Since 1991 Daniele Benati has been the singer, guitarist and producer of the Ridillo group. The first things Bengi wrote and produced for TV were the theme songs for Turisti, Velisti per caso and Misteri per caso broadcast on Rai, Wedding Planners, Wonder Stories and Celebrity Now for Sky.

Alta Ripa signifies a seismic shift in Ben Lukas Boysen's artistic journey. It revisits the foundational impulses of his youth, shaped amidst the serene beauty of rural Germany—a bucolic backdrop where his creative palette flourished. However, it was his move to Berlin in the early 2000s that electrified his sound, infusing it with the city’s pulsating energy and diverse cultural influences. Alta Ripa captures this transformative experience, blending the introspective melodies of his rural beginnings with the bold, experimental tones born from Berlin’s vibrant electronic music scene. This album is a testament to Boysen’s evolution, showcasing how geographical shifts can profoundly shape artistic expression.

Versailles 400 was a unique hybrid artistic creation specifically crafted by Jean-Michel Jarre to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Château de Versailles. On December 25, 2023, the concert-event became an opportunity for the musician, widely hailed as the Godfather of Electronic Music, to celebrate contemporary French innovation while bridging the past to the future through his innovative approach to spectacular live events. The event took place in a location that had been the origin of an incredible artistic revolution, paying homage to the grand royal festivities that had marked the history of the world-famous Château de Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Our new remix EP 'Take Sides' is OUT NOW. Featuring tracks from #AsTheLoveContinues, remixed and reworked by The Other Two Official (Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert from New Order), IDLES and Alessandro Cortini.

Caterina Barbieri somehow recalls both Laurie Spiegel and Lorenzo Senni on her staggering debut album for Editions Mego, with ‘Ecstatic Computation’ yielding her most striking and accessible experiments in pointedly explorative synthesis.

Daniel Lopatin reclaims the uncanny sorcery of 'Garden of Delete' on 'Again', evanescing divergent styles into an unashamedly pompous roil of vapor-damaged harpsichord twangs, bombastic synth-prog workouts, damaged emo-pop, computer-controlled avant minimalism and fractal ambience. He's back.

Originally, this was not a Cosmic Jokers album, but rather a sampler to promote various releases from Kosmische Musik, the record label ran by Jokers mastermind Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. With a track taken from each of the other four Cosmic Jokers releases, as well as from Ash Ra Tempel's Starring Rosi and Seven-Up, Wallenstein's Cosmic Century, and Walter Wegmüller's Tarot, which all included some members of the Jokers, it's not too far off to consider this with other Cosmic Jokers releases.

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.

'NEOSTALGIA', a collaboration between Heiko Maile and Julian Demarre on Bureau B.

About ‘Deus Arrakis‘ Klaus Schulze says: „On the one hand this album was created as spontaniously as all my albums before, on the other hand it has a special history: when I produced my eleventh album ‘Dune‘ in 1979 I already knew the ‘Dune‘ triology by Frank Herbert inside out like other people knew their ‘Lord of the Rings‘. I was totally fascinated by this monumental story of the desert planet und I read the books over and over again. I asked Arthur (Brown) and Wolfgang (Tiepold) to come to my studio and started creating my own musical ‘Dune‘…“

JB Dunkel is one half of the pioneering French band Air, who are currently on a world tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their seminal album Moon Safari. Blending powerful electronics, percussion, and mixed choir, the album mimics the power of dance, movement, and acrobatics - as the score to the ballet Möbius Morphosis, commissioned for this years’ Cultural Olympiad.

KASHIWA Daisuke's 10th original album, "Ice," is set for an early release on Bandcamp on June 29 (general release on July 20). The album is based on the concept of emphasizing clear melodies and is a work that pursues expression through melody. It features songs with beautiful melodies played in various styles.

Harmonic Divergence is the perfect companion piece to Steven Wilson’s highly acclaimed 2023 album The Harmony Codex. On this very limited nine track release, music from the original album has been remixed and reimagined by Wilson, alongside longtime bandmates/collaborators and like-minded bands and producers. The result is a warped mirror image of the original, where oblique electronics are replaced by spidery gothic guitar riffs and cyclical piano tracks are mutated and transformed for the dance floor.

We’ve always been careful not to call Balmat an ambient label, because we like having the freedom to move, to drift, to morph. But with our 11th release, we turn our ears—proudly, blissfully—to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw’s Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under a number of guises, Earth Trax, as well as his own name. Over the years, he’s touched upon deep house, breakbeats, acid, techno, electro, IDM, and more; often, the throughline running through a given album is simply the refusal to remain in any one place for long—well, that, and his unusually nuanced ear for harmony and texture.

d'Eon is Montreal-based composer / producer Chris d'Eon - Since beginning his musical practice in the 2000s, his unclassifiable catalog has presented us with baroque keyboard performances, digital chamber music, hi-definition beatmaking in the pop and R&B idioms, glitchy abstractions composed with chance operations and digital hyper-fragmentation tactics, and all manner of experiments that attest to his drive to reach the outer limits of eclectic composition.