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Daedelus Gets Portentous on New Album

The upcoming album from Daedelus is a study in juxtapositions: 19th-century China rubs up against the tele-technological future, organic sonic textures play with electronics, and hope is mixed with an uncertainty about a sinister future. Righteous Fists of Harmony is a sonic tribute to the thousands of Chinese martial artists who died during the Boxer Rebellion, as well as a musing about our society’s reliance on contemporary technologies. Coming out on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, the record continues Daedelus’ claim as one of the more intellectually engaged heads in contemporary electronic music.

Righteous Fists of Harmony comes out March 23 on Brainfeeder.

Tracklisting:

1. An Armada Approaches
2. Tidal Waves Uprising
3. The Open Hand Avows
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn (featuring Laura Darling)
5. The Finishing of a Thing
6. Succumbing To (featuring Kid A)
7. Stampede Me (with Amir Yaghmai)
8. Fin De Siècle

Podcast 124: Soul Clap’s Boston Mix

Late last year, XLR8R commissioned a number of city-themed podcasts to celebrate the launch of our City Guide mobile application. Now that the app has been made available for the Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid, we’re continuing the City Guide podcast series to celebrate the sounds of our favorite cities. For this installment, we check in with Boston, one of the oldest cities in the US, albeit not one necessarily known as a hotbed of electronic music. Yet folks like Soul Clap are looking to change that, as DJ veterans Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine not only oversee some of the city’s finest parties, they’ve also been busy taking their soulful, disco-infused brand of techno around the globe, producing all sorts of remixes and re-edits, and dropping the extremely well-received RnB FreE.P. On this mix, they’ve employed a number of their own concoctions, along with a few of their Beantown favorites, and cooked up a smooth, slow-burning musical journey that does Boston proud.

01 Soul Clap’s Boston, Massachusetts Intro
02 Soul Clap “Dreams Of Tomorrow (Mo Money)” (Wolf + Lamb Black)
03 SECT “Hi-Fi All Around” (Culprit)
04 Soul Clap “Extravaganza” (Wolf + Lamb Black)
05 Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos “Excuse Me While I Hit This” (Airdrop)
06 SECT “Man Of Wisdom” (Culprit)
07 Clapz II Dogz “Dogz” (Glass Table)
08 Mystery Roar “Mayhem (Soul Clap Edit)” (Dopamine)
09 Axel Bartsch “Daight (Soul Clap’s E-Funk Remix)” (Suol)
10 Gadi Mizrahi & Soul Clap “Yer Body (Kills Me)” Double Standard)
11 Bad Rabbits “She’s Bad (Gadi Mizrahi & Soul Clap Remix)” (Karmaloop)
12 Bon Johnson ft. Dana D “From the Heart” (white)
13 Armand Van Helden “Spin The Bottle (Axis Mix)” (AV8)
14 Darryl Douglas “Holding On (Kon’s Edit)” (white)
15 Soul Clap “Baker Man” (AUX)
16 Soul Clap “Ghosts Edit” (white)

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Robag Wruhme Joins the Circus Company for Latest EP

Robag Wruhme, best known as one-half of house duo The Wighnomy Brothers, has joined the eclectic Circus Company fray for his latest EP, PrOVIANT. Featuring four tracks, the EP displays the sonics that Wruhme does best: minimal that somehow manages to stay organic in its aural textures, and emotional house that can be compared to Herbert, or even Isolée. What’s more, Parisian Ark contributes a remix that gives listeners a peak at his upcoming Perlon full-length.

PrOVIANT is out now on Circus Company.

Tracklisting:

A1 – Blech Beulé – Original Mix
A2 – Blech Beulé – Ark Remix
B1 – Robellada
B2 – 48° 52? N, 2° 21? O

Wish “trippelette”

Known as one of the founding members of the Shinkoyo music collective as well as a resident at Brooklyn’s Paris London West Nile performance space, Zeljko McMullen (pronounced ‘zhel-ko’) has recently been returning to the dance forms of his youth. But rather than producing dark, hard techno tracks that hurry along at ungodly speeds, McMullen’s Wish project has a brighter feeling. “trippelette,” for example, is a shimmering number featuring warm bass tones, astoundingly multi-layered synth polyrhythms, and watery, high-frequency tinklings. Like a glass of lemonade on a hot summer day, the piece is bound to make it onto stereo systems as warmer weather approaches. For more information as well as other tracks from the Wish project and Shinkoyo, check out his artist page.

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Tracey Thorn to Release New Album

Tracey Thorn, the singer-songwriter best known for her seminal role in Everything But the Girl, will see her latest album released this May. For Love and Its Opposite, Thorn has once again teamed up with producer Ewan Pearson to meditate on love’s joys and pitfalls. Featuring collaborations with members of Hot Chip as well as Cortney Tidwell, Thorn’s latest is sure to surpass even her last solo effort, Out of the Woods.

Love and Its Opposite comes out May 18 on Merge.

Tracklisting:

01 Oh, the Divorces!
02 Long White Dress
03 Hormones
04 Kentish Town
05 Why Does the Wind?
06 You Are a Lover
07 Singles Bar
08 Come on Home to Me
09 Late in the Afternoon
10 Swimming

Kings Go Forth “Don’t Take My Shadow Extended (A Tom Moulton Mix)”

Milwaukee’s Kings Go Forth are undoubtedly the contemporary band most deserving of a Tom Moulton mix: the group’s powerful soul sound, led by three lead vocalists, recalls the heady days when soul and the new disco sound were often indistinguishable from each other. Tom Moulton stretches “Don’t Take My Shadow” in all of the right spots, letting its Philly International stylings breathe—the strings alone are intoxicating in their repetitions. The piece is taken from the group’s upcoming record on David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, titled The Outsiders Are Back.

Don’t Take My Shadow Extended (a Tom Moulton Mix)

Damian Lazarus Preps Release of New Single

The third single from London party-starter extraordinaire Damian Lazarus‘ debut album, Smoke the Monster Out, comes to us almost a year after the record’s release on Get Physical. Featured on the release is one of Monster‘s stand-out tracks, “Diamond in the Dark,” reworked by Lazarus himself and French experimental house producer dOP. The tracks were released today on 12″ and digital download, and are available through Get Physical.

Booka Shade Share New Album, Free Download

Veteran German house duo Booka Shade has finished writing and recording the music for its fourth studio album, and will release the resulting record May 4. Entitled More!, Booka Shade’s new release will find the Get Physical label co-owners delving further into the two producers’ loves of electro and techno with, as Arno Kammermeier, one half of the outfit, puts it, “More refined production, more multi-layered atmospheres, [and] more emotion.” Kammermeier and partner Walter Merziger have been working consistently on the new material in the 18 months since releasing 2008’s The Sun & Neon Light, and have finalized 11 tracks for More!. Months before the new album comes out, you can download a track off of More! for free from Booka Shade’s website, and check out a video for “Donut”, their collaborative track with M.A.N.D.Y., here. Tracklist is below.

1. Havanna Sex Dwarf
2. Donut (Interpretation)
3. Regenerate
4. The Door
5. Teenage Spaceman
6. Divine (feat. Yello)
7. Scaramanga
8. L.A. tely
9. Bad Love (feat. Chelonis R. Jones)
10. No Difference
11. This Is Not Time

Bubblin’: Blondes

Who:Blondes
Where: Brooklyn, NY

Sam Haar and Zach Steinman have been playing together in various bands since their time together at Oberlin College in Ohio, but Blondes first took shape in late 2008 when the pair was briefly living in Berlin. Although they wanted to make synthy, danceable music, Haar and Steinman also sought to keep the music as organic as possible, eschewing computers in favor of live instrumentation and using their hands. With a spacey aesthetic and a loose, analog techno sound, their forthcoming EP on Merok will certainly be a hot commodity when it drops in the months ahead.

Listen: “You Mean So Much to Me (Acid Redux Cut)”

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Listen: “Spanish Fly”