One of the most prohibitive – or exciting, depending on your perspective – aspects of UK urban dance music is dubplate culture: the circulation of unreleased tracks between tight-knit circles of producers, which then are played out at club nights. Pro»
Disclaimer: this review contains two Boyz II Men references. Festivals are all about ‘moments’. Always. A festival moment is hard to exactly define, but it’s something that is clearly only possible in the unique environment of a music festiva»
armchair dancefloor is a monthly look at the best electronic releases. This month: praise for the witchy doings of Demdike Stare, Macc & dgoHn's whipsmart drum & bass assault, Max Richter, Peverelist's latest conundrum, and gridskipping in Aix. »
The latest instalment in our weekly Spotifriday playlists. This one features none other than Standard Fare, Tom Jones, Women, R.E.M., HEALTH, The Wave Pictures, Broken Social Scene and more. Click here to listen to this week's playlist.»
So where and what exactly is dubstep in 2010? It’s getting ever tougher to pin down. In the last month alone we’ve seen Bristol’s Guido release an album of R’n’B styled pop gems, Ital Tek put together a second record that looks back towards earl»
The March electronic releases it's most worth taking a byte out of. (Sorry.) Featuring an exclusive mix from Klimek spanning drum & bass, post-punk, C86 indie, shoegaze, dub-house and baggy.»
This time around, Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of the electronic scene flits with elephantine grace between Dutch dubstep, Belgian horrorcore, Lithuanian ambient techno and plain old laptop blissfulness from the Home Counties.»
The first in a regular series from one half of DJ duo British Males, reporting on the best of electronic music for the head, for the feet, and for all points in between.»
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