Shanti Celeste Locks in Debut Album

Shanti Celeste will release her debut album on Peach Discs next month.

Tangerine is described as “an innate extension” of Celeste’s self, “telling stories beyond her record box and delving into her personal history.”

The album is said to “strike a common cause” between the melodic richness of the legacy of the music of Detroit, and the natural ease with which Celeste carries across tempos that embody UK soundsystem traditions. We’re told that her manipulated voice serves as a bedrock in tracks. There’s also a kalimba, recorded at her father’s home in Chile.

Behind the album is the easing of expectations that an artist earns with the passing of time. “When I made music for EPs, sometimes I felt restricted,” she explains. “I would think too much about creating the moments on the dancefloor I love—seeing visions of ecstatic people hugging, I didn’t give myself free reign to express all of myself. Writing an album made me feel free of all this because it seemed like an open-ended project. I could just keep creating until I felt like stopping.”

Peach Discs is the label Celeste co-runs with good friend Gramrcy.

Artwork is a painting by Celeste herself.

Tracklisting

01. Sun Notification
02. Infinitas
03. May The Day
04. Natura
05. Aqua Block
06. Sesame
07. Slow Wave
08. Voz (Instrumental)
09. Want
10. Moons

Tangerine is out on November 15, with “Voz” (Instrumental) streaming over at Bandcamp.

Ghostly Welcomes Chicago-based duo DRAMA

Photo Zoe Rain

Ghostly has welcomed DRAMA for a new single ahead of an album debut next year.

DRAMA is the collaboration of producer Na’el Shehade and vocalist Via Rosa. Together, they blur the lines between R&B and dance-pop.

“Hold On” showcases the duality of the Chicago-based duo, contrasting vulnerability and self-reliance. “For me, it’s an anthem. It’s what anyone’s friends would say if the love of their life left them,” notes Rosa. “It’s a reminder for myself to keep loving.” Shehade’s production is crisp, catchy, bright, and buoyant.

Since 2014, DRAMA have self-released EPs Gallows (2016) and Lies After Love (2018), and they’ve gone on to support the likes of Jungle, Poolside, and SG Lewis.

“Hold On” is available now, streaming below, with an album coming next year.

Watch a Live Track Breakdown from Suitman Jungle

Point Blank’s latest video is a track breakdown by Suitman Jungle.

In the video, Suitman Jungle details how he made his track “Amen Break / Commercial Break,” a high-energy cut that samples the original 7″ that the Amen Break derives from, the eponymous “Amen, Brother” by The Winstons.

Suitman Jungle is known for expressive and dynamic live performances and this extends to his studio where he blends electronic sampling with live drumming and vocals, all of which he describes in the video in an engaging and performative way.

You can watch the video in full below, with more on Point Blank and its courses here.

Lee “Scratch” Perry & Adrian Sherwood Prepare “Radical Bass-Heavy” Version of ‘Rainford’ feat. Brian Eno

Lee “Scratch” Perry and Adrian Sherwood will release a companion to their Rainford album, featuring Brian Eno and Vin Gordon of The Wailers.

Heavy Rain is described as a “radical bass heavy re-version” of the Rainford original tapes. As well as highlighting the deft musicianship of the original backing band on the Rainford sessions, these re-works also invite further players into the cosmic mix.

Brian Eno features on “Here Come The Warm Dreads,” a heavily processed sound system overhaul of Rainford highlight “Makumba Rock,” cheekily re-titled as a nod to Eno’s own debut solo album.

Elsewhere, trombonist Vin Gordon, one of the hornsmen on Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus, lends his distinctively woozy blowing to tracks such as “Rattling Bones And Crowns” (a late-night fli-side to “Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers”) and “Crickets In Moonlight” (“Cricket In The Moon” refracted through some beautifully louche late summer heat haze lens).

The album also features two originals, “Dreams Come True” and “Above And Beyond.”

Tracklisting

01. Intro Music Shall Echo
02. Here Come The Warm Dreads, feat. Brian Eno
03. Rattling Bones And Crowns – feat. Vin Gordon
04. Mind-worker
05. Enlightened
06. Hooligan Hank
07. Crickets In Moonlight, feat. Vin Gordon
08. Space Craft
09. Dreams Come True
10. Above And Beyond
11. Heavy Rainford, feat. Vin Gordon
12. Outro—Wisdom

Vinyl LP

A1. Intro – Music Shall Echo
A2. Here Come The Warm Dreads, feat. Brian Eno
A3. Rattling Bones And Crowns, feat. Vin Gordon
A4. Mindworker
A5. Enlightened
A6. Hooligan Hank

B1. Crickets In Moonlight, feat. Vin Gordon
B2. Space Craft
B3. Dreams Come True
B4. Above And Beyond
B5. Heavy Rainford, feat. Vin Gordon
B6. Outro—Wisdom

Heavy Rain is out December 6 via On-U Sound, with “Enlightened” streaming below, and pre-order here.

Semantica Welcomes Desroi for Album Debut

Desroi will deliver his debut album on Semantica in November.

Desroi, real name Frederic Lindemann, one of Germany’s rising DJ-producers, gained widespread attention after his Dwell in Motion EP on Avian in 2018. He studied Composition at Folkwang University of Arts, parallel to his already ongoing career as a DJ, producer and label owner, before graduating in 2018.

Through his music, Lindemann aims to explore the bridges between contemporary music and techno. He explains that he is less interested in arrangement, melodies and harmony, and more focused on textures, rhythms, and new sounds. His music is entrancing and layered, but holds no unnecessary clutter.

Floating In Empty is Lindemann’s first full-blown eight-tracker, providing “44 minutes of new and unheard sounds,” the label explains. The album travels through multi-faceted textures and experimental techno sonics, “weaving through pleasing textures and subtle rhythmic anomalies, to arrive at a sweet-spot between dancefloor potency and the more cerebral posits of the techno genre.”

Semantica is the Madrid-based label of Svreca, founded in 2006.

Tracklisting

A1. From Afar
A2. As You Desire Me
B1. Floating In Empty
B2. Beyond Appearance
C1. Blindfold
C2. Harm Done
D1. Disentangled
D2. When All Is Said And Done

Floating In Empty is out in early November. Clips will be added in when they’re available, as will the artwork.

Deadbeat Releases Digital Compilation of All Echocord Records

Deadbeat has released The Echocord Sessions 2009—2019, a digital compilation his of Echocord records from the last 10 years.

Echocord is the Danish label where Deadbeat, real name Scott Monteith, has featured several times since 2009. This 11-track compilation features all of these tracks, including remixes of Fluxion and Nick Höppner. Many of these have long been out of print and several were not even available digitally.

Echocord was founded in 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark by the Danish DJ Kenneth Christiansen.

Tracklisting

01. Deadbeat “House of Vampires”
02. Fluxion “Perfuse” (Deadbeat Remix)
03. Deadbeat “Vampire Dub”
04. Deadbeat “Mercy Cage Dub”
05. Deadbeat “Teach the Devil’s Son”
06. Deadbeat “Vampire”
07. Nick Höppner “Seaweed” (Deadbeat’s Fireweed Remix)
08. Deadbeat “Mercy Cage”
09. Deadbeat Put on Your Red Shoes and Trance
10. Deadbeat “Just Jackin Around Man”
11. Deadbeat “For Whom the Bell Tolls”

The Echocord Sessions 2009—2019 is available now, with a stream available over at Bandcamp.

Denis Sulta Reflects on Glasgow Youth on New Ninja Tune EP

Denis Sulta has signed to Ninja Tune for a new eight-track EP, titled Aye Spoake Te Sumwuhn & They Listenhd.

Sulta— real name Hector Barbour—has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting new talents from Glasgow. He earned his stripes and a large part of his musical education through working at the Rubadub record store, while holding down regular sets at Sub Club. He has released records on labels Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Numbers, and his own Sulta Selects.

The 44-minute EP is described by the label as “the story of how Denis became who he is to this day,” and it’s dedicated to the memories of the people and places that have shaped an “at times difficult” journey to where he is now.

“Matthew Keeps Me Pirrie” is a “celebration of the realisation of what it is to be yourself, or at least, whoever you are in that moment,” explains Sulta. The track is dedicated to “a young man, name of Matthew, who entered my life quite recently. On one occasion, I was feeling frustrated with myself, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t be like the people I admired. He kept me Hector that day, he welcomed Denis. For who we are. Thank you, Matthew. Sarning x.”

Elsewhere, opener “In~Narito” is a “sonic manifestation of my concept of hope,” Sulta explains. “Naive, beautiful, and short lived. It was written whilst I looked out my one-bedroom bedsit in Glasgow as the sun came up, I just knew, or at least….I hoped, there was better days to come.”

In other moments, he recalls lonely late night hotel rooms and early morning car rides with friends. The closing monologue of “Welcome, To The Rest Of My Life” is an ode to the city of Belfast.

Artwork and press shots are by Harris Nukem.

Tracklisting

01. In~Narito
02. Gas Whillis (While I Paint My Nails)
03. ForTee
04. I’m Not Always Right, So I Listen
05. Matthew Keeps Me Pirrie
06. It’s Tough, But Not As Much As The Dream Is Worth (Joseph)
07. Dan (wll SOME day KNOW How Special He Makes Me Feel)
08. Welcome, To The Rest Of My Life

Aye Spoake Te Sumwuhn & They Listenhd lands November 8, with “Matthew Keeps Me Pirrie” streaming below.

Anne Müller Signs to Erased Tapes for Debut Album

Anne Müller will release her debut album via Erased Tapes in November.

Müller is a cellist and composer based in Berlin. She’s well-known in the Erased Tapes universe for her work on Nils Frahm’s All Melody, Victoria, and the collaborative 7fingers; as well as Ólafur Arnalds & Frahm’s Collaborative Works, and Lubomyr Melnyk’s Fallen Trees. She has amassed over 60 credits since 2007.

Heliopause is described by the London label as “a solo record in every sense of the word,” in that Müller wrote, recorded, arranged, and produced it all.

It’s named after the boundary where the sun’s wind ceases to have influence. The name struck a chord with Müller since the two voyagers sent on an exploratory mission 42 years ago recently crossed the Heliopause, entering into interstellar space and losing power from our own sun. Müller recognized herself in this moment, not only approaching the same age, but also breaking new ground; having long relied on collaboration, she’s now venturing into the unknown with her first solo statement.

“Heliopause marks the end of a long journey but also the start of voyages to explore strange new worlds,” she explains.

In advance of the album’s release, Müller has shared “Nummer 2,” the second piece she ever wrote.

Tracklisting

01. Being Anne
02. Solo? Repeat!
03. Nummer 2
04. Aarhus / Reminiscences
05. Drifting Circles
06. Heliopause

Heliopause LP is out November 22, with “Nummer 2” streaming in full below, and pre-order HERE.

Lee Gamble Returns with Part Two of ‘Flush Real Pharynx’ Album

Lee Gamble will release the second part of his Flush Real Pharynx album, a triptych (meaning the work is divided into three sections), with Hyperdub in November.

Exhaust follows In A Paraventral Scale, part one, which landed at the start of 2019. “Gone are the serpentine dopplers and seductive supercar engines,” the label explains. “Exhaust’s neon-charms coalesce into an MDMA rush of Boston Dynamics dog barks, hypnotic voices, and imploding motion sculptures.” We’re told that the album’s “sultry voices take you for a 300mph ride down the psychedelic high street stitching together clashing strands of club soundscapes on its way.”

Flush Real Pharynx is a sonic documentary, and loosely explores three stages of the “Semioblitz,” a term used by the late Mark Fisher to describe the aggressive onslaught of visual and sonic stimuli of contemporary cities and virtual spaces. The series’ third and final part is scheduled for later this year.

Tracklisting

01. Cream
02. Envenom
03. Glue
04. Naja
05. Tyre
06. Switches
07. Shards
08. Saccades

Exhaust (Flush Real Pharynx Part 2) is out November 15, with “Glue” streaming below.

Luke Slater’s Planetary Assault Systems Next on Ostgut Ton

Luke Slater will release a new Planetary Assault Systems double-EP in November, titled Plantae.

Plantae is Slater’s first release as Planetary Assault Systems (PAS) on Ostgut Ton since Arc Angel (2016), and it covers the spectrum of the project’s different strains while remaining grounded in the UK artist’s uncanny funk and knack for developing oblique melodies and rhythms over longer stretches. “Deepness and hypnosis come as much through duration as sound design,” the label explains. “For Slater, Plantae is made for Berghain, where he is a long-standing resident.”

“I’m sure it’s no surprise that when it comes to putting together a release on Ostgut Ton, PAS takes on its more mind-altering, otherworldly quality by natural cause, quietly reflecting the dark sweaty nights and days at the club; at the point, the common neural coupling, of us all together. PAS has been part of Berghain and Berghain part of PAS for a long time. All of these tracks needed to pass the Berghain test in my sets first stop.” — Luke Slater

Artwork comes from Viron Erol Vert.

Tracklisting

A1. Red
A2. Whip It Good
B. Spell A
C1. Kamani
C2. Mugwort
D. Peru Drift

Plantae EP is out November 1, with clips below.

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