Listen to the New Single from Boards of Canada

It may have taken nearly eight years, but late last month, seminal Warp outfit Boards of Canada finally announced its follow-up to The Campfire Headphase, the forthcoming Tomorrow’s Harvest LP. Never ones to rush, Scottish producers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin have only just unveiled that album’s first single, the somberly disquieting “Reach for the Dead.” The tune arrives roughly two weeks before Boards of Canada’s fourth LP drops on June 10, and can be streamed in all of its mysterious, awe-inspiring glory below, where a perfectly sun-soaked video can also be found.

Listen to a Brand-New Track from Disclosure’s Debut LP

Disclosure‘s web omnipresence seems to have gotten even more of a jolt today, first with the duo sharing the stream of a remix from Bicep of its “You and Me” single (which can be heard in full here), and now unveiling another single from its forthcoming debut LP, Settle, the mostly instrumental “When a Fire Starts to Burn.” Aside from the vocal sample which gives the tune its title, this new track sees Disclosure putting together a floor-oriented instrumental complete with droning strings and a healthy bassline. “When a Fire Starts to Burn” can be streamed in full via the player below.

Video Premiere: Adult. “Idle (Second Thoughts)”

The new video for the “Idle (Second Thoughts)” single from reactivated Detroit synth duo Adult. (a.k.a. husband-and-wife team Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kupurus) is one of the last results of a long-fought crawl towards the outfit’s new record for Ghostly, The Way Things Fall. As a tune, “Idle (Second Thoughts)” sounds much more sparse, mature, and darker than anything the already-sombre outfit had released before going on hiatus in 2007, and the accompanying clip takes the “dark” theme in the most literal direction it can. The band spends the video’s four minutes bathed in darkness, cutting leisurely between shots of black-clad interpretive dance and rotating glimpses of Kupurus wearing various sculptured outfits. The Way Things Fall is out now on Ghostly—a record we marked the release of by surveying the veteran outfit’s career with the pair’s own commentary in our comprehensive Rewind feature with Adult. earlier this month.

Alfie “Turn It Around (Edit)”**

Following last year’s very well-received “Uncomfortably Numb” b/w “About Midday” single, budding 18-year-old UK producer Alfie released his new Hy-Brasil EP via the Space + Time label towards the end of last month. The EP—made up of four taut garage-house hybrids, including a remix from London producer Citizen—has been busy making the rounds, but in the meantime, Alfie has decided to share the shuffling, slow-burning non-EP cut “Turn It Around (Edit).” For those who may have missed its initial release, the young producer’s Hy-Brasil EP can be streamed in full after the jump.

Turn It Around (Edit)

Watch Richie Hawtin’s RBMA Lecture

Techno luminary and Minus label head Richie Hawtin recently stopped by the Red Bull Music Academy couch to field a range of questions about his days in Windsor and Detroit, his experience running forward-thinking labels, and his constant drive to push the envelope of electronic music technology. The 90-plus-minute lecture gives an in-depth look into the artistic mindset and ongoing points of inspiration that have made Hawtin one of techno’s most pioneering producers and DJs. The full RBMA lecture can be watched here.

Julio Bashmore Announces North American Tour, Shares Second Collab with Kowton

Bristol mainstay Julio Bashmore is having an exceedingly productive 2013. Running on the surge which followed last year’s Au Seve and Husk EPs for his own Broadwalk imprint, the man has had his name attached to just about every major festival bill and, in between constant DJ sets, recently cooked up a collaboration with fellow Bristol mate Kowton. Now, Bashmore has announced he will be making stops in North America this summer, in addition to unearthing a second track from his collaboration with Kowton. Bashmore and Kowton formed an extremely potent mixture on the Mirror Song EP, which was originally made available exclusively on limited vinyl for Record Store Day. To ready Mirror Song for wide release on May 27, Bashmore has shared the single’s b-side, “And What?.” That tune can be streamed below, where the dates for Bashmore’s two-week North American summer tour are also included.

August 01 Holoscene, Portland
August 02 Q, Seattle
August 03 Hard Summer, Los Angeles
August 06 Summer Stage, New York (with Disclosure and TNGHT)
August 08 Velvet, Montreal
August 09 Footwork, Toronto
August 10 MOMA / PS1, New York
August 10 August Morgan’s Pier, Philadelphia

Juan Atkins, Kode9, Caribou, Julio Bashmore, Ben UFO, MK, and More Announced for MoMA PS1 Warm Up

MoMA PS1‘s summer music series will return to New York’s Long Island City museum beginning the last weekend of June, and is set to bring an impressive roster of top-notch DJ, producers, and performers—some who come a bit more experimental and plenty who know their way around a dancefloor—to its weekly outdoor party. Running from late June into early September, MoMA PS1’s Warm Up series hits on some truly big names—Juan Atkins, Kode9, Caribou (pictured above), Julio Bashmore, Ben UFO, to name a few—but each weekend bill truly seems solid throughout, with a number of New York’s own underground talent appearing on the schedule along with a healthy amount of UK selectors like Bondax, Jackmaster, and L-Vis 1990. The complete schedule of forthcoming events can be found below. More information on MoMA PS1’s upcoming afternoon music events can be found here.

June 29 – Juan Atkins, Lee Gamble, HEATSICK, and Bill Kouligas (presented as part of ISSUE Project Room and Goethe-Institut NY’s PAN_ACT festival)
July 6 – The Martinez Brothers, Kim Ann Foxman (DJ set) DJ Qu, and Anthony Naples
July 13 – MK, XXYYXX, Ryan Hemsworth, Bondax, Gobby, and James K
July 20 – Kode9, L-VIS 1990, Recloose, Kelela, and Obey City
July 27 – A Guy Called Gerald, Ben UFO, Majical Cloudz, Daniel Avery, and Roosevelt
August 03 – Marcellus Pittman, Jackmaster, Dre Skull, Ratking, and Rizzla
August 10 – Julio Bashmore, Octave One (Live), Hyetal, and DJ Dodger Stadium (Samo Sound Boy+ Jerome LOL)
August 17 King Britt, J. Cole, Bangladesh, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Darq E Freaker, and World’s Fair
August 24 – Caribou (DJ set), Museum of Love (DJ set), Stellar OM Source (Live), Pional, Empress Of, and Terreke
August 31 – Cajmere, Liars (Live), Lil Silva, IO ECHO (Live), Jon Hopkins and Miles (of Demdike Stare)
September 7 -Line-up for this *extra* Warm Up to be announced…

Youandewan Readies New EP for Simple, Shares Title Track

With two EPs already in the books this year—Dissaray and Times—rising Leeds house maestro Youandewan has announced the forthcoming What’s the Deal? EP set to see a release via Aus sub-label Simple. What’s the Deal? will feature four tracks, though no official tracklist or firm release date have been shared as of yet. In the meantime, the producer has made available a stream of the EP’s nine-minute title cut—a languid, Detroit-house-inspired slowburn which can be heard in full below.

The Crystal Ark “Rain (Discodeine Remix)”*DFA*

Just in time for DFA’s 12th anniversary party this weekend—a shindig going down in NYC as part of Red Bull Music Academy‘s month-long series of events—we’ve gotten our hands on Discodeine‘s remix of “Rain,” a cut from The Crystal Ark‘s recent self-titled LP. On Its remix, the French duo take “Rain” even further inside the machine than the original did, stripping the tune’s vocals almost completely away in favor of focusing on a percolating bassline, quirky synth FX, and all kinds of loose-running drum machine patterns. Discodeine’s remix of The Crystal Ark will be joined by others from Barker & Baumecker, Frikstailers, and Carry Nation on the Rain Remixes EP (artwork above).

Rain (Discodeine Remix)

Phon.o “Schn33” b/w “Go”

Phon.o generally brings a little more concentration and heat to his 12″s than his albums. The UK-influenced German producer’s latest single for 50Weapons is no exception; “Schn33” b/w “Go” contains some of his strongest—and most straightforward—dancefloor material to date.

A-side “Schn33” sports 4/4 kicks, but they roll out with the same suppleness as Phon.o’s more slinky patterns—it seems that the artist born Carsten Aermes just can’t resist syncopation, real or implied. His precision-tooled funkiness serves the listener well here, as it’s counterposed to a dramatic, forestal chord progression that could have tumbled out of Pantha du Prince’s hard drive around the time of This Bliss. “Schn33” has the chugging, obstinate power of a locomotive: The song streaks by with a boldness that would have helped his last album, Black Boulder, be a bit more memorable.

“Go” follows the template of “Schn33” by homing in on some long-favored sounds, but deploying them with a neat matter-of-factness. Here, we’re dealing with the gummy punch of dub chords, a blank vocal sample, dashing hi-hats, and another synth melody—just shy of being bombastic—that slowly grows in the shadows until it owns the track. And although it’s as slickly executed as anything Phon.o has ever put his name to, “Go” sounds almost as hungry as the a-side.

For all of its steppy rhythms, Aermes’ music tends to be aerodynamic and well moisturized on the surface. Those qualities have obscured the inner workings of his songs before, but on this record, the producer makes it impossible to ignore their internal tension. Though the materials and execution are nothing new, the experience Phon.o wrests out of them is totally absorbing.

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