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Since founding the influential Highlife parties in Glasgow a decade ago, Auntie Flo has existed on the boundary between experimental, international music and the UK dance scene. Also closely associated with the label Huntleys & Palmers, Auntie Flo, real name Brian D’Souza has shifted to Giles Peterson’s Brownswood imprint for his latest, most ambitious album, ‘Radio Highlife’. The result of seven years travelling across the world and collaborating with a broad range of artists, ‘Radio Highlife’ is a diary of sound that tastefully flirts with pop and dance arrangements, establishing D’Souza’s nous as an excellent, open-minded collaborator. Guests on the...

Having just released the 4-track ‘Diminuendo EP’ last Friday, Daniel Avery shares the video for final track ‘Time Marked Its Irregular Pulse In Her Eyes’. The video was directed by Tom Andrew and Sam Davis, who previously created the visual for Song For Alpha cut ’Glass’. “Filmed with a compositional style of a given interview to camera to visually connect with the track,” the directors explain, “this short film explores a continuation on from the video for ‘Glass’.  Where ‘Glass’ explored a shared state of mind in a club environment, based on a quote of Avery’s, describing ‘those moments in...

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Daniel Avery releases the 4-track ‘Diminuendo’ EP, out now on Phantasy.Stream, download or buy the 12" vinyl here A memorably bracing, momentarily pummeling highlight of Song For Alpha, Avery perfectly bridges the light and dark contrast of his influences on ‘Diminuendo’. Uncompromising technoid drums establish genuine frenzy, matched by a pulsating industrial drone, ultimately collapsing into ethereal feedback, before one final round of frenetic rhythm. On ‘Hyper Detail’, the intense acid lurking beneath the surface of Song For Alpha is dramatically unleashed, easily matching the frantic energy of the previous track, and upping the potential for wide-eyed, rave-friendly electronic hypnosis....