Fur Coat Returns to Crosstown Rebels With New EP

Sergio Munoz and Israel Sunshine (a.k.a. Fur Coat) will release their latest EP, Berlin Chronicles, next month on Crosstown Rebels. You might have heard the tracks popping up in Fur Coat sets of late, with the duo testing the waters since BPM to great effect. “We’ve worked on the EP since coming back from BPM Festival in Mexico and have been hammering the tracks in every show.” The duo explains, “We feel each track has a real identity that fits amazingly well in our dj sets, creating some incredible moments on the dancefloor. The sound of this record is slightly different and one we feel super excited about. We believe it shows a slightly different, much techier and melodic side to our production. It’s just the starting point for our music this year.”

The three track EP will see release on 12″ on May 18, with a Beatport exclusive following that on May 25.

Premiere: Stream the New Seb Wildblood & Apes EP

At the end of May, Church co-founders, Seb Wildblood & Apes, will release their latest split EP, Noshi/Mortimer Road, via the Skint imprint. The EP also features the vocal stylings of Phantasy affiliate Kelly Lee Owens, who joins Seb on “Noshi,” adding her soothing voice to the bubbly, sunshine tinged affair. On the flip side, Apes provides a more dancefloor focused outing with “Mortimer Road,” melding repeated vocal samples with an eerie synth line and sharp percussion. The EP follows on from Seb’s Barcelona/Blue Colour EP on Skint, which also featured Apes on remix duties.

Noshi/Mortimer Road can be streamed in full below, with the EP seeing release on May 23—preorder here.

Maxime Dangles “Sughar”

French producer Maxime Dangles was last featured on XLR8R mid last year with his track “Unversal,” a deep, hypnotic techno cut pulled from his Conduktion EP which saw release via the Dunsciat label in August. Early next month, Maxime will release his debut LP, Résilience, a 13-tracker to be released on Skryptom which also features a remix from Soma label heads SLAM. In support of his new LP, Maxime has offered up his track “Sughar,” which opens with a booming low end and throbbing chords, before being punctuated by rolling, rattling percussion. You can download “Sughar” for free below, with a preview stream of Résilience also available.

Sughar

Machinedrum Releases DJ Rashad Tribute EP

Over the weekend, Machinedrum released Movin’ Forward, a tribute EP dedicated to the late Chicago footwork figurehead DJ Rashad. As Resident Advisor reports, the record contains a couple of Travis Stewart’s unreleased collaborations with Rashad and fellow Teklife crew member DJ Spinn, plus guest appearances from Nick Hook and Taso. All proceeds from the EP, available for purchase on Bandcamp here, will be directed to Rashad’s family and estate. Meanwhile, a complete tracklist, along with Stewart’s words on Rashad and the making of the EP, can be found below.

“DJ Rashad was, is and will forever be a legend. Not only was he a footwork and juke pioneer, but also one of the hardest working DJs and producers I’ve ever met. The dude really never stopped working. He was either globetrotting and spreading the sound of Chicago around the world or in the lab pushing himself to expand his sound further and further. On April 26, 2014 the world lost one of the most inspiring and talented artists of our time. His spirit moves through Teklife, the dancers, his friends, and everyone he has touched or influenced.

Over the past few years I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with Rashad and even be remixed by him. The tracks were never completely finished and seemed impossible to finish after he passed. Eventually I mustered up enough courage to open the sessions and finish them. It is what Rashad would have wanted me to do.

Movin’ Forward is a collection of those collaborations plus two exclusive unreleased Machinedrum tracks that were heavily inspired by Rashad and the Teklife crew. I called it Movin’ Forward because I know Rashad wants everyone he touched to keep pushing themselves and follow in his footsteps on the path he had been creating all these years. I’m proud to have known him, shared the stage with him and to have collaborated with him. May his sound and spirit continue to inspire and spread through everyones speakers! Teklife to tha next life!”

01. DJ Rashad, Machinedrum & Nick Hook – Understand
02. Machinedrum – All I Really Want
03. DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn & Machinedrum – The Flow
04. Machinedrum – The $$$
05. Machinedrum – SeeSea (DJ Rashad & Taso Remix)

Allies for Everyone Atonement EP

Brian Suarez first rose to fame, or a certain level thereof, as the instigating force behind Gater, an electroclash-era NYC outfit that stood out from its contemporaries for its subdued take on the sound’s often angular version of synthesized dance music. Many in that early-’00s scene adopted a willfully cynical, heavily eyelinered, campy-punky attitude of detachment; Suarez and his music, on the other hand, came off as charming, and even a bit cuddly. (One Gater concession to the scene’s eccentric demands was to feature vocalists named Chesty Morganstein and Her.) His current project, Allies For Everyone, is still imbued with that aura of innocence that he’s always cultivated in his music—but his latest release, the Atonement EP on Blindfold Recordings, sees Suarez straying ever so slightly from his pop-tinged, glimmer-house comfort zone toward something with a touch more darkness flowing through it.

Of course, that’s not to say that you’re like to hear Adam X or any of the Sandwell District alumni dropping Atonement’s tracks into their sets: There still aren’t many sharp edges to Suarez’s music, and there’s an alluring, dreamy feel running throughout the EP. But the typical Allies For Everyone mood, one of blurry-eyed optimism, has been replaced by a feeling of wistful melancholy. That’s particularly true of the title track; “Atonement” is a sigh of a tune, with Suarez’s breathy vocals (singing “I will stand as still as stone/I will make my darkest known/Everything that I’ve done wrong/ with this breath I will atone”) floating above a thick four-to-the-floor kick, sustained bass tones and synth washes, and an array of echoing pings and pongs. Danish producer Sivesgaard, on remix duty, accentuates the song’s melancholy via his remix’s gorgeously soaring keys, its cavernous effects giving his version a grandly opulent feel. Flipside cut “Walls,” meanwhile, will probably garner the most dancefloor action—it’s tonally similar to “Atonement,” but with acidic squelches in place of Suarez’s vocals, it’s a bit more menacing than most Allies material. It’s another strong piece of work for an artist who deserves more recognition.

Premiere: Watch a New Video from Second Storey

London-based producer Alec Storey, who operates under the solo alias Second Storey, has shared a new video for “The Overview Effects (Parts 1 & 2).” Taken from his debut full-length Double Divide, which was released on the Fabric-affiliated Houndstooth label back in October, the track samples the voice of Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to ever step foot on the moon. His heavily distorted narrative describes the so-called “overview effect”: the phenomenon of looking at planet earth from a new, radical perspective. Video footage was taken from The Planetary Collective’s mini-documentary The Overview Effect (available to watch in full here), and edits together shots of astronauts spinning in zero gravity with the earth floating below them.

A full stream of Double Divide can be heard here via XLR8R, and the video premiere for “The Overview Effects (Parts 1 & 2)” can be watched below.

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer Ready Album for Perlon

Just days after detailing an upcoming 12″ for Frankfurt imprint Raum Musik, Ricardo Villalobos has revealed plans to release an album with modular synth specialist and founding member of the Moritz von Oswald trio, Max Loderbauer. The veteran Berlin producers have teamed up on past releases such as 2011’s Re: ECM LP, but the forthcoming outing—entitled Safe in Harbour—finds them working under the newly adopted moniker Vilod. While little has been shared by Perlon by way of details, distributor Wordandsound describes the record as featuring “sensual syncopation and eruptive bass energy.”

Safe in Harbour will see an official release via Perlon on June 15 in double-LP and CD formats, and a complete tracklist is on view below. (via Resident Advisor)

A1 Modern Hit Midget
A2 Safe In Harbour
B1 Mulpft
B2 Beefdes
C Zero
D1 Mosi Fud
D2 Surmansky Blow

Watch a New Production Masterclass From Matthew Dear

Richie Hawtin’s CNTRL tour is a college campus tour of the USA based around individuality and creativity in technology-based music. The tour features performances and lectures from some of the top names in electronic music including Chris Leibing, Dubfire, Matrixxman, and the man in question here, Matthew Dear. On the tour’s first stop at the Berkley College of Music, the artist also known as Audion gives a 30 minute, in-depth masterclass touching on everything from his sound design approach to how he arranges his tracks, his workflow and studio tips, and how his hit ‘Mouth To Mouth’ was made. The full 30 minute masterclass from Dear and Point Blank can be watched below.

Premiere: Hear Matthew Herbert Remix Sasha Siem’s “Proof”

British-Norwegian artist Sasha Siem released her highly anticipated debut album, Most of the Boys, through Blue Plum Records at the beginning of March. The album was produced by Bjork and Sigur Ros collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson in Iceland, fusing her classical music background with her love of pop music. Pulled from the album is “Proof,” a soft and haunting cut which will be released as a single and remix package titled See Through at the end of next month. Featuring in that package is Matthew Herbert‘s remix of “Proof,” which keeps the haunting vocals of the original, but melds them with industrial-tinged percussion, floating pads, and a rumbling low end. You can stream Herbert’s remix in full below, ahead of the single’s full release on May 25.

dubLoner ft Isaac Haile Selassie “Chairr Nawena (Kush Arora remix)”

Earlier this month, Kenneth James Gibson (a.k.a. [a]pendics.shuffle) released his latest EP under his dubLoner moniker on Adjunct Audio, the label he founded in 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro. The five track EP features two dubbed out originals, both featuring the vocal stylings of Isaac Haile Selassie, with the title cut “Chairr Nawena” receiving remixes from Boston’s GYS, Kush Arora, and a club mix by dubLoner himself. Chairr Nawena will be Gibson and Selassie’s third outing together, with the two previous seminal releases arriving on the now defunct de’fchild Records. We’ve been offered the remix by San Francisco based artist Kush Arora, who reworks the twisted vocals and atmospherics of the original into a more club-friendly framework adding rolling percussion and room-rattling bassline for maximum effect. You can pick up the Kush Arora remix of “Chairr Nawena” below, with the full EP available here.

Chairr Nawena (Kush Arora Remix)

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