It would appear that we aren’t the only ones in a giving mood this month: After Todd Edwards gave away a bunch of edits from his Essential Mix, LA beatmaking impresario Flying Lotus has just capped off a Twitter Q&A session with a link to download a large ZIP file titled “Ideas+drafts+loops.” The artist born Steven Ellison posted his link with the message, “Some be like, ‘Aww FlyLo why don’t u make stuff like ur old stuff?’ That’s what this moment is for.” Featuring a ton of rough beats, demos, and unreleased tunes, Flying Lotus’ gratis offering—which, according to Ellison, features the likes of DJ Mehdi, Baths, Earl Sweatshirt, Viktor Vaughn, Andreya Triana, and Shabazz Palaces, among others—can be nabbed here.

With its debut record out today via Stones Throw, 7 Days of Funk (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg and Dam-Funk) has put together a new retro-streaked video for album opener “Hit Da Pavement.” With its laid-back, G-funk swing, the tune’s video finds the West Coast partners-in-funk driving around in a slick Lincoln Continental, picking up girls, and rapping in parking lots—basically doing everything we’d expect to see Dam-Funk and Snoop Dogg to be up to in a music video. The full clip can be watched below, and for those that missed it last week, we enlisted Snoop and Dam to share their favorite tracks from each other’s catalog for our last Hi-Five of the year; check that out here.

Although Croatia’s Dimensions Festival is not set to get underway until the last days of August next year, the first wave of slated performers have already been revelaed. So far, the short-list of acts includes Caribou and Mala (both of which are said to be playing live PA sets), along with additional perfromances by Jon Hopkins, Om Unit, and Vatican Shadow, among others. Furthermore, Dimension’s teaser announcement lays out a few of the festival’s planned curators, with labels like Hessle Audio, L.I.E.S., Eglo, and Leisure System set to takeover stages at the forthcoming five-day event series. The full list of so-far announced Dimensions 2014 performers can be peeped on the flier below.

Providence-based noise/techno producer Container (a.k.a. Ren Schofield) has announced that he’s next in line to issue an EP for the well-curated Liberation Technologies imprint. Schofield, who has previously released via labels like Spectrum Spools and Morphine, works with a sound based on abrasively metronomic percussion and swaths of white noise. According to its press release, his forthcoming Adhesive record is described as “uncompromising,” and is said to feature “the work of a producer working intuitively with the machines he surrounds himself with, a relentless pulse ever present at the core of these abrasive workouts.” Container’s four-track record is set for release on January 20, but before then, its tracklist and stream of opening track “Glaze” can be found below.

01 Glaze
02 Slush
03 Complex
04 Adhesive

Sci-fi-centric techno duo Dopplereffekt has just unveiled a brand-new video, which is now available to stream exclusively on the Leisure System website for a limited time. Shot at the Marie Curie Institute in Paris, director Irwin Barbe‘s grainy, black-and-white footage whelms Dopplereffekt’s percolating “Gene Silencing” track—lifted from the group’s recent Tetrahymena EP—in withdrawn and sterile imagery. Flashing images of microscopic organisms, laboratories, and gaseous masses bombard the viewer, complimenting the scientifically oriented narrative woven by Dopplereffekt ringleader Gerald Donald. The clip for “Gene Splicing” can be seen for the next 21 days here.

In addition to dropping this sharp video, Leisure System is also preparing to celebrate the 20th edition of its residency at the Berghain/Panorama Bar with a DJ set from Paul Woolford’s Special Request project, Visionist, Tim Exile, and more on December 13, the details of which can be found here.