Twenty-five years is an awful long time in electronic music – but that’s how long Simon Green, aka Bonobo, has been applying his beat making craft. Working from the early days with Tru Thoughts, where he established himself as an original producer capable of incorporating different styles and cultures into his work, Green has extended the spirit of collaboration to instrumentalists and vocalists alike.
On his watch the careers of singers such as Andreya Triana have been enabled to flourish, with Green’s talent of writing for the singer as much as the song a key feature of his work. With his live following now at a feverish peak, where do we find Bonobo’s music a quarter of a century on?
The answer from Distance in Static is that his…
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Ten years ago, on Do Easy – an album made with her twin sister as Tasseomancy – 
…La-La Land’s latest CD expansion of scores from the long-running film series based on Ian Fleming’s British agent 007 comes not from the ’60s or ’70s, but the last decade. LLL has remastered their first Bond score from the Daniel Craig era in 2015’s Spectre, available as a 2CD edition featuring a generously expanded edition of Thomas Newman’s score for the picture along with some album edits and alternate material. For Craig’s fourth time in the tux, the series continued the surprisingly serial direction it had taken since 2006’s reboot Casino Royale. After the loss of M (Judi Dench) in 2012’s Skyfall, Bond once again confronts dark aspects of his past when he discovers that previous adversaries had all been agents of a larger organization of villainy, run by…
…10th anniversary deluxe remaster features the original 9 tracks (remastered) along with 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
There is something pointed about calling your record It Is Clear What’s Going On in 2026 and then responding with lyrics that show no interest in meeting the listener halfway. 
Completely unpretentious, approachable and free of affectation – yet possessing the glamour of a diva in the very best sense: in the 20 years since her ACT debut, Meet Me Around Midnight, Swedish singer, pianist and songwriter Ida Sand has become one of European soul-jazz’s most loved artists, without ever making a fuss about herself and always keeping the focus firmly on the music. Whether entirely on her own with just voice and piano, or on the biggest stages alongside Nils Landgren or the SWR Big Band, it is Ida Sand’s warmth and authenticity that touch her audiences. And, of course, her smoky, sonorous voice, recognisable from the very first note.
This is raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded on location by Laurent Jeanneau in Ratanakiri, Cambodia’s northeastern province, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Along with Mondolkiri to the south, it was once home to many of the country’s ethnic minority communities. During the colonial period, the French failed to establish full control over the region. After independence, the Khmer state also struggled to govern it, while Khmer Rouge rebels hid in its forests in the 1960s amid the wider conflict between communist Vietnam and the United States. The Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975 and the subsequent Vietnamese occupation, which lasted until 1991, could have devastated the traditions of northeastern Cambodia’s ethnic minorities.
Four years have passed since we last heard from 
The deluxe edition expands on the original February 2026 release with added bonus tracks like “Heartbeat,” “Hunter,” “Skýjaborg,” and “Infinity”.
Atlanta’s 
Pop historian 
When these guys strip down to the basics, they don’t joke around.