DeForrest Brown Jr’s final release under the moniker is out in July

Speaker Music, the alias of producer and writer DeForrest Brown Jr., is to release his final album under the alias this summer.

Titled Synoptic Audio, it draws to a close a partnership with Planet Mu that started in 2019 with Of Desire, Longing, and has also encompassed two further LPs: 2020’s Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry and 2023’s Techxodus.

The new record is constructed from live recordings of electronic music-based improvisation, covering drone sounds and hand-played keyboards and drums. American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and electronic engineer Don Lewis’ pre-MIDI ‘Live Electronic Orchestra’ controller system is cited as an influence on the 10-track LP.

To mark the announcement of Synoptic Audio, Brown Jr. has shared…

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Los Thuthanaka, Loraine James and Tortoise are among those on the lineup for the Utrecht festival

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Le Guess Who? has released the bulk of the lineup for its 2026 edition, which takes place this November.

Returning once again to multiple venues across Utrecht, this year’s festival will feature guest curation from Los Thuthanaka, KMRU, Tropical Fuck Storm and aja monet.

Los Thuthanaka’s curation will take in sets from Gigi Masin, Melt-Banana and joint and solo appearances by Los Thuthanaka’s two members. KMRU will invite Aho Ssan, Carmen Villain and Elvin Brandhi, among others.

Tropical Fuck Storm’s curation features Bill Orcutt, goat (JP), and Mark Fell & Pat Thomas, while aja monet will invite Shabaka Hutchings and King Ayisoba, among others.

The festival’s…

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Dumama

Towards an Expanse

The radiant friction of dumama’s sonic resistance makes a sharp riposte to a Western gaze seeking to extract authenticity from traditional artists

Towards An Expanse by Dumama

A certain kind of violence lives in being admired primarily as a relic. For the South African-born, Berlin-based composer and sonic poet Dumama (Gugulethu Duma), the uhadi – the traditional Xhosa musical bow – is not a museum piece to be preserved in the amber of world music labels. It is a weapon of the present tense. On her latest single, ‘Eating The Other’, she drags this ancestral instrument out of the ethnographic archives and into a bruised, distorted landscape of post-punk defiance.

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Drawing inspiration from the carnival-esque rituals of Bumba Meu Boi, the Brazilian duo find paths to the future in ancient rhythms, not far-off galaxies

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“We’re going to explore the province of the mind,” says the late-American neuroscientist and psychoanalyst John C. Lilly in an interview sampled on ‘PROFECIA’, track three from Deafkids’ Cicatrizes Do Futuro (‘Scars of the Future’). Lilly developed the isolation tank in the 1950s, what he called “a hole in the universe to another reality”. He moved in counter-cultural, consciousness exploring circles with the likes of Timothy Leary.

Sao Paulo-based Deafkids have less esoteric, more material concerns. The track’s lyrics are about the rise of online gambling sites in Brazil and, the duo explain over an…

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It features unreleased recordings dating back to 1977

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A collection of early unreleased recordings by The Cramps are being packaged together on a new LP, titled Gravest Gravy.

Spanning 11 tracks, it features material that the band recorded in 1977 together with producer Alex Chilton of Big Star. The recording sessions ultimately led to the band writing early singles ‘Surfin’ Bird’ and ‘Human Fly’, as well as other material that was eventually released, but they also worked on a number of other songs that didn’t come out.

Frontman Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy returned to the material from those sessions in the late 80s hoping to release it, but those plans were shelved for “reasons lost to time”, according…

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The lead track from the Japanese artist’s new LP features Sean Ono Lennon

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Cornelius has shared details of a new album, Refractions, marking his label debut for the Eat Your Own Ears imprint.

The 10-track record includes contributions from Arto Lindsay, former Yura Yura Teikoku guitarist Shintaro Sakamoto and The Monochrome Set member Ganesh “Bid” Seshadri. Sean Ono Lennon also guests on lead single ‘Aeons’, which you can watch a video for below.

In a statement about the song, Cornelius said: “As the world and my surroundings changed at an intense speed, I think all of that inevitably shaped this work. Rather than expressing these ideas directly, I approached them structurally – exploring continuity, transformation, and multiple coexisting states within a…

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Mary Lattimore and Daniel O’Sullivan are among the guests on the record

Panda Bear and Sonic Boom are releasing a new album together, titled A ? Of WHEN.

Marking the two artists’ second collaborative album, it features contributions from Mary Lattimore, Daniel O’Sullivan, pedal steel player Zena Kay and Mexico City group Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez. Spanning 10 tracks, the new record follows 2022’s Reset.

The album will be made available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital download formats, but will not be put on streaming platforms. This decision was made, they said, to help them in “getting back to a place of real connectivity”. Going forward, they added, they intend to focus on “radio, live shows, listening parties, Q&A sessions and…

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Due out in July, it’s led by new track ‘Liars’

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The Durutti Column are lining up a new album for release this summer.

Titled Renascent, the 11-track record marks the first new LP from Vini Reilly and co. since 2010’s A Paean To Wilson. It follows on from the January reissue of the band’s classic debut album, The Return Of The Durutti Column.

Reilly worked on Renascent with the band’s longtime percussionist Bruce Mitchell and player-producer Keir Stewart. Singer-songwriter Caoilfhionn Rose also guests on the album.

To mark the announcement of the new LP, Reilly and band have shared lead track ‘Liars’, which you can listen to below.

London Records will release Renascent on 31 July 2026.

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Located at Thames Wharf in the Royal Docks, it will open in October

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A new 7,000-capacity warehouse venue is opening in East London later this year.

Ironworks is a new project from promoter LWE and cultural organisation PROJEKT, and will be located at Thames Wharf in the Royal Docks. It will launch with a short series of electronic music-based events this October – lineups for the parties will be announced next month.

The venue will be split across a large indoor warehouse space and an open-air terrace which overlooks the Thames. The team behind the venue say that the sound, lighting and visual production are all being fitted with respect to the building’s existing architecture. In addition to music-based parties,…

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The 11-track album is out in June

Jeff Mills is releasing a new album next month, titled The Trip To Vega.

Spanning 11 tracks, the album has a characteristically sci-fi-based theme. According to a press release, it’s a concept album that is set in the year 2097, and imagines a mass human exodus from Earth to the Vega star system which is situated 25.3 light-years away.

The record’s 11 tracks explore electronic music structures, and the kind of colourful and expressive Detroit techno melodies that have lit up much of Mills’ vast body of work. Listen to previews for the album’s songs here.

Axis Records will release The Trip To Vega on 19 June 2026.
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