dublab Collective Presents an Astral Affair

This Friday, May 1, non-profit web radio collective dublab will host its 6th Labrat Matinee: “Selections from an Astral Projectionist.” Housed in L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre, the all-ages event will begin at 7:30 with a showcase of rare music videos from artists such as Animal Collective, Beach House, Clinic, Kid Kudi, MGMT, Nite Jewel, Prefuse 73, Rainbow Arabia, Vetiver, Yacht, among others. The screening will also include comedy clips from Bob Odenkirk and other funny friends, experimental animation, and some spankin’ new dublab VisionVersion films.

Immediately following the films, the evening will transition to a party with a live performance from dublab favorite, DJ Douggpound followed by other Labrat DJs on the Spanish Patio. Beer will flow freely from 11 p.m. to midnight for all of-age partygoers.

Tickets to Labrat Matinee IV, which are $14 general admission and $8 for Cinefamily members, can be purchased online in advance here.

Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, 90036
(323) 655-2510

Bike for Three! “All There is to Say About Love”

As previously reported, Canadian rapper, Buck 65, has teamed up with Belgium-based electronic producer Greetings from Tuskan. The resulting album under their Bike for Three! guise finds these two honing in on their respective musical powers, with sharp rhymes falling over 8-bit-style electronics. Impressive, particularly considering the two never actually met face-to-face during the recording process.

The duo’s album, More Hearts Than Brains, is out May 26.

Bike for Three! – All There Is To Say About Love

Richie Hawtin Develops Twitter App, Tours

Whether it’s global warming or social networking, Richie Hawtin always seems to be at the forefront of a movement. This time, the Minus Records boss’ latest news-making endeavor has a little something to do with Twitter.

Berlin-based Hawtin recently began a European tour, armed, according to a press release, with a Twitter-enabled TRAKTOR setup that will display set tracklists in real-time during a performance.

The application was custom-developed by the Minus crew. Song data is fed through Native Instruments’ TRAKTOR software and then appears online, via Hawtin’s Twitter page, so fans can follow the tracklisting of any given performance. A quick peek at the page seems to indicate the application is as straightforward as it sounds, boasting a list of artists and tracks from the likes of Maurizio Benedetta, Marc Houle, JPLS, and others, which Hawtin apparently played at a Rotterdam gig several hours ago.

Hawtin:
05/01 Frankfurt, Germany – Cocoon Club
05/02 Düsseldorf, Germany – Tribehouse
05/16 Toulouse, France – Inox Electronic Club
05/31 Paris, France – Grande Halle de La Villette
06/07 Berlin, Germany – TBA
06/10 Novi Sad, Serbia – Exit
06/11 Kiev, Russia – Global Gathering
06/12 Budapest, Hungary – Balaton Sound

The Prodigy Tours North America

It took The Prodigy six months sealed away in London’s Sarm Studios to complete Invaders Must Die, the trio’s fifth studio album, which was released in March of this year. Liam Howlett and Co. made a few brief Stateside stops during Winter Music Conference, just after the album’s release. Now the band returns to North America in May for a more expansive tour that includes opening this year’s Movement Festival in Detroit. Catch the rave-rock-making pirate lookalikes at one of these dates:

Dates:
05/18 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
05/19 Philadelphia, PA – The Electric Factory
05/20 Boston, MA – House of Blues
05/22 Detroit, MI – Fillmore (Movement Festival)
05/23 Chicago, IL – Congress Theater
05/26 Anaheim, CA – Grove of Anaheim
05/27 Los Angeles, CA – Palladium
05/28 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
05/30 Seattle, WA – Wamu Theater

Major Lazer “Hold the Line Feat. Santigold and Mr. Lexx (An-Ten-Nae Remix)”

The Major Lazer boys—Diplo and Switch—are causing something of a storm these days, despite the fact that their debut album, Guns Don’t Kill People—Lazers Do is more than a month away from hitting stores (via Downtown Records). Regardless, the pair’s tracks are already undergoing the remix treatment. S.F.-based producer Adam Ohana (a.k.a. An-ten-nae goes for the lowest, loudest bass on this reworking of the track “Hold the Line,” which also features Santigold on vocals.

Major Lazer – Hold The Line (Antennae Remix)

Podcast 84: XLR8R Presents Junior Boys

Junior Boys already walked us through their ocean of somewhat surprising musical influences when the Hamilton, Ontario-based duo graced the cover of XLR8R‘s March issue. Now, the pair delivers an audio sampling of said influences, with this exclusive mix that marks the next installment of the XLR8R Podcast. Just seven tracks long, the mix stays close to the house and techno genres, ending with a Prins Thomas remix of Junior Boys’ own track, “Work,” off their recently released Begone Dull Care album.

Junior Boys:
01 Mantler – Fresh and Fair”
02 Chas Jankel – “Glad To Know You”
03 Osborne – “Air Pistol”
04 Morgan Geist – “Detroit (Carl Craig Mix)”
05 Soundstream – “Live Goes On”
06 Sean Taylor – “I Can’t Live Without You”
07 Junior Boys – “Work (Prins Thomas Remix)”

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Chelonis R. Jones Chatterton

Seemingly naming his sophomore album after an English poet who poisoned himself with arsenic at the age of 17 and was only posthumously acknowledged as a genius, Chelonis R. Jones makes it explicit that he owns the creative end of the electro-house spectrum. With Chatterton, Jones relocates from Get Physical to Marc Romboy’s Systematic imprint but nevertheless resists neatness and functionality in favor of deliberate artiness. There are a couple of tracks here (“The Cockpit,” “Underdog Anomaly”) where Jones’ musical succinctness is reminiscent of Joy Division, but for the most part Chelonis reminds only of Chelonis. The lack of his own naïve visual art on the sleeve is a shame, though.

Kleinschmager Audio Audiology

All you really need to know about engineer/DJ Joern Kleinschmager and producer Niklas Worgt’s relentless dedication to ultra-minimalist Germanic techno is right in the middle of Kleinschmager Audio’s Audiology on “1999.” A chugging, unapologetically mechanical beat hovers just south of uptempo. A seven-note melody emerges and repeats insistently, joined occasionally by a slight variant, both dialed into computer-exact pitches. Add a thunderous bassline echoing away somewhere underground, a garbled, growling vocal sample, and various pings and pops, and the music’s eternal, hypnotic power becomes clear. Audiology features flashes of dubspace and even a touch of house and Steve Reich-style overlapping speech samples on “Audio 3,” but these are dark, endless beats all the way through.

Busdriver “Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)”

You wouldn’t necessarily think Mozart’s “Sonata in A Major” and rapping in double-time would make good bedfellows. Busdriver proves us wrong with this track—off his forthcoming eighth studio album, Jhelli Beam—in which he turns the classical masterpiece on its head and throws a fat bassline underneath.

Jhelli Beam is out June 9.

Busdriver – Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)

Del Releases Free Album, Tours

Hieroglyphics member Del the Funky Homosapien would appear to understand both the state of today’s economy and the state of today’s music business, as he’s announced that his next album, Funk Man, will be released for free.

The Bay Area native—often considered one of the pioneers of underground hip-hop—gave little reason, other than a need to save his genre, for releasing the album sans price tag. This time around, he’s focused on the funkier side of hip-hop for this, his seventh full-length to date. And with track titles like ‘I’m Smellin’ Myself” and “Hardcore Punks Can’t Take It,” Del hasn’t, it seems, lost any of his quirk or humor over the years. Download the album now.

Funk Man:
01 Get it Right Now!
02 And They Thought That was Hell
03 Fit Like a Glove
04 Go Against the Grain
05 Hardcore Punks Can’t Take It
06 I’m Smellin’ Myself
07 King of Fighters
08 News Alert
09 Simple Satisfaction
10 Sometimes I Gotta Get Stupid
11 Straight From the Big Bad West Coast
12 Land of Funk
13 Young Adrenaline

He’s currently on the road, armed with his new batch of tunes, for the Funkman Tour. Check him here:

04/29 New York, NY – BB Kings
05/01 Baltimore, MD – Goucher College
05/03 Philadelphia, PA – First Utilitarian Church
05/05 Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
05/06 Columbus, OH – Skullys (late show)
05/07 Lexington, KY – Dame
05/08 Chicago, IL – Reggies
05/09 Madison, WI – High Noon
05/11 Columbia, MO – Blue Note
05/12 Omaha, NE – Slowdown
05/14 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
05/15 Denver, CO – Bluebird
05/16 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
05/18 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge

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