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L'Eclair explain, “‘Excelsior” was one of the first tracks we wrote after the release of Cloud Drifter. Post album release, we were motivated to push toward a new sound—something sharper and more direct, finally bringing the raw, wild energy of our live shows together with our modern approach to production. That’s how ‘Excelsior’ was born. It’s the fastest L’Eclair song to date and pays homage to a main influence of ours: dub music. We took the classic stepper rhythm and made it our own, layering in 303s, fuzzed-out guitars, and a cinematic bridge that keeps building and shifting until the very end. For us, the track feels like a manifesto: L’Eclair is back, with a new sound built to hit harder, travel further, and fill bigger rooms.”Growing up in Bulgaria in the late 1990s, the Lilov brothers were shaped in a myriad of unseen ways by the centuries-old folk music that filtered through their daily lives. It helped mold their creative spirit and inspired them to begin making noise together at a young age, and that unique and intuitive creative alchemy hFas been a foundation of guitarist/keyboardist Stef and drummer Yavor’s band L’Eclair since they formed it in their adopted home of Switzerland a decade ago.Echo is self produced by the brothers and as ever, L’Eclair occupy their own peculiar corner of the dance floor, where hypnotic repetition gives way to unexpected detours, locked-in rhythms collide with warped electronics, and vintage textures meet a distinctly modern sense of space. The result is another playful, exploratory chapter from a band that has spent the better part of a decade proving that groove can be both a destination and a way of getting wonderfully lost.
For nearly a decade, Melbourne's Mildlife have built a reputation as one of modern psychedelic music's most compelling live acts. Blending cosmic jazz, space disco, Krautrock, psychedelic funk and vintage electronics, the quartet transform concert halls, clubs and festivals into immersive, ever-evolving performances driven by instinct, improvisation and deep-pocket groove.
"Live On Earth "distills performances from across Canada, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States into a panoramic live album. Rather than documenting a single performance, it condenses a year on the road into one seamless journey, where familiar compositions stretch, mutate and breathe, each performance shaped by the chemistry between band, room and audience.
More than a live album, "Live On Earth" bottles the electricity of seeing Mildlife at their most expansive. A celebration of rhythm, movement and collective intuition, it is both a travelogue and a time capsule, capturing not only where the band has been, but what happens whenever four musicians and a room full of strangers surrender to the same irresistible pulse.
Jimmy Edgar returns with “CLUMSY,” a glitch-hop collision of warped electronics, fractured rhythms, and off-kilter energy, featuring the unmistakable presence of Ripparachie. Built around twitchy production and a deliberately unpredictable groove, the track finds Edgar pushing hip-hop’s rhythmic vocabulary into stranger, more futuristic territory. Ripparachie’s vocals add another layer of personality to the track, matching its playful instability and giving “CLUMSY” a distinctly chaotic charm. It’s a sharp, weird, and infectious new cut from one of electronic music’s most consistently adventurous producers.
Gelli Haha performed live in studio on KEXP recently. Watch it live up above.