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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The UK producer has announced a UK/EU headline tour that will take place in May 2025, kicking off in London, taking him across the continent with stops in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and beyond.

Portland-based singer-songwriter David Allred has shared two new singles including the heartbreaking ‘Oh Lauren’, which is a song written in dedication to one of Allred’s childhood best friends who tragically took her own life at the age of 11 years old.

French producer Crayon shares his new single ‘Home Safe’, featuring French-Cameroonian artist Yamê and JPL, the singer of Australian indie band Tora. The track is paired with an official video that brings his distinct blend of French rap, electronic, and folk into a reflective and forward-looking piece.

Berlin based composer, producer and sound designer Ben Lukas Boysen is pleased to share new single ‘Alta Ripa’, the third single and title track of his forthcoming long player released November 29.

Ben Lukas Boysen is thrilled to share his monolithic new single ‘Fama’, released today, taken from his forthcoming album Alta Ripa, released November 29.

UK producer Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles returns with genre-blurring new piece ‘Gaivotas’, a first taster from his forthcoming ninth studio album, written during an experimental residency in Portugal last year.

Masayoshi Fujita, the Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player, is set to release his new album Migratory this Friday, September 6. Today he shares his hypnotic new single ‘Desonata’.

Berlin-based composer, producer and sound designer Ben Lukas Boysen is thrilled to announce his new studio album Alta Ripa, set for release on November 29.

Following the recent release of his boldly brilliant fourth album, Omni, British artist Douglas Dare shares heavy club track ‘One Eye Open’ ahead of his forthcoming UK & Europe headline tour.

Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita is set to release his new album Migratory on September 6 via Erased Tapes. Today he is sharing two new singles from the record – the album’s centrepiece ‘Our Mother’s Lights’ featuring Moor Mother who’s lent her powerful voice, and the mesmerising ‘Valley’.

Today Kiasmos, the duo of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen, share a new single from their long-awaited second album, which is set for release on July 5. The single drops ahead of a sold out show at London’s Outernet tomorrow night, with an Autumn show at Troxy already announced for later this year, as well as international headline and festival appearances.

British artist Douglas Dare today announces EU & UK tour and shares his throbbing new single ‘Three Roads’, the latest to come from his fourth album Omni, out on May 10.

Douglas Dare today shares his new single ‘8w9zeros’, the latest release following the acclaimed ‘Mouth to Mouth’ to come from his fourth album Omni, out on May 10.

Today on Christmas Eve we share Shards’ new single, ‘Amen, amen, amen…’. The song follows this summer’s release — ‘Facta est deserta’ — taken from fragments by English Renaissance composer William Byrd.

American singer-songwriter David Allred has shared a new recording of ‘Hey Stranger’, featuring himself alone on the piano and his deeply emotive vocals, entitled ‘Hey Stranger (Take 2)’. The heartbreaking lyrics tell us the story of Allred’s friend who disappeared over a decade ago, and the emotions that he’s been left with since.

We’re excited to introduce our newest signee Sheherazaad, who joins our collective of artists with her first single and accompanying video ‘Mashoor’ – produced by Arooj Aftab. Sheherazaad is an American performer-composer, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis joins the new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes.

Following the release of Rain Before Seven… this summer, Penguin Cafe return with their first-ever recording of Penguin Cafe Orchestra classic ‘Perpetuum Mobile’, performed live with The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Ahead of their UK tour commencing next month, Penguin Cafe have shared their rendition of ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ — one of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s most beloved songs, recorded with The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestral version was arranged by the legendary British conductor and musical director Guy Protheroe.

Esteemed musician and composer Peter Broderick today shares a true gem: a previously unreleased track from the legendary musical treasure troves of Arthur Russell entitled ‘Give It to the Sky’ and performed with the French 12-piece group, Ensemble 0.

‘Facta est deserta’ is the new single from Shards, the London-based vocal group led by singer and composer Kieran Brunt. Commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for her BBC Radio 3 programme Unclassified, the song was made for the station’s 400th anniversary celebration of Renaissance composer William Byrd.

Ahead of the release of their new album Rain Before Seven... due this Friday, Penguin Cafe have shared the video for album opener ‘Welcome to London’. The song got its name as the world started to open up and people were finally allowed to fly again.

Today, Penguin Cafe share the latest single from their upcoming album Rain Before Seven… due for release July 7. ‘Find Your Feet’ is a standout rhythmic track which blends slick, tight global grooves with uplifting orchestral chops.

London-based musician and producer Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, is back with the single ‘Coda’. The track offers a snapshot of his knack for nocturnal soundscaping at its finest. It is accompanied by the announcement of new European dates and his first North American tour in five years.

Penguin Cafe share their latest single ‘Galahad’ from their upcoming album Rain Before Seven… on Erased Tapes along with details of a UK tour later this year.

Bell Orchestre share another double single in the shape of ‘Stripes’ — featuring an emotive remix courtesy of the late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota, whom the Who Designs Nature’s How EP reissue is dedicated to, and the original studio version taken from the forthcoming reissue of As Seen Through Windows.

The final release as part of Erased Tapes’ Piano Day 2023 celebrations sees Douglas Dare covering Massive Attack’s iconic single ‘Teardrop’.

As part of our Piano Day 2023 celebrations, we’re pleased to present ‘Second Variety’ — the new single by Arthur Jeffes’ cult contemporary-minimal-folk troupe, Penguin Cafe.

Following on from the piano-led closing track of his recent studio album Now Is, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles shares new piece ‘Spirit Loop’ ahead of Piano Day 2023.

Bell Orchestre share another unheard gem, ‘Quintet’, featuring long-time friend and collaborator Colin Stetson on bass saxophone.

London-based musician and producer Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles sshares an evocative video animated by María Medem for his latest single ‘Vision of Self’ ahead of the release of his new album Now Is, out on Erased Tapes on October 14, followed by a string of European live dates.

‘Running’ is a piece of music the London-based producer had been trying to create for many years despite the simplicity of the track.

Rival Consoles follows his soundtrack to Netflix hit El Caso Figo with motorik new single ‘World Turns’ — the new single from his upcoming studio album Now Is.

Ahead of taking his immersive live show on a European festival run in July, Rival Consoles shares brand new track Echoes — a colourful exploration of rhythm and sound for the summer nights.

Following on from singles Aura and Angelus Novus, which have acted as expansive windows into what is set to be an extraordinary debut album on Erased Tapes, today Hatis Noit releases the track Inori — meaning ‘prayer’ in Japanese.

Ahead of the release of their much anticipated 10th Anniversary Remastered Edition of A Matter of Life… 2021, Penguin Cafe share a live rendition of the album’s closing piece Coriolis, along with the remastered studio version that will be featured on the album.

Japanese composer, vibraphonist and percussionist Masayoshi Fujita shares new track Led by a Blue Bird into the Mountain — the second piece from the upcoming Music for kō compilation, out April 1.

Ahead of the March release of his Clarion EP, Ben Lukas Boysen shares new expansive and percussive piece Lux.

Ahead of his greatly anticipated solo tour, the unmistakeable Douglas Dare reveals new piano-led single Behind The Walls — a thoughtful off-cut from 2020’s acclaimed full-length album Milkteeth, which fans have been waiting two years to experience live.

On the even of Erased Tapes turning fifteen, Hatis Noit returns with explorative new single Fernweh as a precursor for a label compilation titled Music for kō coming out on April 1.

German sound pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius and American composer Tim Story ring in the New Year with a sizzling prepared piano piece, fittingly named Crisscrossing.

Stop what you’re doing, put on your headphones, and let the volcano Katla sing you the song of her people.

In anticipation of Peter Broderick’s Blackberry Tour this autumn, what better time than now to unleash a Sunrise Mix of album centrepiece Let It Go.

Ahead of his much anticipated return to the live scene, Rival Consoles delivers a slice of euphoria with new single Pulses of Information. Swirling below the skin and echoing through the body, the track connects us through unspoken dialogue.

Ahead of the release of his solo synthesiser exploration Chronology on July 17, Pakistani-American composer and drummer of the cult trio Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi shares a second single Head Within a Head.

Following the announcement of his live album and concert film Tripping with Nils Frahm to be released December 3, Nils shares a first excerpt titled Fundamental Values.

Today sees the release of Peter Broderick’s new single Wild Food, taken from Blackberry, his latest album released on August 28.

Rival Consoles unveils Sudden Awareness of Now today, the third single taken from his forthcoming six-track album Articulation, out on July 31.

Rival Consoles has shared a second single, Vibrations on a String, taken from his forthcoming new album Articulation released on 31 July.

Avant-composer and drummer of the cult experimental acoustic trio Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, shares the second single taken from his new album Beta — out June 20 to coincide with Love Record Stores Day.

Shards enlist fellow musicians including Douglas Dare, Anna Meredith, Nico Muhly, Joe Newman of Alt-J, Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev, plus many more to collaborate remotely as the Isolation Choir on a new composition by leader Kieran Brunt titled Inside I’ll Sing.

Douglas Dare has shared the playful new single The Joy In Sarah’s Eyes, taken from his forthcoming album Milkteeth released on February 21.

UK producer Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug and Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit share their paranormal first cut After the Storm via The Wire, ahead of their debut live performance at Le Guess Who? Festival.