And this gem from Appleblim and October as well. A side NY Fizzz is a techy belter, but it's B side dubwise dreamboat Fountains Of Paradise that takes the cake. Priced up like records used to be! Long live Rwd Fwd! rwdfwd.com/products/app...

Lovely to see the Pev and Steevio release on Schmorgasbord back in stock on Rwd Fwd after a chance run in at the pub with Ossia and a box of records, doing bits the Brizzle way. An overlooked release, but definitely stood the test of time. Just listen to this monster: soundcloud.com/schmorgasbor...

Recognise 089: Tasha 🔊 Alongside a set recorded at Open Ground, London underground champ Tasha speaks to Oli Warwick about the peaks and troughs of promoting, her friendship with the late Marcus Intalex, and her Neighbourhood club night's family atmosphere as it turns 15 djmag.com/features/rec...

Ghosted III is on the way, so hyped ambarchiberthlingwerliin.bandcamp.com/album/ghoste...

Proper stuff from @basicchanel.bsky.social on the emergence of psychedelic soundsystem gear in France open.substack.com/pub/untitled...

New review live: exemplary jungle with all the best bits from the best era by an OG legend and true-skool devotee internationalorange.io/liftin-spiri...

Believe me when I say this album is really, really good

This morning's listening: the captivating, brilliantly fraught and frankly nerve-shredding forthcoming album from @capgrasman.bsky.social -- one of the most interesting artists in the ambient-noise-neo-classical field in Tehran. siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/caligo

Lovely morning in Bristol to have a re-spin on Max Graef's stunning IO Mix -- dexterous, psychedelic configurations abound within soundcloud.com/internationa...

New up: recent commentary on support and solidarity movements for Palestine in the electronic music community. Sometimes it's hard to know what to add, so instead we've chosen to gather a few perspectives. Donate, march, shout, listen, boycott. internationalorange.io/standing-up-...

@pkirn.bsky.social's UR post on CDM aligns with Louis Digital's framing around his IOMix. "UR's infrastructure demonstrated music as a mode of mapping social forces in a medium and form that was fundamentally cultural, absolutely social and deadly serious." internationalorange.io/iomix020-uns...

Very pleased to share a beautiful new IO Mix from Sheldon Agwu, an amazing jazz guitarist from London. If you love the intersection between ambient and jazz, downtempo gear and the spiritual stuff, you'll be more than satisfied with this session. internationalorange.io/iomix019-she...

Heads up, Katatonic Silentio just self-released a new mini-album. Must check business, always katatonicsilentio.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

New Clipping. is giving big beat cinema - both the music and the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwI1...

NEWS ON IO - Open Ear festival is back for 2025 internationalorange.io/dame-area-an...

OK so the platform-to-platform shuffle is a little fatiguing, but some useful posting and advice from respected heads points to Mastodon being a better shout long term than this place. We've set up there, hopefully the last relocation for the foreseeable. mastodon.social/@internation...

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Playing on a loop to the grim unfurling of the new regime in the US youtu.be/YE0QqNAMbAA?...

Yeah I'm down ...

Revisiting this gem and remembering it's one of Drexciya's finest moments cloneclassiccuts.bandcamp.com/album/elektr...

Marylou was also kind enough to gift us her frankly mind-frying three-hour set from pe:rsona festival last summer, which now forms the next entry in the IO Mix series. Check it here, every single minute of this is worthy of your attentive ears. soundcloud.com/internationa...

We're kicking off 2025 in fine style with a wonderful new interview with the incredible Marylou, one of the most inspiring DJs making moves in the present moment. Joseph Francis went deep with her on her practice and outlook, up and available to read here: internationalorange.io/marylou-from...

The social media implosion is well underway it seems, and even if these shifts from one platform to the next seem to have diminishing returns, it wouldn't be sad to see the big ones left stewing in their own toxicity

madlib losing his house and record collection to the eaton fire is illustrative of just how large of an archival loss there’s been in LA this past week. definitely won’t be the last www.brooklynvegan.com/madlib-lost-...

Another brilliant, eloquent takedown of Spotify's problems. Could do without Ek's smug grin up top but I guess it sharpens your indignation?

Streaming services like Spotify are the enemy of music culture. "Perhaps Spotify understood... when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures..."

Valentina Magaletti topped the 'drummed on all these sick records this year' chart for the 8th year running

We have the luxury that studios didn't have, which is to collect multiple plates and choose *between* them for different applications. But - why not? Grab this before it expires on Dec 24.

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week harpers.org/archive/2025...

Big ups to @disciples.bsky.social putting out this compilation of deep cuts from Dennis Bovell's archives with their typical attention to detail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGeB...

Still one of my favourite bits of 1983 music www.youtube.com/watch?v=VacG...

Strong recommend for all d&b-thru-dub techno explorers

Tis the season, so here comes IO with its own round-up of some of the great music released this year. No lists, just a meandering attempt to join the dots between scenes on the periphery. Thread will follow in fits and starts to link to everything featured. internationalorange.io/one-route-th...

Has anyone made Donk Side Of The Moon yet?

ICYMI last week - a fresh review up on IO diving into the incredible new soundsystem abstraction from Healing Force Project on Beat Machine internationalorange.io/healing-forc...

ICYMI last week - a fresh review up on IO diving into the incredible new soundsystem abstraction from Healing Force Project on Beat Machine internationalorange.io/healing-forc...

Right in time for the weekend, here's a review of a frankly outrageous dubwise abstraction masterpiece from Healing Force Project on Beat Machine. internationalorange.io/healing-forc...

Lots of people like to post about their nightmare Discogs Marketplace exchanges so here's a refreshing alternative... absolutely taking this cat's advice....

Must read for any Bluesky enthusiasts that doesn’t want to be naive. america2.news/without-sky-...

Highly recommend you check their previous drop on Quindi Records as well...

This one is a real beaut - upsammy never misses. Delicate ambience with movement and detail, soothing / easy on the ears but far from anodyne, it's a real gem

If you're curious about how far a radio show can go into one year, check out The Land Speed Record Department - an obsessive quest to find the best music from 1983 and a delusional musing on the sheer volume of recorded music that exists. 25 hours deep and counting... linktr.ee/the_land_spe...

A great place to keep up with the fine folk working hard to keep record culture alive. Never underestimate the quality of tips from people who spend all day every day with new (or freshly reissued) music.

IO editor Oli Warwick went deep on the craft of one of the most daring, inspiring three-deck vinyl heavyweights in the game -- the mighty Djrum. The art of DJing indeed... ra.co/features/4403

RIP J. Saul Kane - head to Wrongtom's authoritative retrospective mix for an introduction to the man known as Depth Charge, The Octagon Man +++

Mix of the day coming from the mighty k means, in session over the summer at Kiosk Radio in Brussels. soundcloud.com/kioskradio/p...

Monday mornings like this one you just need some smooth AF deep house to lock in and rock you gently... hats off to DaRand Land keeping it classy on Scissor & Thread. Even if you just bump the one preview track it'll serve you well... darandland.bandcamp.com/album/wander...

5 artists in IO's heavy rotation right now: Snakeskin Lyza Jane Healing Force Project ELLLL Brendon Moeller