Swedish producer duo Anwai have officially re-emerged from a seven-year hiatus to release their brand new double single, "4ever HD". Mons Lorenzen and Amadeus friends and musical partners for twelve years stepped away. Thankfully, their trademark DIY charm survived the break intact. They still trade Logic and Ableton project files between Stockholm and Västerås, wrapping up their final mixing sessions at a local pub....

There's an intimacy to the new FREE/MAN release, "The Reconnection EP," that borders on a welcome invasion of personal space. It is the sonic equivalent of someone leaning in, not to share a secret, but to create the silence where your own might finally surface. Charlie Freeman hasn't built a grand cathedral of sound here; he's simply furnished a quiet room with stark, necessary...