Moods is back with a project recorded live in Leiden during the peak of the pandemic. Recorded with a full band, Music Ruined My Life has Moods electronic music balanced with soulful contemporary R&B, funk, and jazz. Music Ruined My Life presents eight tracks of intricate and uncaged spin of the Moods sound, which has been consistently hailed by tastemakers globally and sampled by the likes of Logic. Moods explains, “There really wasn’t a huge concept or target for this record; it was more about tapping into the pure joy of making and creating music,” he explains. “The pandemic was such a weird time; there was a lot of uncertainty in all [...]
London-based composer Mike Lazarev is back with a beautiful mini-album called Out of Time. The ten songs flow and are constructed as a soundtrack to an imaginary film. Out of Time is the debut for his label and a standout work in his own high-ranking projects. “The protagonists of this imaginary film are constantly fighting against the fleeting moments on this plane. But it is less about death than it is about living. And most of all, it is all about time,” Lazarev writes. He is right: Out of Time is melancholic – movingly sad, but behind the sorrowful melodies lies a powerful affirmation of life, warmth, and the human [...]
Vatican Shadow is one of the many aliases of American experimental musician, poet, and multimedia artist Dominick Fernow. Through Vatican Shadow, Fenow creates music that combines rhythmic industrial, ambient, and soundscapes. His inspiration comes from war, terror, media manipulation, and anxiety disorder. One of the most prolific underground artists of the 21st century, Fernow is now releasing a new six-song album called Persian Pillars Of The Gasoline Era. Fernow’s underground sub-cultures mindset and following find Vatican Shadow now aligned with 20 Buck Spin for the first time. The six tracks are inspired by recent [...]
Iro Aka is a Barcelonian Tribal House duo comprised of Carles Rocamora and David Iriarte. Together they create a music defined by an eclectic, downtempo, house, techno, and ambient sound, but they prefer to call it timeless multicultural music. Iro Aka is releasing their debut album titled Passatge de les Ombres. The two describe the album’s development as “a journey through the shadows and lights derived from the global crisis.” The album title, Passatge de les Ombres, is inspired by the Japanese term ‘ukiyo,’ which in the Buddhist tradition could be translated as “world of misery,” but that later [...]
