Forest Swords: on the edge
Nostalgia, Morricone and dub with the man responsible for Dagger Paths, 2010′s most impressive debut LP
Oriol: another travelling song
Barcelona-born artist responsible for some of the year’s sunniest music lets us in on his background
Pariah: through the prism
Newly signed R&S producer talks sadness, nostalgia and the terrifying concept of safe houses
LHF: keepers of the light
Shedding light on the mysterious dubstep collective, whose debut EP is one of the year’s best
Dokkebi Q: Dalston imperfections
Meet Gorgonn and King Midas Sound vocalist Hitomi’s idiosyncratic noise-pop project
Washed Out: leisure time, all the time
The 26-year-old whose Life of Leisure has been our summer soundtrack talks chillwave and Tangerine Dream
Nikka: under the microscope
Talking food science and universal harmony with the up-and-coming sound artist
FunkinEven: organised confusion
Meet the funky alchemist of Alexander Nut’s Eglo label and Roisin Murphy’s newest collaborator
TBA: process music
Natalie Beridze on her collaborations with Thomas Brinkmann and why music is wasted on politics
Lorn: it came from the ether
With his debut album due out this month, meet the “creepy cousin” in Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder family
Glasser: court and spark
Life, the universe and Joni Mitchell with LA’s Glasser, who will release her debut LP on Matador/True Panther this year
Pursuit Grooves: groove accordingly
Vanese Smith, the New York singer and producer behind this year’s sublime Fox Trot Mannerisms, on Tectonic
Burn One & Starlito: renaissance gangsters
Meet the rapper / producer duo behind the Southern hip-hop album of the year so far
Zerkalo: the mirror crack’d
Investigating Victoria Lukas’s edritch collaboration with Dopplereffekt’s Heinrich Mueller
Flotilla: plain sailing
Our latest Alpha-ville festival hook-up is an exclusive podcast from, and interview with, South London’s Flotilla
Toro y Moi: cause and effect
The unwitting poster-boy of chillwave talks about Dilla, folk music and putting himself through hell
Time travellin’ with Fatima
Eglo Records’ first lady gives us the skinny on her gorgeous new EP and her desire to travel back to the ’70s
Sleigh Bells: keep heads ringin’
Signed to M.I.A’s label, the Florida duo talk touring with Major Lazer and their debut album, Treats, out last week
Minotaur Shock: taking the bull by the horns
Talking dadstep and The-Dream with the latest contributor to FACT and Alpha-ville’s podcast and interview series
Get Shamanistic: inside Kingdom’s royale sound
The man behind ‘Mind Reader’ talks bassline, booty and “spiritual, shamanistic club music”
