Wuddaji is scheduled to land on September 15 on vinyl through Sound Signature, Parrish’s own label. There’s no other information on the release other than its tracklisting, which includes “This Is For You,” a collaboration with vocalist Maurissa Rose that Parrish released as a single last year.
Parrish’s last solo album came in 2014 with American Intelligence. Earlier this year, he released a six-part sound collage called We Are All Georgeous Monsterss.
Tracklisting
01. Hambone Capuccino 02. Radar Detector 03. This Is For You feat. Maurissa Rose 04. Wuddaji 05. Hennyweed Buckdance 06. Angry Purple Birds 07. Who Knew Kung Fu 08. All Your Boys Are Biters 09. Knew Better Do Better
Wuddaji LP is scheduled for September 15 release via Sound Signature. Meanwhile, you can stream clips below.
Traumprinz (a.k.a. DJ Metatron) has announced pre-orders for a quadruple-LP as DJ Metatron and two double-EPs (four 12″s in total) under a new alias, The Phantasy.
Earlier today, Traumprinz shared “sellout,” a new track on the planet uterus SoundCloud page with the message “go shopping” and a link to the all possible worlds webstore, where you can find two new records available for pre-order. The first, a 4 x 12″ double-EP titled ibiza + ibiza pt ii, features a new alias, The Phantasy, while the second is a 4 x 12″ album as DJ Metatron titled loops of infinity (a rave loveletter).
As is usually the case with Traumprinz, there’s no other information presented—but if you click “no” on the homepage, the page reloads a sign of an Eivissa page, suggesting previews of the The Phastasy releases.
The releases continue an unusually active year for Traumprinz, who dropped three all-originals mixes back in May as DJ Healer.
You can pre-order the new records here, with “sellout” streaming below.
Natural Sciences has released Age in Decline, a 20-track compilation to mark the label’s 50th release and fifth anniversary.
Born in 2015, with the first Future Works compilation, Natural Sciences is the label of Alex Hall, based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Releases focus on “mutant electronics,” which is to say ’80s horror, jungle, gabber, techno, and industrial, and have come from DJ Seinfeld, Orson Wells, Galaxian, Mutant Joe, and many more.
The compilation packs together 20 previously unreleased tracks from key label artists. Galaxian, Mutant Joe, and Sansibar all feature, plus there’s new music from DJ Frankie, T5UMUT5UMU, Boris Barksdale, Pvssyheaven, and many others. It comes accompanied by an A3 poster.
“The timing of this is far from ideal, but then again, who said things were supposed to be easy?” the label says.
For more information on Mutant Joe, check out his XLR8R interview here, where you can hear and download his compilation cut, “Ice Show” (ft. TrippJones & Dirtbagmarley).
Tracklisting
01. T5UMUT5UMU “暴走族は自動運転の夢を見るのか” 02. Xiao Quan “Bazoyenza” 03. Pvssyheaven “Ring My Phone” 04. Alleged Witches “It Must Have Been an Animal” 05. Challenger of the Unknown “Unity” 06. DJ Frankie “Cadenas de Sangre” 07. Apoc Krysis “Target Spotted” (prod. DeejayRust) 08. A∑tytekk x Levadian Hater “Bich Contest” 09. Mutant Joe “Ice Show” (ft. TrippJones & Dirtbagmarley) 10. Odete “Growl” 11. DJ Warzone “Feathers” 12. Boris Barksdale “Soft Ride” 13. Chrome Corpse “With Your Head” 14. Nastytekk “God Got Gun” 15. Ayln “Witch Rave” 16. Prequel Tapes “Trippy Isolation” 17. DJ Torture “Mason” 18. Ole Mic Odd “Chromed Out 1100” 19. Sansibar “Can’t See” 20. Galaxian “Depth Dimension”
Age in Decline LP is available on vinyl now. You can order here and stream it in full below.
Cast sees Jakub Alexander, a Polish-born Brooklynite, returning to the moodier loop formats of his earlier work, but this time he’s joined by the distinctly new presence of the spoken word. Whereas in the past Alexander has used instrumental music to build and release tension, on this album he turns to his friends’ spoken words to find emotion. The move is reflected in the album title: the collaborators comprise a cast.
Alexander started work on Cast when living in Berlin and in Queens, but he hit a wall listening to the tracks when they were instrumental, leading him to integrate speech. He invited strictly non-scripted recordings, like a series of “anti-performances,” he says.
Among the guest storytellers is Alexander’s friend Nick Murphy (formerly Chet Faker), who unwinds a series of tender observations on “Basic Needs.” The album’s closer, “Life Out Of Balance,” contains elements from Shigeto, and the voice of elusive Detroit techno legend Terrence Dixon appears on “Salvaged Copper,” which you can stream below.
We’re told that these flashes of language turn the Heathered Pearls sound into something gritty, tangible, and cinematic.
Alexander debuted on Ghostly in 2012 with Loyal, on which he mimicked the hypnotic motions of ocean waves at night. The second Heathered Pearls album, Body Complex, found inspiration from comfort, imperfection, and visions of interior architecture, transforming Loyal‘s soft textures into driving 4/4 figures. He released Detroit, MI 1997—2001 in 2017.
Tracklisting
01. Missing Highs 02. Caveat Emptor 03. Ultra Blue (feat. Newborn Jr) 04. An Obstruction In The Clear Plastic 05. What Else Do You Want? (feat. Baltra) 06. Utica 07. Salvaged Copper (feat. Terrence Dixon) 08. Basic Needs (feat. Nick Murphy) 09. ASMR/Exhaustion 10. Cement Object, Vacuum Sealed 11. Pain Tolerance 12. Muscle/Maintain/Feen (feat. Danny Scales) 13. Faith For The Weak 14. Life Out Of Balance (feat. Santpoort, Shigeto & Krzysztof Wodiczko)
Cast LP is scheduled for November 13 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Salvaged Copper” (feat. Terrence Dixon) below and pre-order the album here.
Leaving Records will release the new album from Maral, a Los Angeles-based Iranian-American producer.
As a powerful collection of original songs, Push marks a confident step forward from Maral’s earlier mixtape work. We can expect 15 bass-heavy beats steeped in Iranian classical and folk samples. We’re told that each song feels “vividly personal,” and that the album bursts with a psychedelic energy while grappling with a somber undercurrent. “The history of Iranian music has a lot of melancholy in it,” Maral says. “So much of Iranian history is sad. Since ancient times, Iranians were always fighting off invasions.”
Conceptually, the album represents Maral wanting to “push people towards thinking about sound/music in a different way and me pushing myself to create something new—different than my last record,” she continues. “As well as this feeling towards society—of wanting them to push to be better and more forward-thinking in how we can make the world a better place.”
Featuring across the album are Maral’s vocals and also the setar, the instrument of choice for Sufi mystics. The release’s punk and dub influences are reinforced by guest features from dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry and Penny Rimbaud, co-founder of punk band Crass.
Ahead of the album’s release, Maral has shared “Sweet Thing,” a rework of an old demo that saw her experiment with singing over slowed-down EDM tracks. She worked with So Drove to reproduce the original and re-record the vocals. We’re told that it took a “completely different tone” to what she whispered quickly into a laptop four years ago.
In 2019, Mahar released Mahur Club, an exploration of rhythmic psychedelia, reggaeton, and dub on Los Angeles’ Astral Plane Recordings.
Tracklisting:
01. Kerman Wobble 02. Protect U ft. Lee “Scratch” Perry 03. Push 04. Dashti 05. Bushehr 06. Sweet Thing 07. No Type 08. Aziz-e-Man 09. Jadoo 10. Sweet vs. Heavy 11. Let The Distortion Sing 12. Vortex In Love 13. Lita’s Song 14. They Not They ft. Penny Rimbaud 15. Salam
Maral LP is scheduled for October 14 release. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Sweet Thing” and “Dashti” below.
Artwork by Stryker Matthews & Annapurna Kumar. Graphic design by Kevin Eskew
What Wands Remixes features 12 interpretations selected from the 23 original cuts by a cast of Dome of Doom artists and a handful of musicians in Daedelus’ musical orbit.
Featured artists include, among others, recent Dome of Doom signee QRTR, Boston native Rah Zen, UK producer CLYDE, Dome of Doom founder, Wylie Cable, LA beat scene veteran Elusive, and Alpha Pup Records’ Lapsung. Daedelus has also pulled from his new position as Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, inviting current student Ximena Rivas and recent Berklee graduate Ray Polk to contribute reworks.
In directing the package, Daedelus asked the artists to build their interpretations from the original WAV files rather than sending through bounced stems, much like bootleg styles and the chop-up techniques of hip-hop sample flipping. This process has resulted in a collection of reworks that retain a strong sense of the original while pushing the personal characteristics of each of the featured artists.
What Wand Remixes is available exclusively via Dome of Doom’s Bandcamp page until September 18, when it will be released across all streaming platforms. You can check out a stream of the album below, along with its tracklisting.
Tracklisting:
01. Fettle (QRTR Remix) 02. Clairaudience (DMVU Remix) 03. Yew and Me (Lapsung Remix) 04. Narwhale (Glia Remix) 05. Yew and Me (Rah Zen I Luv Yew Remix) 06. Unyielding (Won Pound Yielding Remix) 07. Chimera (CLYDE Remix) 08. Glint (Wylie Cable VIP) 09. Drubbing (Ximena Rivas Dribbling Remix) 10. Phoenix Down (Norfik VIP) 11. Yew and Me (Ray Polk Yewme Remix) 12. Cauldron (Elusive Remix)
Café Türk, an inimitable Turkish-Swiss band formed in the 1980s, will release a compilation album in November.
Café Türk’s trajectory connects the Swiss town of Schaffhausen and the Turkish city of Kars, and their genre-bending sonic palette draws from Anatolia, the Caucasus, and western Europe. It’s been three decades since they disbanded, and Zel Zele Records has collaborated with Turkish crate-digger Grup Ses to give the music of Café Türk a new lease of life.
The release features original album tracks, singles, and previously unreleased takes that trace the outline of the group’s history. From the rolling disco of the group’s debut recording, “Haydi Yallah,” to the previously unreleased kosmiche of “Yıldızlar” and the psyched-out interpretation of Caucasian folk, “Şamil,” Café Türk showcases the endless stream of ideas the band had during their time together between 1983 and 1990.
Formed in the early 1980s by Metin Demiral, Café Türk found success through an exciting blend of new wave, rock, disco, and reggae alongside the musical traditions of Turkey and Azerbaijan. Their debut record, Pizza Funghi, was picked out by a member of Nuremburg’s Cultural Department, and the band was invited to play for the local workers’ unions, many of whom represented immigrants from Turkey. These events only grew in popularity, and the group spent five years touring similar shows through Europe.
Demiral had hoped to bring his new record to audiences in Turkey, but he found it impossible to get any of his songs played on state-sponsored radio because of the strict supervisory board of TRT, Turkey’s state-funded broadcaster. TRT tended to not accept songs that blended both western and traditional Turkish music in order to avoid “degenerating” Turkish folk music. Cafe Türk tried to fight this conservative mindset, but progressively resigned themselves to the political restrictions of the time.
Café Türk came to an end but Metin’s life in music has carried on. The curation and release of this new compilation is a “triumphant tale of an artist whose belief in music is that it should cross boundaries, no matter the restrictions,” the label explains.
The album package includes a four-page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos.
Tracklisting
01. Haydi Yallah 02. Yıldızlar 03 Şamil 04. Kaç Kaç 05. Kimin İçin 06. Üzüm 07. Ali Baba from Istanbul 08. Baycan (Early Take) 09. Şamil (Early Take) 10. Ali Baba 11. Yalvarış 12. Şöyledir (Early Take) 13. Zeynep 14. Outro 15. Ali Baba from Istanbul (Instrumental)
Café Türk is available on November 6. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Haydi Yallah” in full below, featuring a video of previously unseen footage.
Shimmer, Then Disappear is Cable’s eighth album, and it features various members of the Dome of Doom family, among them Holly, Dabow, GOD.DAMN.CHAN, Goodnight Cody, and Call Me. Most sessions were completed at Cable’s home studio in the Los Angeles hills using a Roland TR-8 and a JP-08 on loan from Daedelus, and all before the pandemic. Cable began the second phase of the album in March, locking himself in his home studio for a period of weeks, making a new song each day.
The compositional formats across the 40-minute album are dense and dynamic, bursting with heavy rhythms, crystalized harmonies, and soothing breakdowns. IDM, downtempo, lo-fi house, 808-filled trap, musique concrète, drum & bass, jungle, and modern classical all make up an “encyclopaedia of 21st-century sound,” the label explains. Cable adds voice, supplanting lyrics of self-examination and personal perseverance.
The record closes with a Mac Miller (a.k.a Malcolm James McCormick) tribute called “Mac Flip,” sourced from a sample Cable found online from a Canadian producer by the name Two Swings. It ties in with a record that reflects the value we hold on those who are still here and those who leave us. Label mate thook, who released his Noise LP on Dome of Doom last year, was the one who first showed Cable the track.
“It’s a really beautiful piece and starts with this piano and string section that I used to create my flip of the song,” Cable says. “The original version from Two Swings then goes on to drop into a remix with some of Malcolm’s vocals, etc. I just clipped the initial few second loop and used it as material to compose new melodies with.”
Artwork was completed by Dewey Saunders, known for album cover work with Anderson Paak, NxWorries, and more.
Tracklisting
01. How To Disappear 02. Travel Light 03. End All Contracts (feat. GodDamnChan) 04. The Critter & The Creature (feat. GodDamnChan) 05. Supernumerary (feat. Call Me) 06. Hot Potato (feat. Holly) 07. Contacting People From Your Past 08. The Lure of Personal Sucess 09. Short Game vs. Long Game (feat. Holly & Dabow) 10. False Lead 11. Carry Cash 12. Change Your Name 13. Song For The Moon 14. Craiglist Bus Blues (feat. Goodnight Cody) 15. Mac Flip
Shimmer, Then Disappear LP is scheduled for September 25 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Change Your Name” below and pre-order the album here.
Griffit Vigo holds cult-like status in the darker pockets of Durban, South Africa. Around 2004, the young producer, real name Khulekani Griffith Radebe, began making his own music, and by 2010 he’d become the spearhead for a new wave of South African musicians making raw dancefloor rhythms unlike any of them had heard before. They called it gqom, an offshoot of house music, kwaito, and techno, and at its core lay ground-shaking bass and abrasive percussion.
“When I was in Durban the first time, I noticed that Griffit Vigo was a kind of legendary figure, and he’d been inspiring all the gqom Durban artists for a long time,” Nan Kolè, A&R at Gqom Oh!, recalls. “Nobody knew where he was but everybody was playing him and sometimes using his beats to make new songs.”
In time, gqom started to seep out of Africa, a transition accelerated by 2018’s “Ree’s Vibe,” Griffit Vigo’s most popular anthem. Wiggling its way the DJ bags of his peers, including DJ Lag, Rudeboyz, and Toddla T, Vigo’s work, and the gqom sound, went global, inspiring a new generation of electronic producers to unleash their bespoke interpretations.
But success brought dilution, and the gqom sound that Vigo birthed has been steadily eroded, replaced with various commercially driven and more melodic incarnations. In his fight to keep gqom culture alive, Vigo has unveiled his most recent album, I Am Gqom, on which he lays out a vision for the genre’s future, while nodding to its past.
His XLR8R podcast, which celebrates the album, delivers a similar message. It’s made almost entirely of Griffit Vigo originals, many made through lockdown and still unreleased. At just over an hour in length, think of it as a little taste of gqom authenticity.
01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been doing music beats my whole life, so this pandemic has given me more time to be creative.
02. How has lockdown been in South Africa?
Lockdown has been so bad, especially for upcoming artists like myself. I’ve been working out what to do in order to eat and grow through the art of music, but God is always there.
03. Can you talk me through your route into electronic music. How did you get here?
My late grandfather taught me to have faith, and that gave me the patience to stay in music. It wasn’t about getting to the top but being throughout the universe. I started by listening to house music from legendary people such as Oskido, Ganyani, Gigs Superstar, DJ Fresh, Glenzito, and Dennis Ferrell, and this led me to discover other genres like tribal house. They called me “King Of Tribal” before gqom was recognized.
04. What’s the status of gqom over there right now?
It [the standard] is very low. As a producer it’s so important to keep it real and also to have your own signature through creativity.
05. What’s the secrets of gqom’s success in Europe?
In Europe there are many secrets of gqom success, and the first one is the sound: it gives you that energy to move however you want. Also overseas they love it because it’s new and fresh.
06. Where and when did you record the mix?
I recorded this mix at my home studio in July 2020.
07. What equipment did you use?
I’ve been using a PC since I started this journey.
08. What can we expect?
The mix contains unreleased music to inspire the new generation of gqom producers, and I also included some tracks from my forthcoming I Am Gqom project, giving the mix that gloomy gqom vibe.
09. You’ve included lots of your own productions. What’s the thinking there?
All I can say again is creativity, which is something important. I get inspired by things you wouldn’t even think of as human, like the noise of people talking around the town, taxis, markets, or even a word.
10. What’s next on your horizon?
It’s to be more heard throughout the world, and also to have faith and patience, which is important if you’re to achieve more than you’ve ever thought you would.
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 here.
Programmed between Medellín and Barcelona over the course of two years, Grial rejects the notion of a singular Latin American musical identity and paints Verraco’s own vision of South American IDM, blending perreo, jungle ambience, and mountainous brain-dance. It follows three EPs, all on Verraco’s Insurgentes label.
The album relies heavily on field recordings, from rural chants flowing down a mountain range to road bikes and gang outbreaks lighting up cityscapes. The 10 album tracks are mastered by Rashad Becker.
Launched in 2017 in Medellín, Insurgentes sits at the core of a thriving local music scene, releasing unorthodox rave, electro, and IDM from Latin American producers. Earlier this year, it released an EP from Tomás Urquieta.
Tracklisting
A1. ● A2. Pluriverso A3. NRG Remains A4. Sur — Furia A5. Abya Yala A6. +Decodification__ B1. Breaking Hegemonies B2. Traición (10mente mix) B3. E.M.R.I. | The Last Alliance B4. Our New Order
Grial LP is scheduled for October 30 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Traición (10mente mix)” below and pre-order here.
