Throughout the week, a whole lot of material gets posted here on XLR8R. And while we know—and love—that some hardcore readers will eagerly pour over every single news story, interview, podcast, video, and MP3 download that appears on the site, we also realize that for most people, it’s impossible to see everything, which means that some quality XLR8R content is likely to get missed in the hustle and bustle of everyone’s daily lives. In the interest of making it easier for everyone to catch up, every Friday we present The Lowdown, a weekly wrap-up of the top 10 tidbits from our site.

1. The latest XLR8R podcast was an exclusive mix of hard, pulsing techno from UK talent Randomer (pictured above).

2. Last weekend, a pair of compelling new mixes surfaced from both Joy Orbison—who was at the helm of the BBC’s Essential Mix—and Objekt.

3. Brooklyn producer FaltyDL stepped up for our 20 Questions series and talked about his new LP, acid trips in the wilderness, and shooting guns from motorcycles.

4. Ahead of this weekend’s Dekmantel Festival, we profiled the Amsterdam crew responsible for its unique vision.

5. Running Back bossman Gerd Janson appeared in our Downloads section this week, offering up a free remix of “Won’t You See” by Melbourne duo GL.

6. The seminal Kompakt imprint announced that its forthcoming 303rd release would be an acid-flavored tribute to the Roland 303 by label co-founder Wolfgang Voigt.

7. UK producer Leon Vynehall shared a mesmerizing new video for his recent “Butterflies” single for Clone.

8. Ghetto house legend DJ Slugo was the subject of our latest Trainwreck piece, in which he shared a wild story about a hotel room brawl following a missed gig in Louisville.

9. A large chunk of the Ghostly roster has been tapped for the soundtrack of an inventive new videogame called Hohokum.

10. Next week, Shenoda will be issuing a new EP via George FitzGerald’s ManMakeMusic imprint, but XLR8R was able to exclusively offer a stream of the record ahead of its official release date.

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The alias of 19-year-old producer Josh Thompson, Alma Construct will debut on the R&S label later this month with a five-track self-titled EP. According to a press release, the Alma Construct EP will cover “an array of styles,” the results of sounds culled from the young artist’s arsenal of “beatboxes, samplers, tape machines, and guitar pedals.”

Set to drop on August 26, our first taste of Alma Constuct’s debut comes in the form of “On the Edge, Surrounded with the Shores of Assudrey”—the record’s dense lead track which comes led by murky organ chords and wordless vocal samples. The full effort can be streamed below, where the complete tracklist for the forthcoming Alma Constuct EP has also been included.

01 On the Edge, Surrounded with the Shores of Assudrey
02 Deer Drink From The River
03 Imagine Them
04 Dialectic A
05 Dialectic B

After releasing John Heckle’s Laid Away EP earlier this year, Liverpool’s fledgling Scenery imprint is set to return in September with the Recollections EP from hometown producer Bantam Lions. Along with two new efforts from Bantam Lions, the four-track EP will also include remixes from another Liverpool talent, The Cyclist (pictured above), and Opal Tapes affiliate Cloudface.

Ahead of Recollections‘ release, we are treated to a full stream of The Cyclist’s remix of its title track. Spanning over six minutes, the rework is led by a crisp drum machine, which steadily rolls as The Cyclist—who we deemed one of 2013’s best new artists—layers gooey pads, crystalline chords, and warm, overdriven synth lines atop the procession. The Cyclist’s new remix can be streamed in full below before Bantam Lions’ upcoming EP lands on September 8 via Scenery; preview clips for the rest of the EP can be heard here.

A Recollections
AA Many Years Later
B Recollections (The Cyclist Mix)
BB Recollections (Cloudface Mix)

The Great American Techno Festival is set to return to Denver, Colorado for its fourth edition this October. Unsurprisingly, the event is built around an all-American artist line-up, with Bunker residents Mike Servito (pictured above) and Brian Kasenic, esoteric Brooklyn duo Blondes (who will be presenting a live set), and Bay Area producer and recent Berlin transplant Avalon Emerson all set to make appearances. Others included among the festival’s initial artist announcement include Bunker label affiliates Clay Wilson, Leisure Muffin, and Løt.te, with more names to be announced.

Passes for the festival—which runs from October 9 to the 11—go on sale today, and all additional information can be found here as it is released.

Manchester’s AnD has been on something of a mission over the past several years to test club soundsystems to their fullest extent, and today, the uncompromising techno outfit has announced plans to return to Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe label with its blistering debut LP. The forthcoming Cosmic Microwave Background follows this year’s Kundalini EP for the outlet, as well as a clutch of 12″s for Repitch, Samurai Horo, and Delsin sublabel Ann Aimee. Described as an industrial-influenced “sonic contemplation of the cosmos,” the forthcoming effort reportedly emerges out of a stylistic interzone that blends “production precision with more freeform composition,” and “functional floor material and more experimental pieces,” as always making heavy use of analog gear.

Cosmic Microwave Background is due out on October 20 in digital, CD, and double-LP formats, and will also be presented at an Electric Deluxe label showcase at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event. The album’s artwork—based off a series of paintings by AnD and interpreted by designer Jan Willem van de Baan—can be found below, along with tracklists for all release formats.

CD
1 Particle
2 The Epoch of Recombination
3 Power Spectrum
4 Cosmic Strings
5 Relic Radiation
6 Gravitational Waves
7 Photon Visibility Function
8 Non-Sky Signal Noise
9 Acoustic Oscillations
10 Galactic Motion
11 Diffusion Damping
12 The Surface of Last Scattering

LP
A1 Power Spectrum
A2 Gravitational Waves
B1 Acoustic Oscillations
B2 Diffusion Damping
C1 Particle
C2 The Epoch of Recombination
D1 Relic radiation
D2 Non-Sky Signal Noise

EDLX038
A Cosmic Strings
B Photon Visibility Function

Since inaugurating the Night Slugs imprint with its first release in 2010, Mosca has issued 12″s for outlets like Numbers, Hypercolour, and Martyn’s 3024 imprint, never releasing on the same label twice. That looks set to change, however, with his upcoming “The Greyhounds” b/w “Clinical Trial” single, which will see him return to his own Not So Much label following the No Splice No Playback EP, released earlier this year. While the London-based DJ/producer’s output has previously ranged from UK garage and funky to dub, this latest effort reportedly falls somewhere in between house and techno, with a-side opener “Greyhounds” described as “a dubby, rolling thing with an indulgent breakdown” that Mosca thought about scrapping, but saved because “the crowds I played it to seemed happy, and I’ve wanted to use those strings for 11 years now.” On the flip, “Clinical Trial” caters to “basement clubs, dust and metal and tape.”

Mosca’s “The Greyhounds” b/w “Clinical Trial” will see a vinyl release on September 15, with a digital release to follow on September 29. Artwork can be found below.

Ahead of its release next week, xxxy (a.k.a. Rupert Taylor) has shared a full stream of the first of two “cybotron futureproof rave burners” included on his “Goldfish” b/w “Evade” 12″ for Ten Thousand Yen. On “Goldfish,” the UK artist sheds some of his noted pop sensibilities, instead shifting his aims towards darkened dancefloor sonics, utilizing rattling snares and a series of brooding synth sounds seemingly culled from the deepest regions of space. The resulting four-plus-minute production is a sharp-edged club affair, which will come backed by a similarly energetic b-side when xxxy’s “Goldfish” b/w “Evade” sees the producer return to Doc Daneeka’s Ten Thousand Yen label on August 4. In the meantime, the record’s a-side cut is streaming in full below.