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Record of the Week
'Freedom Layers (Pilchard Rounds)' (out now) is the first single from Venetian bassist and producer Eric Demuro’s upcoming album, 'Simulacra'. Built on elastic bass lines, warm Rhodes textures, and loose, patient percussion, the track moves with an unhurried sense of motion. Rather than leaning on nostalgia, it reshapes 70s-informed groove into something grounded and present, balancing subtle cinematic atmosphere with a steady pulse that feels intimate, tactile, and quietly transportive.
Built on layered percussion, marimba, bass, and rhythmic synths, second single 'Ara Macao' (out May 8th) unfolds with a dense, rainforest-like energy - lush but anchored in groove. The track moves with a hypnotic pulse while Fanni Zahár’s flute rises in the final section, cutting through the arrangement with a bright, soaring presence. Drawing from 70s-informed rhythm and exploratory production, the track blends tradition and experimentation without leaning into nostalgia.
Eric Demuro's 'Simulacra' arrives June 5th 2026 on Bastard Jazz.
Artist/DJ/producer Nutritious releases his 3-track EP ‘Freefall’ on his Liquid Culture imprint, out March 23rd.
NYC-raised, Nutritious reads rooms and dancefloors to blend cosmic disco, deep house, nu-disco, indie dance, and techno in high-energy sets. Blurring the line between organic and electro, having learned on cassette and vinyl, he treats his 3-4 turntables like live instruments. Now a revered artist playing at iconic venues worldwide and nurturing the community on his record label Liquid Culture, he began as a self-taught musician with an early love for DJing, becoming a promoter at Palladium at 17, and a cult favorite in the scene playing all-night-long sets in the East Village. The underground 90s sounds of New York, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco still inspire him today.
Music performances include, by special invitation, the Whitney Museum of American Art (supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation); festivals – Art Basel, Ultra Music, Miami Music Week, IMS, Jam Cruise; venues - Pikes Ibiza, Zey Zey Miami, Cielo NYC, Mighty SF, Pacha NYC, Rodarte for New York Fashion Week, Le Bain, ESL in D.C., Ace Hotel, Mandarin Oriental; and radio shows inc. SiriusXM, KMHD Portland, and WNUR Chicago. Release labels include Paper Recordings & his own Liquid Culture: his album ‘Blurs’ reached Beatport’s Top 5 (artwork by John Van Hamersveld, renowned for his work with Jimi Hendrix, Stones, Beatles, Grateful Dead). His following releases regularly chart in Beatport’s Top 5, and on Juno inc. Juno’s Best of 2025.
EP ‘Freefall’ follows the breakout success of 'Ether', the lead single from his recent ‘Soft Dark’ EP, one of the top 3 most-played on SiriusXM Chill since its release, entering the NACC chart at #2 Most Added Electronic, picking up radio play internationally.
‘Freefall’ opens with the stir of an orchestra warming before a driving bassline locks in and the track builds with layered, symphonic intensity. Keys, vocal chops, atmosphere, percussion and FM bass entwine, composed like a score, felt like an emotive deep house spin. 'Spiral' rides on a raspy, smoke-drenched vocal over crisp 808 drums and a house foundation. Raw soul meets electronic grit that cuts clear through the haze. 'Freefall (Chill Mix)' trades the bass for a sustained sub carrying atmospheric and orchestral elements as they rise and the vocal chops open. The Chill Mix floats. The EP lands.
‘’Freefall’ is the exquisite vertigo of surrendering to a force that pulls harder than the earth itself. A coordinate in the deep atmosphere where the weight of control dissolves, leaving only the rush of the descent. Here, falling becomes indistinguishable from flight—a terrifying, beautiful velocity that leads not to an impact, but to an embrace. To enter this space is to finally trust that the gravity of love completes you.’ – Nutritious
Why ‘Nutritious’? Rooted in a holistic ethos, his scope as a producer extends beyond the studio into wellness, culture, and brand. From early work with figures like Montel Williams and supermodel Emme, to advising celebrities and iconic brands, he builds platforms. This includes contributing to the NY Times bestseller Living Well and serving on the founding team of DoubleBlind magazine, a pioneering media company covering psychedelics and mental health.
He has also scored films for Danny Aiello, appeared on-screen alongside Moby and Method Man, and driven impressive charity work, inc. helping raise $150k+ for the National Down Syndrome Society.
With a name like Nutritious, you'd expect taste.
Freefall is out on Liquid Culture
Matutara is the latest full-length release from rapper One Sixth, arriving via Inner Tribe Records as a raw, immersive and deeply collaborative project. Entirely conceptualised and recorded over an intense 48-hour period at Inner Tribe Studios on Kaurna Country, the album captures a rare immediacy where instinct, energy and connection drive every moment.
The record features a powerful lineup including Grammy-nominated vocalist Georgia Anne Muldrow, alongside Social Change, Bloomy Meadows, Zoodaka and Willy Dynamo. Backed by a dynamic roster of producers Inkswel, 2nd Thought, Stay Nice, Royalz, Mista Monk, Isa Ac and Apollo Grimes the soundscape shifts between soulful textures, dusty rhythms and forward-leaning hip hop experimentation.
Accompanying the album is a limited edition 7-inch release, extending the Matutara experience into a physical format for collectors and heads alike cementing the project as a snapshot of creativity, community and urgency.
Carl Craig follows 2025's Desire soundtrack with the Meditations LP. Available in full on digital platforms for the first time, Mediations is comprised of six beatless compositions of modular synthesis that bridge his Detroit techno origins and the Synth Ensemble and Versus concert pieces Craig has explored in more recent years.
Meditations offers the opportunity to luxuriate in Craig’s many sonic identities. Eschewing traditional rhythm and structure, each of these six installations moves at a unique pace, transitioning from surrealist oscillations and near-choral ambient passages to subtle undercurrents of jazz and bristling, alien electronics.
Patient, spacious and hypnotic in form, Meditations is a unique and essential trip through the practices of one of electronic music’s true innovators.
Drumcode’s hottest rising star KASIA continues her outstanding 2026 with new single ‘Simulate’.
The Poland-born, Miami-based artist is rapidly becoming one of the most prolific artists on Adam Beyer’s labels. In the last six months alone, she’s dropped the thrilling ‘PSYCHO’ with Charles D and Sarah De Warren – one of Drumcode’s 2025 highlights – plus a strong collaboration with SOLANCE titled ‘Inferno’ on Truesoul. Already in 2026, she’s delivered the goods again, linking with another exciting rising talent KAF3R for the slick ‘Let’s Get It’ which appeared on DC4 Vol.3 in February.
On the touring front, KASIA’s going from strength to strength in 2026; Ultra Music Festival, Drumcode Mallorca and Arc Music Festival are just some of the highlights to come over the coming months.
Her latest studio offering ‘Simulate’ builds on the momentum beautifully and reinforce her distinct sound signature. This is big-boned dance music with a foot in techno, prog and house alike, accentuated by soaring melodic flourishes. On-point!
Xylitol - Blumenfantasie
Xylitol, a.k.a. producer and DJ Catherine Backhouse, shifts up the refinement and musical breadth for her second album Blumenfantasie, the follow-up to her Planet Mu debut Anemones.
While Anemones pulled together her formative influences of early jungle, garage and kosmische musik, interspersed with elements of early central and eastern european electro to draw connections and contrasts between dance music and vintage electronics, in Blumenfantasie mitteleuropean melancholy comes to the fore, particularly drawing on the work of Sarajevo-born minimal synth composer Miaux, whom she recognises as “a kindred spirit in terms of her directness and melancholy, as well as her lightness of touch.” She cites her as her “single biggest inspiration in the shift between Anemones and Blumenfantasie and I think the shift of mood and palette is quite apparent, even if our music is very different in how it presents.”
A fitting analogy of the album’s feel can be found in the origin of its title:
“When I stayed in Berlin earlier this year to play for the Planet Mu 30th Anniversary show I had a vivid flashback to my last stay in the city some 20 years earlier. I was out raving every night with a friend who was squatting in a disused flower shop; the trip was a kind of therapeutic letting go but the memory fragment that stood out to me was the GDR era signage above the front window in brown tiles embossed in beige reading ‘Blumenfantasie’ in that kind of classic 1970s psychedelic font.”
In her new album these crossing timelines, collisions of memory and aesthetics tessellate precariously together.
With Blumenfantasie, Xylitol wanted “to make space and for the music to float and propel at once”, finding routes through the pointillistic figures, cascading synths and the meditative stillness of kosmische musik and bolder breakbeat programming. She reaches this delicate balance through careful subtraction, hoping “to convey a sense of intimacy and sadness but without sentimentality” which she manages with a feel and sound that's raw and intuitive.
Blumenfantasie rolls through detailed jungle workouts that flutter and bleep, through beatless ambience, taking a rare dip below 160 bpm for the elegiac Mirjana, the album’s most explicit nod to Krautrock with a drum break chopped up from Amon Duul II’s anthemic ‘Archangel’s Thunderbird’, through to a bare bones grime rhythm that calls to mind the missing link between industrial pioneers Nurse With Wound and Wiley's Eskibeat.
For Blumenfantasie, Catherine cast her net to draw in experimental audiovisual duo Sculpture and Reading based post-rock band The Leaf Library as collaborators, pulling the former’s whirling eddies of musique concrete into a slice of sublime aquatic jungle, and the latter’s radiophonic folksong into a dark and disorientating breakbeat workout equally indebted to Source Direct as to Broadcast.
Blumenfantasie moves with a confident, self-effacing fluidity which has been informed by DJ Bunnyhausen’s more regular DJ gigs. She speculates “if this album feels more cohesive than its predecessor it's likely because I've been DJing a lot more, with Worthing Techno Militia, with central and eastern european electronica collective Slav to the Rhythm, as well as being part of Italo Disco crew Flex. Moving between these zones seemed to open up hidden pathways between the disparate musical trajectories they represent.”
While Anemones contrasted the rough and the delicate, its successor is an album built for the head, hips and heart, with painterly sounds and a sense of intimacy that encourages deep listening while keeping its eyes on the strobelight and its feet on the dancefloor.
“The soft twang of a nylon guitar. A hauntingly beautiful voice cutting through the haze of a bygone recording. The sound of waves crashing, washing away the pretty tune. Dominique Fils-Aimé paints a surreal image of a “sea of clouds below our feet”. Chanting can be heard from below as the celestial bodies descend. The sound of hand drums grows louder as an ethereal drone fades.
One day, in her family home, Dominique stumbled upon an old cassette from the 70s. The sound of her mother’s voice on the tape moved her. She had no idea her mother was such a talented vocalist. That same recording is the opening song for Dominique’s latest album “My World is the Sun”. The decision to open with this classically informed guitar piece sets a formal backdrop where Dominique creates stylistic contrasts. The album unfolds like a narrative—morphing with the many moods we experience in a day. Expressive melodies evolve intuitively, breaking away from formulaic arrangements. Dominique closes the album by recording her own version of the opening song, completing a natural cycle. Returning to the intimate space from where the album began emphasizes the importance of returning to a space of contentment within ourselves. Seeking and building peace for ourselves and others is a value that Dominique’s mother held dear. “My World Is The Sun” pays homage to this value.
Inspired by the instinct of a loving mother, each song on “My World is the Sun” is like a child and each child is accepted as they are. This acceptance provides a safe space for Dominique’s creativity to run free. Finding the beauty in imperfection, Dominique gives the world her creative and spiritual process in its entirety—with all the quirks, chuckles and deep breaths.
Mossdeb Sounds pushes deeper into its Afro-Tech lane with a fresh two-tracker from label head Bubba Brothers—the Portuguese artist whose momentum is building fast across dancefloors and playlists alike. Balancing percussive heat with a club-ready sense of restraint, this release lands right in the sweet spot for DJs who like their tech house driving, but with a melodic glow that lingers long after the drop.
Across both cuts, Bubba Brothers leans into what’s become his signature: tightly programmed drums, rolling low-end and those unmistakable Afro-tinged rhythms that keep the groove breathing. The first track comes in with assertive, peak-time energy—punchy, upfront and engineered for hands-in-the-air moments—while the second takes a more hypnotic route, pairing a warmer musical touch with a late-night tension that steadily locks the room.
It’s also shaping up to be a defining year for Bubba Brothers: new residencies on the calendar and the launch of his own event concept, Loko by Bubba Brothers, cementing his vision beyond the studio. With previous releases on Golden, Wh0, and Alleanza already earning strong support from press and international artists, this next chapter feels like a natural step up—bigger, sharper, and fully aligned with the Mossdeb Sounds identity.
This is Mossdeb Sounds.
Rotterdam groove architect Moods joins forces with South Korean Australian artist Munan on For Good, a honeyed slice of psychedelic electronica that feels weightless yet grounded in undeniable rhythm. Warbly keys swirl through sunlit textures, astral synth lines hover just above the mix, and a supple groove carries the track with effortless bounce. Built around a warm pulse and understated melodic detail, For Good finds both artists in a state of quiet confidence. Munan’s soft yet emotive vocal delivery glides across the production, turning vulnerability into something luminous. “I’ve been waiting day and night for you to call” lands less as a plea and more as a promise, anchored by the refrain “I’m here for good.” The track radiates devotion without melodrama, choosing restraint over excess and groove over grandiosity. There is a sweetness to the writing that feels disarmingly direct. Lines like “So sweet like a jar of honey” and “I did it for love” sit naturally within the track’s hazy, summer ready atmosphere. The result is psychedelic pop with emotional clarity, balancing introspection and uplift in equal measure.
Munan, born Mun Hwan, spent his formative years in Canberra before relocating to Seoul in 2013, where he began producing for K pop acts including Super Junior and Day6. Since launching the Munan project in 2022, he has built a distinctive catalogue of neo psychedelic rock and indie leaning pop, drawing comparisons to Toro y Moi, Tame Impala and MGMT. With over seven million Spotify streams and support from outlets such as Kitsuné Musique, MTV Australia, Triple J, KEXP and KCRW, Munan has established himself as a globally resonant voice operating from his Seoul studio. For Moods, For Good continues a run of collaborations that highlight his refined ear for vocal chemistry and textural detail. Known for his jazz inflected grooves and crisp rhythmic precision, he once again shapes a soundscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Where others might overproduce, Moods leaves space, allowing the track’s warmth and movement to speak for themselves. For Good is psychedelic, soulful and sun soaked. Radiant, assured and effortlessly bouncy, it captures two artists fully in their element.