Tracks of 2019 Series: Electronic Pop – An End of Year Independent Music Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify

If you’re into your genres that coalesce around the broad term Electronic Pop — synthpop, downtempo pop, independent R&B, Balearic, chillwave, lounge, soft rock, nu-disco, neo-funk, neo soul + beats and hip-hop influences — and want to hear the best that 2019 had to offer, the 900 or so fine musical exhibits we’ve playlisted during […]
RECORD REVIEW: KOKOKO! (DRC/FRA) – FONGOLA (ALBUM OF THE WEEK)

Fongola (The Key) is the debut album from DIY electronic and experimental quintet KOKOKO!. Made up of four Congolese artists, Makara Bianko, Dido Oweke, Boms Bomolo and Love Lokombe and veteran French artist/producer Xavier Thomas aka Débruit, they form just part of a wider 70 member DIY arts collective from the Ngwaka and Lingwala neighbourhoods […]
SO CRATES, ALNITAK KID & MC NELSON DIALECT COME TOGETHER FOR SUNSET CITIES SINGLE; LISTEN TO “BLACK TAPES”

“The record follows the cycle of the sun, no beginnings and no endings, just answers to this and many other questions using the voice, the drum and the body electric. When was the last time you watched the sunset?” Bandcamp. One of our most loved Australian labels Bedroom Suck Records are the home of the […]
RECORD REVIEW: DJ KOZE (GER) – KNOCK KNOCK

Earlier this month abstract DJ/producer/artist and Hamburg native Stefan Kozalla aka DJ Koze, released his sprawling new album Knock Knock, an artistic journey that invokes a kaleidoscope of feelings and emotions. His hypnotic yet restless creations have a smidge of the familiar about them but if you don’t feel a certain affinity and sense of […]