“soft”, the new album from dan bodan, is a rose-scented journey through millennial love issues, soundcloud collage, and post-empire paranoia. co-produced with physical therapy and ville haimala (renaissance man) and featuring m.e.s.h., 18+, great skin, latisha faulkner, dena yago, and stadium. the vinyl lp includes a downloadcode.

from the underground of stavanger norway one could expect some serious filth and crunch, but ullis tapes issues two soft, gentle and almost slick house tracks with bubling acidic melodies and pads on the a (with tom ace from club no-no 3) and lengthy slow chorded lullaby house on the b feat. bejjer.

sam wilkes and jacob mann from la

exile began his musical career in 2000, releasing drum & bass on labels such as beta and moving shadow, but as the years progressed, his sound started to become more complicated and abstract. this was mostly due to his obsession with the reaktor software, which enabled him to spend much of his time creating new and interesting sounds from scratch. his debut full-length, 2006s pro agonist, saw him add elements of breakcore to his constantly mutating yper-breakbeats, but that gradual change in style is nothing compared to the total departure that hes taken on listening tree. long-term fans may be shocked to know that listening tree is peppered with exiles own vocal tracks, as he tackles issues such as britains buy-now-pay-later culture, and even the dynamic nature of the universe on family galaxy, the first single. >family galaxy< is about the constant process of change that underpins everything, explains exile. its a tale from a thingless world where nothing stays the same. as now shines its shifting shades on then, so our ideas of what we have done and will do continually morph.the result is an eccentric electro-pop album that is just as likely to appeal to fans of hot chip as it is otto von schirach