Rooted in Helsinki’s DIY punk and metal scene, the release combines tough street-wise electro with ghetto tech, Belgian new beat, and Miami bass into a sound which is totally his own. It follows early tape and comp releases on Textasy’s FTP label.
Tracklisting
01. White Swan
02. Mandate My Ass
03. Nolla
04. Wallah [SANS DJ mix]
White Swancomes out on March 1, with “Nolla” exclusively available to download via the player below, or here for EU readers due to GDPR restrictions.
Planet Mu will release the new album from DJ Nate, Take Off Mode, arriving a full nine years after his debut album, Da Trak Genious, landed on the label.
DJ Nate is from the West Side of Chicago and was the label’s first-ever footwork signing in 2010 back when Myspace was still a place to contact artists. His strange, maximalist, trippy, and sample-heavy sound opened the door for the label to then sign such artists as DJ Rashad, Jlin, RP Boo, and Traxman.
The album title is a reference to Nate’s recovery from being paralyzed from the neck down two years ago. Although he’s spent a lot of the last decade producing hip-hop and R&B, he’s continued to make footwork cuts and it’s a selection of these personal tracks, uploaded to YouTube between 2010 and now, that caught the ear of Planet Mu and inspired Take Off Mode.
We’re told to expect an album that sounds like it’s in “direct continuity with DJ Nate’s debut release and the early sound of footwork.”
Tracklisting
01. Bring Your Best Crack
02. You Ain’t Ready To Battle
03. Come Back
04. Oh Woooaaah
05. Get Rid Of Em
06. Fuck Dat
07. Wat U Wont 2 Do
08. Go Krazy
09. Get Back
10. Get It Right Hoe
11. Just Be Truu
12. Pack Em
13. Aww Baby What U Waitn
14. Talk 2 Me
15. Planet Mu
16. Get Off Me (Betta Get Back)
17. La Happy Day
Take Off Mode LP lands April 26 via Planet Mu, with “You Ain’t Ready To Battle” streaming here.
Tripp and Close have previously released on Meakusma, Palto Flats, Emotional Response, and FTD, but have worked a lot in multimedia work with a whole host of clients, from the corporate to the counter cultural.
With Time, we’re told that their vision is especially well realised and that it sees them deliver an album that, “with any luck, shall help you unlock your inner portals—should they need assistance in that regard anyway,” the label says.
“Unquantisable polyrhythms knock against one another in an uncannily externalised, conflicting collage of half remembered dance ritual memories. Fragmented melodies, disembodied vocal snippets, a hint of ethnomusicality in places all give deep nods simultaneously to ancient experience and to post human intelligence, condensing past present and future into one eternal instant,” the label adds.
Earlier this year, the Edinburgh label released The Sorrow Of Derdriu, an album from founder Lindsay Todd’s in-house collaborative project, Mac-Talla Nan Creag.
Tracklisting
A1. Ayolas
A2. Othonoi
A3. Askja
A4. West Of Luzon
B1. Iwate
B2. Wupatki
B3. Tioga Nicetown
C1. Pura Braman
C2. Suali
C3. Sabalan
D1. Desta Tinanitina Mata
D2. Larki
D3. Celebes Water
Time LP lands on April 5, with opener “Ayolas” streaming below.
Perry’s friendship with Sherwood stretches back to the mid-1980s and a fortuitous meeting brokered by underground broadcasting legend Steve Barker. This led to the creation of On-U classics such as Time Boom X De Devil Dead and From The Secret Laboratory.
This new set is the culmination of over two years of work, recorded in three different countries “by a crack crew of brilliant musicians,” the label explains. Sherwood likens to the album to the work Rick Rubin did with Johnny Cash on the American Recordings series. We’re told to expect a deeply personal work—the album title refers to Lee’s birth name—and arguably the “strongest batch of original material that Perry has released for many years,” the label adds.
“It’s the most intimate album Lee has ever made, but at the same time the musical ideas are very fresh. I’m extremely proud of what we’ve come up as a piece of work.” —Adrian Sherwood
Tracklisting
01. Cricket On The Moon
02. Run Evil Spirit
03. Let It Rain
04. House Of Angels
05. Makumba Rock
06. African Starship
07. Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers
08. Children Of The Light
09. Autobiography Of The Upsetter
Rainford LP lands May 10 via On-U Sound, with “African Starship” streaming below.
Back in January, Norwegian producers Fredfades and Jawn Rice released their debut album, Jacuzzi Boyz.
The nine-track LP, released via Oslo-based label and crew Mutal Intentions—of which Fredfades and Jawn Rice are members—also features a range of vocalists, including Lucid Paradise, Stimulator Jones, and Dreamcast, who each lay down breezy vocals over laid-back house grooves, free-flowing basslines, and sun-drenched synths. Across the album, the duo show they have deft production hands when it comes to jazz-tinged house and soulful beats.
In support of the LP, the duo have offered up a download of album cut “I Believe” (feat. Stimulator Jones), available via WeTransfer below.
Back in January, Norwegian producers Fredfades and Jawn Rice released their debut album, Jacuzzi Boyz.
The nine-track LP, released via Oslo-based label and crew Mutal Intentions—of which Fredfades and Jawn Rice are members—also features a range of vocalists, including Lucid Paradise, Stimulator Jones, and Dreamcast, who each lay down breezy vocals over laid-back house grooves, free-flowing basslines, and sun-drenched synths. Across the album, the duo show they have deft production hands when it comes to jazz-tinged house and soulful beats.
In support of the LP, the duo have offered up a download of album cut “I Believe” (feat. Stimulator Jones), available via WeTransfer below.
The renowned sound designer and Soma alum offers three originals on Plebiscite, backed up by a remix from Delsin regular BNJMN. On the originals, Clementi delivers a wide-reaching offering, ranging from tough peak-time techno (“Plebiscite”) to eerie, stripped-back dub (“Evocate”) and acid-tinged broken beat (“Cription”). On the remix front, BNJMN takes aim at the EP’s title track, twisting it into a five-and-a-half minute slice of deep and hypnotic techno. All four cuts are high-quality outings expertly crafted for the dancefloor.
Plebiscite drops on March 1 and can be pre-ordered here, with “Cription” streaming in full via the player below.
Earlier this month, POLAAR released French artist Flore‘s RitualPart 3 EP.
Made up of five tracks, Ritual Part 3 is the last part of an audio/visual project called RITUAL that Flore created with visual artists WSK. Musically, the EP features dazzling sonic tapestries and warped grooves that endlessly morph within cavernous atmospheres and rippling textures. With Ritual Part 3, Flore deconstructs regular club tropes and rearranges them into inspiring new sounds across a memorable EP.
In support of the release, Flore has offered up “The Way You,” a tense and morphing experimental techno track, as one of today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.
Bibio will release his new album, Ribbons, on April 12 via Warp Records.
The album follows 2017’s ambient atmospheric Phantom Brickworks, and sees the English artist return to the path of structured songwriting last explored on 2016’s A Mineral Love. Ribbons yields folkloric charm with an organic palette, incorporating a mostly acoustic-led approach exploring ‘60s and ‘70s psychedelia, soul, ambient, electronic, and field recordings.
A self-taught musician, singer, and producer, Bibio, real name Stephen Wilkinson, plays nearly all of the instrumental parts on the album and unveils new instruments to his palette, bringing in mandolins, fiddle, and other stringed instruments. We’re told that the LP pays homage to Wilkinson’s past J Dilla and Madlib inspired works, this time drawing influence from the eras and records those producers sampled, such as ‘60s and ‘70s Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Sharp, and other soul artists, but rather than relying on sampling records, Wilkinson creates his homages from scratch with instrumentation.
Referencing the endless ribbons of analogue tape and film used in his music, photography, and cinematic work, the album artwork is designed by Wilkinson, where his portrait offers a window onto an English woodland scene with spring bluebells adorned with ribbons.
Tracklisting
01. Beret Girl
02. The Art Of Living
03. Before
04. Curls
05. Ode To A Nuthatch
06. Watch The Flies
07. It’s Your Bones
08. You Couldn’t Even Hear The Birds Singing
09. Pretty Ribbons And Lovely Flowers
10. Erdaydidder-Erdiddar
11. Frankincense And Coal
12. Old Graffiti
13. Patchouli May
14. Valley Wulf
15. Quarters
16. Under A Lone Ash
Ribbons lands on April 12, with “Curls” playing below.
Floating Points is up next in Late Night Tales‘ long-running artist-curated mix series. We’re told to expect a personal collection of global soul, ambient, jazz, and folk treasures, aimed to reflect the stillness of night. Previous contributors to the series include Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, MGMT, Röyksopp, Bonobo, and more.
Floating Points’—real name Sam Shepherd—music taste is tricky to define, ranging from ethereal classical at one end to coruscating techno at the other. Similarly, his production career has ranged from early experiments in dance music with breakout records such as the Shadows EP and collaborating with legendary Gnawa master Mahmoud Guinia to his expansive album Elaenia.
This Late Night Tales excursion into the depths of the evening is said to reflect his broad tastes. There’s the gorgeous “Via Làctea,” taken from Carlos Walker’s debut album, Bobby Wright’s “Blood Of An American” and Robert Vanderbilt’s gospel reworking of Manchild’s “Especially For You.” At the other end of the music scale are the modernists, such as Québécoise Kara-Lis Coverdale, who weighs in with “Moments In Love,” Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, whose “Milk” is an exercise in tranquility, while Sarah Davachi’s meditative mix-opener offers respite from a weary world.
“I’ve learnt about a lot of incredible music from listening to the Late Night Tales compilations over the years, so I jumped at the opportunity to compile one myself. The music is a selection of the kind of records I play to set the tone when DJing all night long.” — Floating Points
Tracklisting
01. Sarah Davachi “Untitled, live in Portland” (Excerpt) (Exclusive track)
02. Carlos Walker “Via Láctea”
03. The Rationals “Glowin’”
40. William S. Fischer “Chains”
05. Max Roach “Equipoise”
06. Bobby Wright “Blood Of An American”
07. Sweet & Innocent “Express Your Love”
08. Robert Vanderbilt & The Foundation of Souls “A Message Especially From God”
09. The Defaulters “Gentle Man”
10. Alain Bellaïche “Sun Blues”
11. Alain Bellaïche “Sea Fluorescent”
12. Kara-Lis Coverdale “Moments In Love” (Excerpt)
