Following a strong 2011, Belgian electronic-music mainstay R&S appears determined to also dominate 2012. Last week, it announced a fresh Bullion single, and now, two more exciting releases are on the way from Juan Atkins’ Model 500 project and Brooklyn-via-Ohio house duo Teengirl Fantasy (pictured above). The Detroit veteran’s two-song single, “Control” b/w “The Messenger,” was produced solely by the artist himself, and is scheduled for release on February 20. We have considerably less info about the forthcoming Teengirl Fantasy album, which will follow the outfit’s excellent debut LP, 7AM, one of our favorite albums of 2010. The announcement that R&S will release the pair’s sophomore full-length went up today, and can be found here. Teengirl Fantasy will soon embark on a international tour, the dates of which you can find below.

Acclaimed musician and producer Matthew Dear‘s new EP, Headcage, out today via Ghostly, sees the artist entering the previously unexplored terrain of collaboration. “In The Middle (I Met You There),” from the EP, features Jonny Pierce of New York indie-pop group The Drums on lead vocals, and is available for free download using the widget found after the jump. You can also check out some rather transcendental visuals created to accompany the tune, courtesy of the video crafted by London-based director Morgan Beringer, which has been posted below. Dear has also announced a string of tour dates in the US and Australia, both with his band and as a DJ, which you can also find below, where he will be debuting new music from his forthcoming full-length album, Beams, which will be coming out sometime in 2012.

01.20 Perth, AU @ Likes of You *
01.21 Brisbane, AU @ Bar Some *
01.22 Wellington, NZ @ Sandwiches *
01.25 Melbourne, AU @ Novel *
01.26 Sydney, AU @ Agwa Yacht Club *
02.24 San Francisco, CA @ Noise Pop Festival +
03.02 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom +
03.07 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall* +
03.14 Austin, TX @ Club Deville (Ghostly Showcase)
03.16 – 03.17 SxSw Festival +
04.13 Chicago, IL @ Spy Bar *
04.14 St. Louis, MO @ 2720 Cherokee *
04.20 Miami, FL @ Electric Pickle *
04.21 El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace *

* DJ Set
+ Live Band

One of the most exciting producers to toy with elements of juke, acid, and bass music simultaneously, Bristol’s Addison Groove has announced that he will soon be releasing his debut LP via Modeselektor’s 50Weapons imprint. The 13-track Transistor Rhythm album is scheduled to drop on April 3, and will feature all-new productions from the artist, including collaborations with Mark Pritchard and—oddly enough—Spank Rock. Before the record is released, you can check out the tracklist and preview a snippet of Addison Groove’s “Sooperlooper” tune, below.

01. Incredibly Exhausted Bunny Ears
02. Savage Henry
03. Bad Things (feat. Spank Rock)
04. Beeps (feat. Spank Rock)
05. Rudeboy
06. Night To Remember
07. Sooperlooper

08. Energy Flash Back
09. Ass Jazz
10. Skylight
11. Starluck
12. Dance Of The Women (feat. Mark Pritchard)
13. Entropy

The physical brick-and-mortar record store has become an almost endangered species in the modern music landscape, but fortunately for all of us, shops like Sounds of the Universe (pictured above) are still alive and well. Now, the Soul Jazz-associated record store has decided to take the next logical step in its path of connecting music lovers to new sounds, and created its very own label. Sounds of the Universe’s inaugural record will see a release later this month in the form of a limited-run, single-sided 12″ from Chicago stalwart Jamal Moss, operating under his Heiroglyphic Being moniker. The track featured on the release, “Shikaakwa,” is said to be a deep slice of adventurous house music that takes “a thumping, tape-crunched drum track programmed with a molecular attention to detail through a nine-minute tour of cosmic, cascading high-frequency synthesis and free-form melody.” Doesn’t sound too far off from the kind of thing we’d expect from a veteran producer who has been pushing the edges of house music further and further out for well over a decade now. The “Shikaakwa” single will be limited to 300 copies—complete with hand-etched artwork on its flip side—and will be available to purchase exclusively through the Sounds of the Universe website (and, we imagine, inside the physical store, as well).

Bristol-based hub for sub-laden floor burners Punch Drunk has announced that its first release of the year will be a 12″ from the label’s newest signing, Tessela. The “D Jane” b/w “Channel” single will mark the first piece of new music from the West Country producer since he debuted last year with a three-track endeavor on Dublin’s All City imprint. Punch Drunk hasn’t yet released any audio for sharing, but you can take our word that both “D Jane” and “Channel” fall perfectly in line with Punch Drunk’s noted affinity for huge, club-oriented bass music. For now, you can check the artwork below until Tessela’s 12″ drops on February 20.