Stream a New 12″ from Demdike Stare

Appearing as part of the pair’s ongoing Testpressing series, Modern Love co-heads Demdike Stare have shared a full stream of its latest 12″ release. Simply titled Testpressing#06, the record offers two menacing new productions from the Manchester duo, with a-side “40 Years Under the Cosh” taking shape as a noise-drenched half-time dancefloor affair, while b-side “Frontin'” methodically slices pulsing textures with sci-fi synth bass. Out now via Modern Love, both efforts from Demdike Stare’s Testpressing#06 12″ can be streamed in full below. (via FACT)

Preview Marquis Hawkes’ Upcoming EP for Creme Organization

Shadowy Berlin producer and former XLR8R podcast contributor Marquis Hawkes will next land on the Creme Organization imprint with the four-track Maladaptive Brain Dysfunction EP. Slated for an August 25 release, Hawkes’ latest outing will offer a new helping of rough-around-the-edges house tracks, with lead effort “Tunnel” taking a more starry-eyed approach, while the rest of the record appears set to lay down tweaked and filtered synth processions atop percussive rhythmic backbones.

Marking Hawkes’ debut on Creme Organization, all four tracks from the forthcoming Maladaptive Brain Dysfunction EP can be previewed via the player below.

01 Tunnel
02 Prince Among Men
03 Sofa Acid
04 October Blues

Cvsper “Fairies”

Cvsper is a 21-year-old producer from Santiago, Chile who has begun to build a catalog of original productions over the past two years. The latest effort from the budding South American talent is “Fairies,” an airy track which places a lightly side-chained pads over a percussive house beat. Where the driving track really shines, is in its melodic content—light bell lines crisp synth melodies and gather around chopped vocal samples, building on top of each other more and more as the sun-washed “Fairies” steadily builds towards its heavenly climax.

Fairies

Fairies

Running Back Reveals Upcoming EP from Thomalla; Hear a Track Now

Gerd Janson’s Running Back label boasts an impressive number of talented artists in its catalog, with Todd Terje, Mark E, Redshape, and Phillip Lauer (just to name a few) releasing tracks through the outpost over the years. Now, Berlin-based producer Thomalla is set to debut on the label with the upcoming Mood Swings Skewed Things EP. The five-track affair is said to be “built for an universe in which James Holden is the caretaker,” with its tracks further described as “slices of romantic Krautpop-glitch-house that pleasantly diverge from the current state of dance affairs.”

Serving as our first taste is “Never True,” the EP’s rich digital bonus track, which can be streamed in full below, where one will also find the full tracklist for Thomalla’s forthcoming Mood Swings Skewed Things EP, out in vinyl form on August 18 and in digital form on August 25.

A1 Tidal
A2 Ginobili
B1 Polymath
B2 Nachkik
Never True [Digital Bonus]

Hubie Davison Readies New EP for Leisure System, Shares Letherette Remix

Hubie Davison has revealed details for his upcoming sophomore EP, set for release via Berlin-based label and leftfield club night Leisure System. Davison’s Khayyam Grey EP reportedly finds the Irish producer moving in the direction of “peak-time house music,” while maintaining the “psychedelic sampling” techniques seen on last year’s strong debut, I Won’t Be There.

The three-track affair is set to land on November 3, and in the meantime, a remix of “I Won’t Be There” from UK duo Letherette—which will appear on a new digital version of the I Won’t Be There EP—can be streamed in full below. In addition both the artwork and tracklist for Davison’s upcoming Khayyam Grey EP have also been included below.

01 Khayyam Grey
02 Get On
03 Vowels

Midland Preps New EP for Aus

Midland will return to Will Saul’s Aus label with the three-track Duster EP in September. Said to continue the trend of keeping “his listeners guessing,” Midland’s upcoming EP follows behind his recent “Before We Leave” 12″ for the Phonica White label. Led by its shuffling title track, the forthcoming Duster EP is said to see the consistently impressive London producer “draw out immersive pads and understated melody over the top of percussive grit.”

Duster is slated to be released on September 15. in the meantime, the record’s artwork and tracklist have been included below.

A Duster
B1 Reflex
B2 Pitch Drift

Deft “One Eye Open”

For most of 2014, London producer Deft has continued to quietly build up his impressive discography, which has shown increasingly the artist to be capable of proficiently crafting a wide range of UK club sounds. Most recently, Deft let loose Before Vol. 2, a collection of demos and b-sides that—for one reason or another—never found their way to an official release. As “One Eye Open” proves though, this is not for lack of quality; the soul-scorched beat is a fine example of the producer’s talents, one that streaks floating chords and wordless vocals atop a detailed set of percussion, led by the precise bite of tuned snaps and miniature claps. Out now, Deft’s full Before Vol. 2 can be streamed after the jump.

One Eye Open

Preview Phil Gerus’ Debut EP for ManMakeMusic

Earlier this week, XLR8Rpremiered the latest offering from George FitzGerald’s ManMakeMusic label—an EP from London producer Shenoda—and today, the label revealed that Tokyo-based composer Phil Gerus has been tapped for its next release. A relative newcomer to the scene, the Moscow-born producer’s sound reportedly draws from iconic jazz musicians like Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, and the funk and boogie of the ’80s and ’90s. His forthcoming effort, Opposites Left Together, follows from a pair of 12″s issued in 2012 by Fuselab and Sonar Kollectiv, and is due out as both a 10″ vinyl and digital release on September 8. Until then, a teaser video (made with footage shot in Shibuya, Tokyo) has been posted below, along with both the EP’s artwork and full tracklist.

A1 Adorn Your Ankle
A2 Hold Your Tongue And Let Me Love
B1 Kissing This And That Of You
B2 Opposites Left Together
B3 Voice To Voice Lip To Lip

Lee Carvallo “So High”

Glasgow’s Nightwave is currently in the process of building the catalog of her own Heka Trax imprint, and to that point, has launched a summer-long series of free EPs which the label will be giving away over the coming weeks. The first such collection comes from Canadian newcomer Lee Carvallo, whose Summer Lovin’ EP offers four smoothed-over R&B refixes. “So High” serves as our first taste of Carvallo’s efforts, placing bulbous kicks and skittering layers of bubbly percussion beneath a series of piano-rich samples. The resulting production sounds primed to rattle some trunks, as does the rest of Carvallo’s Summer Lovin’ EP, which can be streamed and downloaded for free after the jump.

So High

Spectral Sound Announces New EP from Patricia; Hear a Track Now

Following the release of the excellent Body Issues cassette via Opal Tapes last year (a record that was eventually chosen to launch the label’s vinyl offshoot), Brooklyn producer Patricia has revealed plans to issue a new EP via Ghostly’s Spectral Sound imprint next month. Containing three new original productions and a remix from Ghostly veteran Tadd Mullinix under his JTC alias—under which he delivered an exclusive XLR8R podcast earlier this year—Patricia’s forthcoming Side Piece EP is said to be “built from cinderblock kick drums, soot-covered modular synths, hissy tape recordings, and equal parts early Aphex Twin and Underground Resistance.”

Slated to drop on August 25, the EP’s muffled lead cut, “Drip Dawn,” can be streamed in full below, where the full tracklist for Patricia’s Spectral Sound debut has also been included.

01 Drip Dawn
02 Hulderhusan
03 Foie Gras
04 Drip Dawn (JTC’s I-94 Lick)

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