In Flagranti to Release New Album in May

Multi-national, disco-obsessed production duo In Flagranti has a brand-new full-length album brewing for this spring. Worse for Wear will feature 10 tracks of Sasa Crnobrnja’s and Alex Gloor’s “no-gristle, no-glory” sound, and will be released via their own Codek label on May 2. Speaking on their forthcoming LP, Crnobrnja says, “Flea markets and recycling parts of our production are really at the center of this album,” while Gloor states, “I like things to be old and run-down, so I let myself be inspired by one of my favorite places to spend time: 1970s/80s New York City.” You can check out the album artwork and tracklist for In Flagranti’s Worse for Wear, and a preview of it, below.

1. Worse For Wear
2. Prelude To Chaos
3. Hallow Discourse
4. Latter-Day Methods
5. On The Fringe
6. Three-Piece Suit
7. Peculiar Protagonist
8. The End Of The Road
9. Anglo-Saxon Pragmatism
10. Knock Out Logic

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Contakt “Rhodophyta (Melé Remix)”

Two of the UK’s hotly tipped, bandied about, and generally ‘on-fire’ record labels have just joined forces on a fresh digital single featuring New York producer and TURRBOTAX® resident DJ Contakt (spoiler alert: he also works at XLR8R) and young UK club hero Melé. The two artists trade off remixes for the Grizzly x Local Action release—Contakt reformatting “Trappin” from Melé’s brand-new EP, and the latter reworking the former’s b-side from his recent debut single on Local Action. Here we have “Rhodophyta (Melé Remix),” a bouyant and hyperactive tune that meshes smooth synth pads, massive sub tones, bubbling electronics, and other UK dancefloor trademarks with heavily hip-hop-slanted club beats. You can check out what the other half of this great single sounds like, and download it over here for free.

Rhodophyta (Melé Remix)

Rhodophyta (Mele Remix)

Listen to the New Benjamin Damage and Doc Daneeka Single

Last month, word came down that UK producers Benjamin Damage and Doc Daneeka were teaming up for a collaborative single. The record doesn’t actually drop until this Friday, March 11, but we’ve got both songs streaming right now on XLR8R.com. The “Creeper” b/w “Infamous” single is being released via the Modeselektor-helmed 50Weapons label, and it finds Damage’s techno leanings blending nicely with Daneeka’s drum-loaded house stylings. Don’t believe us? Take a listen for yourself below. You can also pre-order the 12″ right here.

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Watch Mike Slott Talk Music, Play Live

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One of the handful of talented producers that calls Scotland’s LuckyMe label home, Mike Slott recently sat down with director Adam Saewitz in his Brooklyn apartment to wax philosophical about making music and how it affects our lives. This lovingly shot piece is certainly short, but in under three minutes, we’re shown a rare intimate and thoughtful side of the eclectic beatsmith. There are some pretty cool close-up shots of Slott jamming on his gear, too.

Torro Torro “Blue Blouse (DJ Ayres Remix)”

Brooklyn’s DJ Ayres has delivered this skittering remix for the upcoming “Blue Blouse” single from Toronto duo Torro Torro. On this remix we find Ayres taking things in a different direction than usual, leaning towards the garage/2-step side of things rather than the party-oriented, hip-hop and B-more styles he’s often known for. Ayres strips back and subdues the pound-you-over-the-head house of the original, keeping the song’s one-word melody (the word “you” pitched up and down) as the focus and utilizing layers of deep bass and dark piano to set the mood. Throughout the track, Ayres approaches a variety of different movements with the swagger of a seasoned remixer, manipulating the given elements in to a variety of related, yet unique sections that show the breadth of his abilities, even throwing in some surprisingly refreshing jazz piano chords in the track’s closing 30 seconds. The “Blue Blouse” single (artwork above), where you’ll find the original along with this and three more remixes, will be available tomorrow, March 8.

Blue Blouse (DJ Ayres remix)

Wiley to Release Seventh Album This July; Watch New Video Now

The eccentrically extroverted, enigmatically engaging, and endlessly entertaining Eskiboy (a.k.a. Wiley) has announced he will soon be releasing a follow-up record to 2009’s Race Against Time, a 12-song album written and produced entirely by the artist called 100% Publishing. Big Dada will drop the full-length LP—which is said to be “the freewheeling, uncompromising body of work [Wiley has] always strived to create”—on July 5, and its first single, “Numbers in Action,” on May 16, along with remixes from Sticky and Toddla T. But before all of that, you can check out the tracklist for 100% Publishing, as well as some of Wiley’s forthcoming tour dates and his new video for “I Just Woke Up,” below.

100% Publishing Tracklist:
Information Age
100% Publishing
Numbers In Action
Boom Boom Da Na
Your Intuition
I Just Woke Up
Wise Man and His Words
Pink Lady
Yonge Street (1,178 miles long)
Up There
Talk About Life
To Be Continued

Tour Dates:
5th April Classic Grand, Glasgow
6th April Newcastle Academy 2, Newcastle
7th April The Plug, Sheffield
8th April Club Academy, Manchester
9th April Millennium Music Hall, Cardiff
11th April 02 Academy 2, Birmingham
12th April Concorde 2, Brighton
13th April Waterfront, Norwich
14th April Islington Academy, London

Mark E Readies Debut Album for Spectral

After being originally brought into the Ghostly/Spectral fold for his excellent remix of Matthew Dear’s “Little People,” the UK-based producer Mark E is set to release his first proper artist album via Spectral Sound on May 16. Although his forthcoming LP, Stone Breaker, will be the producer’s first full-length to date, he has been crafting his brand of deliberate, infectious house music for years now with a host of releases to boot for the likes of Running Back, Jiscomusic, Endless Flight, and his own Merc imprint. Said to have happened upon some liberating free time about midway through last year, Mark E hit a creative stride and crafted what was originally planned to be a variety of 12″s, but eventually became the album’s nine tracks intriguingly described as “darkroom house that owes as much to Chicago as it does to the cosmos.” You’ll find Stone Breaker‘s artwork and tracklist below as well as a stream of the track “Nobody Else” from his 2010 12″ of the same title.

Tracklist:
01. Archway
02. Black Country Saga
03. Belvide Beat
04. Quatro
05. Got To Get Me There
06. Deny This
07. Black Moon
08. Oranges
09. The Day

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Video: Jamie xx and Gil Scott-Heron “I’ll Take Care of U”

Jamie xx‘s piano-heavy, house-leaning remix of Gil Scott-Heron‘s “I’ll Take Care of U,” from the recently released collaborative remix album, We’re New Here, has received the video treatment thanks to directors Jamie James Medina and AG Rojas. The beautifully shot video presents a compelling story to accompany Scott-Heron’s heartfelt lyrics as it follows a female boxer while she balances a routine of training and fighting with caring for her young son. After watching the video, make sure to check out our review of We’re New Here, which is out now on Young Turks. (via Dazed Digital)

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Egyptrixx Bible Eyes

It’s rather prescient that Night Slugs has chosen Egyptrixx (a.k.a. David Psutka) for the label’s first proper artist album, his debut Bible Eyes. It’s a full-length extension of “Liberation Front,” a song where synths roll up and down like marbles in a halfpipe, leaving behind trails of dissolute low frequencies that lend it an oddly bottom-heavy quality. The album is all weighty house grooves and pseudo-tribal drums, with woozy synths coursing through its winding veins. Sometimes Egyptrixx tinkers with the template (“Barely”) and occasionally he just shatters it completely and mirthfully toys with the remnants. For instance, the tremulous ballad “Chrysalis Records” submerges a stoned vocal from fellow Canadians Trust and slinky triplets in a sea of thick cough syrup, while “Naples” glows with tender, pulsing electro nostalgia. His refinement is equally exciting, as the percussive bouquet on “Recital (A Version)” and the restless see-saw of “Bible Eyes” provide dependable grooves to weird out any rave. Credit Egyptrixx for making a debut album that sounds at once so unified and whole, yet like absolutely nothing else. It’s fitting that he’s on Night Slugs, a label that only believes in taking from the past what it can mercilessly mutate and transform for its own brilliantly idiosyncratic use.

Teeel “Ojai Valley (Jensen Sportag Remix)”

Cascine and Moodgadget have masterminded a remix trade between the synth-poppin’ Trenton, NJ resident Teeel and Nashville’s future-funk duo Jensen Sportag (artwork above). We’ve gotten our hands on the latter’s contribution for the project, on which Jensen Sportag has managed to take the ’80s pop throwback feel of the original “Ojai Valley” a little further back to the golden days of Quincy Jones production and the funkier outings of Herbie Hancock. Seamlessly bringing the retro-electro vibe into a modern, dancefloor-ready sound, the remix is lead by a shameless slap bass that glides underneath an onslaught of tasty, percolating synth lines, popping and spinning from left to right as Teeel’s vocal soars in and out of earshot. Teeel’s contribution to the remix trade, a blissful reworking of Sportag’s “Everything Good” (the original of which we posted back in January) can be found over at the project’s Soundcloud.

Ojai Valley (Jensen Sportag Remix)

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