Apparently, a couple years ago, DJ Aphrodite nabbed a few samples from “At Your Best (You Are Love)” by R&B starlet Aaliyah, and tossed them into the mix of a new jungle tune he was producing. That track became “Let Me Know (Aphrodite Jungle Remix),” a song which was just recently re-worked ever so slightly by Brooklyn leftfield crooner Laurel Halo. It seems like the burgeoning artist just layered on some floating synth pads and other swirling soundscapes to the low-end-heavy rave jam for her edit. It may not be the biggest of changes ever made to a track, but it nonetheless adds a deeper vibe to an already standout piece of dancefloor heat. (via Altered Zones)
The latest sub-busting number to drop from Philly bass cadet Dev79‘s hard drive and into our anxious ears is a cut the producer describes as “future garage meets street bass,” called “In Grain We Trust.” And while that may be an apt comparison, we’d like to note how much the Pennsylvania native’s new track reminds us of early ’00s Tigerbeat6 fare. The tweaked reggae samples, the 8-bit sound bytes, the obtuse bass tones, playful synth melodies, and the incessantly ear-slamming beats all bring us back to the kinds of warped, dancehall-inspired rave jams that label boss Miguel De Pedro (a.k.a. Kid606) had a lengthy affair with back then. Dev79 does the sound justice and then some on this hyped-up title track from his new release. You can check out the rest of the In Grain We Trust EP (pictured above) over on Juno, here.
Completely out of nowhere, this wonderfully massive gem of information just dropped into our laps: Three masterminds of visceral, ethereal electronic music, Burial, Four Tet, and Thom Yorke, have collaborated on a two-song 12″ that will soon be released via Four Tet’s Text label. The trio has come together on a pair of tunes by the names of “Ego” and “Mirror,” both of which can be heard for the very first time tonight on Rinse.fm‘s two-hour Four Tet vs. Floating Points show at 11:00 p.m. GMT. Bleep is hosting pre-orders for the auspicious 12″, here, but are currently sold out. Now, you can listen to a radio rips of both tracks, below.
“Ego”
“Mirror”
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On April 14, French-born, London-based Pierre LX (pictured above) will release a collection of largely improvised, on-the-fly house and UK bass productions titled Out 1. All of the tracks were made using hardware, a notable detail for an album made in free-form spurts. On this Enola remix of album cut “Winter Light,” it sounds as if Enola kept with the analog aesthetic, using crackling metallic synths undeniably born out of a hot piece of machinery to drizzle them over the middle of the track. The only thing keeping this song from going to a factory warehouse in Berlin is a warm bed of high thread-count house drums and a friendly giant of a bassline. The album tracklist and cover art are below.
1. Winter Light 2. Overflow 3. Quadrivrium 4. Index 1 5. Olympia 6. Gerry 7. Hypothesis 8. L.A. Dreams
Back in February, XLR8Rannounced that revered beat magician Prefuse 73 will release a new record on April 26 via Warp. Song snippets from the record have been available since then, but now Warp has released a free download of album track “The Only Hand to Hold,” featuring My Brightest Diamond frontwoman Shara Worden. The song is thick, slow-moving molasses, as dark as it is sweet, and yet completely entrapped by Worden’s variously processed voice. Download the track in exchange for an e-mail address, or just hit the play button!
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Although Salva is an artist who only began showing up on most people’s radar during the past few months, we here at XLR8R have actually been monitoring his progression for quite some time, as the producer spent the last several years honing his chops in our San Francisco backyard. It was here that he founded the bass-oriented Frite Nite imprint and also forged the tunes that would later become his debut album, Complex Housing, which came out last month on the Friends of Friends label. It was around that time that Paul Salva packed up and left San Francisco for the sunnier skies of Los Angeles, a move that coincided with his songs increasingly being rinsed by DJs around the globe, particularly those in search of forward-thinking house and bass music. As such, we figured now was the perfect time to invite Salva to put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series. Even though he’s set up shop in LA, he apparently still has plenty of love for his old stomping grounds, as the mix features a healthy representation of Bay Area bass manipulators alongside tracks from XLR8R mainstays such as Bok Bok, Canblaster, Jacques Greene, and Shlohmo. Surprisingly short on Salva’s own productions, it’s an energizing listen nonetheless. The man has come a long way, and if this mix is any indication, the journey is just getting started.
01 Lando Kal “Run It” 02 Tete De Tigre “Pelican Bay” (Squelch & Clap) 03 Twist It! “Funky Monkey (Canblaster Dub)” (No Brainer) 04 HxdB & Self Evident “New Stylee” 05 PhOtOmachine “Technicolor” (Super) 06 Gun Selectah “Villa (LOL Boys Remix)” (Friends of Friends) 07 DJ Wreck “On Top of Bass feat. Lock Cool Jock” (Triangle Earth) 08 Distal “Apple Bottom” 09 Bok Bok “Look At Me DUB” 10 DJG “Automatic” (Brownswood) 11 Distal “Manimal” 12 Think “Our Texture” (New Moon) 13 B. Bravo & Teeko “The Roll Out” (All City) 14 Jacques Greene “Another Girl” (LuckyMe) 15 Machinedrum “No Respect” (LuckyMe) 16 Kahn “Like We Used To” (Punch Drunk) 17 Braille “Leavin Without You” (Rush Hour) 18 Rainbow Arabia “Blind (Salva Remix)” 19 Canblaster “Clockwork” (Nightshifters) 20 Canblaster “Clockwork (NastyNasty Edit)” 21 Comma “Mezcal Hologram (Om Unit Remix)” (Frite Nite) 22 Eprom “2 Fly (Juke Mix)” 23 Dorian Concept “Toe Games Make Her Giggle” (Ninja Tune) 24 Shlohmo “Places” (Friends of Friends)
Can four DJs coexist on one mix? DJ-Kicks thinks Brooklyn’s Wolf + Lamb and Boston’s Soul Clap can. These like-minded duos upturn the sad times promised by their ironically bummed-out cover photos by mixing a big-hearted, slow-tempo house cocktail stirred with vintage techno to transport even the coldest hearts to warmer climes and good times.
Where other DJs tapped by the series used their mixes to aggressively flaunt their eclectic tastes, this quartet stays lazer-focused on their own nascent scene, drawing exclusively from their own productions and those of close collaborators and labelmates. So while Double Hill’s “Everytime I Go” leans on throttled bluesy vocals for a hook and Greg Paulus’ “Suchashame” employs a wandering muted trumpet, they’re linked in the mix by the same spacious production, polished keys, and relaxed percussion. Transitional tracks are aggressively shorn down into interludes, letting the more surefire dance-starters like Locussolus’ modern disco-house number, “Next To You,” work through their paces in full.
But close links can lead to group-think: The album rarely strays from the pillowy tempos that made this double pair’s name at their infamous Marcy Hotel party nights. This is absolutely well and good if you’re ready to drop into a lush house embrace for a few hours, but it’s the offhanded flashes of Soul Clap’s energetic R&B edits, Wolf + Lamb’s deeper Miami bass influence, or the pure weirdness of the Auto-off-Tuned vocals on “Lonely C” that provide the tart contrast required for a memorable mix.
On March 21, rising Berlin producer Mike Dehnert will release his first full-length via forward-thinking techno label Delsin. Framework will feature 11 songs (see below for full tracklist and sleeve), including this infectious heater. There is no shortage of analog grit on this one, as the bass pops as hard as the claps and an ominous, infrequent robot growl is raw like exposed wires. All of this may satisfy one’s reasonable techno expectations, but a subtle, watery melody makes this track truly dynamic, stealthily putting itself in the foreground as it oscillates in the background.
Still weeks away from the release of Kode9‘s brand-new LP with The Spaceape, Black Sun, the Hyperdub label boss and dubstep visionary dropped an epic two-hour DJ set for BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix series, and you can download it now. Strangely enough, mixmaster Steve Goodman opted to kick things off with a soft-spoken Hype Williams number and Warren G’s classic “Regulate” jam, before launching into a lengthy run of solid UK bass tunes, and finishing off with some tempo-juggling footwork tracks. It’s a hefty playlist, to be sure, and you can download the whole thing here. The full tracklist is below. (via FACT)
Hype Williams – Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior – Hippos in Tanks Warren G – Regulate – Violator Ossie – Moves – Hyperdub Fhloston Paradigm – Chasing Rainbows – Saturn Never Sleeps Giorgio Moroder – The Wheel – Pye Records Attica Blues – What Do You Want (King Britt Remix) – Sony Kudu – Transit – Bitasweet Nubian Mindz – Future Past – 2000 Black A Guy Called Gerald – Finley’s Rainbox (4 Hero Remix) – Juice Box Kode9 – Green Sun – Hyperdub Kode9 + The Space Ape – Love is The Drug (feat. Cha Cha) – Hyperdub Funkystepz – Trouble – Hyperdub Kode9 – Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Mix) – Hyperdub Zed Bias – Basic Needs – Swamp 81 DJ Rampage – Deep Inside (Rama Re-edit) 2562 – Cheater – When in Doubt Karizma – Outta Control – Defected Ossie – Set The Tone – Hyperdub Ill Blu – Meltdown – Numbers Zed Bias – Stubborn Phase – Swamp 81 Funkystepz – Fuller – Hyperdub Hard House Banton – Sirens (Sami Sanchex Remix) – Dub Organizer Funk Bias – Last Forever – Swamp 81 Champion – Loose Control – Hardrive DJ Naughty – Firepower – Kicks And Snares Funkystepz – Hurricane Riddim – Hyperdub DJ Naughty – Gearshift – Kicks And Snares Devine Collective – House Girls Bok Bok – Look – NIght Slugs Kode9 + The Space Ape – OTherman – Hyperdub Riko – Woo Freestyle – Slaughter House Rydims Terror Danjah – Minimal Dub – Hyperdub L-Wiz – 442 Oz – Kapsize Addison Groove – Nautilus Andreya Triana – A Town Called Obsolete (Mala Remix) – Ninja Tune Dok – West Coast – Hyperdub Grain – Untitled Dok – West Coast VIP – Hyperdub Mala – Education – DMZ Terror Danjah – In The Biz – Aftershock Girl Unit – Wut – Night Slugs Mala – Bury The Boy – DMZ Gucci Mane – O Dog – Mosca Instrumental Remix Kode9 feat. Cha Cha – Time Patrol (Dub version) – Hyperdub Spooky – Spartan – Terror Danjah Morgan Zarate – Hookid – Hyperdub DJ Rashad – Itz not Rite – Planet Mu DJ Spinn – Lol – Planet Mu
Earlier this month, LA duo Rainbow Arabia (pictured above) released its debut full-length, Boys and Diamonds, and since then, the requisite trickle of bootleg remixes have been coming down the wire. Featured a couple weeks back for his free debut album, South Carolina’s Hard Mix gets on Rainbow Arabia single “Without You,” transforming it into something only vaguely resembling the original. What Hard Mix leaves out from the original is easily made up by his own heartsick interpretation of how it might feel to be “without you,” as he twists and turns the original’s vocal into painful, restless contortions. In contrast, Hard Mix grounds the mix in glistening melody and languid slow-mo house worthy of post-rain gardens or spaceship shower music. (via Pitchfork)
