Philip Sherburne

Balearic Islands

Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Articles

FR 116: Facta & K-LONE on Wisdom Teeth’s Pivot to Minimal House

1 day ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

When I recently reviewedJorg Kuning’s excellent new mini-album Elvers Pass for Pitchfork, I had an intense moment of deja vu—followed by an equally intense feeling of self-doubt. As I had gotten to know the album, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the minimal house of the late ’90s and early ’00s. Kuning’s record has a similarly fine-tuned sense of sound design, with lithe, blippy tones tracing curlicues against a backdrop of empty space.
Everything You Need to Know to Go to Primavera Sound 2025

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Philip Sherburne

4 hours agoSkip Madrid and Barcelona and Head to Southern Spain For The Most Beautiful City in the CountryFrom the colorful mosaics to the palm-lined courtyards and ornate buildings, this is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, hands down….
Primavera Sound 2025 Event Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Go

6 days ago | thrillist.com | Philip Sherburne

Christian BertrandChristian BertrandEventsMusicWith a genre-spanning lineup and performances that go all night, Barcelona’s beloved fest is supremely destination-worthy ‌Nobody ever needed any extra convincing to visit Barcelona, one of the most dynamic cities on the Mediterranean. Stunning architecture, unforgettable food, and arty vibes are all in ample supply. But if you were on the fence, the Primavera Sound festival certainly helps tip the scales.
Mixes Digest 17: Wreathing, Breathing

6 days ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

What is a mix for? Usually, I suppose, the answer’s pretty simple: for dancing, for clubbing, for cutting loose, for getting lost. Some of the world’s greatest mixes—some recorded, many experienced in the moment and never heard again—fall into that category. But other mixes have other aims. They might trace an idea, or advance an argument, or pose a theory of a possible music that perhaps doesn’t exist in any one song, but comes fleetingly into focus in that particular constellation of tracks.
FR 115: Anthony Naples Goes Back to the Drawing Board

1 week ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

Anthony Naples’ new album, Scanners, marks a subtle but important stylistic shift: Where the New York producer’s last two albums have largely avoided the dancefloor in favor of zoned-out strains of downtempo, Scanners represents some of the most club-centric house and techno he’s produced in years—but with a twist. When I first heard the album, my immediate impression was that it seemed to hark back to key sounds from the minimal house and techno of the late ’90s and early 2000s.
Futurism Restated 114: Tangled Silences and Total Silhouettes

1 week ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

I've run a bumper crop of interviews on the newsletter over the past month—ambient lifer Stephen Vitiello on his new Balmat collab with Fugazi's Brendan Canty and Hugo Largo's Hahn Rowe; former NYT critic Ben Ratliff on his phenomenal book Run the Song, about running and listening; Norwegian composer Rebekka Karijord discussing her new album about climate grief for Simon Raymonde's Bella Union label; and, just this week, Ukrainian producer Nikolaienko on his decision to shutter his Muscut...
Avalon Emerson: “On It Goes”

2 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Philip Sherburne

Avalon Emerson’s DJ sets have always been filled with unreleased productions and bespoke edits that render Shazam useless. Now, with her new project Perpetual Emotion Machine, she’s making some of those exclusive tracks available to the world. The ongoing series of singles marks a return to her club roots after reinventing herself as a songwriter and bandleader with her last album, 2023’s & the Charm.
Futurism Restated 113: Muscut’s Nikolaienko on Ukrainian Resistance and Boycotting Trump’s America

2 weeks ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

Early in March, Dima Nikolaienko, the founder of Ukraine’s Muscut label, announced that the imprint was shifting to “archive mode.” They will continue to sell back catalog until it’s gone, and there remains the possibility of occasional reissues of back-catalog titles, should funding permit. But unless something changes, there will be no new releases from the label, which was founded in 2012 and is run out of Estonia, where Nikolaienko has lived since 2018. I was disappointed by the news.
Futurism Restated 112: Rebekka Karijord on the Sound of Climate Grief

2 weeks ago | futurismrestated.substack.com | Philip Sherburne

Of the musical experiences I feel most fortunate to have experienced in person, Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet is near the top of the list. It’s a sound-art installation whose magic lies, in part, in its simplicity: Cardiff recorded Thomas Tallis’ 16th-century choral piece Spem in alium nunquam habui (In no other is my hope) as a 40-part multi-track and arranged 40 speakers in a circle, one voice per speaker.
Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Philip Sherburne

Is the dancefloor a place of refuge? Of abandon? Of liberation? Or perhaps a place of obliteration? It’s complicated. In the four decades that he’s been clubbing, Chicago’s Jamal Moss has likely seen it all. He cut his teeth sweating it out at the Music Box to Ron Hardy, a pioneering house DJ known for the intensity and audacity of his mixing. He lived through the Reagan era, the “war on drugs,” the AIDS crisis.