Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

DJ Aquana confronts grief with a pounding, club-ready surrender on his latest release, "Piece Of My Heart". The Netherlands-based electronic producer reimagines a classic by the ’90s group Intermission the precise song to which he proposed to his late wife, who passed away from cancer in 2017. What results is an intricate Slap House eulogy drenched in euphoric Eurodance nostalgia. https://open.spotify.com/track/3eveJIKzLY6ILgtZcHIoJo?si=oMNkcj6ARSyzGz3L4bVthQ Aquana approaches his production with...