MODERAT - FAST LAND

Moderat and Monkeytown Records are happy to welcome you to their next chapter. Back in 2017, Moderat announced an extended break following a final concert in their hometown Berlin in front of 17.000 people (bless I personally experienced that show in 2016 in St.Petersburg) – and now they return with the new single Fast Land.

The new album is called MORE D4TA, features ten new tracks and is scheduled for release on May 13, 2022. After spending the better part of two decades making music together, Sascha Ring (Apparat), Gernot Bronsert & Sebastian Szary (Modeselektor) carved out a sound and aesthetic that are all their own, and MORE D4TA showcases a group that’s creatively recharged and fully dedicated to its craft.

Trentemøller - Like A Daydream

Trentemøller’s new album 'Memoria' seems to exist at the confluence of inspiration, coincidence, and maybe even a little bit of the supernatural. On 'Like A Daydream' Lisbet Fritze's earnestly delivered vocals are buoyed up by carillon guitar, tethered to a relaxed drum shuffle, by a progression of bass chords.

The Presets - You Belong

The Presets have kicked off 2022 with their first new song in almost four years: a buzzy, club-primed house joint titled ‘You Belong’.

Nina Kraviz - This Time

Released later last year “This Time” by Nina Kraviz is a track where she “put my main focus on the arrangement and on the vocals to create a warm yet sultry atmosphere that my favorite pop music is known for.”

Trentemøller - In The Gloaming

Danish composer, musician and producer Trentemøller announces his new studio album 'Memoria' which is set for release in early 2022 on his own label In My Room alongside the first single 'In The Gloaming' which is released today.

Mcbaise - Water Slide

Mathieu Bessudo best known as McBess - London based famous French illustrator and now musician released an epic music animation “Water Slide“ under his audio moniker @Mcbaise (feat. guitar solo by Kamggarn)

Farah - Fountain of Youth

"Without You It Rains Everyday"...Farah laments as she hypnotizes us once again. Effortlessly alternating between English & Farsi, her vivid brand of poetry is one of a kind.

“Directed by Rome's Robotina & produced by Johnny Jewel, "Fountain of Youth" is the latest single to hold us over while we anxiously await her full length.
The animated short film pays tribute to her grandfather Ali Nemat’s legendary Khatam work. As a prominent figure in the sphere of Persian art, he specialized in intricately inlaid work by hand. Nemat was the first to break the mold of geometric patterns. This film pulls inspiration from his work as well as Farah's Persian heritage. Our heroine walks the streets of her dreams alone. In a world where ancient shapes morph into modern forms...echoes from her past become the road of her future. Her search for everlasting life continues in "Fountain Of Youth". “

Directed by Robotina
Graphics: Alessandro Strickner
Animation: Yassmin Yaghmai, Sara Taigher, Sabrina De Marco
Produced by So What Music
Label: Italians do it better

Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is a Rider

New music video from Caroline’s latest single - Bunny Is a Rider

James Blake - Say What You Will

Listen to Say What You Will taken from upcoming 5th album “Friends that brake your heart”

Gaspard Augé - Belladone

A teaser for a new upcoming video “Belladone” produced by a half of Justice duo - Gaspard Augé taken on location of abandoned Burj Al Babas village in Turkey. “Belladone” is a fourth track of Gaspard’s first solo album ‘Escapades’. Video directed by Filip Nilsson

Listen full track

Modeselektor feat. Catnapp - Dating is in China

While Modeselektor’s recent Extended mixtape is populated with all sorts of musical experiments, even the duo’s most ardent fans might be surprised by Dating is in China, which is quite possibly the most overtly pop track they’ve ever created. A collaboration with Argentinian artist (and Monkeytown regular) Catnapp, it’s also the title track of the third EP released in Extended’s aftermath, following on from Mean Friend and Social Distancing.

London Grammar - Lord It's a Feeling

London Grammar’s new album 'Californian Soil' is out now

GusGus - Love is Alone

GusGus won worst face replace feature ever. But nevermind, music is the answer and Love is Alone

Burial - Chemz

Burial’s new ‘Chemz’ with an exclusive new B-side working at ASMR levels of ambient sensitivity, developing a strain of extended beatless works following from his ‘Nightmarket’ and ‘Beachfires’ classics

Billie Eilish - Your Power

Watch and listen to Billie’s “Your Power”, out now

London Grammar - How Does It Feel

London Grammar release their official video for their new single How Does It Feel. The video features front woman Hannah Reid and The Queen’s Gambit star Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who plays Reid’s on-screen boyfriend. The new album 'Californian Soil' is out now

“I’ve always loved pop music. Some of my favourite writers and singers are female, many who are younger than me but who are absolutely smashing the pop world with amazing songs. This song started off as an experiment and ended up being one of my favourites on the record. Along with our alternative side, this creates a light and shade on our album that I’ve always wanted to achieve.”

— Hannah Reid

Andy Stott - Hard To Tell

A film by Rebecca Salvadori. 'Hard To Tell' is taken from Andy Stott's new album 'Never The Right Time', released via Modern Love on April 16th 2021.

Gaspard Augé - Force Majeure

Look who is back. The one half of Justice - Gaspard Augé (now I’m 99% sure they were Daft Punk) has just released his solo debut “Force Majeure”

Modeselektor - WORK

“Created in an unforgiving year, “Work” became a refuge, a place to find solace from the outside world. The inescapable thump of Modeselektor’s “Extended” left me embodying mundane tasks so intensely that not only did these tasks become important but their original purpose was forgotten, the “doing” more significant than any result. I rediscovered the intention of simple tasks to create my reality without regard to any past. I structured “Work” in a way that asks the performer not to “perform”, but to drench themselves in a state of process. By fully embodying each task I find myself in a minefield of emotion. “Work” is an exorcism of boredom in both its creation and in its practice. One will undoubtedly reflect and feel different from before it all began.... again + again... from a lonely pew.”

— Corey Scott-Gilbert

Corey Scott-Gilbert - artistic director, performance
Krsn Brasko - film & creative director
Tobias Staab - creative director
Modeselektor - music

Sufjan Stevens - Mediations

Sufjan Stevens has shared the first volume of his new album Convocations. The 10-song suite called Mediations is available to stream now

Convocations was written and recorded as Sufjan’s grieved over the death of his biological father, who passed away just two days after the musician released “The Ascension” last autumn. Each volume — Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations — finds Sufjan exploring a different aspect of loss, taking listeners through “mourning, healing, and catharsis.”