London-based dubstep purveyors Hyperdub will be celebrating the label’s first five years come October with a wealth of gifts. Not only is founder Kode9 releasing a double-CD featuring past label favorites on one disc and new tunes on another, there are also five 12″ releases planned, featuring the new disc’s best tracks. In the spirit of celebration, Hyperdub friends have been invited, so, along with Kode9, Joker, and Zomby, look forward to tracks from Flying Lotus and Martyn as well. 5 drops on October 19; the limited singles will be released in the five weeks previous to that date, and are available for pre-order and pre-listening via Bleep.com.

Disc One
King Midas Sound – ‘Meltdown’
Kode9 & the Spaceape feat. Cha Cha – ‘Time Patrol’
Darkstar – ‘Aidys Girl’s a Computer’
Samiyam – ‘Roller Skates’
Flying Lotus – ‘Disco Balls’
Black Chow – ‘Purple Smoke’
Cooly G – ‘Weekend Fly’
Zomby – ‘Tarantula’
Martyn – ‘Mega Drive Generation’
LV feat. Dandelion – ‘Turn Away’
Mala – ‘Level Nine’
LD – ‘Shake It’
Quarta 330 – ‘Bleeps from Outer Space’
Ikonika – ‘Sahara Michael’
Joker & Ginz – ‘Stash’
+ bonus track TBA

Disc Two
Kode9 – ‘9 Samurai’
Burial – ‘South London Boroughs’
Kode9 & LD – ‘Bad’
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen – ‘Money Honey’ rmx
LV feat. Erol Bellot- ‘Globetrotting’
Burial – ‘Distant Lights’
The Specials – ‘Ghost Town’ – (Kode9 & Spaceape version)
Kode9 & the Spaceape – ‘Fukkaz’
Samiyam – ‘Return’
Darkstar – ‘Need You’
Zomby ‘Spliff Dub’ – Rustie Rmx
Ikonika – ‘Please’
Zomby – ‘Kaliko’
2000F & J Kamata – You Don’t Know What Love Is
Joker – Digidesign
Quarta 330 – ‘9 Samurai rmx’

pictured Joker

Club-rap MC-turned-pop sensation Amanda Blank of Spankrock and Sweatheart notoriety will be hitting the road later this month for a U.S. tour to support her much-anticipated debut full-length, I Love You, which dropped yesterday on Downtown Recordings. With big fish such as Diplo, Switch, and XXXChange on board for the album’s production, Blank‘s material should shoot torrents of sheer electricity throughout the dancefloor in the live setting. Noise-pop duo Matt & Kim will join Blank on her trip across America.

8/27 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
8/29 Visalia, CA – Howie & Son’s Pizza and Beer
9/1 Arcata, CA – Depot at Humboldt State
9/2 Portland OR – Hawthrone Theater
9/7 Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue
9/8 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre
9/10 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
9/11 Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
9/12 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
9/14 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
9/16 Washington, DC – Black Cat
9/17 Baltimore, MD – Sonar Club Stage

In the beginning of last summer we premiered an exclusive mix from Berlin’s DJ Donna Summer (a.k.a. Jason Forrest) showcasing his unquenchable desire to rock the party. Now, nearing end of the summer of ’09, we bring you more from the Cock Rock Disco label owner. As a collaboration with Agile Partners, creators of the Guitar Toolkit, Forrest has developed his own iPhone app called Star6. Simply put, the application is a sound remixing instrument that allows you to create an infinite variety of noises from your own samples or by using the free presets. You can find more information on the app’s website or by going to the Star6 Vimeo page. And you can download Star6 here here.

It used to be only on Sunday nights at the Eagle London in Vauxhall, London that you could enjoy the pure disco pleasure of Horse Meat Disco, but now, thanks to the release of their first official mix CD, you can get down to their choice sounds any time you like. Available today on Strut and crafted by the dance club’s resident DJs, the release comes complete with a 16-song classic-disco dance mix on one disc as well as 12 unmixed tracks on the second. In celebration of the mix’s release, the London crew has put together a free half-hour mix, available for download here. More information on the first Horse Meat Disco mix CD can be found here.

Mexican DJ/producer Rebolledo, one of a handful of artists on Matias Aguayo’s new Argentinian house imprint, Cómeme (to be featured in our upcoming Labels We Love online special) is prepping the company’s fourth release, his single “Guerrero.” In anticipation of said record, Rebolledo put together an eccentric mix for Roof.FM that features tracks from Grandmaster Flash to Justus Köhncke and nearly everything in between. You can cop the free download here.

Of course, we love the Ellen Alliens and Beth Gibbonses out there, but they’re just the start of bringing electronic music’s boys’-club vibe down a notch. On that note, we share with you the news of Chilean-born, Berlin-residing Dinky (a.k.a. Alejandra Iglesias) and her upcoming fourth album, Anemik, slated for release October 5 on Mathew Johnson’s Wagon Repair label. The forthcoming record is said to be a “musing on femininity and the fine line between romance and delirium,” which is something we think the techno world could very well use. Flavored with plenty of acoustic instruments, analog electronics, and a strong emphasis on voice, Anemik promises to be dreamy, nightmarish, romantic, and befuddling while remaining quintessentially Dinky. The record’s tracklisting is below.

1. Childish
2. Romaniks
3. Westoid Feat. Updates
4. Gold Fishes
4. Rain Fallic
5. Anemik
6. Glacial
7. Ceramik
8. Glassic
9. Skyped
10. Epilepsia
11. Fadik
12. Nocturnal