Hermitude: Mirror Mountain

<p><span><span><span>- Much loved and long-lived duo of Aussie beatmakers Hermitude have greeted the end of the pandemic with a record put together just before it. They were, at the time, a bit tired already and looking to take a step back, even just a little one, from the demands of their music industry commitments and the all-encompassing maximalism of their craft.

Moderat: MORE D4TA

<p><span><span>- Moderat encapsulates everything wonderful about the burgeoning electronic music scene Berlin offers to the world. They’re bold. They’re introspective. They’re brooding, and they’re back from a brief hiatus after their third album in 2016. The time away hasn’t dampened their resolve, the trio still very much have a story to tell.</span></span></p>

Film Review: Paramount Pictures presents TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Paramount Pictures presents the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick (2022) to the screen this year and it could not have been a better sequel to the original 1986 feature. It is still possible for those who have never seen a Top Gun film to view the sequel and follow the plot but knowing the events of the first film allows for the events of Top Gun: Maverick to really hit home.

 

Inkswel & The Snaglepuss: Chasing Infinity

<p><span><span><span>- There’s something very inviting about Inkswel. It could be his commitment to just making music: lots of music, as much music as possible. It could be the beguiling mix of styles he works in: starting from hip hop and house which flow languidly into each other before they seduce every other style that happens to be in the room -jazz, soul, funk, disco- into having some kind of groovy orgy. It could be his charismatic, spiritually charged way of expressing himself.