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Chrome Sparks, Angelica Bess, Jorge Elbrecht and Deniro Farrar contribute
Published Jul 29, 2021
Following last year s collaborative outing
A View of U, Machinedrum has got another group of musical friends together for a follow-up EP. Producer Travis Stewart will share
Psyconia on September 10 through Ninja Tune.
The six-song
Psyconia features work with
A View of U collaborator Chrome Sparks, Body Language s Angelica Bess, North Carolina MC Deniro Farrar, and visual artist and musician Jorge Elbrecht.
Opener Only One, featuring vocals from Bess and drums from Ian Maciak, is the first song to arrive, and you can hear it below.
Psyconia s title combines the words psychic and syconia, the latter being the plural form of syconium. A press explains that in botany, syconium is a fleshy hollow receptacle, containing numerous flowers which develop together into a multiple fruit, as in the fig. The fig-like instrument that appears on the EP s cover, seen above, was
A music festival in Pakistan s nascent dance music industry was caught in a social media firestorm. The organizers cleared the air with EDM.com.
Before prohibition and religious radicalization under the rule of Zia Ul Haq in 1977, Pakistan’s nightlife was thriving. In the bustling metropolis of Karachi, clubs like Excelsior, Oasis, Samar, and Club 007 openly served alcohol, hosted American jazz musicians like Dizzie Gillespie and Duke Ellington, and attracted professional belly dancers from foreign cities like Beirut, Cairo, Tehran, and Istanbul.
Sweeping conservatism shuttered Pakistan’s nightlife, thwarting any chance for dance music to enter the fold. In recent years, however, regional stability and tides of liberalism have birthed interest in electronic music beyond house parties and underground raves.
STS9 Announces Red Rocks Livestreams
STS9 is offering livestreams for their sold-out Red Rocks run.
By Nate Todd Jul 15, 2021 • 4:10 pm PDT
STS9 announced livestreams for their sold-out Red Rocks run. The concerts will broadcast on Friday, July 23 at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT and Saturday, July 24 at 10:30 p.m. ET/ 7:30 p.m. PT via live.sts9.com.
STS9’s 2021 Red Rocks run was originally scheduled for July 2020 but was canceled due to the pandemic. The livetronica pioneers are continuing their “Sky World” theme they originally had planned. Shpongle and Mize will open up on July 23 while Tycho and Chrome Sparks will support on July 24.