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  • After a series of promising singles, one of which made an appearance on last year’s favorite singles list, electronic pop duo Purity Ring have announced their debut album. The LP, which will be titled Shrines, is slated for a July 24 release via 4AD and Last Gang. It will

  • GRAPES EP by RL Grime Despite the tongue-in-cheek name, RL Grime delivers the real deal when it comes to simple, straightforward, electronic bangers. The opening track on his new Grapes EP says it all with lumbering bass kicks, trap music-inspired snares, and numerous layers of buzzing synths. Stream the Grapes

  • Mystify by XXYYXX Floridian producer XXYYXX just dropped his self-titled mixtape a couple of weeks ago, but the beat maker is already at it again with a new EP. Titled Mystify, the release features six lucid, off-kilter beats that would sound right at home among the Brainfeeder crew, as well

  • A video from the forthcoming Rarebit album, Daizo. It’s been released this week on Non Projects. Rarebit is the pseudonym of electronic music producer and composer Justin Hopkins, and his latest release has a concept that can’t be caught by listening to a single song. The album is

  • With a spunky house beat and busy footwork snares and claps, electronic music producer Romare builds a solid backdrop for a slew of samples related to African music. I say related because some of the clips here, and some aren’t. There’s a nice flute riff here, and a

  • A stream of the third Scuba album, Personality. The album is dropping this week via Hotflush, and strikes me as being much less ambient and spacious than the project’s last album, Triangulation. And that’s fine with me, because the rhythms on this album are pretty driving and engaging.

  • I’m not single. I actually haven’t been single for around three years now. Still, this new beat from xxyyxx still brings out those “forever alone” feelings everybody’s had at one point or another. A beautiful and pitch-shifted vocal sample loops against a beat that’s interesting for