Premiere: Curses & Local Suicide’s New Cut is New Wave Built for Sweaty Basements

Today, UK-based imprint Tusk Wax released a new EP from Berliners Local Suicide and Curses.

Simply titled Tusk Wax 28, the EP, much like each artist’s respective back catalogs, explores the darker end of the electronic spectrum, mining the sleazy allure of new wave of post-punk and fusing it with modern disco and techno tropes. Each of the four cuts provides a different take on this aesthetic, from the stoned cold-wave grooves of “Magia” to the more driving “It All Sounds The Same,” the chugging and sultry “Walk With Me,” and the sinister new-wave-techno fusion of “Secret Friends.”

Tusk Wax 28, like all of the release on Tusk Wax, is vinyl only and can be picked up here, with “Secret Friends” streaming in full below. 

Peggy Gou Launches New Label with New EP

Peggy Gou is launching her own label, Gudu Records, with her Moment EP, scheduled to land April 19. 

Moment is a two-track release and her first new music of this year, coming after a busy 2018 that saw her second Phonica White EP, Travelling Without Arriving, plus high profile appearances on Ninja Tune. Once again, it sees the South Korean-born, Berlin-based artist layer her own vocals, in Korean and English, over the tracks. It features artwork from Jee-ook Choi, who will oversee the label’s artistic direction. 

On the label, Gou said this to i-D Magazine: “I realised I wanted to be my own boss with my own music. At first I wanted to have just my music, but now I think people would like to know what kind of artists I support.” 

The label name comes from the Korean word for shoes. 

For more information on Peggy Gou, read our feature here. 

Tracklisting

A. Starry Night 

B. Han Pan 

Moment lands April 19, with “Starry Night” streaming below. 

Nui Blanc “Nausea”

Nui Blanc is the project of a reclusive Portuguese musician. He remains in the shadows crafting mysterious and multi-textured electronic sounds in the vein of Oneohtrix Point Never, Arca, and Blanck Mass, one which warps familiar electronic tropes into nebulous shapes. 

New track “Nausea” is a brooding, glitchy number that has been picked up by BBC 6 Music. Undulating synth lines shimmer above a broken beat which serves as the track’s backbone; at first glance it is an unsettling world, but the melodies contained within add a beauty and sense of familiarity despite the oblique sounds.

The track lands ahead of Strata, a debut EP coming via Perth Records, and can be downloaded in full via the button below, or here for EU readers due to temporary GDPR restrictions. 

Sunset Sound System Celebrates 25-Year Anniversary and 10 Years of Sunset Campout

Sunset Sound System this year celebrates 25 years of parties.

Run by San Francisco DJs Solar and Galen, the Sunset Sound System events have been West Coast staples since the first party in Berkeley Marina 25 years ago. Over the years, the pair have hosted artists such as Prosumer, Jennifer Cardini, Mike Huckaby, Red Axes, Magda, Larry Heard, Derrick May, DJ Harvey, Avalon Emerson, John Talabot, Axel Boman, and Paranoid London, among many others.

Today, the pair announce a year of celebrations and a 10-event series of park and boat events, international festival stage takeovers, and details around their flagship three-day festival Sunset Campout, all of which can be found below.

2019 Sunset Sound System Event Schedule:

Sunday, April 7 – Permission to Land Season Kick-Off at The Midway Patio, San Francisco, with Maurice Fulton, Garth, Galen, Benjamin K 

Sunday, April 28 – Sunset Silver Jubilee Celebration Park Party at Stafford Lake, Novato, with Galen, Solar, J-Bird

Sunday, May 19 – Sunset Sound System Spring Boat Party on The San Francisco Spirit with Dixon, Galen, Solar + more TBA

Sunday, June 9 – Meadows In The Mountains (Sunrise Stage) in Bulgaria, Sunset Sound System takeover with Eddie C, Qzen, Solar, Galen

Thursday, July 4 – Love International Festival (Olive Grove Stage) in Croatia, Sunset Sound System takeover with Joy Orbison, Galen, Solar, Mozhgan

July 25th – 29 – Sunset Campout, 10-Year Anniversary Celebration (Silver Jubilee) in Belden Town, California

Sunday, August 25 – Sunset Summer Boat Party on The San Francisco Spirit, San Francisco

Sunday, September 22 – Permission to Land with Sunset Sound System at The Midway Patio, San Francisco 

Sunday, October 13 – Sunset Fall Jubilee Celebration Park Party at Stafford Lake, Novato

Sunday, October 27 – Sunset Halloween Costume Boat Party on The San Francisco Belle, San Francisco

Abid Hussain Details the Legalities of Sampling for Ableton

At Ableton‘s latest Loop summit, Ableton Certified Trainer and a licensed attorney Abid Hussain gave an enlighting talk on the legalities of sampling.

In the video, Hussain details a range of copyright infringement cases and their ensuing rulings, before diving into what these rulings will mean for producers and the impact they will have on the way samples are used in the future.

You can watch the video via the player below.

Premiere: Daniel Ruane’s New Single Sounds Like an Artefact From Outerspace

On April 11, Liverpool-based event series Meine Nacht will launch its label arm with a new EP from Daniel Ruane.

Both Ruane and Meine Nacht label head Breakwave share a forward-thinking out-of-the-box mindset when it comes to music and the way it’s presented, an aesthetic that can be found in Ruane’s intellectual, sci-fi sound design and Meine Nacht’s inspired venue choices—Meine Nacht events have taken place in spaces such as an old supermarket, a bakery, art galleries, a factory canteen, and an old police station. Now, the pair join forces on Tengu, Meine Nacht’s inaugural EP.

The title track opens euphorically with a set of otherworldly bleeps and awe-inspiring atmospheres, before Ruane piles on his notoriously frenetic rhythms and alien sounds—it’s a track that constantly morphs and warps its way through seven head-spinning minutes. From there, things get even deeper and weirder with “IV (CF_BD),” a track that plays out like a score to a battle between two extraterrestrial beings.

Tengu can be ordered now on limited-edition dubplate or digitally from here, with the title track streaming in full below.

Tracklisting:

1. Tengu

2. IV (CF_BD)

Alix Perez and Eprom Line Up New Shades EP

Photo credit: Jamie Kendrick

Alix Perez and Eprom have announced their new Shades EP, Black Heart Communion, scheduled to release March 29 with Deadbeats.

The release is the duo’s sixth collaborative EP, and comes after last year’s In Praise of Darkness LP, also via Deadbeats. “Two One Six,” the EP’s lead single, landed with the announcement, replete with the pair’s signature mixture of experimental bass, glitch, and hip-hop, blending a dark aesthetic of sound through stark transitions, charged overtones, and bold vocal samples. 

In support of the release, Shades will tour through Europe and North America, including a performance at Lightning In A Bottle Music Festival in Bakersfield, CA. 

Black Heart Communion EP lands March 29 with Deadbeats, with “Two One Six” streaming below and tracklisting coming soon. 

Shades, 2019 Tour Dates

4/19 Toulouse, France—Le Bikini

4/21 Amsterdam, Netherlands—Melkweg

4/26 Groningen, Netherlands—De Oosterpoort

4/27 Berlin, Germany—Gretchen

5/10 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—Warehouse on Watts

5/11 Bakersfield, California—Lightning in a Bottle

6/09 Denver, Colorado—First Bank Center

6/15 Seattle, Washington—Paradiso

7/19 Montreal, Quebec—Valhalla Sound Circus

Novation Explores the New Features of the Bass Station II v2.5 Firmware Update

Today, Novation will explore all the new features of the Bass Station II v2.5 firmware update on its latest Beats and Bytes livestream.

Released late last year, the new firmware update adds to the Bass Station some of the user community’s most requested features, including paraphonic mode, filter tracking, microtuning, envelope retriggering, oscillator error, and two new Soundpacks: Silver and Sinevibes. 

You can watch the livestream on the Novation YouTube channel, with the full schedule below.

(0:00 – 5:00) Introduction to Bass Station II

(5:00 – 10:00) How to Update, Paraphonic Mode, and Filter Tracking

(10:00 – 15:00) Envelope Re-triggering and Oscillator Error

(15:00 – 20:00) Microtuning Editing, New Presets, and Warm Greetings

(20:00 – 25:00) Q & A

Hyperdub to Release Kode9 Remixes of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music

Hyperdub will soon release four Kode9—real name Steve Goodman—remixes of tracks taken from Diggin in the Carts, a 2017 compilation put together by Nick Dwyer and Kode9 of pioneering Japanese video game music from the ’80s and ’90s. 

Since this initial release, Kode9 has been touring a live A/V set in collaboration with visuals from animé legend Koji Morimoto, who also designed the artwork for the original compilation.

On this first Kode9 EP for several years, a handful of these remixes see the light of day. Koze 9 rivets his 80/160bpm rhythms onto these classic 8-bit and 16-bit melodies, re-animating the Steve Reichian arpeggios of Soshi Hosoi, the grime-like horn fanfares of Yuzo Koshiro, the sour pads of Koichi Ishaibashi, and pitching Tadahiro Nitta down into a slow building, frantic low-end grind.

The release comes sleeved in artwork by Konx-on-Pax, adapted from the visuals from the A/V performance.

Tracklisting

A1. Soshi Hosoi “Mister Diviner” (The Mahjong Touhaiden) Kode9 Remix

A2. Koichi Ishibashi “Bad Data” (Dezaemon) Kode9 Remix

B1. Yuzo Koshiro “Temple” (Actraiser) Kode9 Remix

B2. Tadahiro Nitta “An-Un” [Ominous Clouds] (Xak II) Kode9 Remix

Diggin in the Carts Kode9 Remixes lands May 3 via Hyperdub, with “Bad Data [Dezaemon]” Kode9 remix streaming below.

Evident “Complicated Truth” (Version 1)

Complicated Truth is a pack of two versions of the same melodic-house track produced by Slovenia-based Evident. There’s very little known about the producer, barring that he’s called Blaž Peruš and has self-released an LP and several  EPs via his own Soundhitectures. The release is out now, available here, with a download of Version 1 available via the WeTransfer button below, or here for EU readers due to temporary GDPR restrictions. 

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