DJ Nigga Fox Returns to Príncipe with New Album

DJ Nigga Fox has a new album on the way.

Chá Preto, a six-track LP, is a filled with “suffering and introspection” we’re told, and it signifies a shift from Nigga Fox’s dancefloor rhythms.

“Beats come sparse, a very personal phraseology, the dancefloor a memory,” the Lisbon label explains.

Chá Preto follows 2019 album Cartas Na Manga. DJ Nigga Fox has since released one EP, Música da Terra.

DJ Nigga Fox is one of electronic music’s more enigmatic artists and a linchpin of a thriving Afro-Portuguese music scene. Outside of a solitary 12″ on Warp Records, all of his solo EPs have come through Príncipe. For more information on him, check out his XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. Ondas da Terra
02. Má Rotina
03. Mutadoree
04. Bom te Ver
05. Wanguila
06. 4 Fantasias

Chá Preto LP is scheduled for March 15 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Má Rotina” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Photo: Marta Pina

AD 93 Welcomes Pianist Jasmine Wood

AD 93 will release a new album from Jasmine Wood, a composer, producer, and multidisciplinary artist originally from Portland, Oregon now based in Dublin.

She recorded Piano Reverb on an antique Blüthner grand piano in an empty church in Ireland.

“When I first moved to Ireland I was unexpectedly met by thousands of vacant churches. Massive halls formed a hollow emptiness which persisted for several months that eventually turned into years. This record was made in one of those churches on an antique, Blüthner grand piano. I worked and recorded on this piano most days, for an entire year,” Wood says.

While working on the compositions, Wood fell in love with the fullness of the reverb that each note echoed throughout the room. She eventually shifted her focus and decided to record just the reverb sustained on the end of each note. She did this with a variation of chords and single notes, capturing only the sustain. All of the tracks on this album were made using these recordings.

Wood initially developed her interest in music by working as a promoter for multiple Portland-based DIY venues. Incorporating her love of noise and distortion, she combines the use of analog instruments with electronic manipulation.

Tracklisting

01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V (It’s Haunted I Can Feel It)
06. VI (Friends)
07. VII
08. VIII (Tremolo)

Piano Reverb LP is scheduled for March 8 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “VII” in full below and pre-order here.

Podcast 838: Ewan Jansen

Earlier this month, Cyphon Recordings continued their run of form with a mini LP from Ewan Jansen—with six tracks of crisp, colourful, groove-heavy house and techno. Originating from Perth, Australia, Jansen cut his teeth in the early ’90s producing hardware-saturated house music using an Amiga 500 that his parents bought him for school assignments. Since 1997, he’s been curating Red Ember Records, a label that developed its own timeless signature deep house style with releases from Andrew Carpenter, Justin Zerbst, and Jansen himself. Jansen’s own sound is influenced by Detroit techno, dreamy house and melodic electronica, and he’s also put out records on Butter Sessions, Hardworksoftdrink, Going Good, and Freerange, while touring a live set. In 2020, he released Island Diary, his first album in 16 years. On Chroma Sea, his latest outing, and his much anticipated XLR8R podcast, recorded last month, he has delivered more of the same deep and heady club grooves.

01. What have you been up to recently?
For the last few months, I’ve been preoccupied with shedding possessions, paring down my studio, and shredding history as I prepare to move cities. After a European tour last year, I’ve been preparing some new live sets and made a bunch of music too. Lots of macro scheming and dreaming.

02. What have you been listening to?
A lot of ’90s techno and ambient and old organic trancey/electronica stuff. I’m kinda going back and discovering things that at the time I totally missed because I was only scraping the surface and frankly fixated with deep house. It has given me inspiration to get proper knob-twiddling again.

03. You’ve just put out a new EP. What can you tell us about it?
It’s kind of a rag-tag gang of tracks thrust together by random happenstance. Each one was written in a different alleyway of time, so it’s got a lot of different characters and Jimpster made a great selection. It’s my minimal take on agua-futurism, a moist but comfy dystopia for the dancefloor.

04. Where and when did you record this mix and what setup did you use?
It was recorded in the box recently in January on a home set.

05. How did you choose the tracks you’ve included?
I decided to mostly go for things I’m listening to right now. I recently crowd-sourced a collection of tracks with friends online and I call it the “Ambient Ambulance.” It’s been my Lynus blanket playlist for when I got overly anxious last year. So most of it is from there, interspersed with stuff from the EP.

06. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
You can listen to it ridin’. You can listen to it drivin’. Or, you can listen to it doin’ nothin’ at all.

07. What’s next on your horizon?
Well, I’ll be landing in Melbourne soon. Light on my feet, with two fresh live sets ready to go and keen to start a new life keeping music focussed centre. Tour planning for a July-August Europe trip has just started so I’ll be prepping for that, drinking lots of coffee, and making music with new friends.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Quadrant “Synthetic Chord Battle” (Planet E)
02. P’Taah “Apricot” (Ubiquity)
03. Carl Craig “Suspiria” (Buzz)
04. Future Former “Orange Sphere” (Magnatune)
05. Wonderkind “Destiny Change” (Boxcar_s Kings-X Mix) (Festival Records)
06. Numbat “Amalgamate” (Baffling Noize)
07. S.T. “I Met a Girl With Butterfly Wings” (Monotonik)
08. Ewan Jansen “Surabaya” (Cyphon)
09. Shaolin Wooden Men “Rainy Taxi” (Psy-Harmonics)
10. Redeye “Ride With Aracknid” (after 6 am)
11. Ewan Jansen “Hydronexus” (Cyphon)
12. Ewan Jansen “Brinewave” (Cyphon)
13. Sandoz “Dark Continent” (Touch)
14. Sensorama “Kondens” (Ladomat 2000)
15. Ewan Jansen “Salt Circuit” (Cyphon)
16. Heavy Water “Anoesis” (D*Fusion Records)
17. FSOM “Welcome” (Candyline Records)
18. Subsurfing “The Number Readers” (Apollo)
19. Ewan Jansen “Cybercanisco” (Cyphon)
20. Ewan Jansen “Faulty Gelfling (Cyphon)

I. JORDAN’s Debut Album is an Expression of Trans Joy

I. JORDAN‘s debut album is incoming on Ninja Tune.

On I AM JORDAN, the UK electronic producer gleefully celebrates “collective ecstasy as a mode of self-discovery,” we’re told.

“This album is about joy,” Jordan says.”“It’s about my joy as a trans person, and trans joy generally, working with trans people, making all this fun music together.”

With this goal, the record “captures the bliss and dynamism of a wild I. JORDAN set.”

Using their decade of experience as a DJ-producer, there are giddy tributes to northern dance sounds like donk and hardstyle, and euphoric trance and house.

Released today, the record’s lead single,” Real Hot n Naughty,” features a vocal contribution from Sex Education actor and performer Felix Mufti.

“A large part of the reason why Felix and I instantly bonded is because of our queer working-class backgrounds, and our pride around that as well,” Jordan says. “Our aim with this track is to make a real queer northern dance anthem.”

Tracklisting

01. When Lights Flash
02. Casino High
03. Real Hot n Naughty feat. Felix Mufti
04. The Countdown feat. TAAHLIAH
05. Butterlick feat. Sister Zo
06. Reification and Pathetic Fallacy
07. People Want Nice Things
08. Round n Round
09. The Woodpecker
10. 7 Degrees of Despondent
11. Close To You
12. Rapt Finis

I AM JORDAN LP is scheduled for May 10 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Real Hot n Naughty” feat. Felix Mufti in full below and pre-order here.

Frank & Tony to Release First Album in 10 Years

Frank & Tony, the collaboration of Francis Harris and Anthony Collins, will return with their first album in a decade on Scissor and Thread.

Frank & Tony, based in Brooklyn, New York and Biarritz, France, respectively, released their last full-length record, You Go Girl, in 2014.

Across nine new tracks, they intend to remind listeners why dancefloors and liberatory politics consistently share the language of movements and revolutions.

“House music has always been an expression of political desire as it often was the only safe space for communities to come together in ways that society at large disallowed. The same energy in the ’90s could be found in parts of the (punk hardcore scene). Countercultures exist to create temporary autonomous zones of desire outside of dominant narratives that are roadblocks to creation. We have always been inspired by these countercultural movements and the Frank & Tony project is deeply influenced by it,” the pair said in a statement.

Ethos is a little different to their previous work because it features many other artists, from singer and pianist Eliana Glass, whose double-reeded voice freestyles across album opener “Olympia,” to DaRand Land and DJ Aakmael. Over half of the album’s tracks highlight artists in the Scissor and Thread circle.

For more information on Francis Harris, check out his XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. Olympia with Eliana Glass
02. Ethos with Darand Land
03. Too Poor For Movies, Too Tired For Love with Lawrence
04. Nobody Present Ever Stood Still
05. By The End They Will
06. Cecile with Eliana Glass
07. Drift with DJ Aakmael
08. From Life Ahead
09. Continuity

Ethos LP is scheduled for March 22 release. Meanwhile you can stream “Olympia” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Mount Kimbie’s Fourth Album is Incoming

Mount Kimbie will release their fourth studio album in April.

The Sunset Violent, releasing through Warp, picks up where the UK duo’s last studio album, 2017’s Love What Survives left off, marrying modern indie, shoegaze, and electronica.

The album was written in California’s Yucca Valley, a scant Western town with a history of alleged UFO sightings, before being finished in London. We’re told that the desert’s “surrealistic, auburn-tinged tones and sparse Americana landscape” can be heard across each of the album’s nine tracks.

To coincide with the announcement, the band has shared “Fishbrain” with an accompanying video directed by Tegen Williams.

Fronted by Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, joined by long-term collaborators Andrea Balency-Béarn and Marc Pell, Mount Kimbie have spent the past 15 years crafting a catalog of seminal, enduring, and influential music. You can read more about them in their XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. The Trail
02. Dumb Guitar
03. Shipwreck
04. Boxing feat. King Krule
05. Got Me
06. A Figure In The Surf
07. Fishbrain 04:37
08. Yukka Tree
09. Empty And Silent feat. King Krule

The Sunset Violent LP is scheduled for April 5 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Dumb Guitar” in full via the player below, and pre-order here.

Podcast 837: Philipp Priebe

For more than a decade, Philipp Priebe has been releasing an emotional take on house music that melds melancholic warm sounds with driving elements. It’s a style that dates back to his teenage years, when he began collecting records in a small town in Germany. Since 2020, his music has landed on Stólar, his own label, and that includes Movements In An Empty Department Store, his latest album that comprises eight original compositions soundtracking one night alone in an empty department store. On this week’s XLR8R podcast, Priebe delivers a live set filled with forthcoming tracks and remixes that features the same swelling bass lines, dubby echoes, and ethereal textures. “I wanted this mix to have a steady flow of beauty, yet having a club sound,” Priebe says, “and those tracks worked nicely for this purpose.” Press play for just over an hour of raw, cinematic house music.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I fooled around the last weeks, creating a new side project for myself, handling new releases on the label, then I finished my next album for Freund der Familie.

02. What have you been listening to?
Lately I have been listening to a lot of old Efdemin records, the Decay and Chicago albums in particular. I love his aesthetics in there, also they are truly timeless. Besides that I am listening to Jacob Banks for a few months now excessively. His voice is just outstanding and his lyrics are hitting deep every time. A new favourite of mine.

03. You’ve just put out a new album. What can you tell us about it?
The idea was to create a soundtrack for a night alone in a department store. I had this dream as a child of how it would be to stay there for an entire night all by yourself, being able to do whatever you want. No security, no cameras, no regrets.

Now, as an adult, the focus of this night has changed as well as the music that I would connect with it. The album guides you through the night and the different departments. From entering the store where you mostly find beauty products to the delicacies, the furniture, and the perfumes. It takes you through all these different places, allowing you to do whatever you want

04. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded the mix at home, in my studio in the beginning of December.

05. What setup did you use?
Basically my live gear: Elektron Analog Rytm MKII Drum Machine, Elektron Digitakt 8 Voice Drum Computer and Sampler, Ableton Live, Faderfox, Allen & Heath Xone mixer.

06. How did you choose the tracks you’ve included?
Whenever I record a mix, I always like to put in some new tracks, works in progress, something special for the occasion.

This time I chose some tracks that are coming out this year. Plus some remixes for my recent albums by artists and friends like Ohm, Ben Kaczor, Molly, and Rising Sun. Also some recent cooperations with Ben [Kaczor] and Module One, who is a friend of mine.

07. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
Ideally I would say somewhere near the water, at the sea or just in the bathtub.

08. What’s next on your horizon?
Less dramatic, faster music. More focus and work on Stólar again. Becoming a happy label owner, producer, human.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Philipp Priebe “Marble” (Redux) (Stólar)
02. Philipp PriebeOn The Way Out (Rising Sun Remix I) (Stólar)
03. Philipp Priebe Movements In An Empty Department Store (Stólar)
04. Philipp Priebe Overdosing (Stólar)
05. Philipp Priebe Women Dancing To Records with Module One) (Stólar)
06. Philipp Priebe Conclusions (OHM Remix) (Stólar)
07. Philipp Priebe Keep On (with Ben Kaczor) (Stólar)
08. Philipp Priebe Cold Nights, Warm Bodies (Stólar)
09. Philipp Priebe Fever Dreams (Ben Kaczor Remix) (Stólar)
10. Philipp Priebe Clouds Floating In A Haze Of Light (Stólar)
11. Philipp Priebe The Danish Villa (Stólar)
12. Philipp Priebe Dial 4+8 For Heartbreak (Stólar)
13. Philipp Priebe Drenched In Dust (Molly Remix) (Stólar)
14. Philipp Priebe Fever Dreams (Redux) (Stólar)

India’s Arushi Jain Next on Leaving Records

Arushi Jain will release a new album on Leaving Records.

Delight follows on from 2021s Under a Lilac Sky, which also landed on Leaving.

The album carries, at its core, the simple proposition that delight is accessible and that the practice of cultivating it is a worthwhile endeavour.

Across nine tracks, Jain aims “to instil belief in the ever-present nature of delight..assert[ing] the need to actively seek it when not readily found.”

While Under the Lilac Sky was concerned with time, space, and our outer environment, Delight is reflective, occasionally “approaching the autobiographical,” we’re told, and “an invitation for the listener to embark on their own search for delight.”

To record the album, Jain decamped to Long Island, where she assembled a makeshift studio in an empty house on the seaside, a house suffused with light and art and surrounded by wildlife. This ambience has “clearly seeped into the album, drenched as it is in the warm sun as it is in the cold October rain.” In her self imposed isolation, Jain experimented with vocal compositions, building songs out of short sung phrases.

Jain ended her solitary writing by working with acoustic instrumentalists to incorporate classical guitar, cello, marimba, flute, and saxophone into her sonic vocabulary. The result is a collection of songs that are often slower and sparer than those featured on Under the Lilac Sky, yet “audibly richer.”

Tracklisting

01. Still Dreaming
02. Exquisite Portraiture
03. I Surrender
04. Imagine An Orchestra
05. Play In The Void
06. Our Touching Tongues
07. Portal To Silver Linings
08. Infinite Delight
09. You Are Irresistible

Delight LP is scheduled for March 29 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Imagine An Orchestra” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Photos: Zara Saraon

Justice to Release Fourth Album

Justice will release a new album in April.

Out through Ed Banger Records and Because Music, Hyperdrama is the French DJ-producers’ fourth album, following 2016’s Woman. It will be available digitally as well as on CD and vinyl, including a limited-edition crystal-clear edition.

Ahead of the release, you can listen to two singles: “One Night/All Night,” which features psychedelic outfit Tame Impala, and “Generator.” The full tracklisting remains undisclosed.

“We wanted ‘One Night/All Night’ to sound as if a dark/techno iteration of Justice had found a sample of a disco iteration of Kevin Parker,” Justice said.

They added: “This song oscillates between pure electronic music and pure disco but you never really get the two at the same time. This very idea of switching instantly from a genre to another within a song runs through the whole record.”

Tracklisting

01. Track 1
02. Generator
03. Track 3
04. One Night/All Night feat. Tame Impala
05. Track 5
06. Track 6
07. Track 7
08. Track 8
09. Track 9
10. Track 10
11. Track 11
12. Track 12
13. Track 13

Hyperdrama LP is scheduled for April 26 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Generator” and “One Night/All Night” feat. Tame Impala in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Nils Frahm Announces New Solo Piano Album

Nils Frahm will release a new collection of solo piano music.

Day is Frahm’s first album since 2022’s three-hour Music For Animals.

Recorded in the summer of 2022 in complete solitude, the album contains six tracks, three over the six-minute mark. We’re told that it’s best enjoyed in the manner in which it was recorded: in the intimacy of a peaceful, cosy room.

It may come as a surprise to those who, over the last decade, have watched Frahm shift slowly away from the piano compositions with which he first made his name in favour of a style that’s more instrumentally complex and intricately arranged.

It’s the first of a pair of albums that the German musicianhas lined up for 2024. They’ll both land on LEITER, Frahm’s own label.

Tracklisting

01. You Name it
02. Tuesdays
03. Butter Notes
04. Hands On
05. Changes
06. Towards Zero

Day LP is scheduled for March 1 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Butter Notes” via the player below and pre-order here.

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