Bucharest producer Liar has become quite a fixture on Canadian label Infinite Machine and is described as their “resident tearjerker,” with his back catalogue featuring ballads, pop influenced cuts, and “dream-spawned narrative arcs.” His upcoming EP, Genesis Dubs, pulls heavily from ’90s jungle and rave, with three thunderous tracks in line with the likes of Dillinja, Goldie and DJ SS.
You can preview the EP below, before its full release next week.
London producer Desert Sound Colony debuted on Francis Harris and Anthony Collins’ Scissor & Thread imprint late last year with his The Way I Began EP. Later this month he will follow that up with a second effort for the label, the four-track Cracks In My Soul EP. Like his debut, the release is a rich, reverb-heavy affair, “shimmering with hypnotic lullabies and sweeping, detail-orientated instrumentation.” Ahead of its full release on Scissor & Thread on April 27, Cracks In My Soul can be streamed in full on the player below, where we have also included details of Desert Sound Colony’s three US dates next month.
May 2nd: Further Future Festival – Las Vegas, NV
May 15th: Together Festival – Boston, MA
May 16th: Resolute – New York, NY
Earlier this year, rising French producer Gordon released his debut EP, Bleu Merle, on the Infiné imprint. The four track affair showed a producer completely in tune with his sound with a set of dense productions heavily influenced by Detroit techno and leftfield electronic music. This time around, Gordon has offered up “MK Ultra,” a smoky, hallucinogenic ride said to be inspired by the illegal CIA operation of the same name that attempted to brainwash people in the ’60s and ’70s. Across its nearly seven minute run, “MK Ultra” builds from disorienting vocals and a muted low end, to a hard hitting bassline, low slung chords, and swirling synths, all culminating into a track sure to set dancefloors alight.
In a statement released this afternoon, Toronto house duo Art Department has announced the departure of Kenny Glasgow from the band after five years, two albums and a slew of EPs and remixes. In the statement, Glasgow says: “This kind of a project is like a creative marriage and after 5 years we just feel like there’s more we need to do in other areas. Having already released a solo album, I have felt a strong need to follow that up and explore that side of my production. Art Department is in a great place and I’m not getting any younger, now is the time.”
The pair’s careers still look destined to be pretty interlinked, however. A new collaborative label is apparently in the works with the name Social Experiment, and the statement adds that the pair “will continue to do a very limited number of special appearances together throughout 2015 and have already been in talks about a potential live show as a future project.”
Glasgow is planning to release his sophomore solo LP on the pair’s No.19 Music label later this year.
London-based NTS resident Kit Grill has made two tracks from his forthcoming, limited-edition EP available for stream via Boiler Room Debuts. The Europe EP carries on where his 2013 debut album, Mirror Image, left off, gathering together five strikingly beautiful, regal compositions recorded in January and February of this year. EP tracks “Overnight” and “Information” can be streamed on the player below, while Europe, which is limited to 100 copies, is released on Grill’s own Primary Colours label this coming Monday, and can be pre-ordered on his Bandcamp page. Ahead of that Kit Grill can be seen in London tonight with longtime champion and associate Jacques Greene at AIRspace in Brixton.
As RA reports, Nicolas Jaar has just announced his first solo 12″ in four years. Details on the new release are currently thin on the ground—no previews or artwork are available yet and Jaar simply says that the two tracks that comprise it were recorded in his hometown of New York City between 2011 and 2015. He has however confirmed the track titles, which can be found below, as well as a release date of May 11 on his own Other People imprint.
A1 The Three Sides Of Audrey And Why She’s All Alone Now
B1 No One Is Looking At U
Tresor Records, the label arm of the famous Berlin club, will reissue three albums from British techno pioneer Surgeon. The LPs—Basictonalvocabulary, Balance, and Free + Form—originally released on the Berlin imprint between ’97 and ’99, will now be presented as a series of 2xLPs throughout the year, while a bundle of the albums will arrive as a three disc CD box June 8. The original Remake 12″s that accompanied each album will also receive the same treatment, along with alternate versions by Surgeon and contributions from Mick Harris.
Tracklist:
Basictonalvocabulary:
01. (Intro)
02. First
03. Krautrock
04. Movement
05. 9 Hours into the Future
06. Depart
07. Rotunda
08. Waiting
09. Scorn
10. Return
Balance:
01. Preview
02. Golden
03. Circles
04. The Heath
05. Pnuma
06. Set One
07. Set Two
08. Box
09. Dialogue
10. Dinah’s Dream
Force + Form:
01. Remants of What Once Was
02. Black Jackal Throwbacks
03. Returning To The Purity Of Current
04. At The Heart Of It All
After lying dormant for almost 20 years, the legendary Fania Records was recently revived with a new focus on contemporary artists, giving them unprecedented access to the highly regarded back catalogue for remixes. Fania has since released remixes from artists such as Twin Shadow, Giles Peterson, and Quantic, in an ongoing series of remix compilations from Armada Fania. The upcoming compilation will feature a remix by Los Angeles based duo Nguzunguzu, who turn in a bouncy, percussion heavy rework of Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe’s “Timbalero.” To celebrate the release, Subsuelo and Late Night Laggers will be throwing a party at Los Globos tomorrow night, with MA from Nguzunguzu as a special guest.
You can find more info about the party here, with the Nguzunguzu remix of “Timbalero” available as a full stream and download below.
Seth Troxler will release his latest EP, Just Back, on April 27 via Tuskegee, the label he c0-founded with The Martinez Brothers last year. The EP will be Troxler’s first solo outing on the label and finds the DJ and producer in fine form with two slamming house cuts. “CZ” opens the EP with a bubbling atmosphere and sharp percussion, building tension towards a twisted organ line that kicks the track into overdrive. “Junkyard Tool” rounds things out and is an altogether more propulsive track; complete with rolling percussion and swirling, overhead, synths.
Just Back will be released on Vinyl April 27, with the digital release following on May 18.
Amon Tobin is back with Dark Jovian, an exclusive Record Store Day release and his first since 2011’s breathtaking ISAM. The EP is a stunning, sonic experimentation with cinematic qualities, which wears it’s influences on its sleeve. “I made these tracks a year or two ago after binge-watching space exploration films. People have, from time to time, described things I’ve done as “scores for imaginary movies,” which has always irritated me, but on this occasion it’s sort of true.” Amon says, “Anyone who loves John Williams, Gerry Goldsmith or Gyorgy Ligeti will hopefully see what I’m drawing from, and how it then sits in an electronic context. Dark Jovian is a small personal project which is, nevertheless, dear to me: A one off indulgence into a genre that I love.”
Dark Jovian will be released via Ninja Tune this Saturday, with the Eprom Remix of “In Your Own Time” streaming in full below, along with the product video for the release.
