Bubblin’ Up LA beatmaker D33J issued his first official release, the Tide Songs EP, earlier this year, and is already set to follow up that record with another EP for California label Anticon. Set to drop on October 15, the four-track Gravel is described as “the soundtrack to sleepless nights spent ruminating on both right and wrong decisions,” and is preceded by a stream of “Slow (feat. Kreyola),” an atmospheric and slow-grooving tune littered with warped vocal bits. D33J will be on a North American tour with Mount Kimbie and Jonwayne leading up to the release of his second EP, the dates of which can be found below, along with Gravel‘s tracklist and lead single.

1. Faded Creek
2. Slow (feat. Kreyola)
3. Stills
4. Empty Sunset

9/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
9/24 – San Diego, CA @ Porters Pub (UCSD Campus)
9/25 – San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
9/28 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue
9/29 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
9/30 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux
10/3 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
10/7 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
10/8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/9 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
10/11 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
10/12 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbit’s
10/13 – Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder
10/14 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
10/15 – Miami, FL @ Bardot
10/17 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic
10/18 – Houston, TX @ Walters
10/19 – Austin, TX @ Red 7
10/20 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10/23 – Columbus, OH @ The Basement

With Amsterdam Dance Event—the annual Dutch celebration of all things dance music—less than a month away, the Dekmantel crew has unveiled its impressive set of showcases for the festival. Covering four nights (October 17 – 20), Dekmantel’s showcases will feature talent from all over the world. The L.I.E.S. crew (Ron Morelli, Steve Summers, and Delroy Edwards) representing the US alongside Moodyman, Omar S, and Anthony Naples, while the Hessle Audio crew (Pangaea, Ben UFO, and Pearson Sound), Midland, and Bicep are set to bring their distinct UK flavors to Amsterdam. Dekmantel’s closing party will focus on Berlin and Ostgut Ton, bringing out Ben Klock pictured above), Marcel Dettman, Marcel Fengler, Function, Luke Slater, and others from the label’s roster to make the festival’s final day a memorable one. The lineup for all four of Dekmantel’s upcoming Amsterdam Dance Event nights can be perused on the flier below, and if the hometown crew’s series of showcases is anywhere near as well done as its recent festival, these four nights are likley to be some of the best parties at ADE.

Following the recent announcement of John Talabot’s upcoming entry into the DJ-Kicks mix series, the !K7 label has announced that UK producer Ben Westbeech (a.k.a. Breach) will follow soon after with his own installment. The chart domination of Westbeech’s spritely “Jack” single has kept him on a steady stream of DJ gigs around the world, but he nonetheless found time to put together this mix after a recent move to Amsterdam, which allowed him to delve deeper into the city’s many record stores. Said to focus on Breach’s “underground” side, his edition of DJ-Kicks features deep cuts from the likes of Detroit legends Inner City, Dusky, Dopplereffekt, Amsterdam duo Beesmunt Soundsystem, Iron Galaxy, Detroit Swindle, Redinho, and Fred P, as well as an exclusive, unreleased tune from Westbeech. The tracklist and artwork for Breach’s DJ-Kicks mix can be viewed below, before it’s issued on November 12.

01. Innercity – Prince Of The Immortal Woods
02. Wire People – Triangle Vision (Original Mix)
03. Beesmunt Soundsystem – All Day
04. Fred P. – It Is What It Is
05. Pedestrian – Hoyle Road
06. Coni – My Secret Diving
07. Breach – Beroving (DJ-Kicks)
08. Cassio Kohl – Broken
09. CLOSE feat. Joe Dukie – My Way (Dusky Remix)
10. Iron Galaxy – Attention Seeker
11. Detroit Swindle – The Break Up
12. Dopplereffekt – Z-Boson
13. Redinho – Searching
14. Winx – How’s The Music
15. Sabre – Nightdrive To Bolland

As the story goes, after learning that his 2004 Late Night Tales mix had recently been reissued as a remastered “collectors edition,” a frustrated Four Tet—who claims to have had no involvement with the new release—decided to simply give away the entire mix himself. “[The] reissue of my Late Night Tales mix they are doing has nothing to do with me… they never told me about it and [I have] not heard the remaster,” the London producer said on Twitter today, soon following his statements with links to download the entire 2004 mix and his cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Castles in the Sand”—which appears as part of Four Tet’s Late Night Tales—for free. Who knows how long these will last, but for now, the mix album can be downloaded here and the Hendrix cover can be grabbed here. Turning an understandable frustration with a record label overstepping its bounds into an opportunity to give his fans free music—just another reason to love Four Tet.

Seven months after its News From Nowhere album for Warp arrived, London trio Darkstar has revealed plans to follow that release with a pair of remix EPs featuring new productions by the band itself, German house kingpin Motor City Drum Ensemble (pictured above), and the always unpredictable Zomby. The first EP, entitled 01484, will offer Darkstar’s own reimagining of News From Nowhere tracks “Young Hearts” and “Armonica,” while Motor City Drum Ensemble remixes the record’s piano-led slow jam “A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work.” Though no exact release date or tracklist has been shared for it at this point, the second remix EP, HD7, will again feature Darkstar remixing themselves, in addition to Zomby’s take on one of the album’s tracks. For now, the complete info for the 01484 (which is slated to drop on October 15) can be found below, along with a stream of MCDE’s remix.

A1 Young Hearts (Darkstar Remix)
A2 Armonica (Darkstar Remix)
B1 A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

Restless LA beatmaker Shlohmo (a.ka. Henry Laufer) has been in collaboration mode as of late—recent tracks with Jeremih and How to Dress Well have seen Laufer stepping outside the boundaries of his own solo productions to work with more vocal-centric material. Continuing in a similar vein, Shlohmo has just shared a remix for “She” by UK soul singer Laura Mvula. Laufer twists Mvula’s gorgeous, plaintive ballad into something sinewy and nocturnal, which is a far cry from the dancefloor-ready remix of the same song that Canadian producer Hissy Fit delivered to us early last month. “She (Shlohmo Remix)” can be streamed and downloaded below.