Preview Mumdance and Logos’ Upcoming Album on Tectonic

Earlier this month, Mumdance and Logos announced that a collaborative album was in the works for Pinch’s Tectonic label. Entitled Proto, the effort won’t see an official release until later this month, but clips for all ten of its tracks can now be streamed via the label’s SoundCloud.

As we previously reported, the record finds the two UK producers (both affiliates of London’s now-infamous grime club night Boxed) zeroing in on the “very brief sparks of innovation when new scenes were just forming and genre rules and paradigms were still grey areas,” with a specific focus on “early bleep track days when imported American techno was starting to be appropriated by the UK, the 93-94 proto era when hardcore was morphing into jungle, and later when the darker sound of tech-step reared its mechanical, dystopian head.”

Proto officially lands on February 16, and album previews can be heard below.

Download dBridge’s Remix of Machinedrum

Photo: Andrew Defrancesco

Originally slated to appear on a remix 12″ for Machinedrum‘s (pictured above) 2013 Vapor City LP, a previously unreleased remix of the prolific producer’s “Rise N Fall” track by drum & bass veteran dBridge has now been offered as a free download. “This is an unreleased remix of ‘Rise N Fall’ that dBridge made over a year ago,” Machinedrum explains on his SoundCloud. “It was meant to be on a Vapor City remix 12-inch that never happened, unfortunately. Lucky you, you get it for free!”

Titled the “Fall N Rise” remix (perhaps because the track begins in swelling ambience before its full rhythmic force engages), dBridge’s rework can be streamed and downloaded below. In addition, the longstanding UK producer and Exit label head’s past XLR8R podcast can be revisited here.

Tri Angle Reveals Upcoming EP from Rabit; Hear a Track Now

Photo: Lane Stewart

After announcing it would release a new EP from Janus collective member Lotic last week, the Tri Angle label has today revealed plans to issue a new EP from Houston-based beatmaker Rabit (another producer with associations to Berlin’s Janus crew). The forthcoming Baptizm EP will serve as Rabit’s debut on the label, and follows behind a steady output of 12″s, mixtapes, and other efforts including a feature on Keysound affiliate Logo‘s excellent Cold Mission LP (which landed in 2013).

Set to feature four grinding, mechanical grime hybrids, Rabit’s Baptizm EP will see its official release on March 17. For now, the record’s release is preceded by a full stream of EP cut “Bloody Eye,” which can be heard via the player included below.

1. Imp
2. Bloody Eye
3. Hex
4. Straps

RVNG Readies Upcoming FRKWYS Album from Robert Lowe and Ariel Kalma

RVNG has announced that it will release the 12th installment in FRKWYS, the NYC label’s ongoing “music, film, and event series celebrating intergenerational collaboration,” with a new project from Chicago musician Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (who also works under the name Lichens) and seasoned French ambient artist Ariel Kalma, who has now composed meditative music for over four decades. The pair’s We Know Each Other Somehow LP is said to have been recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, where Lowe and Kalma created the “six extended evocations of environmental ambience and entrancing naturalism” that make up the album. To give us all a better idea of where the two artistic minds meet on the forthcoming record, RVNG has shared a full stream of “Mille Voix” a dense, meandering ambient exploration which fuses together sheets of electronic textures, vocal drones, and airy woodwinds; the meditative composition (and its accompanying video) have been included below.

Furthermore, the release of Lowe’s and Kalma’s FRKWYS album installment will also conicide with the release of Sunshine Soup, a feature-length “exploratory documentary based on the collaboration.” Directed by visual artists/designers Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid, the visual piece is said to take shape as a “non-linear film… keyed to the outer-boundary music created by Lowe and Kalma.” A trailer for Sunshine Soup has also been included below; both it and the Lowe’s and Kalma’s We Know Each Other Somehow album will see their official release via RVNG on April 13.

1. Magick Creek
2. Mille Voix
3. Gongmo Kalma Lowe
4. Strange Dreams
5. Wasp Happening
6. Miracle Mile
Palo Alter Reality (Bonus Track)
Mille Voix (Infinite Version) (Bonus Track)

Dorian Concept Preps Remix EP for Ninja Tune; Stream Tim Hecker’s Contribution Now

Austrian artist Oliver Thomas Johnson (a.k.a. Dorian Concept, pictured above) released his critically acclaimed Joined Ends LP last October on veteran London label Ninja Tune. Now, the Vienna-based producer has announced a follow-up remix EP called Joined Ends Remixes. Featuring dystopian juke artist Kuedo, ambient composer Tim Hecker, modular aficionado Nathan Fake, rootsy beatsmith/guitarist Bibio, and Numbers affiliate Redinho, the record’s five remixes are said to “cover both the experimental and the dancefloor.” Before the EP is released on April 6, Tim Hecker’s feedback-driven rework of “The Sky Opposite” can be heard below, where the upcoming record’s full tracklist can also be found.

1. Ann River, Mn (Kuedo Remix)
2. Draft Culture (Nathan Fake Remix)
3. The Sky Opposite (Tim Hecker Remix)
4. Ann River, Mn (Bibio Remix)
5. Clap Track 4 (Redinho Remix)

Donky Pitch Releases Free Remix Compilation

More than five years ago, vibrant UK imprint Donky Pitch began as a club night in Brighton, hosting artists from around the world and building a strong local sound in the process. Now, the label has quietly released a free remix collection on their Bandcamp page. Featuring contributions from Scottish producer Lockah, New York-based artist The Range, London affiliate Slugabed, and label newcomer Mount Bank (who will be releasing a new EP via the label in the coming weeks), Remixes is currently being offered as a name-your-price download. Like the Donky Pitch: Five collection that preceded it in October, this remix record condenses the history of Donky Pitch with previously released standouts as well as a few exclusive new efforts. The new Remixes collection can be streamed in full below and downloaded here.

Listen to the B-Side Cut from Seven Davis Jr.’s Upcoming 12″ for Ninja Tune

Rising LA artist Seven Davis Jr. made waves last year with releases for the Classic and Apron imprints (as well as garnering a spot in XLR8R‘s Best New Artists of 2014 list), culminating in a deal with Ninja Tune. After announcing his first effort for the label last month (and sharing a stream of the record’s lead track), the gifted vocalist/producer has now shared the b-side cut to his imminent new single, Wild Hearts. “Let Somebody Love You” holds its own with the a-side, upping the funky house quotient with generous layers of Davis Jr.’s falsetto harmonies and some ping-ponging organ stabs. Before Wild Hearts drops on February 9, the record’s b-side cut can be streamed in full below.

Prefuse 73 Details Upcoming LP, Shares New Track

After first revealing plans to issue a three-part release series via the Temporary Residence label last month, veteran beatmaker Prefuse 73 has now shared the full details of his forthcoming LP for the label, Rivington Não Rio. The 11-track record is billed somewhat as a return to form for the veteran producer, whose Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and One Word Extinguisher LPs still stand as seminal releases in the world of electronic beats. “I’ve come back to hyper focusing, immersing myself in the sounds, rhythms, and formations that created Prefuse 73 in the first place,” the artist born Guillermo S. Herren explains in a press release. “Recently, I’ve found a new life in the whole process of refining what I’ve created over the years as Prefuse. Right now I’m at my most confident and comfortable since ’05/’06.”

Prefuse 73’s Rivington Não Rio LP will see its official release on May 12, to be preceded and followed by a pair of EPs which will also see their release via the Temporary Residence imprint. In the meantime, album cut “Infrared” (which features the vocals of one Sam Dew) can be streamed in full below, where the full tracklist for Prefuse 73’s forthcoming album has also been included.

1. Señora 95 (Intro)
2. Applauded Assumptions
3. Quiet One (feat. Rob Crow)
4. Through A Lit And Darkened Path (Pts. 1+2)
5. Inside
6. Infrared (feat. Sam Dew)
7. Jacinto Lyric Range
8. 140 Jabs Interlude (feat. Milo & Busdriver)
9. See More Than Just Stars (feat. Helado Negro)
10. Mojav Mating Call
11. Open Nerve Farewells

Akra “Warm & Pretty”

Later this month, London’s Teng label will launch the digital arm of its efforts with the Sonnox Reworked EP, a five-track effort which will find a handful of remixers (and the artist himself) reworking Akra‘s “Sonnox” production. To help spread word of the digital EP’s forthcoming release, the budding London producer has passed along a bonus original cut, “Warm & Pretty.” Spanning seven minutes, the appropriately titled production is a peaceful dancefloor excursion, one heavy on atmosphere and occasionally touched by light piano melodies. “Warm & Pretty” can be grabbed below before the Sonnox Reworked EP—featuring contributions from Gnork, Owain K, and Yard One—sees its official relase on February 16.

Warm & Pretty

Aphex Twin Shares Over 40 Unreleased Tracks

Though the details still remain somewhat hazy, it appears that last week Richard D. James (a.k.a Aphex Twin) shared 110 previously unreleased tracks on SoundCloud under the member name “user48736353001.” Today, the unpredictable British artist appears to have uploaded 42 more demos, short ideas, and alternate takes, which can be streamed and downloaded for free via the “user48736353001” SoundCloud account. The new batch features the breezy acid jam “Cottage4 Af 1,” skittish rhythmic test “T08+4,” and a Selected Ambient Works-era cut called “bob Morgan” that samples dialogue from Robocop. The latest deluge of Aphex Twin tracks can be heard here, while a playlist of his first 110 uploads can be found below.

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