DJ Picks: XDB
XDB's selection features soulful, funky minimal beats, timeless house grooves, and fiery electro tunes.
Features
Orb Premieres: June 2025
As the vibrant heartbeat of the season pulses on, we present June's thirteen Orb Premieres, offering a wonderful mix of arrangements to elevate your summer days, alongside comforting sounds for a restful evening.
Orb Premieres: May 2025
Across May's twelve Orb Premieres of exuberant settings, rich layers, and captivating directness, there is an eloquent narrative marked by subtle yet distinctive precision.
Orb Premieres: April 2025
April's Orb Premieres encompass a diverse yet appealing context for contemplation, resonance with deep poundings, uplifting and energetic motifs, and immersion into heartwarming atmospheres.
Orb Sound Lab: Peter Van Hoesen
Memento Mastering, analog depth, and the philosophy of listening.
Orb Premieres: March 2025
The subtle sense of adventure in the early spring Orb Premieres creates a vibrant and radiant mosaic, evoking elation or introspection through relieving and rewarding sonic arrangements.
In Focus: Sunju Hargun on The Golden Triangle and Beyond
Emerging from the heart of the Asian underground, Thailand-based producer, Sunju Hargun, reveals his two-chapter LP, its genesis and metamorphosis.
Orb Premieres: February 2025
February's Orb Premieres blend charming sentiment with gripping dynamism in a prismatic canvas, overstepping the mundane and realistic with imaginative infusions.
Orb Premieres: January 2025
Collected in the midst of winter, January's Orb Premieres exude a refreshing, mood-enhancing breath, encompassing imaginative artistic visions.
Eurorack Gear of 2024
Exploring some of the year's most exciting, innovative and peculiar additions to the ever-evolving modular music-making landscape.
Orb Premieres: December 2024
Contemplative, energetic, and uplifting, the nine tracks in the year's last premiere summary instill a vivid emotional whirlwind.
Orb Premieres: November 2024
November completes a rich succession of creativeness over many fresh tracks hosted during Autumn, bringing twenty-three additional, equally inspired compositions, in range, variety, and vision.
Beyond Music: The Physical Qualities of Sound
In conversation with Xosar, Rrose, Sanna Mun, and Stefanie Egedy on the qualities of sound frequencies.
Favourites: Rafael Anton Irisarri
From shoegaze to minimalism, the New York sound sculptor shares ten records that inspire his craft.
Orb Premieres: October 2024
Amidst the leaf-crackling season, eighteen fresh tracks reside within October's Orb Premieres, reflecting the abundance of indoor creativity.
Monument Festival: Tracing the Echo of the Forgotten Valley
Reflections on a yearly communal dance in Nordic electric fields.
