Every day, Dave Segal sifts through the hundreds of tracks that bombard his inbox. Twice a month, he tells you about the two artists whose music most impressed him. This time, it's Swedish wiz Sven Wunder's sample-worthy orchestral funk and Seattle/Denver group Packaging's aerodynamic krautrock.

Sven Wunder, "Liquid Mountains" (Piano Piano) Sven Wunder (aka Joel Nils Danell) is a Swedish musician/composer who implausibly has infiltrated the American hip-hop scene. It's been a circuitous trip. Over five instrumental albums released between 2019 and 2025, he's explored the nuances of Turkish and Japanese psychedelia, as well as symphonic strains of funk and jazz. But like some kind of 21st-century Scandinavian equivalent of the oft-sampled David Axelrod, Wunder creates music of cinematic ex

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