Nightwave Preps New EP for Fortified Audio

Hard-working UK tunesmith and recent RBMA participant Nightwave (you may remember her from this or this) has a fresh record in the works for the Glasgow-based Fortified Audio imprint, a four-track EP called—wait for it—Festivus. Yes, the producer’s forthcoming release is apparently inspired by Seinfeld, and will drop on the same day as her “Night Heat” 12″ for Unknown to the Unknown, December 26. Two records in one day? Go, Nightwave! You can check out the tracklist for the Festivus EP, along with some previews of the music, below.

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1. Festivus
2. Jeff the Dolphin
3. Jazz312
4. Heart Bit

Conforce “Shadows of the Invisible”

A couple weeks back, Dutch producer Conforce (a.k.a. Boris Bunnik) released Escapism (artwork above), his second full-length album. In line with his previous output on the esteemed Rush Hour and Clone imprints, Escapism offers 10 cuts of darkly melodic techno, including “Shadows of the Invisible.” The song doesn’t contains many overt bells and whistles, instead relying on machine-like efficiency and a robust, Detroit-style melodic sensibility. The drums are crisp, the bassline rumbles and rolls, and the vibe rises and falls with the track’s drawn-out melodies. Need something to keep the dancefloor pulsating at 3 a.m.? “Shadows of the Invisible” just might do the trick.

Shadows of the Invisible

Goth-Trad Readies New LP

The Japanese stalwart of all things bass, Takeaki Maruyama (a.k.a. Goth-Trad), has announced plans to return to Mala’s Deep Medi imprint with a new LP, New Epoch. Anyone who would consider themselves a connoisseur of underground bass has at some point come across Maruyama’s work, which the man has been consistently churning out for around a decade. It appears that the veteran producer has no particular direction with which he approached his latest full-length, but rather he says of New Epoch, “I’m just doing my sound. I’ve been doing this style of music for almost ten years and I just say all this music is bass music. I’m putting a lot of variety into the new album. Some tunes are very techy, some tunes are much more experimental, a bit glitchy. There may be some more banging stuff. I’ve lots of ideas to keep moving with.” We’ll certainly be excited to hear the results when the LP drops on February 7 of next year. For now, you can peep the artwork and tracklist (which includes the tune “Babylon Fall,” released on an EP of the same name earlier this year) below.

Tracklist:
01 Man In the Maze
02 Departure
03 Cosmos
04 Airbreaker
05 Walking Together
06 Strangers
07 Babylon Fall Ft. Max Romeo
08 Anti-Grid
09 Seeker
10 Mirage
11 New Epoch

Actress “Rainy Dub” b/w “Faceless”

For an artist that had as big of a year as Actress did in 2010, it’s somewhat baffling how low of a profile London producer Darren Cunningham has kept in 2011. Granted, Actress did release a lukewarm 12″ via NonPlus+, remix a song for indie darling Panda Bear, and give away a handful of tracks via his Twitter account, but it all seemed to pale in comparison to his second album, Splazsh, and the response to the music was equally unmatched. We’d like to think that the current nature of the music world is to blame; fans can be prone to quickly gobbling up what’s put in front of them before moving on to the next ‘hot’ thing. Actress’ confrontational, sometimes long-winded style of techno certainly requires a dedicated and patient listener, almost to a fault. And his latest record, the “Rainy Dub” b/w “Faceless” 12″ for Honest Jon’s, continues to take those tendencies to new extremes.

To be blunt, listening to “Rainy Dub” is a chore. The track is roughly nine minutes of about four synth tones repeating a few variations of a very short loop as a bit of delay fills in the blanks. That is all. The b-side, “Faceless,” is, thankfully, far less stark in its minimalism and manages to make up quite a bit for what its partner on the flip side desperately lacks. It boasts the kind of stuff that makes for a satisfying Actress track: an oddly engaging bassline, a smattering of alien sound effects, loose melodic elements, and an overall air of tension and discomfort. It’s propulsive without sounding rushed; it’s coherent without making a whole lot of sense; it’s Actress looking over the edge of the deep end without the urge to jump. We hope to find Mr. Cunningham in a similar place the next time he makes a blip on our radar.

Check Out Jackmaster’s Podcast for Resident Advisor

One of the world’s most talented DJs and one of the innovative minds behind the always impressive Numbers label, Jack Revill (a.k.a. Jackmaster) delivered the latest Resident Advisor podcast just today. The renowned mixmaster’s DJ set consists of 31 eclectic tracks—including tunes from Joy Orbison, Boddika, Burial, Addison Groove, Zed Bias, Hudson Mohawke, Mr. Oizo, Pearson Sound, and Donnacha Costello, some of which are currently unreleased. You can head over here to listen to the mix and read a quick Q&A with Jackmaster, and we’ve included the full tracklist for you below.

Jackmaster Intro
Billy Ocean – Showdown – Jive
Faith Evans – Love Like This (Behling & Simpson Mix) – Futureboogie
Kate Bush – A Deal With God (Late Night Tuff Guy Edit) – Lightspeed
Rebolledo – Steady Gear Rod Maschine – Kompakt
Omar – Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz Remix) – Peppermint Jam
Tricksi – Good Time To Pray (Axel Bowman Remix) – Suol
Levon Vincent – Untitled – Unreleased
Round One – I’m Your Brother – Main Street
Dense & Pika – 31 – Unreleased
Liberty City – If You Really Love Someone – Murk
Joy Orbison & Boddika – Mercy – Unreleased
TWR72 – Future Tool Dub – Sound Pellegrino
Joy Orbison – Source Delight – Unreleased
Suburban Night – The Warning – Underground Resistance
Playground Productions – Work That Big Booty – Dance Mania
Mr. Oizo – M-Seq – F:Communication
KW Griff – Kraftwerk Clubtrack – Unreleased
Underground Resistance Feat. Yolanda – Living For The Night – UR
E-Dancer – Pump The Move – KMS
Xpansions – Move Your Body – Optimism
Hudson Mohawke – Foxy Boxing – Unreleased
Burial – Archangel – Hyperdub
Underground Resistance – Hardlife (Aaron Carl Remix) – UR
Zed Bias – Music Deep Inside – Swamp81
Addison Groove – Push – Unreleased
Donnacha Costello – Olive B – Minimise
Chicago Traxmen – 96 U Got 2 – Underground Construction
DJ Technics – My Life Extra – Baltimore Breakbeat
Ramadanman – Don’t Change For Me – Hessle Audio
Pearson Sound – Untitled – Unreleased

Jim-E Stack Readies New EP

After first catching wind of Jim-E Stack‘s forthcoming EP midway through this year (when he shared the EP’s track “Lemme”), the New Orleans producer has finally announced an official release date for the Come Between EP. Set to drop January 16, the three-track EP will see a release via London’s relatively fresh Good Years imprint, whose only other release to date has been Lil Silva’s Patience EP. You can check the artwork and tracklist (along with a radio rip of the title track from a recent Mary Anne Hobbs show) for Come Between below, and make sure you head here if you somehow forgot/missed the young producer’s excellent bootleg rework of A$AP Rocky’s “Purple Swag.”

Tracklist:
01 Come Between

02 3rd Soul
03 Lemme

Octave One Announces Retrospective Remix Compilation

The brotherly pair of veteran Detroit producers Lawrence and Lenny Burden (a.k.a. Octave One) has had a busy 2011, celebrating 20 years of music making with a series of remixed tracks, performances across the globe, and even—wait for it—releasing their own iPhone app. Now, the Burden brothers have unveiled the details of a new retrospective record that “revisits” their two-decade discography and presents new versions of Octave One’s classic tunes. But the Detroit duo is not alone in this endeavor, having recruited an impressive list of like-minded producers to remix some seminal tracks—including the likes of Aril Brikha, Luke Slater, Alter Ego, Ken Ishii, and more. Revisited (Here, There, and Beyond) will drop on February 7 of next year through Octave One’s own 430 West imprint. In the meantime, you’ll find the artwork and full tracklist below.

Tracklist:
01 Dema (Revisited Remix V2) *remixed by Octave One
02 Meridian (Revisited Remix Rebalanced) *remixed by Octave One
03 I Believe (Sandwell District Remix)
04 Daystar Rising (Aril Brikha Remix)
05 Love and Hate (Cari Lekebusch’s Revealed Remix)
06 I Need Release (Alexander Kowalski Remix)
07 Nicolette (Vince Watson Remix)
08 The Greater Good (Luke Slater Remix)
09 Nicolette (Ken Ishii Remix)
10 Blackwater (Alter Ego Vocal Mix)
11 Somedays (Los Hermanos Remix)

Lao “Papolin”

We’ve got quite the international tune for you here with the title track from Mexican producer Lao‘s new EP for the Ukranian Wicked Bass imprint, Papolin (artwork above). (Apparently, the love for percolating bass music can easily traverse the world.) Beginning in the depths of dark, percussive club sounds, Lao builds his track up to almost anthemic heights with a never-ending array of tuned rim shots and massive, housey synth stabs. “Papolin” comes complete with a few nods to the producer’s homeland, too, in the form of some deliciously Latin-sounding percussion and occasional Spanish phrases. We can’t really make out what’s being said, but it would be entirely appropriate if it all translated roughly to, “This track is hot. Let’s get to dancing.”

Papolin

Demdike Stare Launch Four-Part Series for Modern Love

The two sonic adventurers collectively known as Demdike Stare have unexpectedly released the first two parts of a four-part series for the Modern Love imprint, entitled Elemental. Released earlier this week, parts one and two (respectively titled Chrysanthe and Violetta) kick off the vinyl series with two three-track 12″s housed in extravagent, quadruple gate-fold packaging—complete with two pockets left over for the third and fourth installments of Elemental (available early next year). You can peep the intense packaging and tracklist for parts one and two below, and head here to listen to previews of the music, which is described in a press release as “some of the most dense, eerie, and evocative pieces ever recorded by Demdike Stare.” (via FACT)

Chrysanthe
A1 Mephisto’s Lament
B1 Kommunion
B2 Unction

Violetta
A1 Mnemosyne
B1 In The Wake Of Chronos
B2 Violetta

XLR8R’s Best of 2011: Top Downloads

XLR8R‘s Downloads section is constantly growing, updated day after day with loads of free music by a wide array of talented artists from around the world. 2011 was no different, of course, and garnered some of the biggest tunes to hit our pages yet. Looking over our list of the top 100 most downloaded tracks from the past year, it’s hard not to spot a few trends. Obviously, you guys all had a serious thirst for remixes (especially bootlegs of top-shelf producers like Burial and Ricardo Villalobos), and apparently couldn’t get enough from up-and-comers like Salva, Shlohmo, and Sepalcure. Bass-infused house and techno certainly has its place in the Top 100, but it would seem that hip-hop-slanted productions are what truly holds sway in the Downloads feed. You can check out the full list for yourself below.

100. Teki Latex & Para One “5th Dimension”
99. Salva “Obsession (feat. B. Bravo)”
98. Dennis Coffey feat. Mayer Hawthorne “All Your Goodies Are Gone (Shigeto Remix)”
97. Azari & III “Manic (Creep Remix)”
96. Beans “Blue Movie (Salva Remix)”
95. LDFD “Outtacontrol (DJ Clap Remix)”
94. Randomer & Fife “Somebody”
93. Jacques Greene “Lay it Down (Nacho Lovers Remix)”
92. Sun Glitters “Too Much to Lose (Regal Safari)”
91. Pixelord “Iron and Cream Part 2”
90. Geeneus “Get Low (feat. Ms. Dynamite)”
89. Take “Horizontal Figuration (Tokimonsta Remix)”
88. Jason Burns “See Thru You (Distal Remix)”
87. Kotchy “Sometimes I Get Down (Mike Slott Remix)”
86. Arthur Russell “This is How We Walk on the Moon (Labyrinth Ear Work)”
85. Sinjin Hawke and Morri$ “One Kiss”
84. Two Inch Punch “Luv Luv”
83. Benoit Pioulard & Rafael Anton Irisarri “Until Then (Broadcast Cover)”
82. The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble “Pretend (Soul Clap Remix)”
81. Canblaster “Clockworks”
80. Actress “Parallel World”
79. Toddla T “Streets So Warm (Zed Bias Old School Remix)”
78. Grimes “Oblivion”
77. Wheez-ie “Keep Yer Chin Up (Salva Remix)”
76. Shlohmo “Places (Yours Truly Remix)”
75. The Clonious “Alter-Ego-Cate”
74. Distal “Mananimal”
73. Moths “Summer”
72. Onra “No Matter What”
71. Groundislava “Creeper Shit”
70. Robot Koch “Lights”
69. Jason Burns “Back 2 You”
68. Salva “That Girl (Pharrell feat. Snoop Dogg Cover)”
67. Washed Out “You’ll See It (Midland Re-Edit)”
66. Ambassadeurs “Rössler”
65. Sepalcure “I’m Alright”
64. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs “How Far (The 2 Bears Remix)”
63. Rusko “Feel So Real (Dubbel Dutch Remix)”
62. Owiny Sigoma Band “Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub)”
61. A$AP Rocky “Purple Swag (Jim-E Stack Bootleg)”
60. The Rapture “How Deep is Your Love? (Wax Motif & Neoteric Remix)”
59. Air France “It Feels Good to Be Around You”
58. Owiny Sigoma Band “Wires (Theo Parrish Remix)”
57. Sepalcure “Deep City Insects”
56. Miracle Fortress “Raw Spectacle (Pantha du Prince Remix)”
55. DZA “Eskimo (Montgomery Clunk Remix)”
54. Kouta “Granola”
53. Carl Craig “The Climax Bootleg”
52. When Saints Go Machine “Kelly (Shlohmo Remix)”
51. High Powered Boys “Udon”
50. Gwen Stefani “Luxurious (Lapalux’s Bootleg Remix)”
49. Essáy “Love & Air”
48. Nicolas Jaar “Keep Me There”
47. Lapalux “Time Spike Jamz”
46. Zomby “Things Fall Apart (feat. Panda Bear)”
45. Lucky Paul “Thought We Were Alone (Gang Colours Remix)”
44. Ben Westbeech “Something for the Weekend (Roska Remix)”
43. Nocow “Moonlight Flit”
42. Jack Dixon “Coconuts (Disclosure Remix)”
41. 3:33 “333EP1”
40. Disclosure “I Love… That You Know”
39. Brokenchord “Dribble Drift”
38. Iuengliss “Physics”
37. Stateless “Assassinations (FaltyDL Remix)”
36. M83 “Midnight City”
35. Tokimonsta “Moving Forward”
34. Shlohmo “Places”
33. Joakim “Forever Young (Discodeine Remix)”
32. FaltyDL “St. Marks (Sepalcure Remix)”
31. Ghostpoet “Liiines (xxxy Remix)”
30. Toro Y Moi “All Alone (M A N I K Edit)”
29. Alpines “Cocoon (Nocturnal Sunshine Remix)”
28. Com Truise “Innerfacer”
27. Teebs “Pretty Poly”
26. School of Seven Bells “Babelonia (Sepalcure Remix)”
25. Golden Girls “Kinetic (Lone Remix)”
24. Ricardo Villalobos “Easy Lee (Monolithium Recrunk)”
23. Jimmy Edgar & Luke Vibert “Disco”
22. Eliphino “No More”
21. Burial “Dog Shelter (Essáy’s Old Edit)”
20. Devonwho “Brushmetal”
19. Apparat “Black Water”
18. The Weeknd “High For This (Nasty Nasty Edit)”
17. Medlar “Terrell (Bicep’s Brooklyn Shuffle)”
16. Wolfram feat. Haddaway “Thing Called Love (Legowelt Remix)”
15. Apparat “Ash/Black Veil”
14. Flume “Flume (feat. Anthony For Cleopatra)”
13. The Miracles Club “Light of Love (The Whendays Ecstasy Remix)”
12. SBTRKT “Wildfire”
11. Shlohmo “Couch (Soosh Remix)”
10. When Saints Go Machine “Fail Forever (Nicolas Jaar Remix)”
9. Scuba “M.A.R.S. (Machinedrum Remix)”
8. Onra “Change of Heart”
7. Tycho “Hours”
6. Tokimonsta “Bright Shadows”
5. Slidecamp “Geometer”
4. Kode9 “Time Patrol Dub”
3. Samiyam “Cushion”
2. Andreya Triana “Far Closer (Tokimonsta Remix)”
1. Burial “Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix)”

Check out the rest of XLR8R‘s Best of 2011 coverage here.

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