Super-ambient Icelandic duo Kiasmos brought their very space-y minimalist brand of techno to the new KEXP live room in support of their Swept EP, the second they dropped in 2015. The two longtime friends began working professionally together when Ólafur Arnalds was the touring sound engineer for Janus Rasmussen's project Bloodgroup, and they bonded over the shared feeling that shoegaze-y techno needed to stop and a harder genre needed to take its place. This dance emphasis is evident in the deep, complex percussion that pounds underneath the soaring synths and sweeps that would normally be at home in the Tycho-esque downtempo breed of electronic. As the duo describes with a laugh, "You can listen to it in your kitchen while you're making food or something, but our shows are designed to dance with your heart, crying on the dance floor." Let out tears of joy as you watch this session now:
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Seattle duo Crater - Ceci Gomez and Kessiah Gordon - stopped by for an in-studio, both to play us some tracks from their debut, Talk to Me so I Can Fall Asleep, and to talk to DJ Sharlese about drooling in their sleep and The Sims "Hot Date" Expansion Pack. Crater only emerged in 2014 to immediate …
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Aft…
Just about the last thing we'd ever ask for in Seattle is "more rain" - unless of course that's the name of the latest album by M. Ward. On his eight studio LP, the Portland based musician doesn't let the Pacific Northwest's soggy gloom get him down, and dares the clouds away with his initially doo…
