2025 News

After having recently announced his long-awaited debut album ‘Home Safe’, out October 24 on Erased Tapes, Paris-based producer, songwriter, and visual artist Crayon unveils the album’s third single ‘Kill Your Idols’ featuring painter-turned-singer Lossapardo.“Kill Your Idols was originally just an instrumental I made with my old guitar and a looper/reverse pedal,” Crayon explains. “It sat in a shared folder with Lossa for a while, until he spontaneously sent back a version with his vocals pitched down. It’s one of the songs that stayed closest to its original form—which fits the title’s message: kill your idols, become who you are.”

Captivating Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit has shared new single ‘Himbrimi’, reworked by Kaifeng-born, London-based producer and sound artist Yu Su. This single is the latest from Hatis Noit’s upcoming album, Aura Reworks, which reimagines her acclaimed 2022 debut album, Aura, by legendary artists and collaborators, to be released 26 September on Erased Tapes.

Kiasmos, the duo of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen, drop ANNA’s remix of ‘Burst’. The Brazilian producer and DJ has turned the song into the club-ready tropical-tinged banger it was destined to be.

Paris-based producer and songwriter Crayon announces his long-awaited debut album Home Safe, set for release on October 24. As a precursor he unleashes new track ‘Diamond Miner’ featuring FKJ and ELIZA.

Ahead of the release of his ninth LP, Landscape from Memory, this Friday, Rival Consoles has shared the music video for ‘Soft Gradient Beckons’. The video is made in collaboration with film-maker and visual artist Anthony Dickenson, who spent the last 12 months working and developing the video.

Enchanting Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit has announced Aura Reworks to be released September 26.

Japanese vibraphonist, marimba player and composer Masayoshi Fujita has announced his long-awaited return to Europe for a string of shows this autumn, with performances across Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Finland, UK and Germany, including headline appearances in London and Berlin. Tickets are on sale now.

Japanese vibraphonist, marimba player and composer Masayoshi Fujita announces today the release of his original score for Korean-American filmmaker So Young Shelly Yo’s debut feature, Smoking Tigers. The full score is out on June 19.

UK producer Ryan Lee West, better known as Rival Consoles, will release his ninth studio album Landscape from Memory on July 4. Today, he shines a light on his summerly new single ‘Jupiter’.

Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi shares ‘Power Down the Heart’ — the latest single from his forthcoming album Endling, out May 30, featuring a vocal performance from poet and musician Moor Mother.

Rival Consoles has scored the upcoming MindsEye game, developed by the legendary Leslie Benzies and his team at Build A Rocket Boy, out on June 10.

Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi has unveiled Beautification Technologies, the latest single from his forthcoming album Endling, set for release on May 30. Following the first single Plastic Glacier, it’s a warm, layered meditation in fractured electronics — tracing the blurred edges between machine decay and human memory.

Rival Consoles, UK producer Ryan Lee West, will release his ninth studio album, Landscape from Memory on July 4 and today is sharing new single ‘Known Shape’. Rival Consoles is also set to embark on a special pre-album release tour across Europe next month, which includes London, Glasgow, Leeds and Dublin.

Today, American singer-songwriter Peter Broderick releases an electronic rework of Let It Go, the centerpiece of his 2020 album Blackberry. The remix comes courtesy of Phoenix-based producer Desolent, who discovered the track after it went viral on TikTok in early 2024.

London-based musicians Douglas Dare and Manu Delago have collaborated on a number of projects over the last eight years including features on each other’s albums and performing a small EU tour together in 2023. Today the two friends release their first music written as a duo, ahead of their international tour later this month. The sweeping new single, ‘One Thing’ is out now.

Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi returns with Endling, his newest album for Erased Tapes set for release on May 30th. Written as a modular synth prequel to his 2023 BBC Concert Orchestral work God Docks at Death Harbor, Endling takes the listener on a 43-minute odyssey through an intense and beautiful landscape set hundreds of years into the future.

Announcing a special Erased Tapes night at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, March 29, in support of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Rival Consoles unveils his ninth studio album, Landscape from Memory, out July 4. Ryan Lee West has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad different styles and aesthetics—but always with human emotion as their lodestar. Landscape from Memory, the ninth studio LP from the UK producer and musician born Ryan Lee West, finally blossomed following a frustrating fallow year away from the production desk.

Hatis Noit’s Aura Reworks series continues with American composer Alex Somers and his haunting reimagination of her piece ‘Angelus Novus’.

Daniel Brandt, of lauded German electroacoustic outfit Brandt Brauer Frick, leads the apocalyptic rave with his third solo album Without Us — a multimedia project that clashes head on with the spiralling chaos of our times, trying to make sense of the world as it unravels.

Daniel Brandt, of lauded German electroacoustic outfit Brandt Brauer Frick, leads the apocalyptic rave with his third solo album Without Us — a multimedia project that clashes head on with the spiralling chaos of our times, trying to make sense of the world as it unravels.

Ahead of the release of his new album later this month, today prolific Portland-based artist and producer David Allred has shared a final taste of things to come in the form of new single “Look”. Alongside the single, Allred has released a self-made video featuring VHS footage from his childhood, which he described as an incredibly cathartic project to create. The Beautiful World, described by Uncut as an “existential masterpiece”, is due out on January 24.