This new film explores Julie Mehretu’s artwork for Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders’ Promises LP

Nina Simone’s Montreux Jazz Festival performances collected on 2xLP

This week’s VF HQ Spotify playlist (13th April)

Pan Daijing fuses haunting electronics with contorted vocals on new PAN album

Japanese pianist Ryo Fukui’s 1977 concert set for first release

Gauzy electronics meet layered cello on PDP III’s Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves

No-wave meets “post-disco” on Bruxas’ new Dekmantel album

DMX has died, aged 50

Listen to our playlist featuring 1040 records from VF Live sets

Jayda G helms latest edition of DJ-Kicks series

Róisín Murphy taps Crooked Man for Róisín Machine remix album

New Prince album Welcome 2 America gets first release