Aya Nakamura refused to let 2024 define her by anything other than the music. After the racist firestorm around her Paris Olympics performance and endless tabloid noise, the French-Malian superstar returns with her fifth album Destinée – 18 tracks of unapologetic Aya-ism. At this point the numbers speak loud: over ten billion streams, the most-streamed Francophone artist ever, and a…
Ollie Mundy closes out the year with his final single of 2025, ‘Home’, out today via his own OVAVA Music. The UK and Ibiza-based producer, DJ and label head has spent the past couple years turning the label into a reliable source of emotive, club-ready electronic music, pulling from Afro house, melodic house and deeper shades of progressive. Since launching…
When Brunetto disappears, he actually disappears. No loosies, no side projects, just silence. So when OOPARTS slipped out November 14 on Beautiful Accident, the six-track EP carried the weight of half a decade spent off-grid. The Spanish producer who helped map Spain’s instrumental hip-hop and trip-hop coordinates twenty years ago hasn’t lost a step; if anything, the break let him…
London-based Spanish-Italian artist Angela Merlino just released ‘Water Mantra’, the lead single and title cut from her incoming EP. Raised in Manresa outside Barcelona with a Galician mother and Italian father, she grew up surrounded by her dad’s Fender Stratocaster riffs and her grandfather’s raw Flamenco “Canto Hondo”. Now she channels that heritage into art: self-produced tracks that layer tribal…
In a bold stride forward, Melbourne-based singer, producer, and performance artist Ollie Hunt unveils ‘Ah!’ — a sleek, three-minute masterclass in emotional clarity and stylistic precision. Released independently on October 24th, the single marks a defining moment in Hunt’s artistic evolution, blending high-gloss pop aesthetics with the raw assertiveness of personal truth. From the opening seconds, ‘Ah!’ sets a confident…
Dropping November 7, LUX arrived as Rosalía‘s latest full-length, the Spanish trailblazer’s fourth entry in a catalog that’s steadily rewritten pop’s rulebook. She first cracked the code with Los Ángeles and El Mal Querer, injecting flamenco’s fire into mainstream veins and then splintering its conventions to weave in urban grit and pop precision. MOTOMAMI followed in 2022, a humid, high-wire…
Released today, ‘Solo Una Vez‘ marks the close of MAURINO‘s newest EP, a project that spotlights his restless drive to remix global sounds. Coming from Chile but calling Amsterdam home, the artist carved his lane early with TenTemPiés on stage and Fiesta Macumba behind the decks, layering hip-hop drive into Latin rhythms and deep tropical bass. His discography backs it…
Newly established outfit TOUCH GROOV, have unveiled their latest offering ‘FEELIN GOOD’. Released today, the single is the first track to drop from their forthcoming EP Doorway to Dystopia Vol.1. Drenched in cyberpunk textures and dystopian atmospherics, ‘FEELIN GOOD’ carries a sense of longing, dread and rebellion with its understated yet visceral production. The single feels like it could easily be…
On their latest single ‘Diamond In The Rough,‘ out October 17 via Z3 Records, ZOCO trades bombast for balance. Frontman Marco Zocco weaves themes of authenticity and self-discovery into a lush alt-rock framework that leans cinematic without sacrificing structure. Written with brothers Paolo and Matteo, and fleshed out with contributions from bassist Guy Erez, drummer London Hudson, and backing vocals…
Sterling Angel has made a potent comeback with his latest offering ‘World Is Mine’. The dark, brooding yet compelling single highlights Sterling’s stark innovative fervour. The track has an inescapable grit and industrial atmosphere, and feels like it could easily be part of the soundtrack to a dystopian, cyberpunk movie. ‘World Is Mine’ features distinct influences from dark Trance and…