Maribel Tafur “Summer Dreams”

Hailing from Lima, Peru, Maribel Tafur is a budding beatmaker who struck out on her own as a producer in 2013 with the Mysteries of Love EP. Having spent the last year performing live and further honing her production skills, Tafur is set to issue her next official release in April, but before then has elected to drop off a new beat, “Summer Dreams.” An appropriately sun-swept affair, “Summer Dreams” makes effective use of a warm guitar sample, running it through a handful of filters, tweaking, and rearranging its relaxed, watery strums across the effort’s entire five-minute run. Adding a few light melodies as the tune progresses, “Summer Dreams” may make use of a rather simple beatmaking formula, but in hands of Tafur, it is clearly still an effective one.

Summer Dreams

Stream New Music from Kode9 and DVA

Maximilian Montgomery

Italian festival Club to Club (which XLR8R named “Italy’s Best Festival” last year) has again partnered with the British Council and Hyperdub founder Kode9 on the latest edition of A Great Symphony for Torino: an “augmented reality soundtrack” dedicated to the festival’s home city. As the project’s artistic director, Kode9 enlisted label fixture DVA, Italian producer Vaghe Stelle, and other local artists to compose six tracks inspired by different city landmarks, using only sounds from those locations. (He also created a seventh track that composites all six original contributions.) The so-called “symphony” can be heard by scanning QR codes on the billboards in the respective areas in Torino, and is also available to stream on the project’s website and SoundCloud page.

A second phase of the project invites listeners to create their own remix of A Great Symphony for Torino tracks using stems from each production; the winner, selected by Club to Club, will compose a track for the next edition of the project. Full details of the competition, which closes on February 15, are available here, and the 2014 edition of A Great Symphony for Torino can be heard below.

DJ EZ, Goldie, Mumdance, and More Billed for Outlook Festival 2015

Photo: Dan Medhurst

Croatian festival Outlook has announced the first wave of acts set to appear at this year’s gathering in September. Dubstep figureheads Mala and Coki return as Digital Mystikz, alongside Mount Kimbie, UK producer Kevin Martin (a.k.a. The Bug), Mumdance, Exit label founder dBridge, longstanding UK garage DJ EZ, Om Unit, newly formed bass duo Sherwood & Pinch, and drum & bass veteran Goldie, among others.

Outlook—which identifies as “celebration of bass music and soundsystem culture”—takes place from September 2 through 6 at Fort Punta Christo in Pula, and additions to the line-up will be revealed in the forthcoming months. In the meantime, the current bill can be viewed here via the festival’s website, and a promo video has also been posted below.

Mano Le Tough, DJ Tennis, and Marcus Worgull Remix Vermont on Upcoming EP

Having already spawned a remix EP overseen entirely by Prins Thomas, the Vermont pair’s self-titled debut LP for Kompakt (a record which we deemed one of 2014’s best) will again be the subject of a forthcoming collection of reworks. For The Other Versions EP, Mano Le Tough (pictured above) and DJ Tennis have been brought in to rework two separate album cuts, while Vermont member—alongside Danilo Plessow (a.k.a. Motor City Drum Ensemble)—Marcus Worgull has taken it upon himself to rework LP standout “Übersprung.”

Set to arrive on February 16 via Kompakt in both vinyl and digital forms, the tracklist and artwork for the upcoming Other Versions remix collection have been included below.

1. Übersprung (Mano LeTough Mix)
2. Übersprung (Marcus Worgull Edit)
3. Majestät (DJ Tennis Edit)

John Frusciante to Debut New Project on Acid Test; Hear a Track Now

After a long run of solo guitar records, John Frusciante (a former member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) has made the surprising announcement that he will launch a new acid project called Trickfinger, which will release a full-length record via the Absurd label’s Acid Test imprint this spring. About five years ago, Frusciante is said to have begun experimenting with electronic hardware, “immersing himself in the unique musical language of Roland’s classic techno machines.” According to the celebrated rock musician, “I found that the languages machines forced programmers to think in had caused them to discover a new musical vocabulary,” and so he spent a number of years attempting to learn that vocabulary, which he believes has “introduced many new principles of rhythm, melody, and harmony” to music.

Along with the announcement, Frusciante has shared the stripped-down opener from his upcoming LP, “After Below”, which evokes vintage acid with a tweaked 303 standing at the forefront. The production can be streamed in full below before Trickfinger sees its release on April 6.

1. After Below
2. Before Above
3. Rainover
4. Sain
5. Exlam
6. 85h
7. 4:30
8. Phurip

Floorplan, Ben UFO, Nina Kraviz, Clark, Marcel Dettmann, and More Billed for Movement 2015

The initial line-up for the upcoming 2015 edition of Detroit’s Movement Festival has been revealed. Among the artists listed are a clutch of internationally respected DJs including the likes of Ben UFO, Nina Kraviz (who turned in an excellent DJ-Kicks mix album this week and is pictured above) Floorplan (a.k.a. Robert Hood), Marcel Dettmann, Carl Craig, Maya Jane Coles, Ben Klock, Dixon, Richie Hawtin, Midland, Steffi, Matrixxman, and this week’s XLR8R podcast contributor Anthony Parasole, among others. In addition, a number of live acts have also been billed for this year’s festivities, with Clark, Shigeto, KiNK, Recondite, Osborne, and Kangding Ray all set to perform live during the course of the three-day event.

Taking place from May 23 – 25, the full list for Movement’s first wave of artist announcements can be peeped on the flier below, while more information on the fesival can be found here.

Guido Preps New EP for State of Joy

Photo: Rory Mizen

After remaining largely silent following the release of his Moods of Future Joy LP via Tectonic in 2013, Bristol beatmaker Guido will return in February with a new effort for his own State of Joy imprint. Built around “Moment”—an “addictive, up-beat” track which features the vocals of Emma-Lou—the upcoming EP will offer an original version and a “Joy Mix” of the track, with both productions coming accompanied by their respective instrumentals. Said to be a hook-laden affair, the original version of the track focuses on building patterns from horn and piano stabs, in addition to Emma-Lou’s soulful vocal efforts, while the “Joy Mix” is said to come with “a unique dance-floor appeal…[featuring] low subs, and bubbly, cutting rhythms.”

The Moment/Joy Mix EP is set to arrive on February 23; in the meantime, the artwork and complete tracklist for Guido’s upcoming record have been included below.

1. Moment (feat. Emma-Lou)
2. Moment (Instrumental)
3. Moment (Joy Mix)
4. Moment (Joy Mix Instrumental)

Torvvo “Light Traveling Beneath Me (Reduced Mix)”

The latest effort to land on Seattle’s fast-growing Hush Hush label is the Light Traveling Beneath Me EP, a new outing from 22-year-old, Pittsburgh-based artist Tom Holroyd (a.k.a. Torvvo). The focus of the record (which dropped earlier this week) is Torvvo’s “Light Traveling Beneath Me” production, which appears in its original form and gets the remix treatment from the likes of Hanssen, Secret School, Faades, USF, and others in the course of the EP. Here, we have Holroyd’s own “Reduced Mix” version of the track, which strips the tune down to more efficient form, while putting an extra focus on the track’s overlapping patterns of bouncing chords and cascading melodic layers. Torvvo’s “Reduced Mix” can be downloaded below, where the producer’s original version of “Light Traveling Beneath Me” is also available to stream in full.

Light Traveling Beneath Me (Torvvo Reduced Mix)

Lotic Announces Debut EP for Tri Angle

Originally from Texas, J’Kerian Morgan (a.k.a. Lotic) cut his teeth as a member of Berlin’s Janus collective, which also features experimental musicians M.E.S.H. (a recent XLR8R podcast contributor) and KaBlam. Following last year’s Damsel in Distress mixtape, the rising producer has now announced plans to drop the five-song Heterocetera EP, which will serve as his debut release on New York’s Tri Angle label. To celebrate the announcement, Morgan has shared a stream the EP’s anxious title track, which pairs harsh textural loops with hip-hop and grime-indebted rhythms. Until Heterocetera drops on March 3, the record’s title cut can be heard below, where the upcoming EP’s complete tracklist can also be found.

1. Suspension
2. Heterocetera
3. Slay
4. Phlegm
5. Underneath

Sónar Expands 2015 Festival Line-Up

Spain’s preeminent music festival, Sónar, has announced a second round of artists for its upcoming 22nd edition. 38 new names have been released, including beloved LA beatmaker Flying Lotus, recent Björk collaborator Arca, UK producer Jamie xx, FKA twigs, Siriusmodeselektor (a.k.a. Siriusmo and Modeselektor), and German icon Roman Flügel. Finally, ’80s pop legends Duran Duran will headline the summer festival, held at the Fira Montjuic (Sónar By Day) and Fira Gran Via (Sónar By Night) venues.

Passes are still available for the three-day event, which takes place from June 18 to 20 and will feature more than 130 performances. Previously announced acts include Autechre, Sophie, Vessel, Lee Gamble, Holly Herndon, Dorian Concept, Randomer, and the Chemical Brothers. The full Sónar lineup can be found here.

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