Beehype

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BeehypeScenesNorway: Andreas Rotevatn – “Mellom saltvatn og sola” LP Norwegian trombonist, singer and composer Andreas Rotevatn, together with his band, offers us a dazzling prog-pop-jazz-dance symphony.

10.31

BeehypeScenesSudan: Sulaf – “ABA” (ابّ ا.) LP Nubian tradition meets contemporary production and memories of old Sudan on a magnificent new album by Sulaf. “How do we carry yesterday’s Sudan into tomorrow?

10.22

BeehypeScenesBelgium: Jennifur – “MAZDA” LP Belgian producer Jennifur seamlessly bridges ambient electronica, UK bass rhythms, indie rock textures, and touches of classical arrangement into an almost visual journey.

10.06

BeehypeScenesTürkiye/Denmark: Hilal Kaya – “Sümbül” Deeply rooted in Turkish folk music, Hilal Kaya beautifully blends it with jazz, rock, and psychedelic elements. Let me introduce you to Hilal Kaya.

09.23

BeehypeScenesJapan: CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN – “Synthetic 海岸” LP Tropical textures, polyrhythms, vintage Latin-Caribbean percussions, synthesizers, and everyday field recordings – CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN create music that is bright, playful, and deeply…

09.09

BeehypeScenesNew Zealand: Sheep, Dog & Wolf – “Ceiling Waves” LP “Ceiling Waves” trades in intricate compositional arrangements and unashamed emotional depth. An album for the good times, the bad, and everything in between.

08.18

BeehypeScenesArgentina: Juana Sallies – “Ancora” Blending orchestral arrangements with subtle electronic beats, Argentinian musician Juana Sallies evokes the depths of the ocean.

08.03

BeehypeScenesJapan: んoon – “Zoo” LP Drawing from a wide range of musical genres — including R&B, funk, jazz, bossa nova, classical and electronica — んoon created their own unique sound. Distant, beautiful memories, a variety of sounds.

07.02

BeehypeScenesSlovakia: Katarzia – “Pozvi ma, neprídem” LP Sincere and outspoken, new album from singer-songwriter Katarzia offers a variety of moods, beats and vocal techniques.

06.30

BeehypeScenesBelgium/Albania: Gala Dragot – “twerking music” LP From The Voice Kids over Eurosong to experimental dark jazzy music, it’s not your average career path. It is the road that 20-year-old Gala Dragot is on right now, though.

06.25

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.