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Our staff has selected the best releases of April! This time we faced a rather pleasant challenge: the initial longlist included over 60 titles. A clear sign that electronic music is more alive and thriving than ever. After careful curation, we narrowed it down to 10 standout releases. As in our previous roundup, we’ve once again included a timeless masterpiece that finally sees a physical reissue after more than two decades: Gravity by Monolake.

» Purchase link & reviews: https://palpebrae.com/staff-picks-april-2025/

☉ Barker - Stochastic Drift [ @smalltownsupersound ]
☉ Vanity Productions & Lundin Oil - Forever United [ @northernelectronics ]
☉ Unknown Artist - Cool Like That EP [ @fokuzrecordings ]
☉ Floid & W92 - Dookuzot [ @omenwapta ]
☉ Brainwave Research Center - Psychic Antenna [ @riolabel ]
☉ 30 Years : Sonic Groove [ @sonic-groove-records ]
☉ Ash Fure - Animal [ @smalltownsupersound ]
☉ Khotin - Peace Portal [Khotin Industries]
☉ ASC - Undercurrents [ Auxiliary music ]
☉ [Remastered] Monolake - Gravity [@fieldrecords]

Reviews

Staff Picks [April 2025]

Pitchfork's Best New Music - 2

2025

Sonido experimental

Spotishine - 8

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Yung Bleu & H.E.R. - Tired Of You

EU TOUR DATES 2017:

All Tour Tickets - www.mountkimbie.com/live

27/10: Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool, UK
28/10: Ritz, Manchester, UK
30/10: Glasgow Art School, UK
01/11: The Institute, Birmingham, UK
02/11: Motion, Bristol, UK
03/11: Roundhouse, London, UK
04/11: AB, Brussels, Belgium
05/11: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
07/11: Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway
08/11: Kagelbanan, Stockholm, Sweden
09/11: Vega, Copehagen, Denmark
10/11: Astra, Berlin, Germany
11/11: Niebo, Warsaw, Poland
12/11: Kwadra, Krakow, Poland
14/11: Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
15/11: Flex, Vienna, Austria
16/11: Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
17/11: Mascotte, Zurich, Switzerland
18/11: Magnolia, Milan, Italy
19/11: Cabaret Aleatoire, Marseille, France
21/11: Rockstore, Montpellier, France
22/11: Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
23/11: Joy Eslava, Madrid, Spain
24/11: Atabal, Biarritz, France
25/11: Le Trianon, Paris, France
28/11: Grand Mix, Lille, France

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The DJ Koze remix of Mount Kimbie's 'Made to Stray' appears on the 'CSFLY Remixes' EP, released October 28 (29 in North America) on Warp Records. The limited edition 12" and digital download are available from,

'Made to Stray' originally appears on the album 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth' released in May 2013.

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CSFLY Remixes

Made To Stray (DJ Koze Remix)

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A couple of days ago Pascal Schmidt aka Pascís told our editor Sarah Schlifter how he turned into a DJ and music producer after professional skateboarding and an employment as Marketing and Sales Manager. Besides his time for the interview, the 31-year-old offered us one of his tracks titled “Stranger”. Now, the Cologne DJ’s second track is due: “Come Again”. “The track has been released on a limited DerSuperMarkt/Kompakt vinyl compilation only. There hasn’t been a digital release (so far)”, says Pascís.

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Wie Pascal Schmidt alias Pascís - @pascis_music - vom ehemaligen professionellen Skateboardfahrer, über Marketing- und Salesmanager bei einem großen Sportartikelhersteller zum Auflegen und Produzieren von elektronischer Musik kam, erzählte er unserer Redakteurin Sarah Schlifter vor einigen Tagen im Interview. Neben seinen Antworten bot der 31-Jährige seinen Track “Stranger” als Free Download bei uns an. Nun folgt ein zweites Stück des Kölners: "Come Again". "Die Nummer ist bis dato nur auf einer limitierten Vinyl-Compilation von DerSuperMarkt/Kompakt erschienen. Digital gab es (bisher) noch keinen Release", so Pascís.

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Pascís - Come Again

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Adam Pits - Grounded EP 

A1 Schtoopbloop
A2 Tiptoe
B1 Tiptoe (Konduku remix) 
B2 Grounded

Adam Pit’s Grounded EP sees the space•lab favourite exploring deeper, techno-inspired terrains. Opening track, ‘Schtoopbloop’ traces mystical synth lines and expansive vocals, underpinned by a satisfyingly substantial, driving baseline. Track two, ‘Tiptoe’, enters Pits’ iconic breaksy palette - equal parts dreamy and slick, this is the wipeout soundtrack for the next century. On the flipside, Konduku dips his toe into remix duties, offering up a shimmering, spiralling rework of the original. Finally, closing up the release, title track ‘Grounded’ growls into view, rising from sub-heavy foundations into dubby, treacle-speed sounds.

The digital EP is now on sale: https://spacelab.bandcamp.com/album/grounded-ep

Grounded EP (SL010)

Adam Pits - Grounded EP (SL010)

Club classics / B2b

Club classics

Throb, shiver, arrow of time

Radiocello

One Day

Sugar Snot

a pool, a portal

ways of being (feat. Mabe Fratti)

Nutrition EP

Disig

MIKE- YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WATCHING ($LOWED)

SOS Deluxe: LANA

What Do I Do

No More Hiding

Kitchen

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

NUEVAYoL

##MOTIONMUZIK

pornstar

Reframing

Stochastic Drift

The Remembering Self

Force of Habit

Difference And Repetition

Positive Disintegration

New World, Lonely Ride

Sun Morning Sun

JISOO — earthquake

MIKE - Lost Scribe

Something

Something (Pearson Sound Remix)

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Hung Up

The Idiots Are Winning

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Craigie Knowes step into the new decade with a 5-track 12" by Dallas resident, Cygnus. 

Cygnus has a prolific back catalogue that includes several releases on CPU, the legendary Breakin' Records and his own imprint, Biosoft. 

Impactful IDM and Masterful Electro across all 5 cuts - making this a fitting addition to one of the most impressive back-catalogues of any stateside IDM/Electro long-timer.

Cygnus
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PREMIERE: Cygnus - Votoms (Craigie Knowes)

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Paul Schmidpeter – Thereness EP (SOL012)
Release: 10/04/2020
Artwork: Aurora Mititelu
Text: Marie J Floro

This spring, Nuremberg’s Paul Schmidpeter navigates Sol Eterno’s 12th lap around the perfectly sphere hot plasma’s orbit. With his Thereness EP Schmidpeter stretches the label’s gambit, further and deeper in.

The German DJ/Producer establishes placement, warmly and coarse to start, with Thereness, filling in space and occupying time with astute command of timber and deft grip of melody. 7:03 minutes consists of sound because there is there, there. And as Thereness defines meaning, it refines existence in and by way of sensorial symphony further emphasized by ‘Isolation, a deliberate distancing of sound structures, back and fore, light and darkness, delicately balanced and sophisticatedly reinforcing, gracious in all manifestations of dance.

The "Die Rakete" resident wraps up with ‘Blockades, a mood- balancing, luster-tempering finale that comfortably swathes a body-aligning contouring of free movement as choreographed by unadulterated emotions.

Paul Schmidpeter - Isolation (Original Mix)

Tried to Tell You

EU TOUR DATES 2017:

All Tour Tickets - www.mountkimbie.com/live

27/10: Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool, UK
28/10: Ritz, Manchester, UK
30/10: Glasgow Art School, UK
01/11: The Institute, Birmingham, UK
02/11: Motion, Bristol, UK
03/11: Roundhouse, London, UK
04/11: AB, Brussels, Belgium
05/11: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
07/11: Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway
08/11: Kagelbanan, Stockholm, Sweden
09/11: Vega, Copehagen, Denmark
10/11: Astra, Berlin, Germany
11/11: Niebo, Warsaw, Poland
12/11: Kwadra, Krakow, Poland
14/11: Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
15/11: Flex, Vienna, Austria
16/11: Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
17/11: Mascotte, Zurich, Switzerland
18/11: Magnolia, Milan, Italy
19/11: Cabaret Aleatoire, Marseille, France
21/11: Rockstore, Montpellier, France
22/11: Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
23/11: Joy Eslava, Madrid, Spain
24/11: Atabal, Biarritz, France
25/11: Le Trianon, Paris, France
28/11: Grand Mix, Lille, France

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'Home Recording' appears on the album 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth'.

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