Hessle Audio co-head and consistently adventurous producer Pangaea has announced plans to launch an ongoing series of self-released singles beginning next month. Under the label name Hadal 1—a reference to the ocean’s Hadal zone, the deepest part of the marine environment—the new series will serve as a recurring home for Pangaea’s productions, although the Londoner stresses that there is no particular release plan set at this point. The series’ first single—which actually contains three tracks, “Razz,” “Mission Creep,” and “Viaduct”—will see a release on June 3. While both Pangaea and fellow Hessle Audio founder Pearson Sound have recently launched their own imprints in order to self-release new material, in an interview with FACT, Pangaea assures Hessle fans that operations at the label are nowhere near slowing up. “We both see Hessle as the core of what we do,” he explains in the interview, “but the label has always been about working with other people beyond the three of us [Pangaea, Pearson Sound, and Ben UFO]. I think we’re keen to emphasise that. I guess we’re lucky in that we’ve been able to build our reputations off the back of Hessle and so projects like this are still able to get a bit of attention.” Pangaea’s first single for Hadal 1 can be previewed via the player below.

It’s hard to get much more OG than Chicago’s RP Boo—the footwork/juke producer credited with essentially inventing the style with his 1997 single “Baby Come On,” which placed an Ol’ Dirty Bastard sample over juke’s now-trademark syncopated rhythms. At last beginning to get his due, RP Boo’s debut full-length, Legacy, is set to drop via Planet Mu on May 13, but before then, can be heard in full on XLR8R. The album is a manic, 160-bpm ride with classic house and more-recent hip-hop and R&B samples flipped and sped up over rapid-fire beats. RP Boo’s Legacy can be streamed in full below. NYC residents will be happy to note that RP Boo will be making his New York debut this Saturday at 285 Kent for the Lit City/Fade to Mind party, the details of which can be found here.

UK-grime father figure Terror Danjah (pictured above) has announced a collaborative 12″ with comparative newcomer Champion—a producer we deemed one of last year’s best new artists. Following on the heels of Terror Danjah’s XLR8R Pick’d 2012 album, Dark Crawler, the new release—entitled Sons of Anarchy—contains two collaborative tracks from the pair, as well as one solo track by each, allowing the distinctive personalities of the two producers to shine through. Sons of Anarchy will be out on June 3 via Hyperdub; its artwork and tracklist are included below.

Terror Danjah “Glide”
Terror Danjah vs Champion “Stone Island”
Champion “Bowsers Castle”
Terror Danjah vs. Champion “Explode”

Copenhagen-based producer—and former Bubblin’ Up subject—Taragana Pyjarama has been somewhat quiet since his ambitious debut LP, Tipped Bowls, was released via the venerable Kompakt label last summer. Now, the man is set to break his recent silence with the release of a new, six-track “mini-lp,” Nothing Hype. Set to drop next month, Nothing Hype is said to find Pyjarama taking on a bit of a different sound than heard on his LP, while still looking to visual images for inspiration—an approach he discovered during the making of Tipped Bowls . “I started collecting pictures and clips and started working with these images in the back of my mind,” the producer tells in his press release before going on to explain, “The overall theme has been grainy and distorted pictures of caves, particularly mysterious crystal caves.” Fortunately, the Copenhagen resident has supplied a teaser video to help give a better idea of what that all means, which can be found below along with the tracklist for Nothing Hype before the record serves as the inaugural release of Pyjarama’s own Wyrd imprint when it drops on June 24.

01 With Me
02 RAR
03 PUR 1
04 Beam feat. Kicki
05 Touching
06 Lore (Merged)

The Tokyo based DJ/producer and artist behind this year’s captivating Where Dancefloors Stand Still mix album, Terre Thaemlitz (a.k.a. DJ Sprinkles) has announced a second release for 2013, a double-disc offering of hard-to-find remixes collected from the past three years. The 14-track offering is called Queerifications & Ruins: Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles, and presents Thaemlitz’s deep and jazzy reworkings of tracks by the likes of Matt Tolfrey, Hard Ton, and even East Coast indie outfit Ducktails. DJ Sprinkles’ upcoming release is said to be “[as] deep as house can be,” and will appear in CD, vinyl, and digital formats on June 17 via Japanse outpost Mule Musiq. Before then, the CD’s tracklist can be perused below.

Disc 1
1 june: lost area (dj sprinkles’ empty dancefloor, orig. ver.)
2 june: lost area (dj sprinkles’ lost dancefloor, orig. ver.)
3 hard ton: food of love (sprinkles’ dubberama)
4 marco bernardi: klinsfrar melode (sprinkles’ deeperama)
5 hardrock striker: motorik life (dj sprinkles’ mountain of despair)
6 corbie: arktika (sprinkles’ deeperama)
7 oh, yoko: seashore (sprinkles’ ambient ballroom)

Disc 2
1 parallax beat brothers: exhalation (dj sprinkles’ deep breath mix)
2 matt tolfrey: encarta (sprinkles’ micro soft dub)
3 kuniyuki: between shadow and lights (sprinkles’ lights out dub)
4 ducktails: letter of intent (sprinkles’ post script)
5 adultnapper: low point on high ground (rock bottom mix)
6 area: bourbon skies (st. petersburg three-four blues)
7 jorge c.: a little beat (the world is ova megamix)

As part of its month of lectures and events in New York City, Red Bull Music Academy will be doing its part to celebrate iconic NYC label DFA—home to LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean, Gavin Russom’s many endeavors, Shit Robot, The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, Factory Floor, and YACHT, among many other noteworthy projects. In addition to commemorating the imprint’s 12 years of existence with a special party on May 25, RBMA has also put together a short film which chronicles the rise of the imprint so far, telling all of the tales that story entails. Entitled Too Old to Be New, Too New to Be Classic, the illuminating mini-doc breezes through the label’s origins and early history before focusing on its current operations; along the way, we’re treated to plenty of interview footage with label co-head James Murphy and many of DFA’s flagship artists. The full mini-doc can be watched via the player below.