The music of Montreal electronica duo Isla Den is as much about mythology as melody, constructing surreal realms to house their rave-refracted pop and exploratory multimedia. Founders Ellie Manning and Michael Reale met while students at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), bonding over a shared fascination with 3D environments and hybrid-tech designs. At the crossroads of blissful and wistful, Isla Den's new EP Virtual Garden serves as both siren song and beautiful illusion — uncanny but untouchable, a feedback loop of holographic longing.
After releasing two albums in 2020, Yumi Zouma are ushering in the new year by re-pressing their long out-of-print EP trilogy on their original 10" vinyl formats. The band are celebrating the news with a new unplugged version of "In Camera." Listen to the new rework and pre-order EPs HERE.
To close the year, DJ Python remixes "Privacy" by Bell Towers. More reworks of key tracks from BT's debut album, Junior Mix, to come in 2021. Listen HERE.
Happy to release day to Isla Den's Virtual Garden ~ a glistening EP that celebrates the season and helps close the year for the label. Stream it in full HERE.
Morly breaks her silence today with "Twain Harte" — her first new material since 2017. "Twain Harte" is, in her words, "a pure, unapologetic love song.” Listen HERE.