From Theo Parrish to Palmistry, New Tracks Chase the Soul in the Machine

Image: Palmistry still/grab

Motherboard’s listen deep tag will reveal a whole lot of icy, darksided sounds. In some sense, that’s just the flavor of the times—from nightmarish EDM festival scenes to the tape-only releases being hucked at your local living room noise show—but, in another sense, it ignores this whole other side of dance/electronic music that is pure warmth and soul and, arguably, was here first anyways. The four tracks/videos below come from a diverse range of artists: Nigerian-born house songwriter/vocalist Wayne Snow, London dancehall-qua-pop producer Palmistry, and Theo Parrish, the Detroit techno/house producer who, after two decades in the studio and something like a hundred releases, continues to do no wrong.

And, finally, where it all started: