Aside from his current North American tour, Lapalux has been understandably quiet since dropping his debut full-length, Nostalchic, via Brainfeeder earlier this year. But the UK producer has clearly been keeping himself busy, and has just supplied the first clue to what he’s been working on in recent months, sharing a brand-new track accompanied by a short film from Nick Rutter, the director behind Lapalux’s twisted “Without You” video. Entitled Chrysalis, the piece follows a teenager as he—figuratively and quite literally—falls apart after a past love moves on. To accompany the sometimes-gory story, Lapalux crafted a dark and deep bit of beatwork called “Gold,” which comes topped off by the lushly layered vocals of London singer Jassy Grez. The short film and Lapalux’s new music can be experienced together below.

Enigmatic musician Leyland Kirby has released a string of unsettling and brilliant records over the past 15 years, most famously under his The Caretaker alias and as one half of V/Vm. Now, the producer is set to drop the first release in five years from his lesser-known moniker, The Stranger. Kirby’s music as The Stranger has typically adopted a starker, more sinister approach than his other aliases, and seems set to stay the same if his new LP’s first single “Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends?” is anything to go by. Watching Dead Empires in Decay will be released on October 28 via Modern Love, but before then, a video for the aforementioned single can be viewed in the player below, where the album’s artwork and tracklist can also be found. (via Juno Plus)

1. We Are Enemies But Not Here
2. So Pale It Shone In The Night
3. Spiral Of Decline
4. We Scarcely See Sunlight
5. Providence or Fate
6. Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends?
7. Grey Day Drift
8. Ill Fares The Land
9. About To Enter A Strange New Period

Longstanding and wildly prolific producer Kid606 will drop a new LP, Happiness, next month through his own Tigerbeat6 imprint, but before then, has elected to issue a small collection of new beats as a free download. Going Back to Kali Yuga consists of six “freaked-out, moody synth-hop jams,” each full to the brim with restless synth tones and the many twists and turns of Kid606’s finely honed proficiency with unpredictable drum programming. Meant to serve as a teaser for the forthcoming Happiness LP (out October 21), Going Back to Kali Yuga gives an intriguing taste of where the veteran beatsmith’s head has been at recently, and—best yet—can be streamed/downloaded for the price of an email (or more if one so chooses) via the player below.

Amsterdam-based DJ/producer Tom Trago has the rest of his year mapped out, with a new album called The Light Fantastic dropping on October 21 via Rush Hour and a just-announced string of tour dates set to take him across North America and Europe. The extensive excursion will also put Trago on his home soil for several DJ sets at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event after the release of his next LP, which promises to be homegrown in nature while pulling insight from dance styles that span the globe. Before they kick off this Friday at A Club Called Rhonda in LA, Trago’s full list of tour dates can be found below.

SEPTEMBER ’13
FRIDAY 13 – A Club Called Rhonda, Los Globos, Los Angeles
SATURDAY 14 – Lights Down Low, Club Monarch, San Francisco
SUNDAY 15 – Piknic Electronic, Montreal, Canada
FRIDAY 20 – Voyage Direct label night, Trouw, Amsterdam
SATURDAY 2 – Kletskoek, Aquabest, Eindhoven
SUNDAY 22 – Rush Hour party/album launch, Concrete, Paris
TUESDAY 24 – Closing Party Space!, Space, Ibiza
FRIDAY 27 – Tussle, Underdog, Manchester
SATURDAY 28 – Nuit Blanche Amsterdam,NRC Gebouw, Amsterdam
SATURDAY 28 – The Social Festival, Mote Park, Kent

OCTOBER ’13
WEDNESDAY 2 – Hotel Shanghai, Essen
FRIDAY 4 – Kolor, TBA, Budapest
SATURDAY 5 – PIP, Den Haag
SUNDAY 6 – Kantor, Amsterdam
SATURDAY 12 – Perron, Rotterdam
FRIDAY 18 – Rush Hour x Clone x Delsin, Trouw, Amsterdam
SATURDAY 19 – Dance City, Perugia
SUNDAY 20 – Trouw Op Zondag (ADE), Trouw, Amsterdam
FRIDAY 25 – La Villette Enchante, Paris
SATURDAY 26 – Le Sucre, Lyon

NOVEMBER ’13
FRIDAY 1 – The Nest, London
FRIDAY 8 – Panorama Bar, Berlin
SATURDAY 9 – Kong, Munich
FRIDAY 15 – Friendship, Le Rafiot, Strasbourg
SATURDAY 16 – Fuse, Brussels
FRIDAY 22 – Tunnel, Milano
SUNDAY 24 – Paradigm, Groningen
SATURDAY 30 – Trouw at Village Underground, London

DECEMBER ’13
FRIDAY 6 – Club Bonsoir, Bern
SATURDAY 14 – Loft Club, Barcelona
FRIDAY 20 – The Arches, Glasgow

With five singles released so far this year and a full-length on the way via Dekmantel, Jersey City resident Joey Anderson has just dropped a brand-new mix. As was detailed in our recent Bubblin’ Up profile of the artist, Anderson is part of a growing wave of veteran NYC/New Jersey house heads who are now establishing themselves as DJ/producers in their own right, a trend that includes such current deep house talents as DJ Qu, Fred P, Levon Vincent, and Anthony Parasole. Over the course of Anderson’s hour-long mix, he covers plenty of murky, late-night club territory, using tracks from the likes of Roy Davis, Jr., Terre Thaemlitz (a.k.a. DJ Sprinkles), Omar S, and Fred P. The mix can be downloaded via Resident Advisor, here.

Veteran beatsmith and the man responsible for last week’s immersive XLR8Rpodcast, Prefuse 73, along with Brainfeeder associate Teebs, have announced they will drop their first collaborative EP as Sons of the Morning next month. Set to appear on Prefuse 73’s newly launched label, Yellow Year, the seven-track Speak Soon Volume One EP will not only debut the label’s ongoing Speak Soon series, but will also serve as the first official release from the production pair. Sons of the Morning’s debut outing will drop on October 1, but before then, its tracklist can be found below, along with a stream of EP cut “A Dangerous Exploration of Bird Life.”

01 The Way Winter Passed Us
02 The Way That Wind Moves pt1
03 A Dangerous Exploration of Bird Life
04 The Way That Wind Moves pt2
05 The Distance From Our Fears
06 Sunday’s Buzzabout
07 Movement in Mercury

The bass-inclined Brussels duo GoldFFinch is set to follow up two recent records for Dirtybird and Saigon with a new EP for Turbo‘s Twin Turbo imprint. Called The Light Comes, the release has just been made available to stream in full exclusively on XLR8R. The three-track EP pairs a slick, techno-derived sensibility with off-kilter beats and a very UK-influenced approach to vocal sample treatment. Opener “The Light Comes” and second track “The Beast” posses an expert sense of dynamics and peaktime flow, while “Ward Off” closes the record out with more of a slow-burning sense of space. The Light Comes is set to drop on September 16, but before then, it can be streamed in full via the player below.