One Records is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a 12-track various artist compilation spread out over three releases.
The first part of the compilation is available now, and features a track from label owner Subb-an plus new faces to the label Adam Pits and Urulu. Label regulars Yamen & EDA close out the EP. We can expect four “club-ready tracks for the dancefloor” that aim to start a new era for the label.
Born in 2009 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, One Records has become a home for some of Europe’s most sought-after artists, among them John Dimas, Point G, Akufen, Thomas Melchior, Dan Ghenacia, and Livio & Roby. At its helm are Adam Shelton and Subb-an.
The compilation’s second and third parts will be announced soon, but we can expect new material from names like Mathew Jonson, Desert Sound Colony, Thoma Bulwer, DJ Anna Wall, and Monika Ross.
Nicolás Jaar will live stream a DJ set today at 7pm GMT for two hours.
The stream will celebrate the release of Jaar’s new album, Cenizas, and 2017-2019, his new collection of material as Against All Logic. The set is made up of Jaar’s own music and inspirations, and will feature mostly unreleased music and edits from other songs.
You can tune in via Twitch stream here at 7pm GMT.
Idontknow is the UK artist’s first solo artist release since his 2015 debut, In Colour, and it ends months of speculation about who is behind the track. Without knowing the artist behind it, people have been partying to “Idontknow” since late autumn 2019 when it first surfaced. Since then, the track has taken on a life of its own, garnering support from the likes of Four Tet, Caribou, HAAi, and Bicep.
Idontknow is available now via digital services, and the 12″ will be available via independent retailers around May 1 (UK) and May 15 (US), with the rest of the world to follow. It is available to pre-order now.
Amnesia Scanner, real names Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala, will release their second album, Tearless, on PAN in June.
Tearless is said to mark a turning point in the duo’s trajectory following EPs for Young Turks and their debut album, 2018’s Another Life. It’s described by the label as a “sonic reflection of how it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging,” in reference to the worldwide climate crisis. Haimala and Kalliala refer to Tearless as a “breakup album with the planet.”
The musical scope of the album is expansive, and it features guest vocalist Lalita, hardcore punk band Code Orange, and Brazillian DJ-producer LYZZA. We’re told that it sits “closer to pop than abstraction.” The art direction comes from regular collaborators PWR.
The album will be followed by a live show “complete with jumbotron stages, animatronics, and a surrealist costumed cast,” according to the label.
Tracklisting
01. AS Enter 02. AS Tearless (feat. Lalita) 03. AS Flat (feat. Code Orange) 04. AS Trouble 05. AS Acá (feat. Lalita) 06. Call Of The Center (interlude) 07. AS Too Late 08. AS Going (feat. LYZZA) 09. AS Labyrinth 10. AS U Will Be Fine
Tearless LP is out on vinyl and digitally on June 5 via PAN. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and listen to “AS Going” (feat. LYZZA) below.
American native Rob Garza is a founding member of Thievery Corporation, formed in 1995 and today one of America’s most forward-thinking and politically conscious music groups. Alongside partner Eric Hilton, Garza has gone on to amass an expansive discography featuring Grammy-nominated albums, as well as numerous remixes and EPs that bend through hip-hop, jazz, classical, Middle Eastern, electronica, dub, and so much more.
Garza and Hilton came together in Washington DC., unified by a mutual friend, an admiration for the work of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and a love for dub, bossa nova, and jazz. Meeting in the studio for the first time, they set about trying to mix these sounds together, and the first taste of these experiments came months later with EPs Shaolin Satellite and 2001: a Spliff Odyssey, before their debut album, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi. Thievery Corporation was up and running, and they haven’t stopped since—nine albums down, and this work has positioned Garza as a pioneer of the West Coast’s flourishing electronic music movement, admired by generations of aspiring music producers.
Late last year, Garza launched his new project, GARZA, which sees him bringing together a diverse collective of musicians, producers, visual artists, and videographers. The output of this meeting of minds is an aesthetic that’s different to his previous work, combining esoteric electronica and a pop sensibility, harking back to his love of ‘80s electronic music and indie synth-pop. GARZA’s first EP, Where the Moon Hides, was released in November 2019 and features vocalists Seann Bowe and Emeline, as well as co-production with LA-based SMLE.
The release capped off a busy 2019 for Garza, which also included the inauguration of his own Magnetic Moon label, a content portal working with young artists on music, as well as with technology. He also completed an original score for the King Tut virtual reality experience, “Tutankhamun: Enter the Tomb,” which is traveling worldwide through renowned museums, and he continued his work with Dr. Adam Gazzaley of UC San Francisco, creating music along with virtual reality video games designed to assist with neurological disorders.
More recently, as GARZA, Garza contributed an exclusive remix of “Floating Through My Bones,” the second track on Where the Moon Hides, to XLR8R+, alongside the Ableton project behind it. You can download this package, which comes with two more tracks from Mike Shannon as Blue Fields and Toada, here.
In the meantime, and in support of the release, Garza has compiled an XLR8R podcast, recorded in his home studio in San Francisco while under lockdown. You’ll hear his XLR8R+ contribution near the beginning, sandwiched between tracks from Rhye (a poolside remix) and Toby Tobias, which gives you an idea of how this mix starts out: smooth and gentle, but the beats become harder around the 15-minute mark, and from there you’ll hear some of Garza’s favorite tracks right now, focused on melody and picked for an easy-listening experience.
01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been locked down in San Francisco and playing catch up on a lot of things I’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t had the chance because of touring etc.
02. When and where did you record this mix?
My CDJs are somewhere else so I recorded it at home on a friend’s old DDJ Serato thing that I’m kind of unfamiliar with so it was interesting putting it together!
03. How did you choose the records that you included?
I’ve been doing some livestream DJing lately with everybody self-isolating, so those have been sort of quarantine solo dance parties. For this, I wanted it to be more melodic and be about listening as well. Almost imagining taking a drive in the desert and putting this on.
04. How do you go about finding your new music?
A lot of it is random. I do a lot of Shazam-ing on tour. I also like to find a lot of “new” old music; things that I may have overlooked.
05. How are you dealing with the lock-downs?
I’m keeping really busy. We (Thievery Corporation) decided in 2019 to take 2020 off. So it hasn’t dampened any touring plans. I’m enjoying time with my son and working on music. I toured a lot up until March. So despite the gravity of the situation, I’m enjoying the pause.
06. How’s the new GARZA material coming along?
The project is coming along great. It’s been refreshing working with different artists and expressing myself in different genres. There is a new EP coming in a couple months, and a single that’s a cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.”
07. What’s up next?
I just turned 50 and so officially I’ve been doing music professionally half of my life now. My intention is just to continue to be inspired, open-minded, and creative.
XLR8R has now joined Mixcloud Select, meaning that to download the podcast you will need to subscribe to our Select channel. 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.
Tracklisting
01. Tycho “Ascension (Rob Garza Remix)” (Ghostly/Magnetic Moon) 02. Francis Inferno Orchestra “Time For Tea” (Wolfmusic) 03. Rhye “Feel your Weight (Poolside Remix)” (Luna Vista Recordings) 04. GARZA “Floating Inside My Bones (Floating Breaks Mix)” (Magnetic Moon/XLR8R+) 05. Toby Tobias “I Give you Love” (Delusions of Grandeur) 06. Icarus “October” (FFRR) 07. Maya Jane Coles “Something in the Air (Bonobo Remix)” (Hypercolour) 08. Sabo “Oud Dreams (featuring Zeb)” (Magnetic Moon) 09. Betoko “Raining Again” (Diynamic) 10. Mind Against “Walking Away” (Afterlife Records) 11. NekliFF, Rafael Cerato “Marrakesh (Kaspar Koman Remix)” (Manual Music) 12. Maxxi Soundsystem “Medicine” (Culprit) 13. Mirror People “Kaleidoscope (Psychemagik Remix)” (Discotexas) 14. Wax Poetic “Tonight (Rob Garza Remix)” (Magnetic Moon)
Helena Hauff has delivered a mix for Tresor‘s Kern series, lashing together a sound world with a potent barrage of industrial dance music.
Hauff’s contribution is the series’ fifth instalment following Objekt in 2016 and DJ Stingray in 2017. Settling into a swift 150bpm groove, Hauff ploughs through electro, ghetto bumps, and grizzled techno.
The mix features exclusive tracks from Hauff & Morah, Umwelt, Machino, Galaxian, and L.F.T., plus rare titles such as the late Curley Schoop’s “Mayhem” as Esoterik, “City Of Boom” by DJ Godfather & DJ Starski, and “After Dark” produced by Andrea Parker and David Morley.
The release lands as a double-CD, and there’ll be a triple-vinyl release with all exclusive tracks plus exclusive photography and a mix download.
Tracklisting
01. Esoterik “Mayhem” 02. Mononom “Shrinking” 03. Jaquarius “Metamine” 04. Slaves Of Sinus “Chaos (And Me)” 05. Galaxian “Private Tyranny” 06. Blackmass Plastics “Holy Handgrenade” 07. Volruptus “We Are The Cyborgs” 08. Animistic Beliefs “An Eye For A.I.” 09. Paul Blackford “Dance Yourself To Death” 10. DJ Godfather & DJ Starski “City Of Boom” 11. Dirty Hospital “The General” 12. Galaxian “Glasgow To Detroit” 13. SolarX “Bionic Man” 14. The Advent “Work Dat” 15. O-Wells “Park Jit” 16. Privacy “Go” 17. Morah & Hauff “Segment 3” 18. Somatic Responses “Open Window” 19. Nasenbluten “Intellectual Killer” 20. Subtopia “The Mob Rules” (Umwelt Remix) 21. L.F.T. “Data Move” 22. Q.D.T ”Untitled” 23. Machino “Ministerio” 24. SC-164 “Telegraph” 25. Shedbug “Sibelle” 26. L.F.T. “Nucleon” 27. Exzakt “Madrid Nights” 28. Umwelt “Starless Night” 29. Shinra “Pinwheel” 30. Maarten van der Vleuten “Internaut” 31. Andrea Parker & David Morley “After Dark”
Kern Vol.5 is out on vinyl and CD on June 19. Meanwhile, you can stream L.F.T.’s “Data Move” in full below.
Approved by Robert Smith (The Cure) himself, Noto’s rework is a study of the original score, subtly breaking into its own components, progressions and moods. It reveals the acoustic and harmonic complexities in the original track—the ’80s reverb-heavy guitar sounds, the organ’s ghoulish murmur, and the sudden flashes of synthesizers dissolve into an almost weightless fusion of warm chords, melodic fragments, and oscillating digital tones.
“The Cure’s ‘A Forest’ has always reminded me of the feeling of ‘coming home,’ and, above all, the intro always gave me lots of emotions and excitement,” Noto tells XLR8R. ” I was 15 years old when the song was released. At the time my desire for good music started to grow, and, of course, I would look for sounds that reflected the time and age I was living.”
Noto continues: “40 years after its release, I still bow to it and feel grateful that it exists.”
Tracklisting
01. A Forest (The Cure Cover)
A Forest is out now on vinyl and digitally via NOTON. Meanwhile, you can stream the track below.
Pascal Terstappen is set to release his sixth Applescal studio album, Diamond Skies.
Diamond Skies follows 2013’s Dreaming In Key LP, the album that laid the foundation for Atomnation, Terstappen’s label home. The Dutch producer recorded it in 2019 and early 2020, and he finished the last bits only last month.
Aesthetically, we’re told that the album sounds lush, colourful, and energetic, and that its tracks meander through ambient and melodic house genres, occasionally surprising the listener with a lost breakbeat.
“The album sounds free and brings back a certain mystery to dance music, which in today’s world can sometimes feel grey and designed for utility in big rooms,” the label explains. “Applescal shows the very opposite on Diamond Skies, and exemplifies the vibrant, introspective Atomnation sound.”
Diamond Skies LP is out on vinyl and digitally on May 29. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream three tracks over at Bandcamp. The 12″ release delivery is expected late June, early July.
Baths, real name Will Wiesenfeld, will launch his Basement’s Basement label with Pop Music / False B-Sides II.
Pop Music / False B-Sides II contains a dozen renewed ideas and sketches finally colorized. Some of these tracks were considered for the final tracklists of Obsidian (2013) and Romaplasm (2017). Others started their creative life as collaborative efforts and some were originally pegged for Wiesenfeld’s Geotic project. Wiesenfeld recorded the lyrics only recently, specially for this collection.
One of the most poignant and personal tracks is the finale, “The Stones.” Shortly before Wiesenfeld’s father passed away earlier this year, his dad had pointed out a bit in the lyrics that made him proud of his son: “I still trust that men can be lovely/do what you like/but do it to me.”
In support of the release, Wiesenfeld has shared the video for the first single, “Mikaela Corridor,” which is streaming below. Directed by Dan Streit, it tells the story of a kid temporarily lost to the hype, only to tap in with his inner voice and assume his true identity.
Wiesenfeld is also re-issuing the first Pop Music / False B-Sides record, originally released in 2011 as a tour exclusive, as well.
Tracklisting:
01. Immerse 02. Tropic Laurel 03. Mikaela Corridor 04. Agora 05. Sex 06. Stomach Tile 07. Fortuna 08. Wistful (Fata Morgana) 09. Veranda Shove 10. Lung Tile 11. Be That 12. The Stones
Pop Music / False B-Sides II is out digitally on May 29. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here.
Daedelus has unveiled a new album, What Wands Won’t Break, launching on Dome of Doom across digital and cassette formats on May 8.
What Wands Won’t Break is Daedelus’ first work since joining the staff at Berklee College of Music as an Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty Member of EDI (Electronic Digital Instrument). It follows his previous album on Brainfeeder, The Bittereinders, released last year.
Tracks are “set in motion as bursts in time, hurdling through different passages of minimal harmonic components and toweringly ferocious rhythm and bass,” Dome of Doom explains. Every layer is “magnified and saturated,” and few tracks grace the two-minute mark.
In terms of process, Daedelus pushed Ableton to the edge, which is to say that signal paths were drastically altered, bringing out a sense of “frenetic energy,” the label explains.
He was inspired by Beat Lab Academy‘s short video series exploring sound hacks wherein they created a baseline from drum material using a few instances of Ableton’s Drum Buss. Across the album, Daedelus wanted to push less profuse sound sources to the brink with boosting plug-ins.
The album also nods to the late Ras G in seeking out extremes. “Every time we’d play, Ras would push each fader and every knob to the max even before hitting a 404 pad; he’d say it was ‘how it needed to sound,'” Daedelus recalls. “I’d be dubious because going ‘into the red’ induces distortion of the audio signal, it changes the harmonic content. As if amplification could ever be pristine? I’m grateful for their questioning of what we are intoning. This record is reaching for exultation and exclamation. Bass boosted. Transient inflated. Loud.”
