Release’s Mike Whyte has returned from this year’s Sonar Festival in Barcelona, a celebration of innovative electronic music. Read his reports and watch his photos. [more...]

In one of the strangest-but-true news stories for a while, it appears electronica band LCD Soundsystem are indeed previewing their new album “American Dream” from an ice cream truck. [more...]

Orbital have reformed for the inaugural Electronic Music Awards, held in Los Angeles, USA last night (21st September). [more...]

Björk has released a new single named “The Gate” co-produced by Arca. It’s available in digital formats and as a one-sided 12″ vinyl record. [more...]

Carbon Based Lifeforms are a really experienced duo of Swedish ambient music producers. The pair, Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Segerstad, have been making music together since 1996, and recently released their latest studio album “Derelicts” on the Finnish label Blood Music, known for their extreme metal. Mike Whyte talked to the duo about the story behind the album, influences, and threw in a couple of cheeky questions along the way.

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According to FACT magazine, and mentioned by the NME, it may be possible that Björk actually has unreleased tracks recorded with members of the Wu Tang Clan. [more...]

LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz, Ólafur Arnalds, Laurent Garnier and Richie Hawtin have been announced amongst the first wave of acts for what is set to be a huge 25th anniversary line-up for Sonar. [more...]

London writer Mike Whyte lists his favorites from 2017. [more...]

Jack Dangers returns this month with a new Meat Beat Manifesto album called “Impossible Star”. [more...]

Though the Grammys 2018 featured all of the acts you might typically consider as winners of such awards, there were actually, and maybe surprisingly, some Release-worthy winners. [more...]