What You Talkin’ Bout, Willits? Part 13

Christopher Willits tackles drum recording using a three-mic set-up.

In this episode, Christopher returns to Sound Arts Studio to show us drum mic-ing techniques with Jeff Pierre, a 16-year-old drummer from Haiti who plays the tanbou segón.

Tune in once a month as Christopher shows us some of the ways he produces his own music, as well as the many cool things you can do with recording software. According to Christopher, “I simply want to excite people’s imaginations and creative processes so they can more easily create the sounds and music and art they love.”

Check out the new Christopher Willits fan page!

Larytta “Play Me Loud (Futuro)”

What makes this piece interesting isn’t really the music itself, which falls squarely into the shiny indie-electro category, but the method of dissemination: the new Friends of Friends label sells unique t-shirts commissioned by a specific musical artist, and every t-shirt contains a download code to a release by that artist as well as a musical compatriot. On the label’s second release, Swiss duo Larytta tapped their countryman Bauchamp to share the release and artist Tatiana Rihs to design the t-shirt. With shirt and download code in hand, one can not only hear the six-track release itself, but remixes by Lazer Sword, Hecuba, and more.

Play Me Loud (Futuro)

Play Me Loud (Futuro)

A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head

The press promptly hailed A Place to Bury Strangers as “the loudest band in New York” when the trio released its self-titled debut in 2007—quite a compliment considering the masses of sonic terrorists lining up to play Brooklyn’s DIY venues. Now with Exploding Head, APTBS has refined its industrial shoegaze into something more tuneful, but no less brutal. Actual songs peek out from under the great morass of singer Oliver Ackermann’s scathing guitars. “Keep Slipping Away” and “Exploding Head”—held aloft by a newly invigorated rhythm section—are as danceable as they are hummable. “Dead Beat” is a surf-punk horror show and the towering “Ego Death” filters early Nine Inch Nails through Link Wray’s “Rumble.” Loud isn’t the half of it.

Magda Mixes a Dark Fabric 49 Compilation

Magda is a member of the Minus family for good reason—she’s probably the best female techno DJ in world right now. It’s no surprise, then, that she was tapped to mix the 49th installment of Fabric‘s lauded mix series. Featuring an eclectic selection of everything from the Italian horror of Goblin to the minimal atmospherics of Farben, the mix is “dark and groovy, with a soundtrack feel to it,” as Magda herself puts it. Just in time for those stark, spooky winter nights!

Fabric 49: Magda comes out November 16.

Tracklisting:

01 Goblin – Al Margini Della Follia – Cinevox Records
Bostro Pesopeo – Falls [Hercules & Love Affair Remix] – Permanent Vacation
Marc Houle – Voices – m-nus

02 Circlesquare – Non-Revival Alarm – !K7
Gaiser – mfnstmp – m-nus

03 Magda – At The Gate – m-nus
Artem Folevski – Empörung (Original Mix) – Unreleased
Groupshow – It’s Not Just Country Birds That Are Attracted [To The Blue Glass Bird Bath] – ~Scape

04 Cristian Vogel – Mungo [Original] – Snork
Magda – Draculan Love Attack – m-nus

05 Goblin – Buio Omega [Alternate] – Cinevox Records
Magda – Moroder’s Revenge – m-nus

06 Catorze – Luscofusco – Bloop
Marc Houle – Deep Sea – m-nus
Heartthrob – Miss Pig – m-nus

07 Robert Babicz – Chordy – Systematic
Madato – The Night’s Rumors – Unreleased

08 Click Box – Bad Fish (Magda Edit) – m-nus
Boosty – Telescope – Unreleased

09 Artem Folevski – Guido (Original Mix) – Unreleased
Isomer Transition – San Pellegrino – Io Records

10 Hobo – 23:59 – m-nus
Luciano – Saulitude – Cadenza Split Composition

11 Marc Houle – Profounding – m-nus
Yello – Heavy Whispers – Universal

12 Heartthrob – 101 Loop – m-nus
Farben – Aufschlag/Abschlag – Klang Elektronik

13 Hobo – Mobius Trip – m-nus
Rafael Droors – Blue – Unreleased

14 Bruno Pronsato – We Were… – Philpot
Arsenal – The Coming (Idjut Boys Version 2) – Playout

15 Jimmy Edgar – Beat Squared – Unreleased
Jan Jelinek – Tierbeobachtungen (Live Played By Anne Westphalen & Peter Ley) – ~scape

Slumberland Celebrates 20 Years With a Pair of East Coast Shows

The iconic Slumberland label is celebrating its 20th anniversary with back-to-back shows in D.C. and New York, featuring the best acts from the current Slumberland roster as well as groups from the label’s past. With sets from bands as sonically diverse as Crystal Stilts and Lorelei, both shows are sure to be packed with fans of noisy avant-pop. To learn more about the label, check out September’s Labels We Love feature on Slumberland, in which label head Mike Schulman talks about 20 years of releasing records.

Slumberland 20th Anniversary Show Line-Ups:

Fri. November 13, Washington DC, @ The Black Cat

Crystal Stilts
Brown Recluse
Pants Yell!
Frankie Rose and The Outs
The Ropers
Nord Express
Lorelei

Sat. November 14, Brooklyn, NY, @ The Bell House

Crystal Stilts
Brown Recluse
Pants Yell!
Frankie Rose and The Outs
The Ropers
Nord Express
Lorelei
Special Surprise Guest

Appleblim, John Daly, Deadbeat, and More Remix Beat Pharmacy

New York producer Brendon Moeller (a.k.a. Beat Pharmacy) recently dropped an album of his spacey dub-techno jams on Francois K‘s Deep Space Media label entitled Wikkid Times. The 11-track release is being treated to a massive rework almost double in size and chock full of remixes from the likes of Appleblim, Deadbeat, and John Daly, to name a select few. You can check out the tracklist, hear some samples, and download the whole release here.

pictured Deadbeat

Matias Aguayo “Rollerskate (Radio Edit)”

Matias Aguayo never does what is expected of him, so it is no surprise that the first single from his upcoming Kompakt album sounds like a bit like an outtake from an early TV on the Radio session—though a slow beat forms the track’s backbone, much of the remaining sonic texture comes from multi-layered vocal elements reminiscent of a barbershop quartet. Of course, Aguayo’s sexy croon is on full display throughout, though the track can’t hold a candle to anything from the Closer Musik discography. With this piece as a teaser, let’s hope the rest of Ay Ay Ay is as equally puzzling and pleasing.

01 Rollerskate (Radio Edit)

Tignino & Leo feat. Mark Kerr “Into the World”

The team of Tignino and Leo pair up with Mark Kerr to create a bouncy tech-house track displaying wet handclaps, a dubby mid-frequency synth stab, and an apex that leads into a creepy, sexual vocal element. Somewhat reminiscent of Glimpse’s or Itamar Sagi’s recent work, and an ass-shaker for sure, this piece is bound to end up getting some major props during earlier club sets. “Into the World” is culled from Great Stuff’s Munich Disco Tech Vol. 5, which also features Juan Sanchez, Denis Horvat, and a remix by Oliver Klein.

Into The World

Ape School’s Titillating New Video Rails Against Humanity

Philadelphia’s Michael Johnson, the avant-pop producer behind Ape School, has just had his first video released, featuring the lush animation of Anthony F. Schepperd in fusion with the soaring “Wail to God.” The video features a monkey-man and his robotic friend ripping passive humans and oppressive authority figures apart, all the while dreaming of women’s breasts. Surreal, psychedelic, and rather funny, Ape School’s venture into the realm of music videos is well done and we’re proud to be hosting the video’s US premiere here at XLR8R.com.

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