Clearly, there are some amazing things being done with the iPad’s touch-screen technology right now, as it regards DJing and live performance—and everyone from Plastikman to Brian Eno is taking up the cause. But probably the best example we’ve seen of its use so far is in the above video, featuring DJ Miguel, so we’ve decided to present his instructional clip as our own definitive guide to DJing with the iPad. Enjoy, and if you put these methods into practice, please be sure to let us know how they worked out for you!
Sun Araw to Release Collaborative Album With Eternal Tapestry Via Thrill Jockey
We haven’t really covered much from lo-fi dub-psych master Cameron Stallones (a.k.a. Sun Araw) on XLR8R, aside from this collaborative tune he did with Matthewdavid, but we’ve certainly been appreciating the guy’s rampant musical output for a good while now. It looks like he’s got yet another record ready to drop, and this time it’s a collaboration with Portland’s Eternal Tapestry. Night Gallery was conceived as a continuous 45-minute jam session with the group, and is presented exactly “as [it was] played that evening—no overdubs, and only a few edits to create a four-section suite for the LP release.” Sun Araw & Eternal Tapestry’s album will be released on July 19 via Thrill Jockey.
DJ Jus-Ed to Release LP on Mule Musiq
DJ Jus-Ed (a.k.a. Edward McKeithen) is a bit of a legend in the New York dance world. He started out in the early ’80s, filling floors with freestyle, funk, and house, before taking a 15-year hiatus. But he re-entered the scene in the early ’00s, launching the heralded Underground Quality label, producing a slew of tracks, DJing left and right, and generally never looking back. He’s now set to release his third full-length, entitled Vision Dance, for Tokyo’s highly respected house stable Mule Musiq, on August 15. peep the tracklist and artwork for Vision Dance below.
1 A Little Deeper
2 Acid Techno
3 Emotion
4 Ice 592
5 Project 1 London
6 Project 2 London
7 Stuck in a Train to Berlin
8 The Truth
9 This Shit is Hot (re-scrub)
10 Train Ride to Offenbach
Buck UK “Once”
Great things keep coming from Cut, the Edinburgh-based, digital imprint of DFRNT‘s Echodub label. Earlier this month we tipped you to Essáy‘s excellent “Love & Air.” Now the label is back with Once, a brand-new, free EP from multifaceted Connecticut-by-way-of-Manchester producer Buck UK. Taking a similar tack as “Love & Air,” “Once” is an exercise in deep, immersive atmospherics. Evoking a drenched cityscape at night, “Once” explores an urban psychogeography through the swirling reverb of a wet Fender Rhodes and the distant blurring of familiar voices. The Once EP is out now, you can download the a-side title track below but for the full EP—with Essáy remix—head over to Cut’s website.
Check Out Our Favorite Underground Resistance Tracks, Along With a Chart From Rolando
While he’s no longer a part of the legendary Underground Resistance collective/label, DJ Rolando is no less militant in spreading techno’s gospel all over the world. As you’ve maybe read in our recent feature on the Detroit-reared Rolando Rocha, he’s since moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, and is still turning out techno killers left and right, regardless of where he lays his hat at night. So we’ve decided to get a taste of what he’s rocking on the dancefloor these days from the man himself. And if that’s not enough, we’ve also assembled a quick-and-dirty list of some of our favorite UR tracks—naturally, no such list would be complete without Rolando’s “Jaguar”—to get your day started right.
DJ Rolando’s Current Top Ten
1. Ben Sims “Smoke and Mirrors”
2. Samuel Sessions “Inner City Dust Vol. 2”
3. James Kumo “Signal Failure (Oliver Deutschmann’s Slimix)”
4. V/A “Detroit: Deepconstructed”
5. Tripmastaz & Arram Mantana “Terrorhythm”
6. Yoav B “Sunset Glow Disko”
7. James (a.k.a. Plural Johnson) “Track 4”
8. D’s & C’s “Last Days (Sls remix)”
9. Monoloc “Nonhouse”
10 Argy “Daze to Come (Beats Version)”
XLR8R‘s Favorite Underground Resistance Tracks
?DJ Rolando “Jaguar”
?Underground Resistance “Electronic Warfare (Take Control Mix By Aux 88)”?
Underground Resistance ?”Orbit”
Nation 2 Nation “303 Sunset”
Galaxy 2 Galaxy “Hi Tech Jazz?”
XLR8R Creative Director Launches T2 Design Agency
Our esteemed creative director, Tim Saputo, has just launched the T2 Design Büro, a New York-based design firm specializing in branding, logos, custom typography, print and interactive design. Tim has kept XLR8Rlookingsexy for the past four years, hand-picking each illustrator and photographer, and designing every issue and numerous typefaces since 2007.
His work has gained well-deserved attention not only from the likes of the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, Kia, and Toyota Scion, but also from bands like Lemonade, Delorean, and Dark Sky, for whom he has designed album covers. Still don’t know his work? Look no further than the posters for NYC’s world-renowned monthly party TURRBOTAX®, which you’ve likely seen posted here on a monthly basis.
As much as we’d like to, we can’t keep him to ourselves any longer. Check out more of his work here (and if you’re in need of his superior design skills, get at him!).
Norman Jay to Release ‘Good Times 30th Anniversary Edition’ on Strut
The list of achievements attributed to Norman Jay MBE is staggering. Beyond having his hands in seminal UK pirate radio station KISS FM and Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud label, the man is known for running his 30-years-and-going-strong, Good Times Sound System at London’s Notting Hill Carnival— the largest of its kind in continental Europe. Never one to confine himself to a single genre, Norman Jay’s career has stretched out from reggae to house and beyond. Now to celebrate, he’s releasing Good Times 30th Anniversary Edition, a “story so far” compilation that promises to span the length of his long career. You can pick up a copy on July 19 via Strut, but in the meantime check out the artwork and tracklisting below.
1. Mark Capanni – I Believe in Miracles
2. Avery Sunshine – I Got Sunshine
3. Ted Taylor – Ghetto Disco (Edit)
4. Zalmac – Dreamin’
5. Terri Wells – Who’s That Stranger
6. Little Anthony & The Imperials – I Don’t Have Time to Worry
7. Mario Biondi – My Girl
8. Jacob Miller & Inner Circle – Tired Fe Lick Weed in a Bush
9. The Basement Khemist – Everybody (L I F E)
10. J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science feat. Goapele and Capitol A – Try Me (People Under The Stairs Remix)
11. Attic Tree – Voar
12. Curtis Mayfield – Victory
13. Dante – Freak in Me
14. Fries & Bridges – Forever This
15. The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
16. Ashley Slater – Private Sunshine
Stream Tracks From the New Luomo Album
Electronic music veteran Sasu Ripatti is a man of many talents, many aliases, and, apparently, a ceaseless drive to create new tunes. This September, he’ll be releasing a new album as Luomo, his first full-length under that guise since 2008’s Convivial. Entitled PLUS, the album will be released via the Moodmusic label. Check out the artwork and full tracklist below, and head over to the Luomo website to hear streams of “Good Stuff,” “Happy Strong,” and “Spy.”
01. Twist
02. Good Stuff
03. How You Look
04. Make My Day
05. Happy Strong
06. Medley Through
07. Form in Void
08. Immaculate Motive
09. Spy
RareBit “Blue Blood Baskets”
The latest signing to Southern California’s hub for heartstring-tugging electronics and inventive beats, Non Projects, is a Pacific Northwest transplant named Justin Hopkins, who makes intricately woven sound tapestries that double as poignant tunes under the name RareBit. The producer’s debut EP drops on June 14, but before then we have the lovely “Blue Blood Baskets” to share with you. Like the artwork for The Destroyer (pictured above), Hopkins’ track is densely colorful, inherently psychedelic, and altogether moving; it sounds like something vaguely familiar—maybe a skittering ditty by The Books, maybe a sun-soaked mixtape you kept in your car—that you once loved. But just as you start to place what RareBit’s song reminds you of, its shimmering two and a half minutes are up, and you’re on to the next thing. Feel free to indulge your curiosities further, and check out a preview of The Destroyer EP, here.
Video: Phaseone “Sugar”
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Let’s file this one under ‘Too Real’: The music video for Bubblin’ artist Phaseone‘s “Sugar” depicts a text message conversation between two ex-lovers after one announces he/she is moving to another city. Shot by flimmakers Vadim Gershman and Ryan Powell in Chicago and written by Gershman and Lea Sorrentino, the piece is at once heartbreaking and frustrating, like watching a scene from your own past without being able to change a moment. Phaseone’s tune itself is a spacey slow-jam, which he describes as “an homage to the ’90s Chicago rap sound of Twista and Do or Die that my friends and I grew up listening to.” Good work across the board on this one.
