In the past couple of years, Spanish experimental label Rusia-IDK has released great avant pop for the chronically online: unsettling yet moving beat changes from Ralphie Choo, raucously tender-hearted production by Rusowsky, and some of the most gleefully deranged live visuals in recent memory. With slow songs from the heart and thrashing experiments that deconstruct and glitch flamenco, reggaeton, rap, and breakbeat, the collective has gained a following in Spain’s underground and even rubbed shoulders with its mainstream.
They were bound to drop the bola at some point. Enter MORI, rolling in from stage left. The Madrid-based artist’s doleful piano ballads and lo-fi torch songs were already some of…
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Emerging out of the Pacific Northwest in 2021 and later relocating to Joshua Tree, California, 
Here’s something the world could always use more of: a lush ambient techno long-player, blushing with chords and rich with nuance, seamlessly sound-designed to reveal a boundless wealth of detail unfurling along the x-axis.
One of the smaller but more passionately enduring subcultures in the world today is that around slow dance music. The core of its audience is a Gen X crowd, a good number of whom have stuck with club culture since the mid-’90s or earlier, with others who’ve rekindled their love of electronic music in middle age: people whose knees might not be up to stomping to techno for hours, but are still deeply committed to the experience of deep and prolonged immersion in repetitive beats.
One of the strengths of 
By the time they released Lotus Bridge in 2026, 
Wake by singer/songwriter 
Throughout his career, Chicago-based trumpeter 
A Portal to Here is the 4th long-player from U.K.- based spiritual jazz ensemble 
When Chicago five-piece 
Los Angeles-based six-piece 
The themes that weave through Mud Blood Bone, the fourth record from Canada’s 
…features five brand-new additions: four acoustic “live off the floor” versions recorded with guitarist BJ Baartmans and a new single co-written and recorded with Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland of the band Whitehorse.
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