Long-time dubstep icon Skream is set to follow up the release of his self-titled debut with his next album of bass music gems, Outside the Box. The forthcoming 14-track album comes four years after the DJ/prdoucer’s last full-length dropped, and will be released by the same label, Tempa. The new record is said to cover many of electronic dance music’s bases, including a hip-hop track with LA MC Murs, a tribal-rhythm-heavy number with La Roux, high-octane jungle tunes, and plenty low-end-centric dubstep. Check out this bit from Outside the Box, a radio rip of “Listening to the Records on My Wall,” below.

News of more chilly dance grooves hitting our ears via Hyperdub just surfaced. UK DJ/producer duo Ill Blu has prepped two new jams for the bass-dealing label, entitled “Bellion” and “Dragon Pop.” Each track flexes a particularly minimal style of future-house/UK funky that leans a bit more towards the darker, less-soulful end of the dance music spectrum, and focuses almost completely on rhythm, save for a basic bass synth or steel-drum melody. You can grab Ill Blu’s new 12″ early this July.

Next week, L-Vis 1990 and Bok Bok’s Night Slugs label continues its reign atop Next-Level Awesomeness Mountain with the release of Lil Silva‘s Night Skanker EP. The six-track EP finds the young UK producer combining energetic, grime-influenced funky percussion with punchy synth melodies, and the results are spectacular. In advance of the EP’s release, the Night Slugs crew has passed along the first two songs for us to preview on the XLR8R website. And to celebrate the label’s fourth record, they’re throwing another one of those events that make us say, “Why the fuck don’t we live in London?” as Lil Silva, L-Vis 1990, and Bok Bok will be playing and partying alongside Chicago juke master DJ Rashad, Girl Unit, and Jam City. The flyer with all the details is posted below, as is the EP artwork and our streaming audio player.

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Elusive front man of Pennsylvania’s psychedelic pop collective Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco, has a bit on his plate as of late. The relatively anonymous fella is barely a week away from dropping his latest solo effort, Maniac Meat, and will be following up the release with a couple of weeks spent on the road sporting his wares. And just in case the previously shared “Sweatmother” and Beck-featured “Fresh Hex” leaks weren’t enough for you, another taste is available from Meat in the form of “Six Royal Vipers,” which is available here. Check out Tobacco’s list of US dates below.

Wednesday, June 2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands Gallery – RECORD RELEASE SHOW!
Thursday, Sept. 9 – Washingon, DC @ DC9 w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Friday, Sept. 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Saturday, Sept. 11 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Thursday, Sept. 16 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Friday, Sept. 17 – South, VT @ Higher Ground w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Saturday, Sept. 18 – Boston, MA @ Middle East w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Thursday, Sept. 23 – Toledo, OH @ Mickey Finn’s w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Friday, Sept. 24 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Saturday, Sept. 25 – Kalamazoo, MI @ The Strutt w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend
Wednesday, Sept. 29 – Greensboro, NC @ Artisika on UNCG Campus w/ Dreamend
Thursday, Sept. 30 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 w/ Dreamend
Friday, Oct. 1 – Knoxville, TN @ Square Room w/ Dreamend
Saturday, Oct. 2 – Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant Street w/ Dreamend

Glaswegian beat-making wunderkind and one of XLR8R‘s favorite saviors of music last year, Hudson Mohawke has long been a producer of interest for this publication. His recent remix for UK grime icon Wiley sent our heads spinning with its alter-dimensional rave sound, and now here’s something a bit more personal from the beatsmith. The man known to mum as Ross Birchard sat down with Red Bull Music Academy to take part in the institution’s ongoing “Fireside Chat” series (which recently featured Caribou, as well), and delivered an illuminating dissertation on the history of his DJ career, how he learned to produce his kind of soulful wonky beats, joining the LuckyMe and Warp labels, and where he hopes to take Hudson Mohawke in the future. Listen to that talk, which is interspersed with a veritable chronology of HudMo-related tracks, here.

Over on the Fabric blog, UK funky phenom Scratcha DVA has curated an interesting selection of YouTube videos (check out the drumming three-year-old!) and offered up a free mix in anticipation of his FabricLive set. Check out the mix and tracklisting below!

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Scratcha DVA – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Tracklist:

1 REDLIGHT – MDMA
2 MA1 – TRIBES OF AFRICA
3 EGYPTRIXX – DRIVE U CRAZY
4 DVA – STEP 2 FUNK
5 GEENEUS – ???
6 HARD HOUSE BANTON – GRRRR (DUMPLING MIX)
7 DJ TONKA – FREEZE
8 RAMADANMAN – GLUT
9 FIS T – 6 TRIBES
10 ZINC/MS DARKS – BLUNT EDGE (DUB SPECIAL)
11 DVA – NEW WORLD ORDER
12 GIRL UNIT – I.R.L (DVA’S HI EMOTIONS REMIX)
13 DVA – GANJA
14 DVA – MONOWAVES
15 ROSKA & UNTOLD – MYTH
16 DVA vs FIS T – NATTY HUNTER
17 DVA & LV – DUMPLING
18 ILL BLU – OVERDOSE
19 DVA – SCHIZOPHRENIC
20 COOLY G – I.C
21 UNKNOWN – UNTITLED