Vikthor and Francesca Monte have crafted something unexpectedly magnetic with their "Body and Soul - Take Me Higher" EP, via Carl Cox's esteemed 23rd Century Records. This collaboration feels like watching a master chef pair ingredients that shouldn't work together, yet somehow create the perfect dish. The Naples-born techno architect Vikthor brings his signature dark electronic intensity, the kind that made Carl Cox label him a...

The Canadian singer-songwriter turns early romance into an intimate acoustic single from her forthcoming album "A Thousand Stars". Some feelings arrive before language is ready for them. They hover at the edge of a room, glow across a lake after sunset, or sit in the small pause between a glance and a decision. Love, in its first bright stage, often has that strange outline: visible, but...