Parker Desautell

Live percussion in electronic music so often feels decorative; in the hands of Ravish Momin, however, the percussion is the whole point, the axis on which everything else turns. As a drummer and producer, Momin—the main brain behind Sunken Cages—has spent the past 20 years building a uniquely idiosyncratic soundworld that fuses traditional Indian percussion instruments with spangly, pristine electronic production.

Gigi Masin is no stranger to loss. In 2007, the beloved Italian composer lost his entire musical archive in a house flood, forcing him to put music on the back burner for a while. On his forthcoming album, Movement, Masin finds himself grappling with loss of an even more significant kind: the loss of his wife. Tragic as the backdrop of his new record is, however, the first single from Movements is far from gloomy.

Grid needs space. It’s easy to lose sight of this truth in our fast-paced culture, where there’s a rush to drop tributes hours after an artist’s passing. However, sometimes the full impact of a great artist—and person, for that matter—can’t be easily analyzed or even put into words. It’s been roughly two weeks since Éliane Radigue, the beloved French composer of feedback, drone, and synthesizer music, passed away, and it’s still difficult to fully explain her legacy.