Put your headphones to the ultimate test with this 100% Hi-Res playlist. Featuring 50 tracks spanning a wide range of musical genres, this selection is designed to evaluate every aspect of immersive listening: crosstalk, dynamics, sound depth, stereo sound, bass, midrange, and treble. Featuring Max Richter, Bat For Lashes, La Pieta & Angèle Dubeau, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Badbadnotgood, Willow, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Rosie Frater-Taylor, John Williams, Has Zimmer, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laura Misch, Massive Attack, Aurora, New Order, Explosions In The Sky, Alicia Keys, M83, Arcade Fire, Radiohead…

Hiroshi Watanabe, a musician, photographer, and DJ from the Japanese electronic scene, based in Saitama near Tokyo, has been a prolific figure for twenty-five years. He has explored most major genres of electronic music through more than twenty albums. He proudly becomes the very first Japanese artist of InFiné.

People On Sunday is an original soundtrack to the 1930 silent film variously known as Menschen am Sonntag, Les Hommes le Dimanche and People On Sunday. The film is a key work of interwar German cinema, based on a screenplay by Billy Wilder.

Vesvese Records debut with Gaye Su Akyol’s long-awaited remix album, in collaboration with electronic music artists all around the world. The project will feature 18 tracks and will be released every three months as an EP.

Silent friend of those far from us, feeling how your breath is still enlarging space, fill the sombre belfry with your pealing. Late Music is pleased to present a new collection of music for chamber ensembles and for solo performers - for organs, strings, trombones, woodwinds, voices, electronics - make the crier’s a choir, we say!

Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced his new album Cascade will be released on 13 September via Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement Shepherd has shared lead single 'Key103' which comes with visuals continuing his ongoing collaboration with Tokyo based artist Akiko Nakayama.

There’s a sense of continuity that runs through the music that San Francisco’s Scott Hansen makes as Tycho. But Weather, his follow-up to 2016’s Epoch, marks a major shift: It’s his first album to feature vocals—not just massaging them into the mix, but setting them front and centre.

Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James return to the electronic roots of his Hessle, Hemlock and R&S Records days.

The history of BBC Maida Vale Sessions is familiar to The Utopia Strong. As musicians, and lifelong music fans, the legacy - the importance - of such recordings is not lost on them. Space and place influence creativity, as is the case here, and the sleeve is a loving homage to those classic BBC releases, affectionately nodding to Strange Fruit Peel Sessions from days of yore.

This Sea Souls album is a deeply personal love letter / psychological dive into the sea. Each piece is inspired by how the sea and the weather reflected my emotions on a particular day in 2020. It was such a turbulent year and each track on this album represents a different snapshot of that time.

This Sea Souls album is a deeply personal love letter / psychological dive into the sea. Each piece is inspired by how the sea and the weather reflected my emotions on a particular day in 2020. It was such a turbulent year and each track on this album represents a different snapshot of that time.

Two years following 2017’s Costero, Slow Meadow returns with its third full-length album Happy Occident, a collection of textured ambient melodies. Fueled by the anxiety derivative of modern life and the frenetic and often uncertain state of these ever-changing times, Happy Occident provides music for reflection. A soundtrack to life’s contemplative moments, and an experience akin to mindfulness meditation.

Sing to emancipate the African woman. A unique encounter between the Bantu lullabies of the Congo, electronic music and hip-hop. A hybrid project which gives pride of place to dance and which highlights the daily life of Congolese women in a daring way and above all connected with the times. Gladys Samba, renowned singer and percussionist, had for years wanted to revive and popularize the lullabies of the Republic of Congo, considered as a true cultural heritage of his region. In 2018, with the help of the Institut Francais du Congo, she succeeded in doing this with the show "Les Mamans du Congo".

The highly anticipated debut album from Franco American conductor / composer / arranger. Uèle Lamore specializes mixing orchestral and acoustic textures with modular, electronic and synthetic elements. Not just affiliated to classical music, she likes to dive into the fields of composition and arranging through many musical styles: electro, new wave, rock, techno, minimal, neo-soul and many more that are left to explore leaving an infinite range of possibilities.

This lot have released 5 x 12”s anonymously over the last 3 years via Hardwax and there’s no info about them anywhere, pretty sneaky. They now land on Mana, a label so esoteric it has a flowchart on its website showing you how to get from Luc Ferrari to Nico Jaar in one short leap.