Apparat to Judge You in Ableton’s Summer Music Challenge

Some kids hit the library for the summer reading challenge, but not you, you budding young music producer. Instead, you’re gonna get the laptop heated up and head on over to Ableton’s Summer Music Challenge, where folks like Berlin techno god Apparat will judge your work, and hopefully net you and your school a host of awesome prizes. It’s pretty simple: Create a track, upload it to SoundCloud, share it with the world via Facebook, MySpace, etc., and sit back and wait for the glory to roll in. Prizes are awarded in two categories: under age 15, and ages 15-18. The deadline for the contest is August 31, so check out all the details here, and get makin’! (But remember, it’s just a contest… so don’t take Apparat’s route, pictured above, if you don’t win, okay?)

The grand-prize winner gets:

For your school:
1x Ableton Live Intro Site License (multi-installation license)
15x Novation Launchpad
15x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
25x SoundCloud Lite Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Origins Collection

For you:
1x Ableton Suite
1x Novation Launchpad
1x Novation Nio 2/4 Audio Interface
1x Soundcloud Premium Account (1 year)
1x Loopmaster Gift Certificate (250 EUR value)
There will also be 24 runners up in each age group. As a runner up, you will win:

24 runners up will receive:

For your school:
1x Ableton Live Intro Site License (multi-installation license)

For you:
1x Ableton Live Intro

Splatinum “Vadonna’s Magina”

Seattle duo Splatinum consists of a couple of goofballs (Andrew Luck and Adam Houghton) who love 8-bit sounds, big bass, and crunked-up vibes. As such, it’s entirely fitting that the latest Splatinum EP is entitled Love for Those Hustlers. The six-track release is not only stuffed with bouncing blap, stinging synths, and loads of classic party raps, it’s also available for free download. Despite its not-so-clever title, “Vadonna’s Magina” won us over with its fuzzy low-end, sharp percussion, acid tweaks, and liberal use of Lil Jon vocal samples.

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Video: Blockhead “The Music Scene”

The folks at Ninja Tune dropped us a line to share the new video for “The Music Scene,” the title track from NYC hip-hop producer Blockhead‘s album from late last year. The clip features some really excellent psychedelic animation—think Dr. Seuss—courtesy of Anthony Schepperd, but we must admit that it does bring to mind a video from our younger days. Although the Blockhead video is undeniably sunnier, does anyone else remember Pearl Jam‘s Todd McFarlane-inked video for “Do the Evolution” from 1998? It was the band’s first video since “Jeremy.” (We swear this was a big deal at the time.)

See? Both videos are animated and have lots of animals! We’re not that off base, are we? Anyways, latent teenage fanboy grunge nerdery aside, Ninja Tune has made the Blockhead video available for download here along with a snippet of “Ugly Brown,” a new Blockhead track slated to appear later this year on the forthcoming Ninja Tune XX box set. But act fast, as the download is only available for the next five days.

matthewdavid “Trusss”

Leaving Records boss and Southern California beat-scene impresario matthewdavid is a man of many talents, many of which revolve around discovering and promoting other like-minded artists. But he also makes his own tunes, like this unreleased gem, “Trusss,” that surfaced online earlier in the week. Has anyone coined the term “beach funk” yet? This might be it. Imagine if Aphex Twin’s famous “Windowlicker” didn’t scare the living shit out of everyone… that’s kind of what “Trusss” sounds like. Regardless, we approve. (via Pitchfork via Friendship Bracelet)

Trusss

Wrap Your Ears Around Machinedrum’s New ‘FR33DUMB’ Mixtape

Brooklyn glitch-beat maestro and recent LuckyMe signee Machinedrum has been hard at work getting together his inaugural release for the Scottish label, Many Faces, which comes out later this month. In the meantime, he tossed us this stellar, party-starting mixtape to share with you. The FR33DUMB MIXTAPE is chock full of dirty raps, even dirtier beats, and some ultra-filthy bass tones all filtered through the tune maker’s musically warped psyche, and is sure to quickly and easily become a favorite soundtrack for summertime dance parties everywhere. We’ve got the track list for you below (with all of its intricate particulars), and a link to download the whole thing here.

FR€€DUMB INTRO
MACHINEDRUM – 2GATHER 2GETHER
GUILTY SIMPSON – GHETTO (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
MAN PARRISH – HIP HOP BE BOP (MACHINEDRUM EDIT) + OH NO – STOMP THAT (FEAT. CORNBREAD)
MACHINEDRUM – NYBS + LIL WAYNE – SWAGGA LIKE US VERSE
MACHINEDRUM – $LIFE + LIL KIM – SUCK MY DICK
LIL DOMINIQUE – HOT GIRL (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
THE BLESSINGS – IBASETA + JAY-Z – CANT STOP THE HUSTLE
MGMT – ELECTRIC FEEL (KEYS N KRATES RMX) + COMMON – THE SIXTH SENSE
THROWY – DOWHATTHEFUCKISAY + BUSTA RHYMES – ITS A PARTY
TEAM ROJAS – THE DEALS GONNA STOP
MACHINEDRUM – LET IT (SIRIUSMO REMIX FEAT. MELO-X)
FOREIGN BEGGARS – DON’T DHOOW IT (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
POIRIER – MARATHON (HOVATRON REMIX) + EVE – GOT IT ALL (FEAT. JADAKISS)
MACHINEDRUM – YNY + ANTOINETTE – WHO’S THE BOSS?
LETHERETTE – STARPOINT + BLACK BOX – EVERYBODY EVERYBODY
BROTHOMSTATES – HMSFT + FAITH EVANS – LOVE LIKE THIS
BODY LANGUAGE – CITY (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
POIRIER – KALIMA SHOP TITI (DOUSTER REMIX)
MACHINEDRUM – GET EM UP + MISSY ELLIOT – LOSE CONTROL
DIAMOND ZOIDAL – HELLO (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
MACHINEDRUM – CARRY THE WEIGHT (BOK BOK REMIX)
MACHINEDRUM – IMABRAT (FEAT. BABY CARTER)
NEON BLACK – YOUR ONLY MAN
JIMMY EDGAR – HOTRAWSEX (MACHINEDRUM REMIX)
JAMES BLAKE – CMYK
MACHINEDRUM – FLUD
FR33DUMB OUTRO

TC James & The Fist O’Funk “Get Up on Your Feet (Walter Gibbons Mix)”

This classic disco edit is the first taste from the epic Walter Gibbons retrospective compilation, Jungle Music: Essential & Unreleased Remixes 1976-1986 (read more on that here), coming July 20 via Strut. For his version of the classic TC James & The Fist O’Funk number “Get Up on Your Feet,” Gibbons more than doubled its length, pumped up the percussion and horn elements, and tossed in his own bunch of analog synth sounds—effectively taking the art of edits well into the future. Listening to this track, it’s easy see why Gibbons is often referred to as a pioneer; many of the ideas displayed here are still production mainstays of contemporary disco-minded artists such as DFA, Lindstrøm, and Todd Terje.

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Preview the Debut Album from Wolf + Lamb

Brooklyn duo Wolf + Lamb has been throwing amazing underground parties and releasing a steady stream of disco-influenced music for years now, but until today, the pair never had an official artist album. Love Someone is the first full-length offering from Gadi Mizrahi & Zev Einsenberg, and they’ve passed along the album’s first three tracks to preview here on XLR8R.com. The record is available today on wax, with digital copies to follow in the next few weeks.

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Nic Sarno “Mana Wasa”

This bouncing piece of Afro-tinged techno comes to us courtesy of the Hard Ass Sessions – Volume II compilation, and Italian producer Nic Sarno. Chosen by the Enchufada label, Sarno is one of four hotly tipped producers—alongside Bok Bok, Douster, and Zombies for Money—who were asked to contribute a track to the series that featured their personal interpretation of the kuduro sound somewhere between 135 and 142 BPM. Sarno crafted “Mana Wasa” with a group of crackling vinyl samples of African singing and flute playing, which he intertwined with a thumping four-on-the-floor beat, hypnotic synth melodies, and a ton of percussion elements. It’s a great extension of the kuduro style we’re familiar with, and piques our already budding interest in the other three tracks Volume II has to offer.

Mana Wasa

Mana Wasa

Mana Wasa

Baths Gets Ready to Tour and Gets Remixed by Asura

Following the July 6 release of Cerulean, his debut full-length for Anticon, SoCal producer Baths will set out on a short string of West Coast tour dates, with one appearance in Austin, Texas kicking off the whole bunch. He’ll be playing a date at the Troubadour in Los Angeles a few days before the release of his album, sharing the stage that night with fellow beat makers Daedelus, El Ten Eleven, and Matthewdavid. In related news, one of the beat scene’s other more melodically minded producers, Asura, remixed one of the tracks to leak from Cerulean, “Hall.” Stream that number, and check out Baths upcoming tour dates, below.

July 3 – Troubadour – LA, CA – w/ Daedelus, El Ten Eleven and Matthewdavid
July 9 – Club Deville – Austin, TX – Hot Shit! Party
July 17 – Emrg’N’See Music Festival – Salem, OR
July 28 – Frank’s Place – Fresno, CA – w/ Memoryhouse
July 30 – The Mill Gallery – Santa Cruz, CA – w/ Memoryhouse
July 31 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA – w/ Memoryhouse
Aug 21 – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA – w/ Jogger
Aug 25 – Humbrews – Arcata, CA – w/ Jogger
Aug 27 – Comet Tavern – Seattle, WA – w/ Jogger
Aug 28 – Holocene – Portland, OR – w/ Jogger

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