Norwegian label Smalltown Superjazz has just announced it will soon release Live at the South Bank, a document of a live session featuring the duo of Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet, pictured above) and legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid with Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustaffson. Recorded in 2009 and evocative of the four LPs the pair recorded before Reid’s death last year, the set approaches a kind of electronic free jazz, with Reid’s complex live percussion providing the bedrock for Hebden’s electronic experimentations and Gustaffson’s powerful sax work. Live at the South Bank will drop on November 15, but in the meantime, you can check out the artwork below.
Brooklyn-based producer Brenmar believes in the virtue of quantity. At least, it seems that way; his remixes and productions pass through the XLR8R office just about every week. That’s not to say his tracks lack quality (that other virtue of production), far from it. Brenmar excels in pumping out dancefloor heaters at an unfathomable pace, which leads us to his latest cut, an edit of DJ Dsign‘s “Diamondz (Get Money)” he did as a “lil bday gift” and gave away on his birthday four days ago. The edit sees Brenmar cleaning up the original’s rhythm, throwing in some creative filters, adding a subtle piano chord (albeit mostly buried in the mix), and ripping out the aggro synth-stabs in favor of a heavy dose of simmering low-end.
The Blunted Robots badman most commonly known as Shortstuff has announced he will be releasing his next 12″ under another production moniker, Mickey Pearce, and will be dropping the other pseudonym for good. On the name change, the UK tunesmith born Richard Attley says, “To be honest, the Mickey Pearce productions were always where I felt more comfortable. Towards the end of last year, I was getting more and more disillusioned with the old name and some of the associations that went with it, so it felt like a good time to make the change.” The first full-fledged Mickey Pearce record, “Don’t Ask Don’t Get” b/w “I Am,” will drop around late October/early November via Swamp81. (via FACT)
Maybe it’s When Saints Go Machine‘s roots in dance music (half of the group makes up techno duo Kenton Slash Demon), but there’s something about the dancefloor-oriented pop-experimentalism of the Danish four-piece that lends itself to remixing. There’s already been a lengthy string of reworks following the release of Konkylie, the band’s sophomore LP, and now, California-based producer Shlohmo (pictured above) has given the group a druggy version of album cut “Kelly.” The resulting production is a radical departure into a wonderland of half-time hip-hop beats, insistently buzzing synthesizers, and creepy, pitch-bent vocals evocative of a twisted Arthur Russell. It’s a startling remix that removes the original track’s dancefloor elements in favor of a headier and more immersive soundscape.
With less than 10 days left before the four-day art, film, and music extravaganza known as Alpha-ville takes place in London, the festival is in the midst of gearing up for what should be an enticing presentation of forward-thinking culture. The list of musical performers claims a host of names XLR8R readers should be interested in seeing. The likes of Pantha Du Prince (pictured above), Matthew Dear, Illum Sphere, Svarte Greiner, Max Cooper, and many more will bring their diverse styles to a number of venues throughout the city beginning Friday, September 22 and lasting until Sunday, September 25. For the full calender of events and festival details, head over here.
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. As a beatmaker whose music isn’t specifically designed for the dancefloor, Teebs probably isn’t asked to put together DJ charts too often, but the Southern California producer’s 10 selections here show the same impeccable taste that guides his own hazy, leftfield creations.
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.
The venerable Berlin club/label Tresor recently celebrated its 20th year as one of Germany’s staple nights for deep, forward-thinking techno, and now it’s time to acknowledge the label’s two decades of existence with a comprehensive mix of the its past, present, and future from Detroit legend Mike Huckaby. As exhibited recently by his excellent XLR8Rpodcast, Huckaby is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the ones-and-twos, and is no doubt just about the perfect choice to give Tresor’s huge discography a proper showcase. As to be expected, the label’s biggest names—artists such as Surgeon, Robert Hood, Joey Beltram, Jeff Mills, and Drexciya—are represented in spades on the 22-track DJ set, which is set to hit the streets the first week of November. The album artwork and tracklist can be found below.
01 Surgeon “Remnants Of What Once Was” 02 Bam Bam “Where’s Your Child (DJ Rush Remix)” 03 Robert Hood “Master Builder” 04 Mike Huckaby “The Tresor Track” 05 Cisco Ferreira “Womans Scent (Hertz Rmx)” 06 Cristian Vogel “Absolute Time” 07 Joey Beltram “Ball Park” 08 Joey Beltram “Game Form (Mike Dearborn Remix)” 09 Joey Beltram “Game Form (Original Mix)” 10 Joey Beltram “Instant” 11 Bam Bam “Give It to Me” 12 Bam Bam”Where’s Your Child (Original Mix)” 13 Surgeon “Returning To The Purity Of Current” 14 Jeff Mills “Late Night” 15 Robert Hood “Minus” 16 Robert Hood “The Core” 17 Joey Beltram “Instant – Paul Johnson” 18 Drexciya “Devil Ray Cove” 19 Drexciya “Under Sea Disturbances” 20 Drexciya “Digital Tsunami” 21 Robert Hood “Chase” 22 Surgeon “Black Jackal Throwbacks”
Well, it certainly has been a while (about three years, in fact) since we last heard from the kraut-obsessed synth adventurers known as Tussle. The group has just reappeared on a new split-12″ (pictured above) with the experimental-electro alias of Trans Am drummer Sebastian Thomson, Publicist, for a release that arrived this week courtesy of SF-based label Voltaire. Here we have Tussle’s blistering remix of Thomson’s “Hand to Mouth” tune (also posted for download a while back), on which the sonic tinkerers expand the original track into more of a dancefloor heater by more than doubling the song’s length and taking it on a voyage through a seemingly endless sea of analog processors. The Split Infinitive EP, which will have its official release party in SF this Saturday (details here), features one original and one remix from each party involved, and can be streamed in its entirety after the jump.
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The energetic Chicagoan producer and former XLR8Rpodcast contributor Chrissy Murderbot has revealed plans to release a new EP of raunchy “booty anthems,” entitled I’m a Asshole. If the somewhat outlandish and—may we add—grammatically incorrect title wasn’t enough of an indication of the record’s unprecedented crassness, then the tracklist, which features such poetic titles as “I Nutted in You” and “The Call of Booty,” should make it pretty clear. Unfortunately, there’s no audio available to share yet, but if you’re thinking along the lines of hook-laden juke/grime/booty bass hybrids, you’re definitely on the right track. The artwork and tracklist for I’m a Asshole, which will be released via the Loose Squares imprint on October 4, can be found below.
01 I’m a Asshole 02 I Nutted in You 03 Pop That Shit 04 The Call of Booty 05 Girl 06 Back That Thang Up
Mysterious UK producer Patten is a few weeks away from issuing his debut LP, GLAQJO XAACSSO (artwork above), on the No Pain in Pop imprint, and has passed along this track to give us a taste of what’s to come. “Fire Dream” is a dark, murky outing that hides what could be an almost tender culmination of synths under layers of buzzing distortion and blown-out drums. The tune accumulates layers of grainy percussion and incomprehensible vocal whisperings as Patten tests the listener’s patience a bit with the slow-brewing swirl that makes up the track’s first three-plus minutes. Eventually, a monstrously overdriven drum machine takes over the proceedings, and comparison to Actress’ deeply hazy, meandering techno could be made—making it clear why fans of noise-laden, quasi-leftfield house and techno have been anticipating the release of Patten’s forthcoming debut on September 26.
