We Are Giving Away Over $10k Worth of Packages to Lake Tahoe’s Altus Festival

XLR8R is offering current and new XLR8R+ subscribers a range of packages to the upcoming Altus Festival in Lake Tahoe, taking place from March 18 to 22.

We will be giving away five GA double passes ($700+), five VIP double passes ($1000+), and one four-night double lodging package, including full festival and lift passes, worth over $1,600.

For anyone that isn’t a current XLR8R+ member, all you have to do is SUBSCRIBE HERE for $5 a month and email [email protected] with your name and “Altus Festival” as the subject. If you’re already a subscriber, simply email in your name. The winners will be selected using a random number generator and notified on March 9. Please note: entries close at 8 am PST on March 9. You and your guest must be current XLR8R+ subscribers to win and attend the festival. You can find out more about XLR8R+ here.

Announced this year as a key event of Tahoe South’s Spring Loaded campaign, Altus Festival is a four-day, multi-venue, slope-to-club music festival taking place across the renowned Heavenly Mountain Resort—the only ski resort in North America to span across two states (California and Nevada). With over four unique stages on offer spanning house, techno, old-school hip-hop, and more beat-driven styles, Altus is not one to be missed.

The inaugural year will host performances and showcases from over 50 international artists, including Rhadoo, Derrick Carter, Sugarhill Gang, Lee Burridge, Mr. G (Live), Bonobo, WhoMadeWho, DJ Three, Behrouz, Atish, Ryan Crosson, Jason Kendig (a.k.a. Honey Soundsystem), Shaun Reeves, Ricoshëi, Robag Wruhme, No Regular Play, Jay Tripwire, Doc Martin, Doormen On Vacation (John Aquaviva, Roland Leesker & Phillipp Jung), Droog/Culprit, Mr. C, and many more.

XLR8R will also host an XLR8R+ stage, alongside a selection of internationally recognized brands, including Visionquest, Dialogue, Sunset Sound System, Do Not Sit by Behrouz, Pink Mammoth, Listed + Flash, and more.

You can find out more information about the festival, including accommodation, ski/snowboard, and festival packages, here.

Squarepusher Shows Contemplative Side on New EP, ‘Lamental’

Squarepusher will release a new EP next month.

Lamental follows Squarepusher’s first album in five years, Be Up A Hello, released on Warp in January. It reveals a contemplative side to the music the UK artist, real name Tom Jenkinson, has been making over the last few years.

Jenkinson composed “MIDI Sans Frontières,” track three, in response to the EU referendum in 2016, and made the stems available to all, encouraging remixers to participate as a form of “internationalist collaboration with sound makers, irrespective of what kind of music they make, where they live, their background or their age.” Also included on the EP is Jenkinson’s own “Avec Batterie” deep breakbeat rework of the track.

The squelchy synth techno of “The Paris Track” is an accelerated interpretation of “Detroit People Mover,” which is taken from Be Up A Hello.

Squarepusher will embark on a world tour, taking him to Japan, Canada, the United States, and Europe, ending back in England in August. His May 15 show at London’s The Roundhouse will feature Paranoid London, Scalping, and Ray Keith.

Read more about Squarepusher in our XLR8R feature here.

Tracklisting

A1. The Paris Track
A2. Detroit People Mover
B1. MIDI Sans Frontières (Avec Batterie)
B2. MIDI Sans Frontières

Digital:

01. The Paris Track
02. Detroit People Mover
03. Les Mains Dansent (Digital only)
04. Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie)
05. Midi Sans Frontieres

Lamental EP is out on April 10 via Warp. Pre-order is available here, with “Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie)” streaming below.

Morocco’s Oasis Festival Books Identified Patient, Nabihah Iqbal, Roza Terenzi, and More for 2020 Edition

Oasis has revealed the first wave of acts to play the Marrakech festival’s sixth edition in September.

Since its inception, Oasis has established itself as North Africa’s premier electronic music festival. The annual event’s lineups have always blended international headliners with rising names from Africa, including Moroccan talents like Fazee, Jilaa, Malika, and Myriam. In doing so, the festival has been a catalyst for the local scene, exposing international audiences to African artists, labels, and collectives.

Included in the first round of names are Black Coffee, DJ Seinfeld, Identified Patient, Tama Sumo, Nabihah Iqbal, Roza Terenzi, and Margaret Dygas. Among the local artists are Jilaa, founder of the Raw Origins label; Fazee, whose genre-bending sets have earned her slots at Concrete and Rex Club in Paris; and Malika, who made her MUTEK debut in 2018.

Oasis takes place a short drive from Marrakech, perched beneath the Atlas mountains. Away from the music, attendees can get lost amidst the date palms, villas, and cactus gardens of the festival grounds while enjoying on-site swimming pools and yoga sessions. You can also enjoy ancient local traditions such as tea ceremonies and hookah, as well experiencing the local cuisine served by handpicked local vendors.

This year’s edition takes place from September 11 to 13. Meanwhile, you can read more about the event here, where you can also buy ticket packages. The full list of first names is below, and more will be announced soon.

South Africa’s Gilberto Arrives on Default Position’s New Label Compilation

Default Position will release its first various artist compilation later this month.

Default Position, launched in London in 2013, has released the work of a “beautiful collective of artists,” including Sebastian Mullaert, Terry Francis, and El Choop, and the Default Position Associates Vol. 1 compilation aims to bring them together under one release. Mullaert and El Choop both feature, as do a number of lesser-known names who fit in with the label’s deep electronic sounds.

One such name is Gilberto, an emerging artist from Johannesburg, South Africa, who makes his first ever release with “Importance.” In support of the compilation, we’re streaming the track in full below.

Across the compilation, you will hear a broad cross-section of emotive dance music, from classic dub techno, through to deep house and downbeat electronica, crafted by some of the label’s closest.

Tracklisting

01. Altone “Floating Fog”
02. Joseph S Joyce “Tokyo Walking”EL
03. Charlie Thorstenson “February”
04. Sebastian Mullaert “Samunnati” (Wa Wu We Dub)
05. Monophona “Shades of Grey” (Chook Rework)
06. Zirni “Ode”
07. Skwirl “Ossa”
08. Gilberto “Importance”
09. Vidno “Launch”
10. Deepcut “Absence”
11. El Choop & Tim Gee “Mitchell’s Fold”
12. Daniel[i] “Lutkeni”

Default Position Associates Vol 1. is out digitally on March 20. You can read more about it here, where pre-order is also available.

Editions Mego Unveils Albums from Finlay Shakespeare and Ewa Justka

Editions Mego has announced new albums from Finlay Shakespeare and Ewa Justka.

Solemnities, Shakespeare’s second album for the Austrian label, comes a year after Domestic Economy. It’s more gritty than his previous outings as he grasps a more raucous industrial edge to his electronic pop leanings.

“Covering a wide range of emotional states, from anger to euphoria, this is a wild complex dip into one man’s world perfectly crafted into an external release,” the label explains.

Ewa Justka is a Polish-born noise artist and self-taught instrument builder. Upside Down Smile is her third album and her first on Editions Mego. She made it “in the depth” of thoughts of “imitation in synthesiser design and filters and VCOS and formants and acid and hardcore music and twin-T filters and operations amplifiers” while at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she’s studying for a pHD.

Solemnities and Upside Down Smile are following Jasmine Guffond and Electric Indigo albums due out via Editions Mego on March 6 and March 13 respectively. They will both land on vinyl and digitally on April 24. You can preorder here and here, and stream the album openers below.

Tracklisting, Solemnities LP

A1 / 1. Occupation
A2 / 2. Fortune
A3 / 3. The Information
A4 / 4. Second Try
B1 / 5. Crisis
B2 / 6. Fantasy
B3 / 7. She Says Nothing Ends

Tracklisting, Upside Down Smile

A1 / 01. Mindless Cycles
A2 / 02. Problems With Limits
A3 / 03. Scralatti’s Saw
A4 / 04. Something Alive But Unevolvable
B1 / 05. Hello? Stella? Artois..? Artaud?
B2 / 06. The House Covered In Grape Leaves
B3 / 07. We Tend To Underestimate The Forces That Distort Our Imagination
08. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe (digital & download card only)
09. As Simple As This (digital & download card only)
10. Slippery Slide (digital & download card only)

Burnt Friedman’s João Pais Filipe Collaboration Comes with Two New ‘Secret Rhythms’

Burnt Friedman will release a new EP with João Pais Filipe, titled Eurydike. The EP comes with two unreleased jams from Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit, otherwise known as Secret Rhythms.

João Pais Filipe, born 1980, is a drummer and percussionist from Porto, Portugal. Across two tracks, he works with Friedman to “hypnotize” the listener by activating cosmic mechanics,” developing immersive, archaic next level dance music deeply rooted in natural laws of motion.” The two refer to it as “automatic music,” yet their focus is on playing and exploring rare rhythmic modes. In Friedman’s terms: “We organize pressure mediation according to mother nature.”

On the B-side are two new Secret Rhythms, tracks from Friedman and the late Jaki Liebezeit, and a Nonplace trademark. Liebezeit numbers among the world’s foremost drummers. Between 1968 and 1978, playing as a founding member of the legendary Can, he produced rhythms to be heard nowhere else. By the early 1990s, he felt he had exhausted the possibilities of conventional drums and so he began to re-define what drumming was about. These two Friedman and Liebezeit studio tracks were recorded in 2016 and were played lived frequently.

Tracklisting:

A1. Burnt Friedman & João Pais “Out Of Ape”
A2 Burnt Friedman & João Pais “Fibres Of P”
B1. Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman “Eurydike”
B2 Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman “Star Wars”

Eurydike EP is out on March 27 on vinyl and digitally via Nonplace. You can read more about the release here, where you can also hear clips of the music. Pre-order is available now.

Experimental Housewife Unveils New Album, ‘D i g i t a l B e a c h’

Experimental Housewife will release her new album on Wednesday, titled D i g i t a l B e a c h.

D i g i t a l B e a c h is Evelyn Marie Malinowski’s fourth album as Experimental Housewife album and follows Place Writer on Jacktone. It’s the San Francisco artist’s first outing on True Indigo, a little-known San Francisco collective.

“They transformed these techno-leaning experimentations into unique undulating art and facilitated a conversation between me and my grief process,” Malinowski explains.

The grief that Malinowski refers to results from her friend’s passing in 2016 after the two had spent “a sunny day blasted by winds at Ocean Beach,” she recalls. “My friend and I strolled in the dirty sand wondering what the future would bring. Little did we know that she’d be gone in two weeks.” The album is a “representation” of Malinowski’s “desire to relive that day so that I may spend time with her again and save her from harm.”

“Distorted, decayed, and dismayed experimental dance music is the best description of Experimental Housewife’s first full-length since 2016,” the label continues. “The music takes audible breaths as it tells the story of a wish to turn back time, to return to an acute moment that at first seemed insignificant but later became eminent and painfully finite.”

Malinowski also has a track coming out on a 12″ compilation organized by Chicago’s Acid Daddy. You can check out the first volume here.

To learn more about Experimental Housewife, check out her XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. D i r e c t O c e a n
02. E u r e k a
03. S c r i m s a v e r
04. W a s h
05. A q u a m a r i n e
06. U p d a t e R i p C u r r e n t
07. W e S h o u l d ‘ v e S a i d G o o d b y e
08. A s k T h e C y p r e s s W h y (f e a t. J o s e y R o s e)

D i g i t a l B e a c h LP is out on cassette tape and digitally on March 4. Meanwhile, you can stream previews below and pre-order the album here.

Lobster Theremin Unveils New Nthng Album, ‘Hypnotherapy’

Nthng​ is back with his second album for Lobster Theremin, Hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy, an eight-track album, spans dub techno and hazy ambient and traverses through different moods. It follows It Never Ends, Nthing’s debut album in 2017, but the elusive dutch DJ-producer has also put out material on his own label, Transatlantic, plus the likes of Delsin and Mörk. His latest release came in 2019 with Shine. There’s nothing else disclosed about the music itself but there are clips below.

The album is Lobster Theremin’s 66th release.

Tracklisting

A1. 50 Flower
A2. I Just Am
B1. Heitt
B2. Beautiful Love
C1. Wave Return
C2. Spirit of Ecstasy
D1. Hypnotherapy
D2. With You
Digi only: And Then There Was Light

Hypnotherapy LP​ drops on April 24 on vinyl and digitally via​ Lobster Theremin, with pre-order here.

Laurel Halo’s “Possessed” Score to See Full Release

Photo | Camile Blake

Laurel Halo‘s score for “Possessed” will see an official release on April 10.

“Possessed,” released in 2018 and the work of artist collective Metahaven and Rob Schröder, produced by Dutch Mountain Film, was nominated for the IFFR Tiger award and the CPH:Dox New Vision Award. It was Halo’s first foray into writing music for screen, and London label The Vinyl Factory will now release it as a 13-track album. Note that the digital version has only 12 tracks, leaving off the reprise of “Last Seen.”

The soundtrack traverses both the synthetic and acoustic, providing a rich variety of sounds, from aqueous, subterranean drones, to plaintive folk pieces for violin and cello, and uncanny pseudoclassical piano mutations. Violinist Galya Bisengalieva and cellist Oliver Coates also contribute, and renowned engineer Paul Corley lends additional production.

Halo has released on labels including Hyperdub, Honest Jon’s, Latency, and Livity Sound.

Tracklisting

A1. Hyphae
A2. Rome Theme I
A3. Breath
A4. Lead
A5. Marbles
A6. Rome Theme II
A7. Zeljava
B1. Last Seen
B2. Rome Theme III
B3. Cave Walk
B4. Stabat Mater (Excerpt)
B5. Masks
B6. Last Seen (Reprise)

Possessed LP is out on April 10 on vinyl and digitally through The Vinyl Factory. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream “Hyphae” below.

Berlin’s Vaagner Launches ‘A Sunken Mall’ Offshoot with Jeremiah M. Carter’s Debut Vinyl, ‘Rejoice!’

Vaagner will launch A Sunken Mall, a vinyl series featuring new releases presented with bespoke, handmade covers. The first release will come from Brooklyn’s Jeremiah M. Carter, titled Rejoice!, next month.

To celebrate the occasion, Vaagner has teamed up with Opal Tapes on a limited edition cassette edition of the release. Additionally, PTP affiliate Dis Fig and New Mexico native Angelo Harmsworth have revisited Carter’s previous outing, Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet, out on sub-label VAKNAR, and prepared two remixes that Vaagner will release as a companion to the album.

Rejoice! is the debut vinyl release of Carter, whose works are often defined by a pastiche of neo-ambient and classical influences.

Vaagner is the Berlin-based outlet focused on reissuing rare cassette-based music from around the globe. Launched in 2018, it has put out music from Acronym, Korridor, and Ekin Fil among others.

Tracklisting, Rejoice!

A1. Rejoice!
A2. A Pale Cloth That Covers the Eyes
A3. Like a Command (the Life of the Imperative)
A4. Like a Waltz
B1. Perfectly Red Ochre
B2. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Abandonment Veil
B3. A Few Freed Memories That Lay Bare (feat. Kelby Clark)
B4. Five Vases That Mark the Breasts
B5. Silence Belongs to Us

Tracklisting [Companion Release]

A1. One Another’s Geography (Dis Fig’s Terminal D Remix)
B1. A Lover’s Discourse (Angelo Harmsworth Revision)

Rejoice! LP is out on March 13 on vinyl and cassette tape. Meanwhile, you can stream “A Pale Cloth That Covers the Eyes” below.

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