View Panda Palm bio here The Manchester-based duo Panda Palm takes you on an eclectic psychedelic and funky journey through different continents, times and atmospheres. Informed by the world music nights their collective Me Gusta has been putting on for the past two years and the new Me Gusta sister night...
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By now, you’d already know that we don’t like charts, ranks or hierarchies. So, of course, we have compiled a list of our favourite albums of the year (next to songs and videos), but more than a ranking, we prefer to call our choices a “music guide to 2018”. To...
An evening hosted by Flying Lotus and his consequent record label: Brainfeeder. The event is said to be a brand new 3D experience alongside Flying Lotus’s live electronic composition and producing. That wasn’t big enough for Lotus, so they added the best variety from the label’s own: experimental funk jazz...
“This is a mix I made after many months of listening to this genre. Organic sounds mixed with electronic beats. Textures, sounds, extractions and sample manipulations. As I say, it’s digital folk on steroids. Tracks from Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, Denmark, and more.” (Iñaki Martinez) Track list: Moglebaum – Synthie & Roma...
Event Review: Africa Now @ OGR (Turin, Italy; Saturday 22nd September to Thursday 18th October 2018)
In recent years, Turin has gained quite a reputation in the music world for its electronic/dance-oriented scene, being the host city of Italy’s largest electronic music festival, Club to Club. Nevertheless, the city has much more to offer, with new upcoming events and festivals popping up year after year. One of them is...
DakhaBrakha means ‘give/take’ in the old Ukrainian language. And it’s true, we see a real ‘give and take’ with the band’s influences – taking Ukrainian folk music and putting their own unique and theatrical spin on it. Often accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, their music...
Although the London music scene might have to wait just over a month for the Jazz Festival, , there’s something just as jazzy and exciting coming up in the capital in the next few days. We are talking about the sixth edition of the London Latin Jazz Festival, an event...
Identity and spirituality in the digital age are the themes of the two multi-media performances that artists Aïsha Devi and Pan Daijing will present at the Barbican Centre on Sunday 7th October. ‘Aetherave’ sees the Asian Dope Boys dancers interpret Aisha Devi’s electronic sounds, influenced by her Nepalese-Tibetan heritage and...
![Preview: Ryoji Ikeda @ Barbican Centre [London; Sunday 30th September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ryoki-ikeda-335x188.jpg)
Sound artist Ryoji Ikeda returns to the Barbican Centre on Sunday 30th September to present a whole new show divided into two sections. Music for Percussion sees Ikeda, alongside Swiss collective Eklekto, experimenting with handclaps, crotales, cymbals and triangles, playing them in unconventional ways to create the impression of electronic music...
For his latest album Konoyo, due for release on 28th September on American independent label Kranky, sound artist Tim Hecker has collaborated with members of the Tokyo Gakuso ensemble, a group of gagaku musicians founded in 1978. Gagaku, i.e. the traditional classical music of Japan performed for centuries at the...
