Pîrvu Next on DeWalta’s Meander With Double-Vinyl EP

Pîrvu is next up on DeWalta’s Meander label with a double-vinyl EP, 1.9.3.6.

The EP follows recent releases by Alci (Can’t Dance EP) and Ludwig & Sallaerts (Entre-Acte LP) on Meander, and it’s comprised of seven varied tracks that trace modern house lines, while also touching on downtempo and ambient.

Pîrvu, who has been releasing music for no more than a year, is a resident of Guesthouse in Bucharest, Romania. He’s inspired by UK sounds of the ’90s, and also makes music as The Apricots with Alexandra, combining experimental tunes with jazz, trip-hop, and hip-hop. This year, Pîrvu has already released EPs on Herodot’s Unanim Records and Clovis and Matt Foley’s Understory.

Tracklisting

A1. C’est La Vie Tu Joci Parșiv
A2. 1.9.
B1. Test
B2. Jump
C. Simpozion
D1. Condimental
D2. 3.9.

1.9.3.6. EP will be released on October 16 on two 180-gram records, encased in a sleeve with full cover artwork. You can pre-order the EP via Decks Records, with snippets streaming via the player below.

Watch a Dark and Poignant New Video From Ink Project

Ink Project has shared the video for a new collaborative single with Bristol-based Trinidadian-born Coreysan, out now on Blind Colour.

The single, Feeding The Fire, is the first new material since 2016’s Satellite On album, and it’s the first taste of the project’s forthcoming album, Rhythm Spirit.

Drawing inspiration from The Prodigy, Bugz In The Attic, and Grace Jones, the single is a unique take on 7/4 broken-beat dub, with the groove providing a perfect framework for Coreysan’s poignant vocal delivery, which centers around “his passionate desire to never stop exploring his craft, despite the many setbacks and hardships experienced along the way,” the label explains.

Alongside the video, which was filmed in Paris by Alex Balcon and produced and edited by Jamie Chipman and Nigel Stafford, the single drops with a set of remixes from renowned reggae and dub producers Gaudi and Babe Roots, dub techno artist El Choop, and Manchester-based Soulection affiliate Sivey.

Tracklisting

01. Feeding The Fire
02. Feeding The Fire (Babe Roots Remix)
03. Feeding The Fire (El Choop Remix)
04. Feeding The Fire (Gaudi Remix)
05. Feeding The Fire (Sivey Remix)

You can find the full stream of the video below, with the single and its remixes available to purchase here.

patten’s New Album is His Fourth in a Year

patten has released Aegis, a new album.

Aegis is the fourth album that patten, a London-based producer, has released in 12 months. Glow, an entirely beatless effort surfing austere, emotive landscapes, and GLO))) landed earlier this year. These follow last year’s FLEX, also on 555-5555, and 2016’s Ψ on Warp Records, which stemmed from live performance.

There’s no information available about the release, other than that it features “Ten new portals. Rogue data.”

Helmed by a producer known only as “D,” patten is a solo project purveying an ultramodern, potent strain of shapeshifting, prismatic club music. On previous releases Psi and 2017’s Requiem, “D” was joined by a guest vocalist.

Tracklisting

01. Labyrinth
02. Heat Loss
03. Cloak
04. Gravity Bond
05. Torque
06. Drip
07. Cerulean
08. Optics
09. Goo
10. Vertigo

Aegis LP is available now. It’s available to stream below and order here. A video for “Torque” is also streaming.

Robert Hood Signs to Rekids for New Album

Photo | Marie Staggat

Detroit pioneer Robert Hood will join Rekids label with a 14-track album titled Mirror Man this November.

Mirror Man is Hood’s first album for Radio Slave‘s label, and it follows a busy few years making music and touring as Floorplan alongside Lyric, his daughter. We’re told that the record spans minimalist techno, downtempo, and house music, and that it showcases his innate knack for crafting paired back but intricate rhythms that deliver punch and soul.

A founding member of Underground Resistance with Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills, Hood is one of techno’s originators and his decorated career spans three decades. The American artist and his M-Plant label laid down the blueprint for minimal techno, and 1994s Minimal Nation on Axis was a definitive album that cemented Hood’s reputation as one of the greats to emerge from the Motor City. Since then, Hood has gone on to release on Tresor, Peacefrog, Music Man Records, Dekmantel, and more.

Tracklisting

01. Through A Looking Glass Darkly
02. Nothing Stops Detroit
03. Fear Not
04. Black Mirror
05. Falling Apart
06. Run Bobby, Run
07. Freeze
08. A System Of Mirrors
09. Face In The Water
10. A Shattered Image
11. Ignite A War
12. Prism
13. 7 Mile Dog
14. The Cure

Mirror Man LP drops on Rekids on November 20. Pre-order links and streams will be added in as they become available.

Aphex Twin is Teasing Something…

Aphex Twin billboards and posters have popped up in cities across the world, suggesting something new is on the way.

The news broke when music equipment manufacturer Novation began posting photos of the billboards and posters in Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Bristol, with a simple note saying that more information is incoming on October 20, and the hashtag #WeAreNovation.

History would suggest that something new is on the way, because subliminal advertising and logos have often heralded new releases. Before Syro, released in 2014 via Warp, the logo flew on a blimp over London.

Given that it’s Novation, it’s likely that what’s being teased is new Novation software or hardware. Last year, the brand announced Richard D. James’ AFX Mode for the Bass Station II.

We’ll add more information as it’s made available.

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Download an Exclusive Mix from Joe Goddard in Support of Hot Chip’s LateNightTales

Joe Goddard of Hot Chip has shared an exclusive mix with XLR8R, available to download below.

The mix directly represents the sound of Hot Chip’s LateNightTales compilation, the hugely popular artist-curated series, available now.

Alongside their own ethereal cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says” and three new Hot Chip tracks, the band selected music from some of the most engaging artists of the 21st century, taking in pulsating electronic rhythms, hypnotic grooves, and left-field ambience.

As Hot Chip with Alexis Taylor, Goddard has received a Grammy Award nomination (“Ready for the Floor“) and a Mercury Prize nomination (“The Warning’). They released their seventh studio album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, last year.

Referring to the mix, Goddard says: “I tried to represent the sound of our LateNightTales compilation by beginning with music referencing dancehall, Balearic house, and hip-hop.” Expect a slo-mo, late night mix that is a little twisted and definitely eclectic.

The LateNightTales series was established back in 2001 with Fila Brazillia taking to the controls. Since then, the series has seen releases from the likes of The Flaming Lips, Floating Points, David Holmes, Bonobo, Jon Hopkins, and many more.

Late Night Tales: Hot Chip is available now. You can order the compilation here, and download the mix here.

Norway’s Smerz Tease New Record with Two New Songs

Photo | Benjamin Barron and Bror August

Norway’s Smerz have returned with two new songs, “The favourite” and “Rap interlude,” shared in the form of a trailer for an as-yet unannounced project known as “Believer.”

The duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg decamped for a time from Copenhagen, Denmark, where they cut their teeth in the city’s vibrant live music scene, to Oslo in their native Norway. They now divide their time between the two cities, and the move has helped to replace Copenhagen’s night crawler spirit that permeates their earlier EPs Okey and Have fun with something more feral and unhinged.

This can be understood when you hear “The favourite.” Motzfeldt’s vocals reach an opera singer’s range, a testament to her years of singing in choir when she was younger, while Stoltenberg plays some grand and stately strings on the computer.

The trailer, written, directed, and produced by Benjamin Barron with costumes by Bror August, visualizes the group’s nostalgic influences.

The favourite / Rap interlude is available now via XL Recordings. Meanwhile, you can stream the trailer below and order the release digitally here.

Hear Another New Track from Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire has shared “The Power (Of Their Knowledge),” the latest track to be taken from the group’s eagerly anticipated new album, Shadow of Fear.

Shadow of Fear is Cabaret Voltaire’s first new album in 26 years, and also the first Cabaret Voltaire release with Richard H. Kirk as the band’s sole member. The tone and personality of Cabaret Voltaire is ingrained into its core as it dances across techno, dub, house, and 1970s kosmische. “It’s a voyage through the history of electronic music that arrives at a new destination,” Mute, the label behind the release, explains.

Originally active between 1973 and 1994, Cabaret Voltaire featured Chris Watson until 1981 and Stephen Mallinder until 1994. The group remained inactive for 20 years until, with Kirk as the sole remaining member, a 2014 performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival.

We’re told that the pandemic had no influence on what Kirk was doing, because all the vocal content was already in place before the pandemic set in. But maybe due to his nature of “being a bit paranoid,” he says, there are “hints in there about stuff going a bit weird and capturing the current state of affairs.”

Shadow of Fear is scheduled for November 20 release. To read more about the release head here, and stream “The Power (Of Their Knowledge)” below. “Vasto,” a previously shared track, is available to stream here.

Jabu’s New Album is Filled with Deep, Sedative Soul

Jabu will release Sweet Company, their second album, next month.

Jabu is the collaboration of producer Amos Childs and vocalists Jasmine Butt and Alex Rendall. In contrast to the Sleep Heavy, the Bristol, United Kingdom group’s debut album, on Blackest Ever Black, Sweet Company‘s deep, sedative soul feels like more of a lover’s outing than an unflinching exploration of grief. We’re told the release is optimistic, and that it looks outwards as well as inwards, influenced by trip-hop, dub, video-game soundtracks, nature, and shoegaze.

As before, however, Butt’s voice is a textural, painterly instrument, layered and blurred into abstraction, resisting the limits of language. Rendall, meanwhile, takes a more narrative, confessional, and pop tack.

Daniela Dyson, the British-Afro-Colombian artist, contributes her vivid, energising poetic mysticism to two tracks. Sunun also features.

The album is released via the group’s own do you have peace? label.

Tracklisting

A1. Water Temple
A2. Slow Down ft. Daniela Dyson
A3. Lately ft. Sunun
A4. Pretend
B1. Selfish
B2. Paper Thin
B3. Blood Pink
B4. Us Alone
B5. Sweet Company ft. Daniela Dyson

Sweet Company LP is scheduled for November 13 release. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Water Temple” in full below.

Bicep’s New Studio Album is Designed for Live Performance

Photo: Dan Medhurst

Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson will release Isles, their new album as Bicep, in January.

Two years in the making, Isles expands on the energy of the London pair’s 2017 debut, Bicep, while digging deeper into the sounds, experiences, and emotions that have influenced their work since. It references such things as the joy of discovering Hindi vocals and snatches of Bulgarian choirs drifting from passing cars, and it features Clara La San and cellist Julia Kent.

While the album is made for home, the tracks are designed to evolve in their different iterations from record to live show. The live version will be “much, much harder,” McBriar says.

Alongside the announcement, the pair have shared “Apricots,” which encapsulates the disparate influences across the release by sampling traditional Malawian singers, recorded in 1958 and released via the label Beating Heart, and a 1950s performance by The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir. Steeped in a shimmering bath of warm synths, its spare percussion and arresting vocals bring the big room chills of ’90s rave, while evoking something lost or forlorn. The accompanying video, also released today, is directed by Mark Jenkin.

Earlier this year, McBriar and Ferguson released “Atlas,” which you can stream here and opens the album.

Tracklisting

01. Atlas
02. Cazenove
03. Apricots
04. Saku (feat. Clara La San)
05. Lido
06. X (feat. Clara La San)
07. Rever (feat. Julia Kent)
08. Sundial
09. Fir
10. Hawk (feat. machìna)

Isles LP will be released physically and digitally on January 22, 2021 via Ninja Tune. Meanwhile, you can stream “Apricots” below and pre-order here.

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