Frits Wentink and Erik Madigan Heck collaborate on new album, featuring Tilda Swinton

The story of pioneering reggae record shop and label owner Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin

Moroccan gnawa rhythms meet Mbalax percussion on Electric Jalaba’s new LP

Jeff Mills conjures up ghostly-toned techno on new LP, The Clairvoyant

Japanese taiko drummer Eitetsu Hayashi’s Kaze No Shisha album reissued

Producer and DJ Phil Asher has died, aged 50

This week’s VF HQ Spotify playlist (22nd January)

Divide and Dissolve fuse experimental metal with instrumental noise on new LP

KEF unveils new compact subwoofer, the KC62

Sherine Cisco’s Canadian space synthesizer album Amanita reissued

Richie Hawtin’s PLAYdifferently unveils new DJ mixer

Seventies Japanese funk, disco, and electronica collected on new WAMONO comp