Working together for the first time last year, Leon Vynehall and Christian Piers (a.k.a. A1 Bassline) landed on a fruitful collaboration as Laszlo Dancehall. Issuing two impressive EPs under the name in 2013, Laszlo Dancehall is set to return to George FitzGerald‘s Man Make Music imprint next week with the simply titled LZD III EP; a record that can now be streamed in full before its release.

From the sound of its new EP, not much has seemed to change for Laszlo Dancehall since we last heard from them, and that’s a good thing. Opening the three-track effort, “Plimpton” is a hulking piece of rolling house, heavy on the fliter and imbued with a loose swing, while “Zizzou” is a bit more twisted affair, somehow making sense out of a slippery series of backwards samples and exuberant percussion loops. FitzGerald finishes off the record with a finely sculpted remix of “Plimpton,” capping LZD III with its most efficient dancefloor cut. Officially out on Monday, May 12 via Man Make Music, Laszlo Dancehall’s forthcoming third EP can be streamed in full below.

On the heels of his XLR8Rpodcast, Canadian producer Matt Didemus (a.k.a. DIVA) has revealed the details of the upcoming Omni EP, a three-track effort which will serve as his second release for the New Kanada label when it arrives next month.

Early on in 2013, DIVA’s first EP for the label, Paris Stabbing, came amidst a shroud of secrecy as the DIVA project was then an anonymous one. Now, with his identity revealed and his own Obsession imprint recently launched, Didemus (perhaps better known as one half of Junior Boys) appears set to continue diving into dense, machine-minded house and techno. Described as an EP “inspired by black hole thermodynamics,” Omni will see its official release on June 24. Before then, the record’s artwork and tracklist can be found below.

01 Omni
02 Siren To Siren
03 Chronos

First announced back in March, separate remixes of Moderat‘s “Bad Kingdom” from DJ Koze and Robag Wruhme are set to see a 12″ release later this month. Before the pair of reworks officially drops, both efforts are now available to preview.

Leading off the upcoming 12″ is Pampa boss DJ Koze, who takes “Bad Kingdom” (from Moderat’s II LP) into more ethereal territory, adding extra layers of pads and a good deal of glitched vocal processing to the mix. On the flip, Wruhme leads Moderat’s song into a bit deeper and more driving territory, which is balanced with soft touches of airy melodies. Set to drop this Friday, June 16, both “Bad Kingdom” remixes can be previewed below.

With the release of his sophomore LP, Product of Industry (which can still be streamed in full here), via Ghostly’s Spectral Sound imprint last month, Birmingham-based producer/DJ Mark E has now dropped a new mix. Appearing as part of Dummy‘s ongoing podcast series, the hour-plus set covers a lot of ground, incorporating sludgy techno, funky disco, and a wide range of house in its run.

Unfortunately appearing sans tracklist, Mark E’s new mix can be streamed and downloaded via the player below, and Dummy’s accompanying interview with the longstanding UK talent can be read here.

Over the past few months, R&B craftsman Tom Krell (a.k.a. How to Dress Well) has announced news of his forthcoming “What is This Heart?” LP, unveiling two haunting new tracks, “Words I Don’t Remember” and “Repeat Pleasure,” in the process. Now, the latter of those cuts is featured in a heart-wrenching new video, which will serve as part one of an ongoing trilogy. Directed by Johannes Greve Muskat, the clip for “Repeat Pleasure” is centered around a young couple grappling with love and death, as the main protagonist copes with his ailing grandfather and his own inability to save his elder. Krell’s moody production mirrors the young boy’s intense emotions, as the track’s hopeful vocals and melancholy guitar riffs guide the doomful narrative to its harrowing close.

Before “What is This Heart?” sees a release on June 24 via Domino’s Weird World outpost, How to Dress Well’s new video can be watched in full below. (via Dazed)

After remaining dormant for ten years, The Soft Pink Truth (a.k.a. Drew Daniel, better known as one half of adventurous electronic pair Matmos) will release a new full-length record, Why Do the Heathen Rage, via the venerable Thrill Jockey imprint next month. The forthcoming album will be made up entirely of electronic covers of classic black metal songs ranging from the anthemic “Buried by Time and Frost” by Mayhem, to the more esoteric “Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar” by Impaled Northern Moonforest. Prior to the LP’s release, Daniel has shared his cover of “Black Metal,” which sees the longstanding producer twist the thrash metal epic into a harsh, dry, and almost industrial production, which, as Daniel puts it, both “celebrates black metal and offers queer critique/ mockery/ profanation of its ideological morass in equal measure.”

The official release date for The Soft Pink Truth’s Why Do The Heathen Rage LP is June 17. In the meantime, “Black Metal” can be streamed via the player below, where the record’s tracklist has also been included.

01 Invocation for Strength
02 Black Metal (Originally performed by Venom)
03 Sadomatic Rites (Originally performed by Beherit)
04 Ready to Fuck (Originally performed by Sarcofago)
05 Stanic Black Devotion (Originally performed by Sargeist)
06 Beholding the Throne of Might (Originally performed by Darkthrone)
07 Let There Be Ebola Frost (Originally performed by An)
08 Buried by Time and Dust (Originally performed by Mayhem)
09 Maniac (Originally performed by Hellhammer)
10 Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar (Originally performed by Impaled Northern Moonforest)

After delivering an exceptional debut LP just before 2013 came to a close, Manchester duo Akkord (a.k.a. Synkro and Indigo) have announced plans to return to the Houndstooth label next month with an EP of even “darker, moodier sounds.”

Simply titled HTH020, Akkord’s forthcoming effort will offer four new tracks which the label describes as “pairing monumental low-end frequencies with surgically precise production,” and as coming “centered around clammy, ominous atmospheres, underpinned by stomping beats and descending basslines.” Serving as a teaser for the upcoming effort, “Continuum” finds the UK pair leaving lots of open space for cold atmospherics between an undulating bass drone and a mutating series of sparse rhythms. That track can be streamed in full below before Akkord’s HTH020 EP sees an official release on June 16.

I. Gravure
II. Continuum
III. Typeface
IIII. Greyscale