Burgeoning UK producer Blawan is set to continue with the steady flow of impressive releases he’s unleashed since his debut single first appeared on Hessle last year. Dutch imprint Clone will be the next label to add a Blawan release to its discography with the forthcoming Peaches EP. The four-track outing is said to mark the producer’s “coming out as a techno head,” with a collection of tunes that fold their share of “phat techno stabs and harsh basslines” into Blawan’s noted talent for crafting some of the meanest percussion currently populating the UK scene. There’s no artwork or release date set for the EP yet, but you can stream clips of all four tunes here, and peep the tracklist below. (via FACT)

Peaches EP:
01 Peaches
02 Coronation
03 Freestone
04 Melting Flesh

Picking up where it left off with the 22-year-old In Order to Dance compilation series, Belgium’s excellent R&S Records has announced it will drop IOTDXI (pictured above) on October 31. The eleventh installation of this compilation is a two-disc, 22-track collection that brings together 12 previously heard gems and 10 unreleased tunes from the likes of Pariah, Lone, Bullion, Untold, Blawan, Space Dimension Controller, Model 500, James Blake, Vondelpark, and The Chain, among others. Before IOTDXI is released at the end of next month, you can check out the full tracklist, along with a new tune from The Chain, below.

Disc One:
1. Pariah – Safehouses
2. Model 500 – OFI (Bullion’s Rivertrance Mix)
3. The Chain – Lostwithiel
4. Lone – Coreshine Voodoo
5. James Blake – CMYK
6. Pariah – Orpheus
7. Untold – Stereo Freeze
8. James Blake – I Only Know (What I Know Now)
9. Cloud Boat – Lions On The Beach
10. Blawan – Bohla
11. Space Dimension Controller – Transatlantic Landing Bay
12. Vondelpark – Camels

Disc Two (Exclusives):
1. Space Dimension Controller – The Birth of a Feeling
2. Lone – Cobra
3. Blawan – Shader
4. Pariah – Left Unsaid
5. Bullion – Ralph
6. Klaus – Tarry
7. Untold – U-29
8. The Chain – Suffer For Your Art

9. Pariah – Orpheus (Oneohtrix Point Never Subliminal Cops Edit)
10. Airhead – Lightmeters

Leftfield West Coast producer Shlohmo has a busy month ahead of him. About a month ago, he released Bad Vibes, his debut LP, via the Friends of Friends label. Now, he’s back already with Fine, Thanks, a free EP of lost material culled from a backlog of his work from the past two years. In addition, Shlohmo is in the midst of a North American tour, which continues this Friday, September 23 in Los Angeles with a performance of Bad Vibes in its entirety at the record’s official release party. You can download Fine, Thanks from the Wedidit Collective website, and check below for more information about the Bad Vibes release party and the remainder of Shlohmo’s tour dates.

Sep 23 – Los Angeles @ Downtown Independent Theater
“Bad Vibes Release Show” w/ Matthewdavid, Teebs, Groundislava, and D33J
*Playing Bad Vibes Live in Its Entirety

Oct 19 – Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta GA #
Oct 20 – New Earth Music Hall, Athens GA #
Oct 21 – The Pour House, Charleston SC #
Oct 22 – The Garage, Asheville NC #
Oct 23 – King’s Barcade, Raleigh NC #
Oct 25 – U Street Music Hall, Washington DC #
Oct 26 – The Arch, Philadelphia PA #
Oct 28 – Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY #
Oct 29 – Brighton Music Hall, Allston MA #
Oct 30 – Castaways, Ithaca NY #

November
Nov 1 – Il Motore, Montreal QC #
Nov 2 – Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON #
Nov 3 – Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI #
Nov 4 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago IL #
Nov 5 – University of Wisconsin, Madison WI #

# w/ Star Slinger and Shigeto

The Beatport sales charts are often dominated by the latest international club smashes, but its vault of music runs deep and covers a wide variety of artists and sounds, which is why XLR8R has been asked to curate a special two-week series of Beatport charts by some of our favorite DJs and producers. Ben Westbeech is a man of many talents, as the UK producer, DJ, and singer has adeptly moved between styles, sounds, and genres over the past several years. Fresh off the release of a new album, There’s More to Life Than This, he put together this chart for us, which he simply described as, “tunes that are and will always be in my box!”

1. FCL ““Let’s Go” (We Play House Recordings)
2. MK ““Burning (Original Vibe Mix)” (ITH/Defected In The House)
3. Ame ““Basic Track (Short Version)” (Innervisions/Sonar Kollektiv)
4. Jaydee “(“Plastic Dreams” (Vendetta Records)
5. Motor City Drum Ensemble ““Raw Cuts #4” (Faces Records)
6. Dave Spoon & Pete Tong ““Muchness (KiNK Mix)” (Size Records)
7. San Soda ““Cocomo” (We Play House Recordings)
8. Shlomi Aber ““The Majestic” (Objektivity)
9. Ben Westbeech ““So Good Today (Yoruba Soul Remix)” (Brownswood Recordings)
10. Franky Rizardo & Daniel Beasley ““Voodoo” (Samsobeats)

Listen to each individual track by clicking the song titles above, or go here to check out the entire chart. To see the rest of the charts in the XLR8R x Beatport series, click here.

Gerry Read might only be 19 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from making timeless dance music. The UK producer already has two releases under his belt (one of which XLR8Rreviewed recently) and he’s just announced “We Are” b/w “Narry” (artwork above), his third, and the second in a planned trilogy for the Fourth Wave label. The new record continues the Detroit-meets-London sound he explored on “Untitled” b/w “Legs,” with basement atmospherics and the razor-sharp vocal sampling of garage. “We Are” b/w “Narry” comes out November 17.