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What happens when two producers — bound by a shared history, yet also significantly parted for fragments of it — rediscover the musical language that first brought them together? And then further, seal it with a 20-track first album as a two-piece? For Driftmoon’s Juraj Klička, and Miikka Leinonen, who in 2023, rejoined, seven years after his departure, the answer’s ‘Moonstruck’—a record born through (not to put too fine a point on it!), reunion.

“I have always believed that artist albums need a purpose” says Johan Gielen, “and that purpose can’t simply be feeding the industry machine or the bi-annual expectations of a fanbase”. Nonetheless, it’s been nigh on twenty years since ‘Revelations’ appeared, making ‘Etherflow’ less of a ‘return’ to the Johan Gielen longplayer, and more a musical reckoning for it.

THE FIRST ARTIST ALBUM FROM ONE OF JAPAN’S FOREMOST ELECTRONIC MUSIC TALENTS. FEATURING MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS WITH CHRISTINA NOVELLI, JULIE THOMPSON, LINNEA SCHOSSOW, CLARA YATES, CARI AND OTHERS From Tokyo’s high-rises to the farthest edges of sound, one figure has spent the last decade bending studio frequencies to her will. Over that time, she’s built nothing less than a sonic solar system, with Rina ‘Rinaly’ Noguchi firmly at its core. ‘Ecliptica’, her debut longform.