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SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE BOUNDARY LINE..

Somewhere between a heartbeat and a distant transmission, SATOSHI’s “Boundary Light” begins to glow. It feels like music arriving from somewhere just beyond reach, a place where memories lose their outlines, voices...

A BATTLE CRY IN THE DARK!

It is a remarkably simple statement, but in Ash L. Leif’s The Aegis Frequency, it feels almost like a battle cry. The anchor track, “I’m Still Right Here,” carries the weight of...

NO NEED TO GO BIGGER!

Electronic music has a tendency to equate intensity with impact. Bigger drops, heavier bass, and increasingly maximalist production often become the language of the genre. “Simplicity” by Thebrekka takes a different approach,...

Nights Like This by Jordan Bakewell

Jordan Bakewell wrote "Nights Like This" the same way he writes most of his material, alone, late, and on the road, with a lot of the lyrics coming together during post-gig drives...

Moonlit Habit by Tholly

"Moonlit Habit" comes out of one of the most turbulent stretches of Tholly's life, a breakup that hit right as he was fighting for full custody of his daughter and moving back...

ASHIA by Jon Gold

Jon Gold has spent decades embedded in Brazilian jazz, studying under a fellowship at PUC-Rio and working alongside names like A.C. Jobim and Hermeto Pascoal, and "ASHIA" pulls from that deep well...

Dirty Feeling by 50mething

50mething's backstory alone makes him one of the more unusual artists working right now, a 58-year-old former dancer and garden builder sitting on a backlog of roughly 70 completed tracks, only now...

Down wit dat (cold killa) by DAPS

DAPS built this one out of his own neighborhood, chronicling life growing up on 60th Street in Cobbs Creek with the kind of specificity that only comes from actually having lived it....
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