Thom Yorke Composes Original Score for Daniele Luchetti’s “Confidenza”

Thom Yorke has composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s film “Confidenza,” an adaptation of the Italian drama based on Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name.

“Confidenza” follows Yorke’s previous full-length score and original soundtrack for Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 “Suspiria” remake.

Produced by Sam Petts-Davies, “Confidenza” sees Petts-Davies and Yorke working again with the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and fellow The Smile bandmate Tom Skinner.

In 2019, Yorke contributed music to Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn,” and in 2022 he wrote two original tracks for the series finale of Peaky Blinders.

Alongside the announcement, XL Recordings has shared a music visual for single “Knife Edge,” starring Elio Germano and Federica Rosellini, featuring its sequence from the film re-cut by “Confidenza” editor Ael Dallier Vega, and a b-side track titled “Prize Giving.”

The score’s intro track, “The Big City,” was teased by Yorke in February within his playlist for The Smile’s BBC 6 Music Artist in Residence series.

Yorke has recently been touring with The Smile (Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke), who released their second studio-album, Wall of Eyes, in January.

Tracklisting

01. The Big City
02. Knife Edge
03. Letting Down Gently
04. Secret Clarinet
05. In The Trees
06. Prize Giving
07. Four Ways In Time
08. Confidenza
09. Nosebleed Nuptials
10. Bunch Of Flowers
11. A Silent Scream
12. On The Ledge

XL Recordings will release the film’s original soundtrack on April 26, with vinyl and CD to follow on July 12. Meanwhile, you can stream “Knife Edge” and “Prize Giving” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Photos: Steve Tanner

Or:la Next on Fabric Originals

Or:la will release a new EP on fabric Originals.

Moonlight Crush was created to be experienced in a club or rave, which is where Or:la, real name Orlagh Dooley, feels most at home. The heavy rhythmic synths and organs are reminiscent of losing yourself on the dancefloor, the scent of smoke machines and sweat is thick in the air, lit only by the hint of a full moon.

Now based in Liverpool, Dooley has become an integral part to the local clubbing community scene as a promoter. She’s known for her diverse showcasing of genres, across UK bass, tribal house, deep house, breakbeat, acid, and ’90s techno.

To coincide with the announcement, she has shared “A Howl’s A Howl,” a single that was inspired by the historic and now-extinct native wolves in the UK and Ireland, and their prominence in Irish Mythology.

Tracklisting

01. A Howl’s A Howl
02. Moonlight Crush
03. Moonlight Crush (Floating Away Dub)

Moonlight Crush EP is scheduled for April 25 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “A Howl’s A Howl” via the player below and pre-order here.

Podcast 847: NKISI

NKISI is the alias of Melika Ngombe Kolongo, a DJ-producer and live act born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in Leuven, Belgium. Through her kinetic live performances and releases—which have taken her across the world and landed on labels including Warp’s Arcola imprint, Germany’s Climate of Fear, and Lee Gamble‘s UIQ, where she released her debut album, 7 Directions in 2019—deliver intense, powerful sonics influenced by ancient African rhythms and experimental improvisation.

Her journey towards electronic music began in photography, before she became dissatisfied with the visually dominated society and its perpetuation of stereotypes, leading her to seek a different form of expression—one rooted in emotional and collective experiences. “Through cross-rhythm and trance-inducing technologies, dancefloors become portals for collective communion and connection with the higher dimensions of sound and our environments,” she says. In 2015, NKISI also co-founded NON WORLDWIDE, an experimental record label, radical art project, and social network that serves as a platform for African and African diaspora musicians. For this week’s XLR8R podcast, she has delivered a studio mix of diverse rhythmic landscapes—a collection of her latest sonic obsessions. As with any NKISI set, you can expect trance-inducing rhythms, doomy synth, gabber beats, and an electrifying energy, and this mix is no different. Press play for just over an hour of relentlessly experimental electronics.

01. What have you been up to recently?
Lately, I’ve been immersed in several exciting projects, creating new music and exploring new ways of performing music through ritual performances.

02. What have you been listening to?
At the moment, I’m captivated by ethnographic recordings and sound recordings from the early 1900s to 1970s, particularly indigenous ritual music from various cultures. The recording techniques and the profound musical expressions captured during these ceremonies resonate deeply with me.

03. Where did you record this mix?
I recorded this mix in Berlin.

04. How did you go about choosing the tracks?
The track selection was intuitive, driven by my current sonic obsessions and a desire to explore rhythmic textures and how they influence emotional states.

05. What can the listener expect?
Ritual sonic storytelling, rhythmic trance, a mix that traverses diverse rhythmic landscapes through time, space, and the cosmos.

06. What’s next on your horizon?
Looking ahead, I’m excited to deepen my research into the interrelations between the ethnographic sonic archives, and experimental electronic music, some new music and rituals.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Art of Primitive Sound “The Dance of Leaves” (Hic Sunt Leones)
02. Mala “Conference” (DMZ)
03. P.A.L “Crash the Party” (ANT-ZEN)
04. NKISI “Unknown” (Unreleased)
05. Unit Moebius “Binky Boy” (Bunker Records)
06. Pornotanz “CYSEX” (GATE Edit) (New Zone)
07. Archives of Benin Traditional music
08. Solar Sounds Processed by A. Kosovichev (NASA)
09. Melly “Skip Fire” (Where to Now?)
10. Aquila “Escape” (Undefined Recordings)
11. Music for Ongo Ensemble “Ndjradje Ba” (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
12. Hott (I-F) “Radio Silence” (Reference Analogue Audio)
13. Laura Grabb “Cylindrical” (IST Records)
14. Mutant Voice “So We Dance” (Self-released)
15. Musiques Dahoméennes “Music of Mahi People” (Ocora)
16. BS1 “Untitled” (Bunker records)
17. bRz “The epic adventures of slow burning particles morphing into another dimension” (Self-Released)
18. Nkisi “Unknown” (Unreleased)
19. Storm “Helical” (Djax Records)
20. Hudba Arabského Orientu a Severní Afriky, Egypt “Raks Nawaem Dance” (Supraphon)
21. Curley & Unit Moebius “Axe Breaker” (Bunker Records)
22. Papé Nziengui “Rite Bwiti” (Self-Released)
23. Michael Prime “Daubentons bats feeding over ponds at Priory Gardens, Orpington” (Povertech Industries)

Jamie xx Shares New Track Featuring Honey Dijon

Jamie xx has shared a new track, a collaboration with Honey Dijon.

“Baddy On The Floor” debuted recently on BBC Radio 1‘s Future Artists with Jack Saunders, featuring a new interview with Jamie xx. It originally appeared in Jamie xx’s All Points East set in 2021.

It’s the latest taste of the UK producer’s second album, which is due out this year. His first album, In Colour, landed in 2015.

The track follows the release of “It’s So Good,” a track Jamie xx, real name James Thomas Smith, made for a Chanel campaign, back in January.

Before that, he shared 2020’s “idontknow,” and 2022’s “LET’S DO IT AGAIN” and “KILL DEM.”

He made it during the pandemic as he and Honey Dijon sent each other files remotely.

Tracklisting

01. Baddy On The Floor

Baddy On The Floor is available now via Young. You can stream it in full via the player below and order it here.

Photo: Laura Jane Coulson

Kevin Richard Martin (a.k.a The Bug) and KMRU Team Up on Album

Kevin Richard Martin, better known as the The Bug, has collaborated with Joseph Kamaru (a.k.a KMRU) on a new album for Phantom Limb.

Martin first became aware of the Kenyan musician after watching the short 2020 documentary “Under The Bridge.”

He found his approach to sound and music “so instantly impressive,” he says, and that his spoken voice possessed a “captivating, lilting, tonal quality, with his soft-spoken accent,” he says.

Following this, Martin dug into Kamaru’s records, and eventually reached out to suggest they team up for an album.

The result, called Disconnect, combines dub and ambient with Kamaru’s vocals. They are a surprise, because they come from a musician who specialises in instrumental ambient music.

“I think I surprised Joseph by suggesting he contributes vocals,” Martin says.

But the album’s vocals, “sitting somewhere between intonation and spoken word,” we’re told, “capture the ear and fizz with simmering power.”

Disconnect follows Martin’s run of Machine EPs.

You can read more about Kamaru here, in his XLR8R feature and his podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. Differences
02. Arkives
03. Difference
04. Ark
05. Differ
06. Arcs

Disconnect LP is scheduled for June 14 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Differ” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Podcast 846: Paula Koski

Paula Koski, who was born in Finland but now lives in Berlin, specializes in fast-paced, groovy techno—and you can hear her play out at Tresor, where she DJs regularly as a resident, or at Berghain. Her first production, true to her chosen style, recently saw the light on Soma Records. Her journey towards music began as a child in Helsinki, when she began recording radio mixtapes. “I would sit next to the radio all day long, waiting to record the tracks I wanted to have on the cassette,” she tells XLR8R.

Around 2010, she started clubbing, found a love for electronic music, mostly techno, and developed “a strong feeling I need to be on the DJ’s side of the dancefloor.” Some years later, while living in Sweden, she joined a women-only DJ studio and started working towards that goal, before moving to Berlin in 2018 to pursue it as a full-time career. Six years later, she’s DJing across Europe and curating INTERLINK, a club night at Helsinki’s Post Bar where she delivers hypnotic techno and trance from her favorite DJs. (Most recently, MARRØN, Rene Wise, and Philippa Pacho).

For this week’s XLR8R podcast, she has delivered a mix of these same sounds, pulling from some of her favorite fresh, recent, and upcoming tracks. (Beginning, of course, with Cio D’Or, her favorite.) Press play for one hour of mind-bending, groovy techno.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I just arrived back in Berlin from Helsinki, where I curate my club night, INTERLINK, with my event partner CEB. Last Friday, we had our fourth event at Post Bar, where we invited MARRØN to play with us. The night had such an amazing energy from start to finish.

I really love working with INTERLINK. It’s great to have the promoter aspect connected to my career, especially to build a community in Helsinki around hypnotic and cutting-edge techno.

Besides INTERLINK, I have been playing fun gigs and I also just sent a new track for mastering. It will be released on a very special compilation later this year.

02. What have you been listening to?
Besides my usual techno digging, I have been enjoying live jazz shows at home in Berlin and while visiting New York this past winter. I am also into contemporary and trippy drum & bass. I often listen to mixes by Agonis from Amenthia Recordings.

03. What is it that draws you to electronic music?
I love the communities that it creates and unites around the world. The feeling of freedom, connecting with like-minded people and losing the sense of place and time when dancing at some excellent party will always keep me hooked. And, of course, it offers endless and unique creative possibilities for artists!

04. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded this mix in my home studio in Berlin last week. After the session, my next door neighbor messaged me and thanked me for the set. It was really funny!

05. What setup did you use?
I used three Pioneer XDJ-700’s, an Allen & Heath Xone:92 mixer, and a pair of Adam Audio T7V studio monitors.

06. How did you go about choosing the tracks you’ve included?
I crafted the mix mostly around pretty fresh, recent and upcoming sounds, but I couldn’t resist making a dramatic start with my favorite artist, Cio D’Or. I wanted the mix to have some extremely trippy moments, peak with some super groovers, and have rich, glitchy, and textured layers and vibes that I love so much. I played many tracks for the first time while recording, so the session was specially exciting for me.

07. How does it compare to what we might hear you play out live?
This mix represents well what I want to play right now, yet it’s maybe a bit more dramatic than usual.

08. What’s next on your horizon?
This spring, my plan is to focus on improving my production skills and finish some tracks I have been working on. When it comes to gigs, I am especially looking forward to playing at Berghain on May 4, as well as at my booking agency On Board Music’s 10th-anniversary event at Else on June 1st.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Cio D’Or “Amplitude” (Kynant Records)
02. AgainstMe “Deep Reel” (Unreleased)
03. Rkeat “5th Junction” (Rkeat)
04. Flits “Gorilla Glue” (Flits)
05. LKY “Code PR1” (LKY)
06. Cassulle “Forceful Method” (ALT Records)
07. Håwk “Nordic Walker” (Forum Remix) (Backhaus Records)
08. Khas “Tallinn” (Antidote)
09. Rene Wise “Escaping Siro” (Moving Pressure)
10. No.Name “Doors” (Rhythm Werk)
11. Ruman “Bad Review” (Unreleased)
12. A.Morgan “Be Mine” (Newrhythmic Records)
13. Nobel Cortex “Virtual Synthetic” (Synergie)
14. Juri Heidemann “Kesema” (Frenzy)
15. Bailey Ibbs “Manic Room” (Frenzy)
16. Mark Broom “Listen” (Beard Man)
17. Kashpitzky “Lost” (Be As One)
18. D.Dan “Freak” (Summerpup)
19. Michael Ius “Ethereal” (Ius)
20. No.Name “Uncertainty Of Times” (Rhythm Werk)
21. AgainstMe “Demo Closing” (Unreleased)
22. Vardae “Loose It” (Qeone)

Príncipe Welcomes DJ Lynce for Live Hardware Jam

Príncipe has released a cassette of a live recording of DJ Lynce, a Porto-based DJ-producer born Pedro Santo.

Lynce has been DJing and producing electronic music for more than two decades. This particular gig was an improvised hardware jam in May 2023 at Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon. Expect breakbeats, plenty of acid squelching, strong pads, and bleepy melodies in front of a live audience. You can hear the anticipation and the excitement when shouts are able to intrude on the overall sound.

Tracklisting

01. Live @ Bola de Cristal

Live @ Bola de Cristal is available now. You can order it here and stream it in full via the player below.

Surgeon and Regis to Release Debut British Murder Boys Album

Surgeon (a.k.a Anthony Child) and Regis (a.k.a Karl O’Connor) will release their debut album as British Murder Boys.

Between 2003 and 2005, British Murder Boys released a slew of influential 12″s on Child’s Counterbalance and Regis’ Downwards labels, before reuniting for a 12″ on Mute’s Liberation Technologies imprint in 2012.

Releases since then. have been sporadic, and include a recent cover of Lou Reed “Real Good Time Together” and a limited-edition cassette documenting their residency at Dutch studio Willem Twee.

On Active Agents and House Boys, their long awaited debut album, Child and O’Connor take somewhat of a departure from the heavy industrial sound. Across eight tracks, the duo have delivered a “stripped back return to the raw sound of the ’90s warehouse scene,” we’re told.

Tracklisting

01. The Set Up Man
02. Killer I Said
03. This Is A Calling
04. What You Hide
05. You Said You Want To
06. Keep It Down
07. It’s In The Heart
08. We Will Show You
09. Now, This Is You

Active Agents and House Boys LP is scheduled for June 24 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Now, This Is You” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Many, many years into their thing, Surgeon (Anthony Child) and Regis (Karl O’Connor) finally unveil their debut album as British Murder Boys, two decades on from their ‘Learn Your Lesson’ debut for Counterbalance in 2003.

For what feels like a lifetime, British Murder Boys have been at the bleeding edge of techno, both with their solo works during the ‘90s, and since their fortuitous fusion on 2003’s ‘Learn Your Lesson’ and ‘Don’t Give Way to Fear’ blueprints set the course for early ‘00s industrial techno. Despite only issuing a handful of releases since reforming for a (sadly, thwarted) Blackest Ever Black show in 2011, they’ve arguably become poster babs and elder statesmen for the scene, with Surgeon pursuing new modular tekkerz whilst Regis has pushed Downwards down some curious, brilliant alleys, beside his own pursuit of swingeing broken techno rhythms. With ‘Active Agents and House Boys’, they re-fuse as BMB to follow their noses for a sexed-up, cantankerous sound forged in the image of febrile ‘90s HoG sessions, that speaks directly to 2024 ‘floors with a hard-on for the tuffest industrial techno girders.

Regis barks and prowls on Surgeon’s livewire, serpentine synth lines and a restless undertow of offset kicks with a ravenous lust and death wish throughout the set. Beginning bullish but subtly, tensely reserved in ‘I Saw the Set Up Man’, we hear Karl’s industro goth punk urges come into play on the dubbed-out stepper ‘Killer I Said’, before they really commit to the pound with ‘This is a Calling’, ratcheting and focussing the energy into classic, pendulous early BMB templates with ‘It’s What You Hide’, and tilting into all out hardcore techno glazed with Karl’s spunky vox on ‘You Said You Want To’, thru the helter skelter arp escalation of ‘Keep It Down’, a hollow-tip bullet ‘It’s in the Heart’, and the hot-blooded meat motors of their closing couplet.

Peggy Gou’s Debut Album is Incoming

Peggy Gou will release her debut album this summer.

According to XL Recordings, who’ll release the album, I Hear You is the culmination of years of work for the Korean-born artist. It features previous singles like “(It Goes Like) Nanana” and her Lenny Kravitz collaboration, “I Believe in Love Again.”

Across 10 tracks, it sees Gou “stepping into the next level of her artistry and boldly claiming her voice through the kaleidoscopic lens of ’90s house music.”

“I Hear You is more than just my debut album,” Gou says. “It embodies countless hours of dedication in my journey to create something timeless, and is a testament to the power of listening, to ourselves and to each other.”

For more information on Gou, check out her 2017 XLR8R feature here.

Tracklisting

01. Your Art
02. Back To One
03. I Believe In Love Again with Lenny Kravitz
04. All That feat. Villano Antillano
05. (It Goes Like) Nanana
06. Lobster Telephone
07. Seoulsi Peggygou (서울시페기구)
08. I Go
09. Purple Horizon
10. 1+1=11

I Hear You LP is scheduled for June 7 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “1+1=11,” the closing track, in full below and pre-order here.

Photo: Park Jong Ha

Brijean to Release New Album on Ghostly

Brijean—the project of singer-songwriter Brijean Murphy and multi-instrumentalist Doug Stuart—will release a new album on Ghostly International.

On Macro, Brijean deliver their “most dynamic songwriting yet,” we’re told. Its 12 tracks are “colorful, collaborative, and deeply fun,” and they elicit an “exploratory vibe with high-tempo peaks and breezy valleys in the psyche.”

It follows 2021’s Feelings, on which they celebrated self-reflection, and 2022’s Angelo, which processed loss, coinciding with the duo’s first headline tour.

To coincide with the announcement, Ghostly has shared “Workin’ On It,” which finds Brijean at their lightest and free.

The track initially started as a living room jam with percussionist Bertie Paradise, then “Doug pulled a loop of Brijean on bongos, Bertie on congas, and a drum machine. He played the two-layered basslines over this loop and the rest felt like it happened in a dream,” explains Murphy.

Later she asked fans to send voice memos in exchange for art, and some of those got peppered into the soundbed.

The track’s visualiser, directed by Bijan Berahimi, sees jump cuts of still photographs of the duo in tracksuits, adding a playful energy reminiscent of ’80s workout videos.

Tracklisting

01. Get Lost
02. Euphoric Avenue
03. Bang Bang Boom
04. After Life
05. Roxy
06. Breathe
07. Counting
08. Counting Sheep
09. Workin’ On It
10. Scenic Route
11. Roller Coaster
12. Laura

Macro LP is scheduled for July 12 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Workin’ On It” in full below and pre-order here.

Photo credit: Swanson Studio

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