New Arrivals

  • Ikonika, Dckhdbtch
  • A Made Up Sound, Alarm/Crisis
  • Kabale Und Liebe, Since You Looked Into My Eyes
  • Pale Sketcher, Can I Go Now (Gone Version)
  • Mano Le Tough, Oblique
  • Shed, The Traveller
  • Unknown, Oops
  • Fabrice Lig, Digital Forest
  • LWE Podcast 20: Stefan Goldmann retires this week
  • DOTW: Pale Sketcher, Can I Go Now (Donnacha Costello Remix)

LWE Monthly Archives

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Author Archive: Jordan Rothlein

Cooly G, Up In My Head/Phat Si

Cooly G’s latest for Hyperdub, Up In My Head/Phat Si, is perhaps also her greatest.

Curator’s Cuts 10: Jordan Rothlein

LWE staff writer Jordan Rothlein mixed together Curator’s Cuts 10. We will post the tracklist later in the week, as each curator discloses and describes the tracklist as part of the podcast.

BBH: Soft House Company, What You Need…

Although Soft House Company’s 1990 single “What You Need…” feels like a New York house anthem its Italian origins are what make it so special.

Mount Kimbie, Crooks & Lovers

Mount Kimbie’s Crooks & Robbers is a quirky little electronic album from a group whose beauty sneaks up on you, and whose poetry maybe isn’t readily apparent on your first bus ride.

Digital Mystikz, Return II Space

Mala, producing sans Coki as Digital Mystikz, has cast what could be the purest dubstep of the last few years — if not the purest dubstep imaginable at this point — in the form of Return II Space.

Al Tourettes & Appleblim, Lipsmacker

Appleblim and Al Tourettes’ first single of all original material lands on Will Saul’s Aus Music imprint a little off balance.

V/A, Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa

The Limpopo-based head of Nozinja Music Productions recently had his greatest hits from 2006-2009 lovingly compiled by Mark Ainley of Honest Jon’s in London and Mark Ernestus of Hard Wax — on Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa, and the music contained therein seems destined to cause unrest amongst their usual clients.

Ben Klock, Berghain 04

Ostgut Ton has always been about placing techno and house above the fray, and that’s precisely where Berghain 04 is simmering. Ben Klock has given us a commercial-free statement on techno executed artfully.

LWE 2Q Reports: Top 5 Albums

So in the last six months, why have I, in my capacity as a dance music writer, been pitching reviews of dance albums week in and week out? I think it’s because I’ve noticed something funny happening with dance music albums.