New year, and you started yoga again, right? You prepared yourself, you wanted to share the beauty of that reparative exercise. Maybe it worked at first, but soon you recognised that uniform, nonsensical new-age meanderings in the background. And you don’t have a say over that schmaltzy music intended to complement your holistic experience. Flutes, a stultified tanpura or a sitar, lazy tabla beats, that fake eastern feel in the […]
Kendra Smith’ s musical life reads like a dreamer’s continuum—alchemy and psychedelia braided through underground scenes, whispered departures, and quietly luminous returns. A founding force in the Paisley Underground, Smith co-created The Dream Syndicate in 1981 after a KDVS-era garage apprenticeship, shaping the group’s feedback-kissed minimalism and contributing bass and vocals to The Days of Wine and Roses (1982). Even at that origin point, her voice felt like a compass […]
When you talk about Italian music with a conscience—no, scratch that—with a bullhorn and a Molotov cocktail—you eventually end up in the defiant company of 99 Posse. Formed in Naples in 1991, this band of misfits, militants, and musical experimenters were never content with just dropping beats; they dropped manifestos. Birth of a Posse 99 Posse emerged from the same cultural petri dish that birthed centri sociali, squatted spaces teeming […]
Imagine you’re floating in space, sipping glacial air through a bendy straw, while the echoes of your thoughts swirl gently around you in surround sound. That, my friend, is the sound of Biosphere — ambient music’s frosty Norwegian wizard and full-time soundscape sculptor. 🧊 Who Is Biosphere? Born Geir Jenssen, Biosphere is a Norwegian electronic artist who creates music that sounds like Icelandic weather had an existential crisis and turned […]
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