News — Vinyl

“Electronic music is unique in that, whilst it has an immediate effect on the body, the culture surrounding it has the ability to run deep into your life. Whenever I’m in a club, I want to give myself up to music. This is the very thing that excites me the most. Witnessing a DJ create an atmosphere in a room from the ground up takes patience and effort from everyone present but when the pivotal moments hit, your watch stops ticking.” – Daniel Avery It is this thinking which motivated and inspired the making of Avery’s entry into the treasured...

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve release 'Black Crow', the latest single to be taken from their recently released, much acclaimed debut album 'The Soft Bounce'. Released on Phantasy October 7th, 'Black Crow' is the third single to be taken from the album. Part American Gothic, part future movie soundtrack, it’s a song of haunting beauty. Holly Miranda's vocal glides across reflective strings and delicate crystalline snippets of sound, resulting in an epic torch song lament. It’s backed with 'White Crow', Erol Alkan's mighty extended reworking of the song, placing it in spacious widescreen, where you can hear for miles. Buy the vinyl (with a free download) from...

CBRB's latest triptych for Phantasy takes their sound into a more dystopian direction, a world of concrete shopping centres, the occult and physically irresistible repetition. The title track 'Mecanique Sauvage' is a muscular industrial / outsider house track, a stop start rollercoaster that constantly intensifies. One part a brutal exercise in poise and restraint, and one part undiluted disco excess. A contradictory beast of a track. Something of a epic (at over 8 mins long) 'Children Of The Monolith' drops the tempo to 100 BPM and takes the listener on a very different kind of trip. A widescreen composite of...

  XLR8R gathered questions to be answered by Daniel Avery for their 'Ask The Expert' feature, you can read his answers here