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Listen to Letherette’s new track ‘Refresh’
Letherette release their first new music since 2013’s self-titled debut album on Ninja Tune. Returning from an extended studio interlude, the ‘Refresh’ EP wastes no time getting down to business, collating four songs aimed squarely at the dancefloor.
EP opener “Rayon” channels the same raw and instinctively danceable energy of classic Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez, Armand Van Helden and DJ Sneak tracks on NY imprint Henry Street in the early 90s.
Ketev: new album out on Where To Now?
Yair Elazar Glotman a.k.a Ketev drops his new album Traces of Weakness on Where To Now? today.
It is available for streaming via Tiny Mix Tapes.
Listen to Matrixxman’s set from Awakenings NYE
Recorded live at Gashouser in Amsterdam on New Year’s Eve for Awakenings.
‘Homesick’ one of RA’s albums of the year
Matrixxman’s LP ‘Homesick’ was selected by Resident Advisor staff and contributors as one of their standout records of the year. The full list can be found here, where they wrote “Sometimes it takes an outsider to remind us just how exhilarating techno can be. This year that outsider was San Francisco’s Charles McCloud Duff, a chameleonic producer who’s tried his hand at just about every type of electronic music there is. Homesick, his first album as Matrixxman, was like a window into an icy future, yet it still felt strangely familiar. Simultaneously hot and cold, bleak and uplifting, the album created for itself a unique sonic space.”
Venetian Snares: New album and live show in 2016
Aaron Funk aka Venetian Snares is in the studio working on a new full live show which will debut at a headline slot for Bangface Weekender in April 2016.You can get an taste of the new sound form the video above:
By Carrie Gates, Audio by Venetian Snares, (original song title “He Shit Out His Own Skeleton and Wore His Floppy Flesh Like a Trench Coat”) 2015.
His next album will be out on Timesig early 2016, and we are now booking the new live (non-Dennon CDJ) show for select dates around this trip in April 2016. Contact Mia for details.
Wolf Eyes New Album & FACT Mix
FACT mix 525 – Wolf Eyes (Nov ’15) by Fact on Mixcloud
Detroit’s Trip Metal trio Wolf Eyes have recently released the incredible album “I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces” on Jack White’s Third Man Records. You can listen to the album HERE.
To celebrate the new album, they just dropped this new and surprising mix on FACT.
Tracklist:
The Original Gabber – Headbanger
Frankfurt Terror Corp – The Great Freedom
Bald Terror – Drummachine
Euromasters – Rotterdam Ech Wel
Influx – Capital Punishment
Frak – Four Friends Getting Hard
Boom Terrorism – Ramdiska
Cellblock X – Acidophilus
Bass X – Quartz
Urban Primitivism – Urban Primitivism
DX-13 – Hard As %#!
Hard Creation – Lets Get Em AllDark0 drops FACT mix
Darko takes you higher.
The Neasden-based producer has honed a sound which is high on melody and high on emotion in recent years, combining rap and grime drum palettes with the breathless rush you get from R&B, trance and Dark0’s beloved JRPG soundtracks (look closely at last year’s Fate EP and there’s clear nods to Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Cross and more.) As well as releasing his own material, he also played a key role in MC K9’s excellent Mad in the Cut mixtape, A&Ring the record and producing several of its standout tracks.
Dark0 describes his FACT mix as “a piece that tried to illustrate my mind; the way it constantly recreates the songs that stick, my inner monologue and thoughts. All these things that pass through my head. I thought it would be fun to present this like an internal radio station.” So don’t expect one BPM or seamless blends – this is a mix that’s happy to switch from one style to another with no warning, whether that’s a run of high-drama Dark0 productions, film samples, new material from associates like Mssingno, Evian Christ, K9 and Kamixlo, or a Filter Dread remix of ‘House Every Weekend’. It climaxes with a Dark0 remix of Justin Bieber’s ‘What Do You Mean’, and let’s face it, if you’re not down with that then it’s not your time to glo.
FACT mix 520 – Dark0 (Oct ’15) by Fact on Mixcloud
Download here
Tracklist:
–Deany
Lorii – Milky
–Montana
Dark0 – Cataclysm
MssingNo – Untitled (Jaegerbomb Edit)
Keiska – POWERPOINT 1
–Uber Interlude x H dot Zims
Health – Salvia
K9 – Untitled (Prod. Evian Christ)
Dark0 – Shinigami
Filter Dread – Half Acid (House Every Skeddit)
Kamixlo – splxcity (Gasss Edit)
Dark0 – Wings
Dark0 – Tempest (RiRi Edit)
Dark0 – Fuschia (Uni Lad “I Want u 2 Glo” Edit)
MssingNo – Segway
Dark0 – Scintilla (2-0n Edit)
Visionist – Perfect
–My Kingdom
Justin Bieber – What Do You Mean (Dark0 Remix)
— Outro
Dark0 – Worth ItFACT Mix: Matrixxman
The San Fran producer continues to rattle cages.
Matrixxman made his name as one half of 5kinandbone5, a West Coast duo whose music ranged from 2-step and r&b hybrids to rattling rap beats (most notably on the backing to Le1f’s Wut.) Despite the success the group found in a short space of time, they dissolved in 2013 and Matrixxman has been rattling out records since – appearing on labels like Dekmantel, Spectral Sound, Unknown to the Unknown and Delft, though this summer he settled on Ghostly International to release his debut album Homesick.
Although Homesick is a techno record at its heart (albiet one that draws heavily from industrial and electro), it also marks Matrixxman’s attempt to push against the genre’s boundaries – or explore its possibilities, depending on your perspective. “The whole reason I’m doing an artistic pursuit is so I can do what the fuck I want to do,” he told FACT earlier this year. “I’m hellbent on eschewing expectation where possible. My whole approach is distinctly subversive at its core. Too many people get comfortable in their safe zones. And while I’m getting comfortable settling into the confines of techno, I’m still trying to fuck it up as much as possible.”
His FACT mix nods to the techno gods at times (Plastikman, Hood) but generally keeps things weird and obscure, cribbing gems from Johannes Hell, Ground Loop, Adbdulla Rashim and more. Homesick is out now through Ghostly International.
Chambray teams up with DJ Haus
Chambray makes an appearance on DJ Haus’ debut album with a collaboration on the track Houz Muzik.
Boiler Room Debuts – Hubie Davison ‘Sanctified’
Midland marked the maiden voyage on his ReGraded imprint only two months ago, with his Double Feature EP. Without a second to lose, the second release is set to go, with Hubie Davison and his Sanctified EP now at the helm. The title track has become a staple of Midland’s sets throughout summer, with it first entering radars during his BR x Dekmantel set (check the exact moment it dropped here). Satisfaction so deep, it prompted Midland to contact Hubie to see if he’d consider releasing it on ReGraded. Though the label may still be in its infancy, the calibre exemplified in this second release proves it to be unparalleled.
REGRD002 drops on 27 November strictly only on vinyl.
Matrixxman joins LittleBig
Following his debut LP Homesick on Ghostly International, LittleBig are pleased to welcome techno futurist Matrixxman to our roster. With new material forthcoming on a highly respected label next year, contact chris@lb-agency.net for 2016 availability now.
The Quietus speak to Luke Abbott
Ahead of his show at Semibreve Festival in Braga, Portugal, The Quietus spoke to Luke Abbott about his recent collaborative work with Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie.
Read the interview in full over on The Quietus’ website.
Stream the Luke Abbott & Jack Wyllie EP below.
Visionist album – ‘Safe’ out on PAN now
Having recently partnered with Bill Kouligas to relaunch his Lost Codes imprint as Codes, Visionist takes a defining step forward with the release of his PAN debut album, ‘Safe’.The South London artist born Louis Carnell broke during a period of experimentation in UK music when, with the disintegration of the dubstep scene, emerging producers began looking to juke and Chicago house for inspiration. A pair of EPs on Lit City Trax (and a collaboration with Fatima Al Qadiri) in 2013 and ’14 introduced Visionist’s minimalist take on fractured R&B and liquid grime, establishing him as a leading voice in new-wave UK soundsystem culture.
On ‘Safe’, Visionist sculpts and extends that signature into new terrain and makes his most personal statement yet. Distilling his influences down to a sparse palette of manipulated folk, pop and R&B acapellas, icy synths, and metallic drum samples, he plays off ever-present anxiety and his own battle not to let it overwhelm him. “Comfort, protection, salvation—this is what we search for,” he says. “We are taught that a life of no worries is better for us, and therefore we try to create one that is ‘Safe.’”
But while safe as a musical concept implies conformity, ‘Safe’ as an artistic statement is anything but. At a moment when the UK scene, once known for innovation, has settled into rehashing old tropes, Visionist continues to propel his sound into more experimental territory. The album traces the arc of an anxiety attack, from its onset through to recovery. Following the stately discord of brief opener “You Stayed,” the grimy, ballistic assault of “Victim” sends its targets diving into mirrored corners. “I’ve Said” is a brutal, almost militant advance, its sound cutting in and out as though transmitted via shortwave radio. “Too Careful To Care” trades in skittering paranoia, with the soporific “Sleep Luxury” closing out affairs.
Since 2012, Visionist has toured extensively throughout Europe, Unites States and Asia, appearing at industry standard clubs and festivals like Fabric, Berghain, Sonar and Unsound and as well as various underground venues. He has scored music for Kenzo, Liam Hodges and Roxanne Farahmand in the world of fashion, and remixed Kelis, Ghost Poet and Glasser. In 2014, he supported FKA Twigs on her first-ever UK tour.
The LP was mastered by Jeremy Cox and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, and pressed on 140g LP and CD. It features photography & artwork by Daniel Sannwald and layout by Bill Kouligas.
XLR8R go in the studio with Rival Consoles
Ahead of the release of his new LP Howl, XLR8R entered the studio with Rival Consoles to talk about his production methods.
Jimmy Edgar releases Shine EP + working on album
Jimmy drops his first new music of 2015 (apart from tracks featured on his Fabric Mix) with a strong 5 tracker entitled SHINE on his own Ultramajic Label. Solid club friendly minimalism from Jimmy once again as the flow of dancefloor killers continues from his label.
You can hear lead track ‘Let Me Tell You’ below, along with ‘Feel What It Is’ which interestingly is the first down tempo track from Jimmy in a while, harking back to past productions, Jimmy points to a new album he is working on for 2016 and says “this is a taste of things to come”.. yay.
Laurel Halo releases new double ep ‘In Situ’
Laurel Halo releases new double ep ‘In Situ’ on Honest Jon’s records
Spherical collections of stars form around black holes in situ; that is, locally to their cosmic neighbourhoods. It is said that future space colonization will rely on sourcing supplies in situ. Construction in situ uses raw materials at the site: colossal sculptures such as Naqsh-e Rustam, the Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Rushmore were built in this fashion.
Wild, organic machine grooves, with a mind’s eye on naked treetops and an early sunset. Melody breathes out from dubwise fx, percussion by turns sinewy and floating, sub blasts and stripped synth arrangements. Keys on air.
Spacious, witty, melancholic, deadly.Situation
Leaves
Nebenwirkungen
Drift
Nah
Shake
Nimrud
Focus IListen to two tracks below:
Objekt puts out new mix
TJ Hertz’s music as Objekt is constantly in flux, flexing and spring-boarding acrobatically around conventional genre tropes. Since making his name with his reinterpretation of dubstep in 2011, breaking free of stylistic shackles has proved to be fertile ground for Hertz. In the years since, his singular approach to sound design and his productions’ extraordinary attention to detail – most notably on last year’s debut album Flatland – makes use of electronic music’s full spectrum to find new and imaginative shapes.
Arguably, though, it’s more recently that he has been brought into sharp focus as a selector. In the past few years, a flawless run of mixes has earned him a reputation as a killer DJ, and Hertz’s performances have been standout experiences for Crack staff too. From full throttle intensity in disused jail cells in Bristol, to intense, sudoriferous sessions at Welsh festival Freerotation, to illuminating Sunday explorations of the boundaries of the Berghain dancefloor, hearing his morphing textures has always been a thrill for us.
To put it simply, he’s one of our favourite DJs, so who better to complete our 100th mix? A playful selection of whiplash techno, electro and the spaces in-between, it’s indicative of his adventurous approach to selection, as well as why he’s celebrated as one of the key figures keeping dance music resolutely facing forward.
Dopplereffekt Release New Remix for the Exaltics
Dopplereffekt have released a new remix of The Exaltics, with the positive review from Resident Advisor stating:
“Unexpectedly, Dopplereffekt’s version of ‘Instinct’ is the most propulsive of the lot. It reins in the glassy ambient tones of the original and sews on a simple, three-note bassline, turning it into a deadly techno-electro hybrid.”
Dopplereffekt have forthcoming dates at MIRA Festival in Barcelona, Semibreve Festival in Braga, and Marathon! Festival at la Gaîté lyrique in Paris.
Self-Titled Mag Streams Rob Clouth’s Hidden Structures
Rob Clouth’s Hidden Structures is now available to stream in full via Self-Titled, along with a track-by-track breakdown from Rob:
Hidden Structures came out Friday, September 18th via Leisure System and is Clouth’s third release with the Berlin-based label.
Rival Consoles announces HOWL
Rival Consoles makes his return to Erased Tapes with his new LP HOWL.
SPIN magazine wrote “The nine-track effort chugs forward with the same feathery mechanics as Jon Hopkins’ “Open Eye Signal” or the most powerful songs on Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson’s Never Were the Way She Was, picking up noises along the way like a sticky, rolling ball of tack: roiling blasts and bleats of horns, distant yowls of feedback, and grittily twinkling synths accompany the song on its mesmerising journey.”
Says West of the track, “By slowly drifting the pitch through distortion and delays, the result sounded like vocal cries — something which was perfect for the song and this inspired me to take on a darker set of tones across the whole album. It was made over the past few years, inspired by capturing small performances on synths, touring with some of my musical heroes, playing with feedback when I should have been catching a train, sampling my voice in unexpected conditions and recording textures in different countries.”
UK TOUR
10th Oct – Manchester @ Texture
11th Oct – Stockton On Tees (In-store) @ Sound It Out
12th Oct – Glasgow @ Hug & Pint
13th Oct – Brighton @ Green Door Store
14th Oct – London @ Corsica Studios
15th Oct – Bristol @ Start The Bus
16th Oct – Leicester @ FirebugContact chris@lb-agency.net for AV show bookings.
Oneohtrix Point Never / Garden Of Delete Album Announced / Hear 1st Single
The new album GARDEN OF DELETE (G.O.D.) is announced for Nov 13th on Warp Records.The first full length track – I Bite Through It went live yesterday and instantly received ‘best new track’ from Pitchfork.2015 Album Showcase live dates:07/11/2015 Turin, Club2Club, Italy
08/11/2015 London, Village Underground, UK
09/11/2015 Brussels, Botanique / Orangerie, Belgium
10/11/2015 Berlin, Berghain, GermanyWe are now booking dates 18th Feb -> 27th Feb 2016 and looking at options of high profile one offs though the rest of the year for the enhanced Audio Visual live show featuring Daniel Lopatin & Nate Boyce on stage.Visionist announces debut album ‘Safe’ on PAN
Having recently partnered with Bill Kouligas to relaunch his Lost Codes imprint as Codes, Visionist takes a defining step forward with the release of his PAN debut album, ‘Safe’.
The South London artist born Louis Carnell broke during a period of experimentation in UK music when, with the disintegration of the dubstep scene, emerging producers began looking to juke and Chicago house for inspiration. A pair of EPs on Lit City Trax (and a collaboration with Fatima Al Qadiri) in 2013 and ’14 introduced Visionist’s minimalist take on fractured R&B and liquid grime, establishing him as a leading voice in new-wave UK soundsystem culture.
On ‘Safe’, Visionist sculpts and extends that signature into new terrain and makes his most personal statement yet. Distilling his influences down to a sparse palette of manipulated folk, pop and R&B acapellas, icy synths, and metallic drum samples, he plays off ever-present anxiety and his own battle not to let it overwhelm him. “Comfort, protection, salvation—this is what we search for,” he says. “We are taught that a life of no worries is better for us, and therefore we try to create one that is ‘Safe.'”
But while safe as a musical concept implies conformity, ‘Safe’ as an artistic statement is anything but. At a moment when the UK scene, once known for innovation, has settled into rehashing old tropes, Visionist continues to propel his sound into more experimental territory. The album traces the arc of an anxiety attack, from its onset through to recovery. Following the stately discord of brief opener “You Stayed,” the grimy, ballistic assault of “Victim” sends its targets diving into mirrored corners. “I’ve Said” is a brutal, almost militant advance, its sound cutting in and out as though transmitted via shortwave radio. “Too Careful To Care” trades in skittering paranoia, with the soporific “Sleep Luxury” closing out affairs.
Since 2012, Visionist has toured extensively throughout Europe, Unites States and Asia, appearing at industry standard clubs and festivals like Fabric, Berghain, Sonar and Unsound and as well as various underground venues. He has scored music for Kenzo, Liam Hodges and Roxanne Farahmand in the world of fashion, and remixed Kelis, Ghost Poet and Glasser. In 2014, he supported FKA Twigs on her first-ever UK tour.
The LP was mastered by Jeremy Cox and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, and pressed on 140g LP and CD. It features photography & artwork by Daniel Sannwald and layout by Bill Kouligas.Safe is released on October 9. You can stream the first single, ‘Victim’, below.
Taking bookings now!Tracklist:
01. You Stayed
02. Victim
03. 1 Guarda
04. I’ve Said
05. Vffected
06. Sin-cere
07. Safe
08. Let Me In
09. Too Careful To Care
10. Tired Tears, Awake Fears
11. Constraint
12. Sleep LuxuryKuedo releases new ep on Knives
Jamie Teasdale, best known as Kuedo, makes a timely return with the scifi designed ‘Assertion of a Surrounding Presence’ his first solo release proper since 2012, and the 2nd issue on his fledgling Knives label after J.G. Biberkopf’s ‘Ecologies’. His celebrated production style remains anterior to modern dance music and electronica, largely by virtue of unbending futurist focus and careful attention to detail. Here flanked by collaborations with erstwhile Vex’d partner, Roly Porter, plus Berlin’s Phoebe Kiddo a.k.a. Mind:Body:Fitness, and Canada’s Egyptrixx, the next chapter in Kuedo’s odyssey expands his scifi dimensions with ever sharper contouring gradients, and hyperreal spatialisation structured around recalibrated footwork, drill and techno engines. Scaling from the vertigoinducing opener to a finale of panicked gamelan drama, ‘Assertion of a Surrounding Presence’ renders Kuedo’s most affective, elaborate reflection of a nowness, divining a metaphysical, cybernetic zeitgeist in the vaulted reverb structures of his Ghost In The Shell nod, ‘Eyeless Angel Intervention’, or the trance fluid T2000 techstep momentum of ‘Boundary Regulation’, whilst pursuing more tangled emotions and ethereal sensations in the recursive, hyaline gamelan cadence of ‘Border State Collapse’ and ‘Event Tracking Across Populated Terrain’.
Providing the visual framework for ‘Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence’ is Joshua Petherick. Petherick works across a variety of media, including video, textiles, sculpture and sound, creating esoteric puzzles which often re-contextualise objects and materials using a mixture of both digital and anolog processes. Addressing the complexity of function, his work, like Kuedo’s, plays with a sense of the uncanny – fracturing object or image, whose role is questioned and ultimately framed as a residual artifact in an ongoing sequence of possible outcomes. Joshua Petherick is represented by Croy Nielsen (Berlin), Minerva, (Sydney), and Robert Heald (Wellington).
Available for DJ bookings now.
latest mix for Truants blog here
Read full review of Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence – Kuedo on Boomkat.com ©Jimmy Edgar on the front cover of DJ Mag
We are very excited to see Jimmy Edgar get the front cover of DJ Mag.
You can see the full feature online here where Jimmy discusses his label Ultramajic, cosmic awareness and his many collaborations with artists such as Pilar Zeta & SOPHIE.
J.G. Biberkopf releases ep on Knives
J. G. Biberkopf’s work spans club, theatre and digital radio contexts. The tracks here float between cyberambience and slamming rhythmic constructions; distant trails of web-filtered grime, and beatless studies of net phenomenology. His collage compositions are intended as a field trip into the represenations of nature that emerge from the digital-social media scape. He says of the project’s inception, that he was intrigued by an oddly “naive idea of nature that seemed strikingly prevalent in my social environment.. I was curious to know how these simulations of Nature work in digital media, how do we do experience these simulated materials”. J.G. Biberkopf appears as part of an newly emergent wave of intensely thoughtful, rhythmically physical, net-aware young artists, such as v1984 and Sentinl.
Exploring similar themes to Biberkopf within his practice is Australian visual artist Joe Hamilton, who also employs technology and found material in order to create complex and intricate environments – both offer an experience which is oddly romantic; stripped of it’s tangibility, yet provided with a synthetic vitality. Hamilton’s multimedia project, ‘Hyper Geography’ (2011), is cited by Biberkopf as a key influence in the development of ‘Ecologies’. These work analogously in investigating evolving relationships with our immediate, often juxtaposed, environments and the concept of nature within an age of an increasing, network based interdependence. Here, Hamilton provides visual reference to ‘Ecologies’ with a new work for the record sleeve.