Here’s a sweet promo mix from Spanish DJ K**O (pronounced “kee-goh”)—who also collaborates with Delorean on party/blog Desparrame—for the upcoming Off-Sonar party. The event is put on by Plat du Jour, Kode9 and his Hyperdub crew, FACT magazine, and MixCloud, and features performances from acts Ikonika, Cooly G, Mwëslee, Guido, Darkstar, and Slick Dixxx (who has his own promo mix here), among other special surprise guests. The mix itself has only one track from an announced performer (Guido’s “Mad Sax”), and fills the rest of its half-hour with tracks from Swindle, Supra1, Geeneus, and exclusives by BFlecha and Noaipre. Check the Plat du Jour MixCloud page for more info.

Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, known best as dubstep futurists Mount Kimbie, have put the finishing touches on their debut album, an 11-track release coming out July 19 on Hotflush. The forthcoming full-length is entitled Crooks & Lovers, and follows Kimbie’s first two EPs for Hotflush, 2009’s experimental endeavors Maybes and Sketch on Glass. The new album is said to take the outfit’s sound even further, as it “floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage, and film scores to startling effect.” Check out Crooks & Lovers‘ artwork and tracklist below.

01. Tunnelvision
02. Would Know
03. Before I Move Off
04. Blind Night Errand
05. Adriatic
06. Carbonated
07. Ruby
08. Ode to Bear
09. Field
10. Mayor
11. Between Time

The man behind Hefty Records, and the aliases Bill Ding and Slicker, John Hughes III, returns after a lengthy break to the world of recorded music. Released today on STS9’s 1320 Records, Reset the Warehouse “represents the prime selections from a productive period of meticulous tracking and experimentation at [Hughes’] HFT Studio located outside of Chicago,” reads a recent press release.

“I wanted this recording to have a live, gritty sound, so I took it outside of the computer as much as I could,” Hughes explains. “It was mixed through a board to tape, and the synths are all analog. Within the context of an electronic record, the live performances also help give it a warm, organic feel.” To achieve those effects, Hughes collaborated with friends Rick Embach and Joshua Eustis (of Telefon Tel Aviv). The entire list of Hughes’ co-conspirators can be found here. Check below for a tracklisting of the new album and for Hughes’ tour dates with STS9.

Reset the Warehouse Tracklist:

1. A Reflection of the Times
2. Waukee Wallop
3. Another One
4. Reset The Warehouse
5. Pterodactyl Piano Bar
6. Little Dot in the Sky
7. Done Everything
8. Moan Pop Asheesh
9. Witchfinger
10. You Don’t Love Me
11. Wow, I Think I Love You
12. Naphtha Jets

Tour Dates With STS9

08.12.10 – ROSELAND BALLROOM – New York, NY
08.13.10 – BANK OF AMERICA PAVILION – Boston, MA
08.14.10 – FESTIVAL PIER AT PENN’S LANDING – Philadelphia, PA
08.20.10 – HOUSE OF BLUES – Chicago, IL
08.28.10 – VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE – Alpharetta, GA
09.10.10 – RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE – Morrrison, CO
09.11.10 – RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE – Morrison, CO

Chicago’s South Side DJ/production crew Ghetto Division has a bit of news following the recent City Guidepodcast they hooked us up with. Firstly, Ghetto Division has spawned its own label, appropriately titled Ghetto Division Records, for the releasing of music from the collective’s various members and the group as a whole. The label’s first release will be a nine-song LP, also called Ghetto Division, that features one track from each of the crew’s producers, and will be released May 25. Following soon after are a couple of EPs from Maddjazz and D-51. Check out the artwork and tracklist for Ghetto Division below.

Charlie Glitch – “B Horn E”
D-51 – “Mi Trompeta”
Lorenzo Vektor – “Que Bonito”
Louie Cue – “The Feedback”
M-dok – “Busta”
MaddJazz – “Feel The Vibe”
Moonman – “Friendly Fire”
Rampage – “Let’s Go”
Rob Threezy – La Chalupa”

The Brooklyn hip-hop label responsible for pushing work from legendary artists the likes of J. Dilla, Wu-Tang, and Pete Rock, Nature Sounds has unleashed a new series of free podcasts which will feature close and extended members of the beat-and-verse hub’s family. Two mixes are available now through iTunes or Nature Sounds’ own podcast page, DJ Revolution’s Nature Sounds Mega Mix and Best of Ayatollah, which showcase favorite jams from the label’s past and a retrospective of one man’s production work with artists such as Mos Def, Rakim, Pharaohe Monch, and Ghostface Killah, respectively. A Beastie Boys best-of and an R.A. The Rugged Man old-school favorites mix are also in the works for future podcasts.

Veteran UK DJ/producer Anthony Child has been innovating techno under the name Surgeon since the early ’90s, releasing albums and singles on Tresor, Downwards, and his own labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension. Already so deep into the game, it’s about time Surgeon contributed a mix to the ongoing Fabric series. Fabric 53: Surgeon comes out July 12 in the UK and August 24 in the US. The hour-plus DJ set extends its grasp into the various realms of hypnotic dance tunes populated by the likes of Scuba, Instra:mental, Ital Tek, Greena, Starkey, and Surgeon himself, though the mastermind behind 53 simply says, “To me, this is all techno. That’s the way I think of it; I don’t subdivide genres, the beats are just slightly different places in the bar. They all have different feels and textures, but I don’t differentiate. I just like all this music, so I want to mix it together.” Check out the artwork and tracklist for Surgeon’s mix below.

1 – Location recording from Kuramae Subway Station, Tokyo, Japan
2 – Scuba – Glance [Hotflush]
3 – Surgeon – Bad Hands (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
4 – Marco Bernardi – Giro (Exium Remix) [Dirty Planet]
5 – Instra:mental – Forbidden [Apple Pips]
6 – Forward Strategy Group – Applied Generics A [Forward Strategy Group]
7 – Reeko – Agile Movement [Theory]
8 – Surgeon – Bad Hands Part 2 (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
9 – Robert Hood – Superman [M-Plant]
10 – Planetary Assault Systems – X Speaks To X (Al Tourettes & Appleblim Remix) [Ostgut Ton]
11 – Ritzi Lee – Black Star Ritual (Ben Sims Remix) [Underground Liberation]
12 – T-Polar – Crab People [Digital Distortions]
13 – Ital Tek – Spectrum Falls [Atom River]
14 – Surgeon – Klonk Part 1 (Drums Only) [Dynamic Tension]
15 – Subeena – Picture [Opit]
16 – Fran Hartnett – It Was Written In Vapour [unreleased]
17 – Mark Broom & James Ruskin – Hostage [Blueprint]
18 – Stephen Brown – Stress Free [Music Man]
19 – Ancient Methods – AM04B1 [Ancient Methods]
20 – Surgeon – Compliance Momentum [Dynamic Tension]
21 – Greena – Tenzado [Apple Pips]
22 – Starkey – Spacecraft [Planet Mu]
23 – Starkey feat. Anneka – Stars (Slugabed Did A Remix) [Planet Mu]
24 – Cari Lekebusch – Spindizzy (Luke Slater’s L.B. Dub Corp Remix) [Mote-Evolver]
25 – Surgeon – The Crawling Frog Is Torn and Smiles [Dynamic Tension]
26 – Orphx – Threshold (Substance Remix) [Sonic Groove]
27 – Gatekeeper – Blip [If Symptoms Persist]
28 – Mark Broom & James Ruskin – No Time Soon [Blueprint]
29 – Russ Gabriel – El Juan [We Play House]
30 – DJ Overdose – What [Lunar Disko Records]