Ron Jason & Kim Ann Foxman The Dream Project EP

Love Fever is a label known for its kinetic parties in London’s underground, its erotically charged artwork, and its finely cultivated catalog. Having already helped propel the likes of Citizen and Ejeca into greater notoriety, the dance-music apparatus continues its foray into retro-minded productions by pairing Ron Jason—better known as Italian cult favorite Nick Anthony Simoncino, (or simply Simoncino)—with Hercules & Love Affair alum Kim Ann Foxman for a five-track EP, The Dream Project.

A natural fit for one another, Simoncino and Foxman have each carved out a place in the contemporary house-music lexicon by updating classic New York and Chicago sounds. (Simoncino even nods to the famed Chicago DJ crew with HotMix, his fledgling vinyl-only label.) Working across a series of tracks each named after a letter in the word “dream,” they continue the trend here, recalling acts like Chez Damier, Larry Heard, and Ron Trent—artists, not coincidentally, that have all been commissioned to remix Simoncino’s tracks in the past. Well positioned after the humid and beatless intro “D,” “R” has all the trappings of a single from any one of these Windy City veterans, as it packs in dense drum-machine programming, wispy synth atmospherics, vocal flourishes that call out from deep in the mix, and Foxman herself, who coos intermittently, “Dream with me.”

EP centerpiece “E” shifts to an East Coast vibe and employs a lighter touch. Richly textured with Foxman’s vocals, which are set atop a steady 4/4 thump and the trill of hi-hats, this is the cut that underpins the EP thematically. As Foxman paints a picture of the love she dreams of, celestial keys reverberate in places while sheets of steady synth chords glow in others. Beneath it all, a river murmurs.

Water is commonplace in dreams, and it’s just as common here, flowing throughout the EP. Bubbling up again on “A,” the liquid atmospherics evolve into a deep, late-night affair punctuated by heavy drumming and a woozy synth melody. EP closer “M” teases out the loopy nature of an imagination in its midnight slumber, reprising Foxman’s “My life is just a dream” incantation and the quixotic motifs of The Dream Project as a whole.

Samiyam Drops New Cassette via Stones Throw/Leaving Records

Save for a couple of high-profile production credits, LA beatmaker Sam Baker (a.k.a. Samiyam) has been especially quiet since he dropped his Sam Baker’s Album LP via Brainfeeder in 2011. But as the just-announced release of his Wish You Were Here cassette indicates, the producer was quietly at work on his own material, too. In partnership with Leaving Records, the 16-track offering hit the Stones Throw store today as a digital download or t-shirt & tape bundle. Baker said this about Wish You Were Here: “I’m just trying to show where I’m coming from. I’m not about futuristic spaceship beats, just straightforward hip-hop.” Before Samiyam’s new cassette gets a wide release on October 8, its tracklist and a full stream of new track “Snakes on the Moon” can be found below.

1. Announcement
2. Pandas
3. Lunch Meat
4. On a Limb (feat. Evidence)
5. Dreams (Green Feelings)
6. Rice Crackers
7. Forget It
8. Waves
9. Come Thru
10. This L
11. Italy
12. Stuff
13. On a Bad Day
14. Wooden Backhand
15. Snakes on the Moon
16. Hummus (feat. The Alchemist)

Download a New Mix from Tensnake

We’ve been catching bits and pieces of Tensnake‘s as-yet-unannounced LP for Virgin over the past few months, and though the details of that record still have yet to surface, the German DJ/producer born Marco Niemerski has just shared a brand-new mix to sate his fans. Called On Repeat #1, the 14-track, hour-long DJ set boats a fine selection of lively house tracks from the likes of Tiger & Woods, Dusky, Beautiful Swimmers, Claude VonStroke, Disclosure, and the mixmaster himself, among others. Tensake’s mix can be streamed and downloaded for free via the player below.

01. Dürerstuben- Haeckls Kosmos [Pampa]
02. Ninetoes – Finder (Kraver’s ’84 Version) [Kling Klong]
03. Gero – Turn Around feat. Kullai Timi – Turn Around (Satin Jackets remix) [Jalapeno]
04. Beautiful Swimmers – Running Over [Future Times]
05. Terjei Nygard – Katapult [Full Pupp]
06. Tiger & Woods – Golden Bear [Editainment]
07. Behling & Simpson – String 01 [Exploited]
08. Addex – Public Progress (Marco Grandi remix) [Moonrise]
09. Kiwi – Mayfly feat. Amy Skippings (Urulu Dub) [Needwant]
10. Dusky – Careless [Aus]
11. Codec – Is It Something [Madtech]
12. Claude VonStroke – The Clapping Song [Dirtybird]
13. Disclosure – F For You (TEED remix) [Universal]
14. Tensnake feat. Fiora – See Right Through [Virgin EMI]

MGUN Readies New EP

With a string of releases for Wild Oats, Trilogy Tapes, and Don’t Be Afraid already to his name, Detroit-based producer Manuel Gonzales (a.k.a. MGUN) is set to add a new EP to his catalog next month via the Third Ear label. The somewhat haphazardly titled Some Tracks EP will offer five new productions from the burgeoning Midwest talent, with the accompanying press release describing its grainy techno sounds as “harsh and abrasive, aching and reflective by turns.” MGUN’s Some Tracks EP will see an official release on November 8, but in the meantime, its artwork and tracklist are included below.

A1 Extort
A2 Mean While
B1 Fiber
B2 Mask
B3 Taft

Palms Trax “I Wanna”

Ahead of his inaugural release for the new Lobster Theremin imprint, Berlin-based producer Palms Trax (who once dropped eerie bass tunes as Drop/Dead) has shared one-off track “I Wanna.” Apparently, Palms Trax and Lobster Theremin label head Jimmy Asquith initially bonded over “vintage US sounds, analogue workouts, and rough-edged intersections of house and techno,” something which is quite evident in this lush and active production. “I Wanna” immediately recalls Detroit techno excavator Legowelt, in that it skirts the edges of house and techno to collect only what it needs. With the meticulous integration of three-dimensional synth melodies and tumbling toms, “I Wanna” bounces back and forth between a forceful house jam and a techno banger, never quite settling on which angle is best to attack the dancefloor. Palms Trax’s four-track Equation EP will be released via Lobster Theremin on October 7, but before then, a recent radio mix from the artist can be found after the jump.

I Wanna

Video: Huerco S. “Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning)”

Kansas-born producer Huerco S. has been rising fast in the electronic realm—his excellent debut, Colonial Patterns, and refreshingly trend-blind XLR8Rpodcast from last week are a testament to the young artist’s talent—and just today, he released a new video for the weathered techno cut “Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning).” The repurposed, spastic piece zooms in on a digitally artifacted seaside and forest, until the visuals become so choppy and abstracted that they take on wholly different forms. Eventually, the video adds in a kaleidoscopic mirror effect, and the conceptual shapes seem to become self-aware, growing more complex in their new paradigm.

Watch a Three-Hour DJ Set from Hieroglyphic Being

Captured on high-quality (albeit rather dark) video during a recent performance in Milan, a three-hour voyage with Chicago house and techno experimentalist Jamal Moss (a.k.a. Hieroglyphic Being ) behind the decks is now availbable to watch in full. Split into two parts, the extended DJ set—recorded and shared by online video hub URSSS—sees Moss spend 40 minutes warming up with a choice selection of soulful cuts before launching head first into his weirder inclinations—including eveything from the more obtuse ends of house and techno to electro, funk, and plenty more dancefloor oddities. Both parts of the man’s adventurous performance can be watched below.

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Win a Moog Sub Phatty from Point Blank

London’s Point Blank Music School has launched a new competition to give away a Sub Phatty analog synth from Moog. To enter for a chance to win the coveted synthesizer, contestants simply need to subscribe to Point Blank’s YouTube channel before midnight, October 7. After the cutoff, the winner of a random draw will be picked to receive the Sub Phatty synth along with a Pro Producer Course of their choice from the London production school. Considering the fact that Point Blank already counts over 70,000 existing subscribers to its YouTube channel—all of which will also be included in the competition—chances of winning might be slim, but hey, crazier things have happened.

Preview Conforce’s Upcoming Third Album

Following up February’s Time Dilation EP for Delsin and a top-notch XLR8Rpodcast as Versalife in March, multi-monikered Dutch producer Boris Bunnik is back this fall with his third full-length as Conforce, Kinetic Image, an extensive preview of which can now be heard. Bunnik’s latest LP runs through 10 cuts of sanitized, forlorn techno, from the chilly mechanical abyss of “Scientific Trajectory” to the early-Aphex Twin analog patter of “Abundance Of Selves.” For this record, Bunnik aspired to “make moving images and art that evolve and unfold like passing landscapes,” and create “a complete experience that moves away from regimented 4/4 beats and into slower, more surreptitious tempos.” Kinetic Image‘s official release date is set for November 4 via Delsin—the album’s sampler and tracklist can be found below.

1. Excess Mortality
2. Spatiotemporal
3. Temporary Reversals
4. Semantic Field
5. Scientific Trajectory
6. Underwater Settlers
7. Formerly Programmed Decisions
8. Abundance Of Selves
9. Optimum Pace
10. Anti-adaptive State

Watch a New Video from Fuck Buttons

Crescendo-obsessed UK duo Fuck Buttons has debuted its second video for 2013’s Slow Focus LP, this time for the towering opener “Brainfreeze.” Like an amateur, home-recorded Chris Cunningham short, the Andrew Hung-directed piece warps his and bandmate Benjamin John Power’s bodies into unsettling, Photo Booth-esque contortions. With a no-budget, playful tone, the video’s facial expressions strike a balance between amusing and disturbing. The full clip for “Brainfreeze” can be watched below.

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