Enlightened Listening for June 26

I know I'm more than a day late, and while I'm planning to take a few days off from blogging, I've just got to share this week's incredible new releases. Headlining this week's Enlightened Listening is a trio of albums, including Gaspard Augé's genius and epic debut, Escapades, Chromeo's killer live compilation, Date Night, and Unglued's gorgeous galactic liquid jam, Interplanetary Radio. Further standout releases come smack dab in the middle as Canadian outfits Vibrancy and Westwood Recordings bring together a ton of talents in the third edition of the Exhibits compilation series and the I Get Down With Aliens remix package, respectively. Finally, there are three more singular tracks I just have to showcase; they are Fluida's splendiferous "Refuge," voljum's insanely awesome "anemoi," and Robert Smith's remix of his song with CHVRCHES "How Not To Drown." Find those and more via the playlist below and find each individual release linked at the bottom. Have a great weekend. Enjoy!

Gaspard Augé - Escapdes

Fluida - Welcome Home

Chromeo - Date Night: Chromeo Live!

Flight Facilities ft. Channel Tres - Lights Up (Myd Remix)

Badjokes & Tambour Battant - Oui

Various Artists - Vibrancy Presents: Exhibits, Vol. 3

RUMPUS & Kid Enigma - I Get Down With Aliens (Remixes)

Posij - Superlative

Markka - Colours (Stranjah Remix)

Unglued - Interplanetary Radio

voljum - dayscapes

CHVRCHES ft. Robert Smith - How Not To Drown (Robert Smith Remix)

Full, Uncut Interview with Reezy

Recorded May 6th on Zoom, this is my full conversation with Reese Frey, aka Reezy. Topics included: his evolution from basement DJ to Rootin' Tootin' Tech House producer, the importance of groove and the human touch in such an electronic heavy sound, the supportiveness of the Vancouver scene, the struggle of playing to a camera, his love for VIBRANCY (where his LNDN collab is set to be released), receiving support from Dr. Fresch, and what the future holds for Reezy, a fair amount of which you can hear in his episode of My Mixtape which premieres this Saturday, May 15th at 11 PM EDT on Radio Humber. Dig into our full conversation below, and be sure to follow his socials at the bottom.

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Enlightened Listening for April 23

Another week brings another edition of Enlightened Listening. It seems the theme this week is breaks, as the first five releases feature said percussion prominently. More drum mastery follows as Squarepusher and Pusher blast off brilliantly. A bit of reset occurs in the middle as The Chemical Brothers wow with epic single, "The Darkness That You Fear." Riding that reset, a couple exceptional EPs follow as Amtrac & The Juan Maclean combine for Grit and Recondite delivers Bird to Afterlife. Turning to house, Vibrancy shares their sensational second edition of the Exhibits compilation series. Bringing in a bit of soul, Shift K3Y & Tinashe propel the playlist into divine disco vibes from Horse Meat Disco and Prins Thomas. Finally, we close with a gorgeous, groovy joint from Great Good Fine Ok. Stream the weekly new music playlist below, and find each individual release linked at the bottom. 

Bicep - Siena / Meli (I) / Light

Nathan Micay - Industry (Green Light/Fun Night Breaks Mix)

Mr. Sosa - Coco Drums

Aeron Aether - Samsarana

Niteplan - Waiting For You / Hold On

Squarepusher - Theme From Ernest Borgnine

Pusher - I Can't Believe It (ft. Danae Greenfield)

The Chemical Brothers - The Darkness That You Fear

Amtrac & The Juan Maclean - Grit

Recondite - Bird

Various Artists - Vibrancy Presents: Exhibits Vol. 2

Shift K3Y & Tinashe - Love Line

Horse Meat Disco - Love If You Need It (ft. Fi McCluskey)

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)

Great Good Fine Ok - Real

Enlightened Listening for January 22

After what I thought was an incredible haul with last week's Enlightened Listening, this week's harvest is more than three times the size! Of course, there are a few releases we've been building towards here with early singles from Bicep's Isles and Logic1000's You've Got The Whole Night To Go, but there's so much more than that! There are two Tim Reaper EPs, including his fabulous and incredibly hyped (deservingly so) Special Request remix EP. There are two other solo albums as bass legends DC Breaks and Flux Pavilion drop DCXV and .wav, respectively. In other shorter offerings, there are seven incredible EPs from the likes of Kessler, Low Poly, Apashe and Tiefschwarz. On the other side of the spectrum, Afterlife offers up an epic 25 track, nearly three-hour compilation in Unity Pt. 2. Showcasing high octane tech house, Cloverdale's rounded up a half-dozen tracks for his label Vibrancy's first compilation, Exhibits Vol. 1. Rounding things out, there's a handful of singles and remixes, including CamelPhat's take on London Grammar and Undercatt's take on Robert Mills' "Children". Stream the new music playlist below and find each individual release linked at the bottom. Have a great weekend!

Bicep - Isles

Kessler - Ambivalent

Tim Reaper - Teletext

Special Request & Tim Reaper - Special Request & Tim Reaper

S9 - Get It Right

DC Breaks -  DCXV

Low Poly - Dreamstate

Dr Meaker - Atoms

Apashe ft. Tech N9ne - Insane (Remixes)

Flux Pavilion - .wav

London Grammar - Lose Your Head (CamelPhat Remix)

BAILE - Visage

Logic1000 - You've Got The Whole Night To Go

Robert Miles - Children (Undercatt Remix)

Dennis Ferrer & Disciples - Whisper (with James Yuill)

Bob Moses - The Blame (Helsloot Remix)

Tiefschwarz - Dance Tili You Popo #1

Various Artists - Tale Of Us Presents: Unity Pt. 2

Modul Kollektiv & Gespona - Viebar

Various Artists - Vibrancy Presents: Exhibits Vol. 1