Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 07/07/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Ton Sur Ton:
What could you strip away from a music that is this minimal to begin with: An intimate voice, a warm bass, a few sprinkles of keyboard and effects, the occasional drum machine beat. And yet, it is in the moments when the songs just float and drift that the duo's debut truly lifts off.
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Alden Hellmuth:
The press release to the saxophonist's sophomore LP locates the music between freedom and form. One could argue the axis more accurately runs between ambiance and ardour, restraint and release - continuing the eternal collaborative quest for crossing the known and familiar.
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Donovan Haffner:
Donovan Haffner creative life revolves around improvisation: When he's composing, he'll include open-ended sections. When he's performing, he prefers to negotiate the direction in the moment. Even when he's listening, freely played music takes him to places of deeper connection.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Lilya Mandre:
“Minimalism leads me to clearer emotions, more honest songs, and ultimately more freedom.”
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Vince Watson:
“Silence allows the mind to wander without direction. Sound allows the mind to wander with intent. Both are vital.”
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DJ Mad Dog:
The gabber and rave DJ-producer refers to his style as "hardcore beyond rules." Another way of describing it is "release without remorse.“ Ideas need to be spontaneous and the job of production is to not get in the way, turning the music into a vessel for freedom and real connection.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Razen:
Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour's new LP opens with a time-arresting, 17-minute meditation on the sounds of the erhu and the renaissance serpent, which feels both free and perfectly sculpted. This is music that is radical and heartwrenchingly gorgeous, bound by no rules yet defining a new language.
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Abul Mogard:
Abul Mogard's music defines relationships between the mind and imagined spaces. In them, everything is transient and very little is solid, sound travelling from distant shores to reach the ear as whispers at the threshold of audibility. There's almost nothing here – and yet, you can't turn away.
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Josh Mason:
Mason's ' Kicking A Dark Horse' wasn't just created with a modular set-up. Compositionally, it follows a modular logic as well, weaving an expansive web of interrelated cells of innercosmic oscillations. In this dream world of music and an accompanying book, everything is connected.
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Celine Cairo:
The music of Celine Cairo is born in silence, influenced by the little, miraculous sounds around her: Her dog drinking, birds singing, the noises of her house. As introspective as her songs may be, the calm is merely the tranquil surface an unfathomably deep ocean of emotion.
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MOMO.:
Imperfections, Marcelo Frota believes, can give life to music. That's interesting, since his new album seams close to perfection: Soft rhythms melt into clouds of harmonies against which Frota's voice gently grinds like silky sandpaper – it's the sound of summer, it's the soundtrack to being alive.
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ISQ:
"I don't always begin with lyrics, but they ultimately become the most important element," says Irene Serra. Her bittersweet new single makes this abundantly clear. And yet, it is only through music that this letter to a loved one lost gets delivered backwards in time, trancending the limits of words.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Sarah Rothenberg:
“Daring” is not a word you hear often in classical music. To pianist Sarah Rothenberg it is pivotal for picking the pieces for her programs: Repertoire too daring for its time, so daring it questions your ideas about music, so daring it still sets your pulse racing 200 years after it was written.
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Francesca Gaza:
The architecture of Francesca Gaza's Crown Shyness is precisely defined. And yet, within it, this music truly contains multitudes, from jazz via baroque counterpoint and post rock to breathtaking exhales – what you're hearing says something profound about who you are as a person and a listener.
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David Norland:
"My goal is to make music that sounds both futuristic and incredibly ancient. Like alien hieroglyphs carved in ancient sandstone."
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