Audrey Kang from Lightning Bug joins us for episode 3! Each week on WNXP I spin weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house… Continue reading
Welcome to episode 2! Each week on WNXP I spin weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live… Continue reading
Welcome to the very first episode! My new music radio show on WNXP is a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading
Seoul’s late night soul. “whenyougottago” by the Korean outfit Slowdance 슬로우댄스 is a bilingual, experimental indie-soul jam. Love that slow and short-lived transition into doo-wop at 4min… Continue reading
New songs added every Monday. An ongoing playlist of 2024’s very best songs. If you dig leftfield beats, electronic soul, and experimental sounds, you’ll feel right at… Continue reading
Dub meets post-punk meets an experimental trip-hop beat. Nushin Naini (bass, vocals) and Nic Mauskovic (drums, vocals) are the creative force behind Devon Rexi, now expanded to a five-piece… Continue reading
Warm Boards of Canada-esque synth nostalgia meets a fuzzy and relentless garage beat. I’ve been a fan of Winnipeg’s Lhasa Petik ever since I first heard her hushed and… Continue reading
Side note: need to check out this seemingly delicious pie-centric diner. “The most exciting time to make music is right now.” Couldn’t agree more. Words… Continue reading
Jagged breakbeats meet indie-rock guitar pickings. One half of the duo Lewis Del Mar, Nicaraguan-American musician Daniel Noah Miller has released “Typical,” an abrasive yet curiously hopeful new song.… Continue reading
It’s all about those vocal harmonies. “That Sound” is a synth-driven experimental pop-R&B outing from London, UK’s Gan Gemi that reminds me of the sonic sensibilities of Photay and… Continue reading
The best track from an ambitious, eccentric, and endlessly creative new album that defies categorization. Cardiff band Das Koolies is made up of Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce, Cian Ciaran,… Continue reading
We need more of this experimental Americana. “Grow” by the New York City musician Ava McCoy combines banjo pickings, harmonica hums, handclaps, and glitchy drum loops. Ava… Continue reading
An experimental, driving new track from Roberto Carlos Lange. Gently brisk and stirring, “LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)” is designed to awaken. Love when the song suddenly decides… Continue reading
Bulgarian beat brilliance. “Be Here Now,” the latest track from Bulgaria’s Vasil Vutev, otherwise known as Soulization, is an intricate and precise future R&B cut with brightly colored synths,… Continue reading
“1, 2, 3, 4…” With its centrifugal beat and pleading guitar lick, “Barley” by the experimental art-pop duo Water From Your Eyes is relentless and hypnotic. Water… Continue reading
New songs added every Monday. An ongoing playlist of 2023’s very best music. If you dig leftfield beats, electronic soul, and experimental sounds, you’ll feel right at… Continue reading
A new project from Phil Swan (guitar) and former Fiction frontman Mike Barrett (vocals, keys). Phil and Mike have worked together previously in outfits such as Brand New Moon… Continue reading
It’s all about that sax and those synth swerves. New track “Hiwave” from Melbourne, Australia’s Cy Gorman is a lazy river of experimental jazz and spacious R&B slumbers. … Continue reading
Melody’s Echo Chamber meets Dusty Springfield. “星星 (Stars)” from Brooklyn duo Chinese American Bear is an ethereal and experimental indie-pop journey that draws from the best musical elements of… Continue reading
Can’t believe we get three of my favorite music makers on one track. I’ve been a fan of London’s Greentea Peng ever since she released the trippy, hallucinogenic future… Continue reading
In honor of the legendary jazz trumpeter. Philadelphia poet, rapper, and experimental musician Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother has teamed up with Swedish producer Olof Melander to create an… Continue reading
Currently experiencing waves of experimental French pop sounds on this new single from New Zealand’s Aldous Harding. Love that piano paired with those vocals. (Oh, and also… Continue reading
LCD Soundsystem and !!! meet Liquid Liquid in Leeds. “Free Advice” is a freeform disco rollercoaster from the Yorkshire seven-piece that sonically encourages all who hear it to try… Continue reading
Updated every Monday. An ongoing playlist of 2022’s very best music. If you dig leftfield beats, electronic soul, and experimental sounds, you’ll feel right at home. … Continue reading
Eclectic brilliance from Lisbon, Portugal. “Little Season I” is a collision of leftfield electronic experimentalism and orchestral European pop from the Portuguese musician, composer, arranger, and producer Bruno Pernadas… Continue reading
Show number 34! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Show number 33! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Hushed, meandering experimental folk from Melbourne, Australia. Love how the guitars slowly morph from nylon acoustic pickings into slow electrified flashes. Snowy – “Whatever You Want” … Continue reading
Show number 32! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Show number 31! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Show number 30! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Show number 29! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
You gotta go easy on yourself sometimes. Very into the kaleidoscopic saunter of the freeform, joyous experimentalism of “Sometime” by Oakland’s Tune-Yards, the musical project of Merrill Garbus with collaborator… Continue reading
The energy wave we need right now. “Two Face” is an immediately enticing blend of anything-goes experimental jazz from Brooklyn’s Taja Cheek, otherwise known as L’Rain. Love… Continue reading
Show number 28! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
Show number 27! LOOPS + DOTS is my monthly two-hour radio show on Dublab in Los Angeles. It’s everything I’m into right now in the worlds of… Continue reading
A recommended gem of a radio show. I’m a regular listener to Mike D’s Apple Music 1 show, The Echo Chamber. This is… Continue reading
Updated every Monday. An ongoing playlist of 2021’s very best music. If you dig the leftfield beats, electronic soul, and experimental sounds of artists like SAULT,… Continue reading
Lauren Kinsella and Chris Hyson are Snowpoet, a London-based experimental jazz duo who sound like Bjork meeting the Cinematic Orchestra meeting Portico Quartet meeting Bjork again. Snowpoet – “Roots”… Continue reading
Anna Palmer, Beth Bellis, Stella Roberts, Meesha Fones, and Euan Palmer are Dorcha, a leftfield experimental pop quintet from Birmingham, UK. “Horses” is my favorite song from the band,… Continue reading
Nashville’s answer to Khruangbin. Less concerned with delving into the history of Thai funk than their Texan counterparts, The Donelson Broncos create airy, starry-skied instrumental jams that fit… Continue reading
Ain’t this great. On her latest song “Ain’t So,” London’s JGrrey fuses 00s R&B beat patterns with 60s Motown soul melodies diced with 90s vinyl scratches and laced with a… Continue reading
Very much into this new single from LA vocalist and producer Genevieve Artadi. “Hot Mess” is a happily melancholic, lighter-than-air, Stereolab-ish experimental pop composition that fuses jazz electronics with… Continue reading
Show number 20! For LOOPS + DOTS this month I had a chat with Brooklyn-via-Seattle experimental jazz musician Kassa Overall over Zoom outside a Starbucks in Queen Anne, Seattle. … Continue reading
Extremely heartened to hear this new batch of songs from one of the best duos in experimental indie-pop-soul. Now based in Bristol (and no longer wearing facial coverings that… Continue reading
Eclecticity. A delicate yet driving experimental invention by lead singer Rahm Silverglade, bassist Jesse Bielenberg, guitarist Mike Haldeman, and drummer Dillon Treacy, otherwise known as the New York quartet altopalo.… Continue reading
Amour pop. I’m a big fan of this one. “Discipline” is the latest song by the Parisian quintet Biche. Come for the Stereolab-ish DIY playful… Continue reading
Show number 16! Welcome to 2020. We’re back with another special all-music mix for LOOPS + DOTS episode 16! Gems in the leftfield beats, electronic… Continue reading
2020, we’re here. Already starting this year strong with the Brooklyn-via-Seattle experimental jazz visionary Kassa Overall and his vibe-heavy (in every sense of the word) cut “Please Don’t Kill… Continue reading
2. 0. 1. 9. Here are my favorite one hundred tracks from this year. (Click on the artist or track title to read… Continue reading
