Acid Coco is the work of Colombian duo Paulo Olarte and Andrea. Olarte has been a known name in electronic dance music for many years, with releases on Diynamic. Andrea began singing in school, and she performed with Colombian reggae band DonKey Records before leaving to Berlin, Germany, where she presently sings in world fusion band Hinsetzen Pause.
Acid Coco is the pair’s first recorded collaboration, and it aims to give us a “journey through the beautiful colors of music.” The project channels cumbia, punk, champeta, reggaeton, and other tropical rhythms with electronic sounds.
These tracks were recorded in Geneva, Switzerland, in frenzied sessions that doubled as therapy. The pair laid down ideas, lyrics, music, and memories on tape in a creative purge driven by “emotional and physical collapse,” the label explains.
In advance of the album, Acid Coco have shared lead single “Yo Bailo Sola,” meaning “I dance alone,” and “El Amor de Mis Amores,” an explosion through punk and reggaeton-infused vibes, both streaming below.
Tracklisting
01. Yo Bailo Sola 02. El Amor De Mis Amores 03. Sin Salida 04. Siempre En Mis Sueños 05. Solo Estas Tu 06. La Chancla 07. El Lamento 08. Nuevo Día 09. Caminando Vas 10. Me Voy
Mucho Gusto LP is scheduled for October 2 release. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Yo Bailo Sola” and “El Amor De Mis Amores” in full below.
To bring down the curtain, Kent provided a mix himself and enlisted CCL, Dr Banana, Akash, Chris SSG, SL Comms, and re:st to join him, completing edition number 111. “Each of these [mixes] is fantastic and deserves its own space, but [I] was keen to try and do something different with this last push,” Kent says. You can listen to the new mixes via the links above, and check out the announcement Tweets below. Meanwhile, view full archive here.
one of the most interesting new labels to pop up recently, @relationreset is really finding nailing a niche of new ambient & dnb – glad to feature this mix from label head Lcp pic.twitter.com/TJRGRWdQ4e
Gorgeous and very personal feeling mix from Akash, everyone’s favourite beekeeping enthusiast. Can’t tell you how glad I am to have this out today. pic.twitter.com/rXWJe2qyFq
MNML SSGs was one of the templates for BUTW – having just shut down as i began. I’ve unashamedly ripped off and been inspired by Chris’ critical taste over the years + his taste for ambient – as in this lovely longform showcase. pic.twitter.com/W7fDFbIeRX
Everything @sl_comms is interested in seems to exist in a particular ecology and meaning, his own remarkable resonance and vibe. he’s become a close and local friend and thrilled to feature a mix of his after… 5 years of asking? pic.twitter.com/AtqQn0x8PM
it me. Threaded this together a while back to try and collect a music mood i’d been chasing, somewhere between dream and synaptic dnb. Thanks to @gustavoeandi for so perfectly rendering my pitch of “can you make a knight build a PC” pic.twitter.com/0baLQH0W9M
Each of these is fantastic and deserves its own space – but was keen to try and do something different with this last push. It’s been a fun thing to run for… 8 years? But spending more time with co-running the @manarecs label these days 🙂 Thanks so much to all involved!!
Lila Tirando a Violeta, real name Camila Domingue, has released Limerencia, a new album on N.A.A.F.I. The eight-tracker is the Uruguayan’s first outing for the Mexican label, and it caps off a string of stellar releases that date back to 2016 and span labels like Brooklyn, New York’s Illuminated Paths, England’s Dream Catalogue, and, more recently, Belgium’s Dreamshore, where she put out Sound Mirrors, a collaboration with Manuela Vilanova.
Domingue was raised in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, and became obsessed with music, in particular post punk and alternative rock, and synths at an early age. For her 15th birthday, instead of having a party, she travelled to Europe to discover as many bands as she could. As time passed, she swerved towards harder electronic styles like future funk and plunderphonics, and eventually tried to make her own music, which she began releasing in 2016.
While her early work pitched up in vaporwave, with slowed down, chopped samples, Domingue’s records have progressed towards the dancefloor, influenced by warped electronics, R&B motifs, and even pop. With its dark beats, swirling melodies, and vocal cuts, Sentient, on New Motion, brought her a global fanbase and identified Domingue as a name to watch in global experimental music. She cemented this status with a mix for FACT magazine, where she created a soundtrack for a “non-animated 2020 dystopia.”
Available now, Limerencia is a milestone in Domingue’s young career. She worked on the record for nearly two years, ironing out all the cracks, and inviting friends like EL PLVYBXY, Lighght, PRJCTN, and Nick León to contribute across it. For her XLR8R podcast, Domingue asked each of her album collaborators to deliver a batch of music, which she’s pieced together into one hour of intense and experimental club cuts.
01. What have you been up to recently?
I have mostly been planning about what’s to come, and daydreaming to be honest. I was considering relocating to Mexico or Europe this year, but that’s not happening for now. So I have just been recording, taking care of my health, and trying to stay focused. I’ve also done a few online live festivals.
02. How has lockdown been for you?
Honestly, I’m a very indoors person. Before lockdown, I didn’t leave my studio much besides when playing gigs, and I was used to doing it every weekend so I felt the impact of not touring. Otherwise lockdown has been pretty quiet, even if not much of a lockdown happened in Uruguay. But I live alone so it hit a bit harder.
03. Can you briefly talk about your route into music?
I guess growing up I spent most of my time in online forums, where I developed a huge love for synthesizers and experimental genres, and that led me to start making music and playing gigs. My first live gig was around 10 years ago and I haven’t stopped since.
04. What’s going on in Latin American music right now?
Latin American electronic music is in its finest moment. With leading collectives at the forefront of world club scene, such as Hiedrah Club de Baile (Argentina), Salviatek (Uruguay), Tormenta (Brasil), Martirio (Chile), and N.A.A.F.I (Mexico). I guess my only desire would be that mainstream media paid more attention to what’s happening down here. It is seriously overlooked and amazing innovative things are developing, all with zero resources and pure hard work.
05. What can we expect with your new album?
You can expect my most personal album to date, and an album that transpires agony. A follow up to the hybrid concept that I started exploring on my previous release Sentient. It takes inspiration from ambient and club music, with Latin drums and field recordings that tie them down together.
05. What can your listeners expect with the mix?
I asked the collaborators that helped make Limerencia possible to specially curate samples of their own work. So a collection of club and experimental bangers around 130bpm that were recorded all over in Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, and the United States.
06. What’s next on your agenda?
I can’t wait to start playing this new album live, so I’m already preparing an audiovisual show to present it. And since I’m quite restless, I will start planning my next release soon. Oh, and I will be showcasing an installation for Mutek Montréal that I worked on with Milagros Fernandez and Manuela Vilanova. Plus there’s the Houndstooth vinyl compilation featuring artists like Lyzza, Silkback, and Debit, which is out this week and includes a collaboration with Lighght.
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.
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Dial will release the debut album of Kosta Athanassiadis, known as XDB.
Inspiron is the second album of Dial’s 20th anniversary year, following Soela’s Genuine Silk. Athanassiadis, of Greek origin, has long been a friend of Lawrence and Carsten Jost, the label heads, but this is his first appearance on Dial, barring a contribution to a recent label compilation. We can expect “the most beautiful jubilee present we could have ever imagined.”
Athanassiadis has been DJing for nearly three decades, beginning in 1993 in his hometown of Goettingen, Germany. In search of records, he became a regular at record stores around the country, building a network of like-minded people. He met Lawrence and Jost when he invited them to play at his party at Goettingen’s Eletroosho in 2002. Since then, he’s founded it own label, Metrolux, and released on labels like Patrice Scott’s Sistrum and Wave. You can hear a mix of his here.
Besides these two albums, Dial will release a book documenting the label’s visual endeavours, a fundamental part of its history. Earlier this year, the label released a various artist compilation featuring tracks from Christopher Ledger, Yone-ko, Soela, Molly, XDB, and more.
The album, set to drop on November 13, is a 12-track collection of songs Basinski crafted from archival tape loops dating back to 1979. Like much of his work, especially his lauded The Disintegration Loops, Lamentations is filled with a mournful beauty and “ominous grief,” the label explains, and that sense of loss “lingers like an emotional vapor.”
Basinski’s last album for Temporary Residence Ltd., his regular label home, wasOn Time Out Of Time, released in March 2019.
You can hear Lamentations‘ first single, “O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow,” below, along with the tracklisting. The album, which will be available on vinyl, CD, and digitally, can be pre-ordered over at Bandcamp.
Tracklisting:
01. For Whom The Bell Tolls 02. The Wheel of Fortune 03. Paradise Lost 04. Tear Vial 05. O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow 06. Passio 07. Punch and Judy 08. Silent Spring 09. Transfiguration 10. All These Too, I, I Love 11. Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop 12. Fin
Lamentations‘LP is scheduled for November 13 release.
Hyperaesthesia comprises four sweltering new club tracks—described by the pair as “body music”—that mesh together Object Blue’s widescreen, experimental club tones and TSVI’s borderless percussive styles. It’s inspired by “ever-present conversations about machines and sentience,” and comes complete with a remix by Loraine James. There’s also a vinyl-only bonus track, “Syntax.”
“I was curious to see how TSVI and I could merge our sounds, whether we could supplement each other without eclipsing one another, and I’m so happy with the result,” explains Object Blue. “I never thought I could write with somebody else but this happened so easily. It’s been a liberating process, just a pure pursuit of fun, yelling in our chairs when we dropped the beat.”
The EP follows a stellar run of recent releases on London’s Nervous Horizon, including outings from DJ Plead and DJ JM.
Tracklisting
01. Thought Experiment 02. Turing Machine 03. Thought Experiment (Loraine James Remix) 04. Syntax (Vinyl Bonus Track)
Hyperaesthesia EP releases on 12″ / digital via Nervous Horizon on September 25. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream opener “Thought Experiment” below.
Blacksea Não Maya is the collaboration of DJ Kolt, DJ Noronha, and DJ Perigoso, and this latest EP arrives five years after Calor No Frioo, their previous EP on Príncipe. Each artist submits at least one track to an eight-track release that shifts the music into another dimension, we’re told.
We understand that the release brings with it a sense of unease, with slow, grinding beats and moody atmospheres. “Sombre times for sure, the producers went with the flow and let their soul speak, opening up to those dark corners our brains have and stepping into them to embrace individuality,” the Lisbon label explains. This results in music that sounds like nothing else Blacksea Não Maya or anyone else has done before.
Blacksea Não Maya are based to the south of Lisbon, across the river Tejo. The crew started as a family affair with Kolt and DJ Joker, his uncle, around 2008. Noronha, Kolt’s brother, and Perigoso joined a year later. Joker has since pursued other avenues in life.
The release is mastered by Tó Pinheiro da Silva, with artwork from Márcio Matos.
Tracklisting
A1. DJ Kolt “Terror” A2. DJ Kolt “Obscure” A3. DJ Kolt “7even” A4. DJ Kolt “Tchiling District” B1. DJ Perigoso “Horizonte” B2. DJ Kolt “Bubadagash” B3. DJ Noronha “Estranhos & Loucos” B4. DJ Kolt “Africanalidade”
Máquina de Vênus EP is out on September 4. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream DJ Kolt’s “Africanalidade” below.
A floaty journey of ambient synths over a relentless 808 jilted syncopation, “Rosada” serves as a perfect opening to a new label journey.
Like the label, the compilation, Discos en 3/Cuartos, shines a light on the new wave of talented Latin creatives building inroads into contemporary dance culture. It’s divided into two parts and lands on September 12 with a bounty of new and established producers, including Nick León, DJ Raff, and Siete Catorce. There’s also a contribution from Dengue Dengue Dengue themselves, and even Lila Tirando a Violeta.
DJ Python, real name Brian Pineyro, has been making waves in New York since 2016. Known for his productions as DJ Python and as DJ Wey, Pineyro has demonstrated himself to be a versatile producer working across hazy low-fi house, techno, ambient, and breakbeat. He released Mas Amable, his second album, on Incienso earlier this year.
For more information on Dengue Dengue Dengue, check out their XLR8R podcast here.
Tracklisting
01. Dengue Dengue Dengue “Del Alma” 02. Aristidez “Caudal” 03. Merci & Marco “Mokosa” ft. Pierre Kwenders & Chicadora 04. DJ Raff “Babel” 05. QOQEQA “Toroidal” 06. Funeral “Flota” 07. Nick León “Luna y Sol” ft. Lila Tirando a Violeta 08. Dj Python “Rosada” 09. El Irreal Veintiuno “TL-DM” 10. Siete Catorce “Desesperacion” 11. Debit “Omeya” ft. DNGDNGDNG
Rosada is available now, with the full compilation following on September 12. You can order / pre-order both here, and stream “Rosada” below.
Sofheso is the nom de guerre of Tohru Iioka, a resident at Tokyo, Japan’s Forest Limit club, where he rattles the ribcages of attendees at his monthly party. He released his ARCHIVEtape through First Terrace in 2018, and has previously released works through BirdFriend, Bataskiya Tapes, and Yuritona.
Stacked full of juggernaut rhythms, frenzied vocal samples, and machine-gun drum programming, A RECORD (記録|) showcases four irresistibly rough one-takes. Across its 53 minutes, barely four bars are the same, as Iioka “always takes an unseen path to find fresh rhythmic possibility.”
As part of a tour earlier this year, First Terrace travelled to Japan to do a show with Iioka in Forest Limit. The recording of his performance at that show has been dubbed to tape and will released as part of a special edition, along with the album and a zine of sketches by Kan Togashi, the artist responsible for the album cover.
Ahead of the album’s release, you can hear “ONJJ” in full below, which deals out major bludgeoning damage as chunks of subby utterance boil over into a nimble breakbeat.
Bicep will broadcast a live performance on September 11, in what’s likely to be one of the only chances to watch the pair perform this year.
In this one-off performance, audiences will have the chance to watch Bicep, real names Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar, perform unreleased music as well as reworked versions of songs from their catalog. The event will be backed up with visuals by Bicep Live visual collaborator Black Box Echo.
The show will be streamed on September 11 across multiple time zones, and it will not be available to view again online following the event.
In the years following the release of their 2017 self-titled debut album, Bicep embarked on a mammoth live-tour which took them around the world, across festival stages such as Glastonbury, Coachella, and Primavera, as well as sold-out headline shows across the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America, culminating in a three-night sold-out run of shows at Printworks in London.
Tickets are on sale now, with the time zones below. Meanwhile, you can stream a trailer below.
United Kingdom and Europe: 9:30pm BST / 10:30pm CEST North and South America: 9:30pm PDT / 9:30pm EDT Australia, New Zealand, and Asia: 9:30pm AEST
