Hear a Track from the Debut CW/A Album

CW/A have announced their debut album, Words Unspoken, Acts Undone.

Since their inception CW/A have forged a path through the murky world of electronic music, with a number of releases on Vakant, M_REC and their own Parachute Records. Previously accomplished musicians in their own right, Thomas and Francesco joined forces in 2013 to begin a live project that took the act of performance into the club. Shying away from typical setups so prevalent nowadays, CW/A bring to the club a level of live performance which they’ve now translated into their first full-length.

Weighing in at 11 tracks the album demonstrates the duo’s musical heritage of early Warp style bass but also UK Jungle and Downwards-influenced dub Techno. This isn’t an album that looks back with any misty-eyed nostalgia, it respectfully brings its nineties influences straight into 2015, seamlessly weaving from genre to genre with an up-to-date element to the production.

If you’re expecting an album of rave breaks or straight up 4/4, you won’t find it here, but if you’re ready to leave behind that which you’ve heard already, Words Unspoken, Acts Undone will reward you from the moment you drop the needle.

Ahead of the album’s October 16release on CD and 2×12″, “19-9241–75-13294” can be streamed in full below.

Hear the Lead Single from Rabit’s Debut Album, Communion

After a handful of singles and EPs, Eric Burton (aka. Rabit) has announced that he will be releasing his debut album, Communion, on October 30 via Tri Angle Records.

Hailing from Houston, Rabit has found himself mixed up with producers such as Mumdance, Logos, and Janus Berlin collective—adding himself to the lineup of experimental producers that are fearlessly reinterpreting dance music. The industrial and gut-wrenching sound that emerges from Communion is notably influenced by current political issues. The emotional, heavy and transformative tones are meant to touch on concerns about “sexuality, gender, ownership of our natural bodies, societal and governmental injustices, and media manipulations.”

You can get a sneak peak of Rabit’s bewildering and combative sound by streaming lead single “Pandemic” below. Be sure to check out more from Rabit and Tri Angle Records by going here.

Premiere: Hear Roman Flugel Remix Fx Mchn’s “Dünn”

Mysterious UK producer Fx Mchn will land on Transit on September 7 with his latest EP, Dünn.

The four-track EP features the previously released, lo-fi-tinged title track, alongside fellow a-side track, “Piter De Vries,” a chugging slice of sci-fi funk. On the flip side, Roman Flugel turns in a deep and trippy remix of “Dünn,” splattered beautifully with his high-class synth work and club-ready percussion. The digital release will also feature the exclusive “Satan’s Monopoly,” with the vinyl limited to 300 copies.

Ahead of the September 7 release date, Roman Flugel’s remix of “Dünn” can be streamed in full below.

Vessels “Vertical (Jinjé remix)”

Jinjé (a.k.a. Lee J Malcolm) is a founding member of experimental Leeds-based band Vessels. Lee is a skilled DJ and an established electronic solo artist with a series of releases under his Lee J Malcolm moniker for EPM Records. Next up for Jinjé is a remix of the track “Vertical” from the latest Vessels LP, Dilate. The remix starts out with a syncopated rhythm that slowly melts away as the kick drums pushes its way through the front door, leading into a house beat that scratches and hisses while also smacking you with an open-handed style nu-disco. The original version of “Vertical” is out now via Bias, with Jinjé’s remix available for free below, and you can catch Vessels on tour in the UK and EU during the rest of the year.

Vertical (Jinjé Remix)

Sat 29 Aug – Electric Fields Festival, DUMFRIES, UK

Sun 30 Aug – Shambala Festival, NORTHAMPTON, UK

Sat 5 Sep – Oslo Hackney, LONDON, UK (headline DJ set)

Mon 19 Oct – Brudenell Social Club, LEEDS, UK

Wed 21 Oct – XOYO, LONDON, UK

Thu 22 Oct – Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, BRIGHTON, UK

Sat 24 Oct – Simple Things, BRISTOL, UK

Sun 25 Oct – Botanique, BRUSSELS, Belgium

Tue 27 Oct – Rotown, ROTTERDAM, Netherlands

Wed 28 Oct – Hafenklang, HAMBURG, Gemany

Thu 29 Oct – Werk2, LEIPZIG, Germany

Fri 30 Oct – Urban Spree, BERLIN, Germany

Sat 31 Oct – Klub Genau, COLOGNE, Germany

Sun 1 Nov – Strom, MUNICH, Germany

Thu 5 Nov – I.Boat, BORDEAUX, France

Fri 6 Nov – MIRA Festival, BARCELONA, Spain

Sat 14 Nov – Riddim Collision Festival, LYON, France

Move D & Jordash Announce Live LP on Further Records

World renowned vinyl DJ and collaborative producer Move D (a.k.a. David Moufang), and Jordan Czamanski, who is best known for his work alongside Gal Aner as Juju & Jordash, have banded together to release a recording of a live performance from Seattle, WA back in 2013.

During the middle of last year at an intimate space called 1927 Events, two-thirds of Magic Mountain High teamed up for a live performance, and the 99-minute Live In Seattle LP is the sterling result. Masters of dynamics, Moufang and Czamanski incrementally intensify and ingeniously arrange the elements, until you’re in a state of panic and ecstasy.

Live In Seattle will be released on double CD and single vinyl LP. The LP features two (15 – 17 minute) excerpts from the live set chosen by David and Jordan. The double CD is the entire 99-minute set, and the recording is also available as a digital release. You can pre-order the album over at the Further RecordsBandcamp, and you can preview the B-side of the vinyl right here on XLR8R. 

Podcast 401: Francesco Tristano

How do you define Francesco Tristano? With a rich career as classical pianist, one that has seen him release several albums and perform at some of the world’s finest concert halls, you might think that the Barcelona-based musician doesn’t fit too comfortably into the XLR8R mold—but to mention only his classical work would do a grave disservice to this remarkably versatile artist, who has proven to be similarly prolific with a syntheziser as with a piano.

Since discovering an infatuation with electronic sounds as a student of the prestigious Juilliard School of New York in the early 2000s, Tristano has worked closely with Agoria on his LP, The Green Armchair, and released three acclaimed solo albums on the InFiné imprint. His 2007 collaboration with Fernando Corona (a.k.a Murcof) saw the pair perform at several music festival across Europe, followed soon thereafter with his 2009 debut release with the Aufgang group and the launch of his Versus project alongside Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald.

Coming from one of the most skilled and experimental musicians of a generation, it comes as no surprise that this week’s podcast is a little different to almost anything that has come before. Artistically speaking, it’s no easy feat to seamlessly blend the classical works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the IDM of Autechre—but that’s exactly what Tristano presents. And doesn’t it sound great?

This is what Tristano had to say about the podcast.

It’s a beautiful podcast, one that clearly references to your background in both classical and electronic music. Can you talk about your choice of tracks?
I have long held the belief that ancient (hence acoustic) music shares a lot of aspects with techno. Bach arguably invented the sequence. Gregorian chant and vocal baroque music do have a touch of ambient. In this mix I wanted to show some of these con; its breakbeats are found again in the next track [Autechre “Xylin Room”] and are straightened out in the next track [Luke Vibert “Radio Savalas”] which lays down a tonal basis for the subsequential tracks—and so on. The mix is not at all about the latest hot releases, though I did include my remix of Bruce Brubaker/Philip Glass’ “Knee Play” (to be released on InFiné on October 9—along with remixes by Plaid and Akufen, among others) as well as a track from Kaito’s recent instrumental (beatless) album Less Time Until The End. I did include a few of my Detroit techno classics (Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, Detroit Escalator Co.) The mix ends with a selection from my album bachCage, John Cage’s 1948 composition “In a Landscape.”

It’s obviously a very experimental podcast in that it blends these two arguably antagonistic genres. That’s not an easy thing to achieve.
In 2011, Moritz von Oswald, a seminal figures in electronic music, produced my album bachCage [released on Deutsche Grammophon, containing music of Johann Sebastian Bach (born in. . . 1685!) Producer-composers like Ólafur Arnalds or Nils Frahm now enjoy a large audience ranging from the classical music lover to the raver. Techno has found its way into the concert hall, and classical music has found its way into the club. More than experimental (which to me has an undertone of uncertainty) this mix is perhaps an illustration of what is happening here and now. Electronic music as we know it today can be traced back to the 40’s and 50’s with classical composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and Conlon Nancarrow (among others) leading the way. They are in fact the real pioneers in electronic music. Apart from espresso and olive oil, I have never been a purist. Did you have a particular idea behind what you wanted to achieve, or did you just head into the studio and let it go? A DJ mix tells a story. This story is not told with a constant beat, but with a common thread of melody, harmony and tone color. The mix was recorded pretty spontaneously. I added a little post-production, mainly consisting of effect processing and compression. How do your ideas and visions for a preparation for a podcast differ to that for a live set? This podcast is not precisely meant to be danced to—which is what I am after when I perform live. It contains mostly music by others, whereas my live set contains only my own music. They both do show, however, who I am and the music that I make or love. I had a great time preparing this mix and hope you will enjoy it too. Peace y’all! [infobox href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow” src=”https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?embed_type=widget_standard&embed_uuid=c45eec40-2979-4d23-b6f0-8c121f282daa&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fxlr8r%2Fxlr8r-podcast-401-francesco-tristiano%2F&hide_cover=1&hide_tracklist=1&replace=0″ width=”660″ height=”180″ title=”Downloads”]Download MP3
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01 “Il Marchese di Saluzzo” (trad. 12th century)
02 Autechre “Xylin Room”(Warp, 20013)
03 Luke Vibert “Radio Savalas” (Planet Mu, 2007)
04 Charles Yves The Unanswered Question (1908)
05 Kaito “Sky Is the Limit” (Kompakt, 2014)
06 Georg Frederic Handel “Suite in D Minor for Cembalo,” excerpt (performed by Glenn Gould)
07 07 Gustav Holst The Planets, excerpt (1916)
08 Maurizio “M4.5” (Basic Channel, 1995)
09 Detroit Escalator Co. “Ghana” (Peacefrog, 2001)
10 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto BWV 1050, excerpt (1721)
11 Gregorio Allegri: “Miserere, excerpt (1630)
12 Carl Craig “A Wonderful Life” (Warner, 1995)
13 Philip Glass/Bruce Brubaker “Knee Play 4” (Francesco Tristano’s Knee For Thought mix) (InFiné 2015)
14 Philip Glass “Knee Play 4” (Francesco Tristano’s Knee For Thought mix) (InFiné, 2015)
15 Kenny Larkin “Butterflies” (R&S, 1995)
16. John Cage “In a Landscape” (Francesco Tristano/Moritz von Oswald interpretation) (DGG, 2011)

Floating Points Announces Debut Album

Floating Points (a.k.a. Sam Shepherd) has announces his debut album Elaenia, out November 6th via Luaka Bop (US)/ Pluto (UK).

With today’’s announcement he shares a new video “”Silhouettes,”” which features music from the eleven-minute album track ““Silhouettes (I, II & III)”.

Elaenia is a dazzling score which puts Shepherd in the spotlight as a composer who has produced an album that bridges the gap between his rapturous dance music and formative classical roots.

Growing up in Manchester—he started out as a chorister at an early age— Shepherd eventually arrived in London for university, where he spent the next five years engineering Elaenia, all the while DJing in cities across the globe and working towards his PhD in neuroscience. An album that draws inspiration from classical, jazz, electronic music, soul and even Brazilian popular music, Elaenia—named after the bird of the same name—is the epitome of the forward-thinking Floating Points vision in 2015.

Shepherd—the ensemblist, the producer and scientist—even built a harmonograph from scratch to create the artwork for Elaenia, the end result created by using it and two fibre optic cables of 0.5 and 1.5mm diameters, which were connected to light sources responding to bass drum and white noise percussive sounds from the album track ‘For Marmish’.

Elaenia will be released on LP, CD and digital download. All pre-orders of Elaenia via the Floating Points store will receive ‘”Silhouettes (I, II & III)”’ instantly, and the first 200 orders will receive a print of the album artwork created by the harmonograph built by Sam himself. The album can also be pre-ordered at Rough Trade and iTunes.

Ahead of the album’s November 6 release, the “Silhouettes” video can be streamed below.

Tracklist:
01 Nespole
02 Silhouettes (I, II & III)
03 Argenté
04 Elaenia
05 Thin Air
06 For Marmish
07 Peroration Six

Premiere: Hear a Track From Lokane’s The Eastway Project EP

Fresh off his Nervous Horizon debut, London-based producer Loz Caulton (a.k.a. Lokane) will drop his The Eastway Project EP on Infinite Machine on August 28.

The Eastway Project is Caulton’s debut EP-length release and consists of four gritty club workouts from the newcomer. Rooted in grime and jersey club, the EP is full of deep and dark machine-like textures, hard-hitting club-ready beats, and a whole manner of warped vocal chops.

With a fresh Boiler Room performance also under his belt, The Eastway Project looks set to firm Caulton’s name as one to watch. Ahead of the full EP release on August 28—which you can preorder here—you can stream EP cut “Eastway Project” in full below. 

Colder Announces Release of Third LP, Many Colors

French producer Marc Nguyen Tan (aka. Colder) has announced the release of his third, long-awaited album, Many Colors, which is set to release on November 6 via Trevor Jackson’s tenacious music label Output Recordings.

Colder’s newest album showcases his usual ominous, lush, and highly emotional trademark sound that is both unsettling and memorable. In a statement about his latest release, Tan proclaimed “this is a tale of life that does not come from this world.” Each track possesses its own piece of unique energy while Tan’s vocals constantly remain as the centerpiece of every song.

In anticipation for this release, you can hear two cuts from his forthcoming album “Midnight Fever” and “Turn Your Back” in the music videos below. Be sure to check out more music from Colder and Output Recordings by going here.

Chaos In The CBD ft. Archie Pelago “Common Unity”

Opening with soulful chords and a sunshine-soaked saxophone, Chaos In The CBD‘s Archie Pelago featured track “Common Unity” is a perfect slice of subdued house. Now based in Peckham, the New Zealand-born brothers behind Chaos In The CBD follow on from releases on ClekClekBoom, Hot Haus, and Amadeus with a four-track EP of beautiful and subtle house cuts for Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section International. Midnight In Peckham is available now and can be purchased over at the Rhythm Section Bandcamp page, with “Common Unity” available as a free download below.

Common Unity

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