Mwëslee “Pacifico”

There is a whole lot going on in Spanish producer Mwëslee‘s track “Pacifico.” Aside from the slow-rolling breakbeat and the wobbly synths that make up most of the music, the track from his forthcoming Eurocarne EP is filled to the brim with churning ambiance, cut up guitar samples, twinkling sound effects, lilting percussion, and something that sounds like a bird tweeting in a far off cave. All of these disparate elements coalesce nicely into a piece of futuristic beat music from one of the sunnier parts of Europe.

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Wolf + Lamb to Release Its First Artist Album

It’s been over a decade since the two Brooklyn natives behind Wolf + Lamb, Gadi Mizrahi and Zev Eisenberg, came together under their own flag to bring the world a fresh crop of releases and events featuring some of the best names in techno music. Now, completely drenched in the necessary musical know-how and all-around experience, the duo has finally crafted its first album under the name Wolf + Lamb. Love Someone is comprised of seven tracks of hypnotic dance music forged and refined over the last year Mizrahi and Eisenberg spent on the road throughout the U.S. and Europe, and will be released on the group’s own label June 14 with a few performances preceding and following its release. Check out Someone‘s artwork and tracklist below.

1. Just For Now
2. Mock & Toof – Shoeshine Boogie (Wolf + Lamb Remix)
3. Love Someone
4. Want Your Money (Dyed Soundorom Wants Your Love Remix)
5. I Know You’re Leaving
6. Monster Love
7. Want Your Money

Late “Bittersweet”

One has to expect that a certain amount of imitation will follow the creation of a sound that so perfectly defines a specific genre, so Burial can’t be too bent out of shape with Finnish producer Late for borrowing a bit from his playbook. On “Bittersweet,” chopped up female vocal samples, rolling percussion-heavy beats, and heavily reverberated synths all come together to make a particularly familiar dubstep track. Late uses these ideas well, regardless, and makes use of all six minutes of “Bittersweet” to create a desolate atmosphere that should fit well into the rest of his forthcoming Phantom Papers EP.

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Holy Ghost! “Say My Name”

While the song title may remind us of late-’90s R&B, Holy Ghost!‘s new track “Say My Name” is a pure disco ballad. Shimmering piano and synth washes seep through thick basslines and brighten up the softly sung vocals on this poignant dance number from the NY duo. The track is taken from a forthcoming EP for DFA, Static on the Wire, and shares wax space with one other previously unreleased jam and two tracks that have yet to make it onto vinyl. Static also features John MacLean on a mean guitar solo, vocals from Chris Glover, and drumming from the late, great Jerry Fuchs. You can check out the EP’s title track along with Holy Ghost!’s remix of the new LCD Soundsystem jam “Drunk Girls” over on the band’s website before its all made available May 18. (via Pitchfork.)

Holy Ghost! – Say My Name

dBridge & Instra:mental Present Autonomic Fabriclive 50

If it wasn’t clear enough already that border-crossing, genre-bending, soul-stirring DJ mixes are the present and (likely) future norm of live dance-music performance, London-based polyrhythm-makers D-Bridge & Instra:mental seal the deal on this sonic snapshot from their Club Automatic party machine. Hip-hop, dubstep, drum & bass, funky house, and techno all contribute to the righteous, hypnotic flow, which includes tracks by ASC, Consequence, Pearson Sound, several by D-Bridge (like the warm, sexy “Love Hotel”) and Instra:mental (check soul power ballads “From the Start” and “End Credits”), and a dark carnivalesque closer—”Gen Ohn (Screwed Version)” by the madly talented Actress.

The Sight Below Readies North American Tour for May

Following hot on the recent praise for his sophomore album, It All Falls Apart, Rafael Anton Irisarri (a.k.a. The Sight Below) is taking his ambient guitar textures and pattering, minimal electronics on the road for a string of tour dates in North America. The Seattle-based musician will take his ethereal live audio/visual experience throughout the midwest, east coast, and Canada with support from Svarte Greiner on all but three performances. Check out the tour’s details below.

5/12 – Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door+
5/14 – Chicago, IL @ Reuben’s Palace*
5/15 – Fort Wayne, IN @ The Dash Inn*
5/16 – Toronto, ON @ Teranga*
5/17 – Montreal, QB @ Casa Del Popolo *
5/18 – Burlington, VT @ Monkey House*
5/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall*
5/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie*
5/21 – Richmond, VA @ Reference Gallery*
5/26 & 27 – Jerusalem, IL @ Israel Festival Jerusalem (as Rafael Anton Irissari) ^

+ w/ Goldmund, Johann Johannsson
* w/ Svarte Greiner
^ feat. Greg Davis, Koen Holtkamp, Ran Slavin, etc.

Stream the New Flying Lotus Album Now!

As the North American release date for Flying Lotus‘ third album, Cosmogramma, approaches, fans are being treated to more and more from the long-awaited release. The latest to trickle onto the internet is a stream of the entire record on producer Steven Ellison’s MySpace page. Simply head to the website, queue up the topmost track in FlyLo’s player, and experience Cosmogramma in full effect before its May 4 release date on Warp.

Jose James “Blackmagic (Produced by Flying Lotus)”

FlyLo fanatics around the globe are freaking about the appearance of his new Cosmogramma album next week, but folks are seriously sleeping on the fact that he produced several tracks on Blackmagic, the debut album from neo-soul crooner Jose James. While these songs may not be as otherworldly as Flying Lotus’ efforts under his own name, “Blackmagic” proves that his jazz- and soul-inflected beats do provide a solid underpinning to James’ silky smooth voice. A deluxe version of Blackmagic, which includes additional remixes and a non-album cut called “Visions of Violet” that was also produced by Flying Lotus, is available now.

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Villalobos, Derrick May, Booka Shade, and More New Names Announced for Detroit’s Movement Festival

Weeks before Detroit’s 10th annual electronic music festival, Movement, is about to spring into high gear May 29-31, the festival just announced that Ricardo Villalobos will be making an exclusive US appearance. As well, a host of new names have been added to the lineup, including Moritz von Oswald Trio, Booka Shade, and Ghostland Observatory. Paxahau, the promotions company that now organizes Movement each year, also recently teamed up with Movement Torino, an Italian electronic music festival which will be presenting one of the stages at Movement Detroit. Three-day weekend passes for Movement Detroit are available exclusively here for $55, so don’t sleep!

New additions to lineup
Booka Shade – Live
dOP – Live
DZ feat. Toophaced
Jimmy Edgar, John Ryan and Ian Clark – Live
Excision
Gabe Real & Ian Desmond – Live
Ghostland Observatory – Live
Jeff Risk
Jenny Lafemme
Mortiz Von Oswald Trio – Live
Niko Marks – Live
Patrice Scott
Ricardo Villalobos
Shigeto
Sinistarr w/ MC Teddy & Bombscare

Movement Torino Stage lineup
Barem
DJ Torpez
Greg Gow
Inxec
I-Robots
Kenneth Thomas
Kirk Degiorgio
Monty Luke
Motel Connection – Live
Orlando Voorn – Live
Psycatron
Sean Deason
Shawn Michaels
Stylophonic
Yos

Shlohmo “My Neck My Back”

Of all the young sprouts in the West Coast’s increasingly dense network of blunted bedroom beatmakers, few have seen their named bandied about in 2010 as frequently as Shlohmo. Hounded with incessant “what’s next?” interrogations ever since the release of Shlohmoshun Deluxe earlier this year, the young San Francisco producer has just made the My N3ck My B4ck R3mixes EP available for free download through the website of his own Wedidit Collective. The two-track EP features future-blapped reworkings of Montell Jordan‘s “This Is How We Do It” and Khia‘s “My Neck My Back.” We’ve posted the latter here, and we’re thinking that its trippy Game Boy beats will go a long way toward tiding over Shlohmo nation until he drops the Shohlmoshun Deluxe vinyl next month, followed by a new EP of original material this summer.

My Neck My Back (Khia Remix)

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