Autechre, the British duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, have surprise released a new album, PLUS.
PLUS, available for digital stream and download, comprises nine new tracks, and it follows hot on the heels of SIGN, the pair’s first standard length Autechre album since 2013’s Exai. There’s no other information shared on the release.
A vinyl and CD version will land on November 20.
Tracklisting
01. DekDre Scap B 02. 7FM ic 03. marhide 04. ecol4 05. lux 106 mod 06. X4 07. ii.pre esc 08. esle 0 09. TM1 open
Khruangbin, the trio of Laura Lee Ochoa (bass), Mark Speer (guitar), and Donald “DJ” Johnson (drums), have compiled the next Late Night Tales mix.
Scheduled for December release, Khruangbin’s contribution to the series is characterized by a selection of tracks that cross borders and cultures, from Asian pop to Nigerian reggae and Japanese mellow groove to Latina flavours.
The mix features South Korean rock band Sanullim, who contribute “Don’t Go,” plus a pair of African bangers from Nigerian Maxwell Udoh and Roha Band, from Ethiopia. And then there’s a diversion to Belarus for Песняры and then onto Madrid, Spain for Paloma San Basilio with “Contigo.” Texas, Khruangbin’s home state, is represented with work from David Marez and Kelly Doyle.
“We definitely wanted to cover as much global territory as possible,” Khruangbin say. “So it was the globe and then home. We wanted to show the treasures from our hometown, or people from our hometown that the rest of the world probably doesn’t know.”
In conjunction with the announcement, Khruangbin have shared their cover of Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness,” which is an exclusive to the mix.
The track became a staple in a medley that the band plays live, Johnson says. “Specifically, one of my favourite things about it is the tone of the bass, which really reminds me a lot of Laura Lee’s bass which has this chunky, peanut butter, rich tone. It was always a special moment, getting to that song, because it just did something to the room everywhere.”
The Late Night Tales series was established back in 2001, and has since seen releases from the likes of Hot Chip, Floating Points, David Holmes, Bonobo, Jon Hopkins, and Röyksopp.
Tracklisting
01. Carlos Santana “Illuminations” 02. Brilliantes Del Veulo “I Know That” 03. Nazia Hassan “Khushi” 04. Kelly Doyle “DRM” 05. Sanulim “Dont Go” 06. Maxwell Udoh “I Like It” 07. David Marez “Enseñame” 08. Gerald Lee “Can You Feel The Love” 09. Justine & The Victorian Punks “Still You” 10. George Yanagi “祭ばやしが聞こえる」のテ ーマ” 11. Песняры “Зачарованная моя” 12. Khruangbin “Summer Madness” (Exclusive Track) 13. Paloma San Basilio “Contigo” 14. Roha Band “Yetikimt Abeba” 15. Tierney Malone & Geoffrey Muller “Trans- mission for Jehn: Gnossienne No 1” (Exclusive Spoken Word Track) 16. Khruangbin (Continuous mix)
LateNightTales: Khruangbin LP is scheduled for December 4 release. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Summer Madness” below.
LSDXOXO has shared a new mixtape, available for free download now.
Waiting 2 Exhale is the first full release that LSDXOXO, real name Rashaad Glasglow, has shared in two years. In 2019, he released an exclusive track via XLR8R+ alongside cuts from Minimal Violence and Ojalá Systems.
The release spans eight tracks and takes cues from ballroom, R&B, hip-hop, and techno. It even features Glasgow’s own vocals.
The full mixtape is available for free download, but there’s also a PayPal link for direct donations.
Glasgow’s work is in-your-face and smartly constructed, taking pop culture, reshaping it, and presenting it through the LSDXOXO lens. The roots of this approach can be found in Philadelphia, where Glasgow connected with music through cassette tapes purchased on his way back from school.
Download Waiting 2 Exhalehere and stream it below.
Tracklisting
01. Good Girl 02. Dick Like Crack 03. Sis, Don’t Spiral 04. Summer In The West 05. Shit Hits different 06. Taking Me High 07. Coming Down 08. To The Gods
Flora Yin-Wong, sometimes known simply as Flora, is a London-born, Chinese-Malaysian producer working with field recordings and dissonance. She’s previously contributed to PAN’s 2017 mono no aware compilation and put out a tape release on PTP after the New York label discovered her music on Soundcloud.
Holy Palm appears like a woven tapestry of interconnecting recollections, we’re told, and it’s founded on an extensive repository of field recordings made over the past six years.
Across 10 tracks, Flora tiles aural snapshots of far-flung places, from an abandoned Arctic settlement in Svalbard to an accidental recording of a monk chanting prayers on a radio in rural Chania, Crete, into an investigation of how ritual punctuates and gives meaning to life.
Tracklisting
01. Tirta Empul 02. Vale 03. Martyrr 04. Bitterness 05. Aurochs 06. Śūnyatā 07. Terra 08. Wood For The Trees 09. Diyu 10. Of The Ferns 11. Loci I 12. Loci II
Holy Palm LP is scheduled for October 30 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Tirta Empul” in full below.
A product of Enfield, north London, Loraine James is one of electronic music’s more adventurous artists, lauded for effortlessly blending grime, jungle, and IDM with woozy ambiance and jazz. Nowhere is this more apparent than on For You And I, her debut album exploring the complexities of being in a queer relationship, released on Hyperdub.
The artwork for that album, a photo of James holding a photo of her estate from 10 years ago, serves as an indicator of how her sound pallete took shape. James found music through her mother, a teaching assistant who instilled in her a voracious musical curiosity that she satisfied by indulging in the multiculturalism of the British capital. This took her into jazz, electronica, drill, and grime, and later taught her the basic tools for digital production while studying at University of Westminster. She began to document her exposure on 2017’s Detail, a self-released collection of ambient tracks that pricked Hyperdub’s ears.
Where Detail was a exercise in applying her production skills, For You And I was more reflective. It’s rhythmically free-flowing and sprawling, produced with a jazz mentality. She followed it up withNothing, a four-track exhibition in integrating diverse influences into cohesive and emotive pieces, and she celebrates it with an XLR8R podcast.
At one hour in length, James’ XLR8R mix is filled with her favorite tracks from lockdown, coming from close friends or discovered on Bandcamp. It’s fully improvised, and contrasts the delicate and abrasive as it rips through IDM and glitch from LSDXOXO, India Jordan, and Hence Therefore. It’s the latest demonstration of James’ unbridled creativity.
01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been making a lot of music and just chilling.
02. How has the lockdown period been for you?
It’s been pretty up and down for me; everyday is the same, you know.
03. It’s been a tough time for DJs such as yourself. What’s your feeling towards how the government has treated the arts?
It just seems that they don’t really care about the live music industry, which is confusing considering how much it brings to the economy.
04. What music have you been listening to?
A lot of old stuff that I used to listen to as a teenager, but this time has also allowed me to check out more new releases. I’ve listening to Headie One quite a bit.
05. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded it at home on Ableton as I can’t DJ!
06. What can we expect with it?
It’s pretty banger filled for the indoors!
07. How did you select the tracks that you’ve included?
Lots of the tracks are from friends, plus records I’ve found through Bandcamp.
Tracklisting
01. 8ULENTINA “BODY 1” (Self-Released) 02. Alexis “Refractions” (All Centre) 03. Seven Orbits “Ravevv101” (SVBKVLT) 04. Kingdom “Arch Slide” (feat. Uniiqu3 & Tre Oh Fie) (Self-Released) 05. Oli XL “Clumsy” (Bloom) 06. LSDXOXO “FENTANYL” (Self-Released) 07. Arca “Watch” ft. Shygirl (XL Recordings) 08. India Jordan “I’m Waiting (Just 4 U)” (Local Action) 09. Headie One x Fred again.. “Charades” (Relentless Recordings) 10. Kilig “Is It Time” (Self-Released) 11. hmurd “Yummy Axe” (Early Reflex) 12. Hence Therefore “Maladapt” (Early Reflex) 13. Martyn “Shook Up” (Self-Released) 14. Human Resources “Shaq (Stem Edit) (Pressure Dome) 15. Joe Craven “Dyeus” (Pressure Dome)
XLR8R has now joined Mixcloud Select, meaning that to hear the podcast offline you will need to subscribe to our Select channel, or subscribe to XLR8R+ to download the file. The move to Mixcloud Select will ensure that all the producers with music featured in our mixes get paid. You can read more about it here.
Full XLR8R+ Members can download the podcast below.
Actress has shared a new short film, directed by Lee Bootee and featuring Zsela, Yves Tumor, Sampha, and Aura T-09, all key collaborators from his new album. Besides celebrating the release, the film pays homage to Wim Wenders’ 1987 classic “Wings Of Desire,” and it plays over album snippets.
Available now, Karma & Desire is a “romantic tragedy set between the heavens and the underworld.” It covers “the same sort of things that I like to talk about—love, death, technology, the questioning one one’s being,” Actress, real name Darren Cunningham, says.
In 2017, Cunningham released AZD, his sixth record, which he followed with another project called Young Paint. He’d been teasing this latest album for several months. In July, he released his 88mixtape, a precursor of sorts that accompanied a PDF. outlining Karma & Desire.
Karma & Desire is out now on Ninja Tune, and available to order here.
Tracklisting
01. Fire And Light 02. Angels Pharmacy feat. Zsela 03. Remembrance feat. Zsela 04. Reverend 05. Leaves Against The Sky 06. Save 07. VVY feat. Sampha 08. XRAY 09. Gliding Squares 10. Many Seas, Many Rivers feat. Sampha 11. Loveless feat. Aura T-09 12. Public Life feat. Vanessa Benelli Mosell 13. Fret 14. Loose feat. Christel Well 15. Turin feat. Aura T-09 16. Diamond X 17. Walking Flames feat. Sampha
Little Snake, real name Gino Serpentini, resides in Calgary, Alberta. His music deconstructs dancefloor norms, balancing intricacy with explosive bass weight. He has released three EPs on Brainfeeder, most recently last year’s Lost in Spirals, informed by textural noise, acid techno, and jungle. You can read more about him in his XLR8R feature here.
This is the first time that Serpentini has teamed up with Amon Tobin, whose life and work in electronic music has produced some of the most important, era-defining records of his time.
“Loophole” is the “embodiment of a portal in which transfiguration occurs,” Serpentini tells XLR8R. “A transfiguration in which we return to a heartspace beyond all delusions within this 3D hologram and return to a state of peace in which we truly know.”
Tracklisting
01. Loophole
Loophole is available digitally on Brainfeeder Records. Order it here and stream it in full below.
Kaidi & NK-OK have released Time Capsule, a debut EP bringing together the sounds of the African diaspora and the streets of London, while leaning on their shared love of grime, Jersey house, and experimental jazz.
Kaidi & NK-OK have been part of the new age jazz scene for about five years— NK-OK as part of Jazztronica Duo and Blue Lab Beats, and Kaidi playing saxophone for Tom Misch and Yusef Dayes.
Time Capsule serves as a soundscape of London, which holds an eclectic mix of sounds musically and otherwise, the pair explain.
“Sweet Shop” serves to elicit the rushing adrenaline of city stimulus in the listener, whilst the title track reflects the city’s diverse musical influences and their amalgamation in the capital. “Breath,” featuring Theo Croker, is fleeting respite in the constant uproar that is the city, before “Rush Hour” embodies that roar—the haste and city sonics coming to claim the forefront once more.
As reflected in the new video, the record is inspired by the concepts of rejection, dependency, nostalgia, and loneliness. Musically, we can expect dream pop, shoegaze, and electronica.
Broadrick is known as a founding member of Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music. He formed Jesu after Godflesh’s disbanding in 2002, and also releases as JK Flesh.
Terminus is scheduled for release through Broadrick’s own Avalanche Recordings imprint on November 13. You can purchase “Alone” on Bandcamp here.
Tracklisting
01. When I Was Small 02. Alone 03. Terminus 04. Sleeping In 05. Consciousness 06. Disintegrating Wings 07. Don’t Wake Me Up 08. Give Up
Rakei, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from New Zealand, is a Ninja Tune signee, having released his third album, Origin, on the British label last year. This is the first album he’s released as Dan Kye, a new project born several years ago that’s come to fruition during lockdown.
After meeting Zero online whilst living in Australia, Rakei moved to London in 2014. The same day he landed, he went to a Rhythm Section party to meet Zero, and it was here that he first got a taste for house music. He enjoyed the label’s ability to draw on both live and electronic talent, and when Zero asked him for some productions for the parties, the idea for Dan Kye was born.
“Rhythm Section INTL was my entry point into dancefloor orientated-music, and it was Bradley [Zero] who asked me whether I could head in that direction so he could play my music out in the clubs,” Rakei says. “Dan Kye has still got melodies, but the main focus is to keep it high energy.” The moniker draws on the uplifting elements of house and mixes them with the emotion that comes with Jordan Rakei.
Recorded with just a laptop, extra live instruments, and guest musicians, Small Moments transcends across electronica, jazz, and funk. The record offers listeners a journey through more floor-heavy tracks such as “Mogeri” and “Raro” to more groove-infused offerings such as “Rainbow Road,” streaming below. Tracks like “Sober” take on a more lyrical feel.
