J. Zunz

Obsidiana

Mexican electronic artist J. Zunz turns grief into shattered radiance on Obsidian

Obsidiana by J. Zunz

There’s a peculiar tension running through Obsidiana, the third studio album under Rocket Recordings for Mexican artist J. Zunz. Lorena Quintanilla has always worked within spaces where dream-pop haze curdles into industrial unease, whether through Lorelle Meets The Obsolete or her solo work, but here the balance feels newly severe. The album moves like a process of extraction, each track scraping away another psychic layer until only pulse and residue remain.

The record’s title proves instructive. Obsidian, being volcanic glass historically used for weapons and scrying mirrors, becomes both thematic anchor and sonic blueprint. Quintanilla builds these tracks from hard edges and reflective surfaces, bass frequencies…

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The Frenchman has reworked ‘Circonvolutions’ from his 2023 orchestral album Mythologies

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter has shared a new remix of his track ‘Circonvolutions’ as part of a collaboration with fashion house CHANEL.

The original song appeared on Bangalter’s 2023 orchestral album Mythologies, which was produced to soundtrack choreographer Angelin Preljocaj’s ballet of the same name. The Frenchman’s new remix of ‘Circonvolutions’, meanwhile, appears in a visual for CHANEL’s Bleu de CHANEL campaign, which is directed by Alfonso Cuarón and stars actor Jacob Elordi.

The remix has been released digitally, and will also be made available on a limited-edition numbered 12-inch vinyl EP, which also featurs the original orchestral version.

Listen to ‘Mythologies: XIX. Circonvolutions (Remix)’ below.

Next week, Bangalter will release another album, Mirage…

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‘Deep Time’, from new album Inferno, soundtracked a 15-second clip posted to X this week

The Trump administration has used a track by Boards Of Canada in a promotional video shared on social media.

The 15-second clip, shared to The White House’s X account, is soundtracked by the Warp Records act’s ‘Deep Time’, which appears on new album Inferno. The video features military and American flag imagery alongside TV static visuals.

X users and Boards Of Canada fans were less than impressed by the use of the song in the video, with one replying: “DO NOT disrespect Boards of Canada by using their music in your propaganda.” Another said: “Don’t ever fucking use Boards Of Canada for this authoritarian fascism bullshit.”

Responding to the…

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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.

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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.

The track, a precursor to her solo debut Towards an Expanse, arrives with…

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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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