Press

News·Billboard

Dance Music World Soccer Tournament Copa del Rave Returns in October

Billboard previews the sixth edition of Copa del Rave, the charity dance-music soccer tournament returning to Evolve Soccer Los Angeles on October 8th, naming Life on Planets among the artists playing alongside Ardalan, Juos, Mia Luna and Papa Lu, with a Baile World halftime show and adidas presenting.

Interview·FRANK151

Life On Planets Is Still Clashing Worlds Together

By Eric B. Thornton

FRANK151's Eric B. Thornton catches up with Life on Planets off the back of Dirtybird's Flock Tapes Vol. 1, tracing the line from sneaking into Baltimore warehouses to writing camps in Los Angeles. He credits the label for never asking him to bend his sound, and names Miles Davis and Prince to his dream festival bill.

Feature·Electronic Groove

Life On Planets selects 10 tracks that soundtrack his world

By Aria Groove

Electronic Groove hands Life on Planets the aux for a top-ten selection, filed as he heads to Dirtybird Campout x Northern Nights. Aria Groove lets the Baltimore-raised singer walk through the records that shape his world — a run that takes in a cut made with the Desert Hearts crew — each pick annotated in his own words.

News·Fresh Music Freaks

Desert Hearts And Life On Planets Celebrate Community On New Single "This Is The Place"

Fresh Music Freaks covers 'This Is The Place', Life on Planets' debut release with Desert Hearts — a club record pairing the crew's melodic tech house grooves with his soulful vocal, songwriting and live guitar. Mikey Lion traces it back to an instrumental the group knew had a feel-good vibe, then handed to Life on Planets to build a hook and verses around belonging and self-expression.

News·EDM Identity

Dirtybird Unveils First Volume Of 'Flock Tapes' Compilation Series

EDM Identity covers Flock Tapes, Vol. 1, the eighteen-track document of Dirtybird's inaugural Flight Week camp, and names Life on Planets the compilation's defining voice alongside Khyenci, Marieme and Andra G. He turns up across the tracklist, including 'Spiraling' with Black V Neck, Ardalan and Shaded, and 'Calm Down' with Julian Sacheli and Ian Beato.

News·Electronic Groove

Life on Planets blends soul and house on 'Work Come First'

By Rene Weffer

Electronic Groove catches the Tuskegee release, where a duet with Seven Davis Jr. carries a message about labour and worth over soulful house. Rene Weffer walks the remix package too — Omar S bringing lo-fi Detroit grit, Soul Clap's Charles Levine and Seven Davis Jr. each pulling the record somewhere warmer.

News·FindYourSounds

Butch returns to Defected with Life On Planets for 'Get High With You'

Defected pairs Butch with Life on Planets for a record that wears its noughties house influence openly while refusing to be a nostalgia exercise. FindYourSounds notes that both artists already have history with the label, and frames the collaboration as the follow-up to Butch's Duck Sauce remix.

Interview·PLAYY. Magazine

Life on Planets on soulful house, creative freedom, and bringing concept records back to the dancefloor

PLAYY. traces the route from Baltimore warehouse parties to No Art, Defected, Soul Clap Records and Classic, and finds an artist unusually candid about method. Feeling comes first, he tells them — the idea arrives as a mood before it arrives as a chord — and the ambition is to put concept records back on the dancefloor.

Premiere·Klubikon

PREMIERE: Luke Andy, Life On Planets - Light Up My Fire (Ardalan Remix)

Klubikon premiered Ardalan's remix of 'Light Up My Fire', the Luke Andy and Life on Planets collaboration built on jazzy keys and whimsical flute samples. The outlet hears Life on Planets' smoky, intimate vocal carried through Ardalan's swung drums and chunky kicks, calling it a steamy match for the original's romantic groove ahead of the record's release on Beatport.

Interview·CanvasRebel Magazine

Meet Phill Celeste

CanvasRebel sits down with Phill Celeste for an origin story that starts in 2013, when he left art school for street performing — busking on a forty-dollar license he earned back on day one. He traces the path from that circuit into Baltimore's warehouse scene and the labels that followed, framing collaboration as a matter of letting go of attachment.

News·DJ Mag

Makèz & Life On Planets share new track, 'Downstream', via ANOTR's No Art imprint: Listen

By Christian Eede

Amsterdam's Makèz and Life on Planets land on ANOTR's No Art with 'Downstream', a track DJ Mag reports had been among the label's most-requested unreleased weapons. Christian Eede hears funk and jazz threaded through rolling drums, with early support from Mr. G and Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1.

Interview·iEDM

[INTERVIEW] Life on Planets Breaks Down His New Infectious EP, 'FEELS INTL'

By Connor Phillips

Connor Phillips takes the four tracks of FEELS INTL apart with him — the effects-soaked drums, the synth voicings, the way each cut ties back to a moment on tour. Baltimore comes up repeatedly as the reason he refuses to sit in one genre, alongside the BUFU collective and work ahead with Soul Clap and Kiinjo.

Live Set·Boiler Room

Life On Planets | Boiler Room X Dark Room: Baltimore

Boiler Room brought its Dark Room series to Baltimore in September 2022, and Life on Planets played it on home ground — a bill alongside Karizma, Amy Reid, Feroun, Pangelica and Jordan Pope. The full set is archived on Boiler Room's site.

Feature·Uproxx

Life On Planets Shares His Hometown Travel Guide To Baltimore, Maryland

By Chloe Caldwell

Uproxx handed him the city and he gave back a map: The Crown and Metro Gallery for the nights, the Visionary Art Museum and R. House for the days, warehouse parties for everything in between. Less a travel guide than an argument for Baltimore as the reason the music sounds the way it does.

Podcast·Bringin' It Backwards

Interview with Life on Planets

Bringin' It Backwards talks with Life on Planets over Zoom about the Nomad Lyfe EP, recorded for Rules Don't Apply while he was living in a Holy Underground rowhouse in Baltimore — bedroom vocals and guitar built up against samples and synths. The conversation catches him fresh off a Dirtybird Campout set alongside Lubelski.

Interview·Grammy.com

Life On Planets Talks Astrology, Inclusivity On The Dancefloor & Why We Have To Be Like Martin Luther King Jr.

By Ana Monroy Yglesias

Grammy.com found him at a moment when the dancefloor felt political. Ana Monroy Yglesias draws out the astrology, the case for inclusivity, and a conviction that a room united by a record is a room that will listen — a platform, in his reading, in the tradition of King.

Premiere·This Song Is Sick

PREMIERE | Life On Planets & Taylor Bense Fuse R&B, Soul, & House Together With "Glowstick"

By Reid BG

This Song Is Sick premiered 'Glowstick', the Kitsuné Musique collaboration with Taylor Bense, and heard exactly what it was built for — R&B and soul folded into house, a bassline that turns out to be his own voice, and the loose euphoria of a club night with nothing to prove.

Interview·Flaunt

Life On Planets | Baltimore, Raving, and New Music

By Matthew Bedard

Flaunt's Matthew Bedard gets the version of Baltimore that doesn't make travel guides: people fighting to be free, scratching out a living, spiritual things happening anyway. The conversation runs from the 'Only You' EP through the post-2016 turn in his writing to 'Glowstick' as a metaphor for the freedom ravers are actually chasing.

Feature·EQUATE Magazine

EQUATE Introducing: Life on Planets

EQUATE ran him as an Introducing feature ahead of the Glowstick EP, calling him one of the most exciting talents coming off the American East Coast. He explains the name for once: ideas, people and events as planets, drifting in and out of each other's orbit as time passes.

Podcast·Music Production Podcast

Phil Celeste and David Marston - Collaboration and Working with and without a Record Label: Music Production Podcast #135

By Brian Funk

Brian Funk's Music Production Podcast puts Phil Celeste and David Marston in conversation about a partnership conducted across time zones. They talk through 'Airwaves', how the work gets divided between solo and shared passes, and the practical difference between releasing through a label and releasing it yourself.

Live Set·Virtual Clubbing Life

LIFE ON PLANETS (Live) at Mixmag X Superdry Brooklyn

Mixmag's Superdry party in Brooklyn got the live rig rather than the DJ set — Crew Love's sultry crooner, as the billing had it, singing and playing over his own productions. Virtual Clubbing Life filmed the whole thing.

Premiere·Dancing Astronaut

Premiere: Life On Planets - The Maze

Dancing Astronaut took the premiere of 'The Maze', the Wolf + Lamb single that became the title track of a remix package the following year. It is the sound of the project narrowing to one voice — soul and R&B pushed through house, with the guitar still audible underneath.

Interview·Traxsource News

Catching Up With Baltimore Based Duo Life On Planets

Traxsource caught up with Life on Planets — billed at the time as a Baltimore-based duo — around the arrival of the Akasha EP on Better on Foot. The piece checks in on a project still finding its footing between warehouse parties and its first vinyl pressings, ahead of the run that would carry it to Wolf + Lamb.

Premiere·Clash

Premiere: Life On Planets – 'Boomerang'

By Robin Murray

Clash premiered 'Boomerang' from the debut LP and Robin Murray struggled, productively, to file it. He heard a guitar line reaching for something classical and then coming apart, and vocals delivered half-whispered, half-spoken, seeping up through the mix rather than sitting on top of it.

News·XLR8R

Life On Planets Announce Debut LP, Share Track

By Luke Cheadle

XLR8R carried the announcement: a debut album for Wolf + Lamb, named for the Baltimore artist lofts where the whole thing started. Luke Cheadle described a ten-track record pulling on house, disco, funk and jazz, with 'So True' out first alongside remixes from Prince Monaco and the label bosses.

Mix·DJ Mag

Life On Planets Exclusive Mix

DJ Mag gave over an exclusive mix slot after the A Public Affair EP cleared 25,000 SoundCloud plays in a fortnight. The result is an early statement of taste — smooth transitions, a Hot Chip remix of Foals in the middle, and the Wolf + Lamb sensibility all over it.