XLR8R Launches the Seventh Edition of XLR8R+ with Tracks From Robert Dietz, Forest Drive West, and Julia Govor

The seventh edition of XLR8R+ features exclusive and previously unreleased tracks from Robert Dietz, Forest Drive West, and Julia Govor, plus artwork by Jamie Gorman.

Kicking off this month’s offering is Robert Dietz who delivers “Futon Flair,” a driving house cut with lush melodies and intricate pad work. The Frankfurt artist is joined by Forest Drive West, one of bass music’s most exciting figures. “Core” was produced in 2013 and aims to “capture an old-school aesthetic with modern production values aimed at the dance floor.” Finally, Julia Govor closes the package with “TT3,” made after Amsterdam Dance Event 2016 and inspired by legendary engineer Dave Smith. The artwork for the seventh edition is created by London’s Jamie Gorman, founder of AnOddReality studio.

Once again, we’ve also included a 50-track Spotify playlist featuring tracks inspired by this month’s offering and arriving from all areas of the sonic spectrum. 

XLR8R+007 is available to download as a package to XLR8R+ subscribers for one month only, featuring the three tracks in both WAV and MP3 formats, a dedicated zine, and wallpaper artwork for both desktop and phone. 

Subscribe to XLR8R+ here, with snippets of XLR8R+007 streaming below, where you can also find information on the previous editions.

XLR8R+007

Tracks: Robert Dietz, Forest Drive West, and Julia Govor.

Artwork: Jamie Gorman.

XLR8R+006

Tracks: Varg, Deadbeat, Lapien.

Artwork: Felix Koch.

Bonus: Set One Twenty London tickets.

XLR8R+005

Tracks: Scuba, Alex Smoke, and Janeret.

Artwork: James Dawe.

Bonus: Amsterdam Dance Event tickets.

XLR8R+004

Tracks: Hunter Game, Cosmin TRG, John Dimas.

Artwork: Rhys Carlill.

Bonus: Family Funktion festival tickets.

XLR8R+003

Tracks: Roman Flügel, Wata Igarashi, Einzelkind.

Artwork: Halo Varga/Authentik Paper.

Bonus: Family Funktion festival tickets.

XLR8R+002

Tracks: Fred P, Homemade Weapons, µ-Ziq.

Artwork: Nicola Kazimir.

Bonus: Sample pack by Daedelus.

XLR8R+001

Tracks: Huxley Anne, SIT (Cristi Cons & Vlad Caia), Vril.

Artwork: Natasha Kohli.

Bonus: Track by Vincent Casanova.

fabric Announces 20-year Anniversary Plans

fabric has announced plans for its 20-year anniversary, as well as two new residents and a quarterly mix series. 

Earlier this week, it was reported that fabric had boarded up the club and wiped all social presence, hinting at an announcement or update of sorts, which arrived today with the phase one announcement of its year-long 20-year anniversary plans. fabric XX will kick off on January 27 with Lee Burridge’s All Day I Dream, followed by a four-hour set by Bonobo on February 24, and an all-night set from Tale Of Us on March 24. In April, Fuse, John Digweed, and The Martinez Brothers will all host extended parties.

The club also announced two new residents in Anna Wall and Bobby Pleasure, who join long-time residents Craig Richards and Terry Francis.

fabric also released news of fabric presents, a quarterly mix series that will replace the much-loved fabric and Fabriclive compilation series. Bonobo has been enlisted to handle the first mix, with more details released soon.

You can find more info on the plans here.

Tottenham-Based Radio Station Threads Launches Next Week

New Tottenham-based radio station Threads will launch on January 25.

Run by some of the team behind the London-based DIY station 199radio, Threads will look to curate a “unique selection of underground, cutting-edge music, while providing a platform for a range of socially and politically-focused talk-based content.” Listeners to the new station can expect to hear music from the likes of Chaos Theory, Timothy J. Fairplay, Jerome Hill, Liquid Ritual, Loose Lips, Graham Dunning, Ireen Amnes, Faux Naïf, Rommek, and Sisu, among others. The station will also feature a second stream, Threads*, which will play host to a sister studio situated in Berlin, alongside an array of content from across the world. 

Threads will launch with a party at The Cause—the venue the station is situated in—on the evening of Thursday, January 24, featuring live experimental electronics, spoken word, punk, stand-up comedy, and some of the station’s DJs, including Ariadne’s Labyrinth, Colder Tech Support, Daniel John, Fiscal Cliff, GarethMain, Human Pet, Interrupt feat. MC Natty Campbell, Kyle Monologue, LKF b2b Medallion Man, Marie Malarie, Repeat Beat Poet, and Timothy J. Fairplay.

Frieder Nagel “They Kept Walking”

Tomorrow, InFiné Music will release a new mini-album from German artist Frieder Nagel.

Titled Distract Robots, the album will be Nagel’s debut release, following a long and storied career working behind the scenes managing projects in theatres and clubs for artists such as David August and Daniel Brandt (Brandt Brauer Frick), among others. In the live arena, Nagel has also performed with the German Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonie Essen, as well as an acclaimed show for Boiler Room.

Musically, Distract Robots is an otherworldly treat; its five tracks take the listener down a constantly morphing auditory wormhole full of light, darkness, and cosmic bliss, opening with the tense, searing synths of beat-driven cut “They Kept Walking.” From there, the listener is presenting with a set of dystopic ballads and pensive, melancholic outings that carry deep, emotive cores. Distract Robots is a debut of staggering details and depth, and one that warrants many return visits.

Ahead of tomorrow’s release, you can download the opening track via WeTransfer below, with the record available for pre-order here.

Due to issues regarding the GDPR, EU readers can download the track here.

Nils Frahm Returns with ‘Encores 2’ EP

Nils Frahm has detailed his upcoming Encores 2 EP, a companion to 2018’s  All Melody LP and Encores 1, which arrived in June. 

The four-track release forms the second part of Encores, a series of three releases each with their own distinct musical style and theme, perhaps even as a triple album, all taken from the All Melody sessions. While Encores 1 focused on an acoustic pallet of sounds with just a solo piano and harmonium, Encores 2 explores a more ambient landscape, the pinnacle of which is the 12-minute showpiece, “Spells,” we’re told. 

Tracklisting

01. Sweet Little Lie

02. A Walking Embrace

03. Talisman

04. Spells

Encores 2 is out on January 25 with pre-order here. 

KIKOK Album Debut Next on Fatima Yamaha’s Magnetron Music

Fatima Yamaha‘s Magnetron Music will release the debut album of KIKOK, the solo project of Pavel Fedoseev.

Fedoseev was born in Kudymkar, the administrative centre and town in the territory Komi-Permyak Okrug, within the federal subject Perm Krai. He lives an almost fully autonomous existence that requires him to travel 22 hours straight by train to Moscow. “Perm is a disgusting city,” Fedoseev says. “It’s dirty, boring, and rough. I’m afraid of walking outside; that’s why I sit at home and watch movies and make music.” 

Fedoseev is best known as the drummer for the band Gnoomes, but now focuses on solo material as KIKOK, a name that translates as “arm leg” in Fedoseev’s native Komi-Permian. 

The 10-track release follows KIKOK’s nine-track EP and features “fuller, more realised, and accomplished compositions” as KIKOK as a project found its own groove and identity. 

Every component of the album was moulded from playing live electronic instruments. We’re told to expect a “truly electronic project that serves as literal and fantastical escape function for Fedoseev.” 

Tracklisting

01. Ekta I

02. Kaiya

03. Kokki

04. O Cheri Cheri

05. Abu Nem

06. Das (feat. Sasha Piankov)

07. Pu Ma

08. Rakapoz

09. Pehl

10. Ekta II

Sauna LP lands January 25, with “Kaiya” streaming exclusively below.

R&S Records Welcomes Los Angeles’ Gabriels

R&S Records has released a new single from Los Angeles-based group Gabriels. 

“Loyalty” is said to be the first glimpse of music from a forthcoming EP on R&S. Full of lush vocal harmonies, string arrangements, and percussive elements, the track is a soulful rumination on the timeless mystery of love. It was initially revealed in Prada’s short film project The Delivery Man, featuring Academy Award-winning actor JK Simmons. Mastering was completed by Hebra Kadry, known for work with Prefuse 73, Mary Lattimore, Björk, Lightning Bolt, and many more. 

Gabriels is a new group from Los Angeles merging the worlds of music, film, sound design, and art to give a brooding soulful reflection of life today. Little is known about the members. 

“Loyalty” is available to buy now, with a stream below. 

R&S Records Welcomes Los Angeles’ Gabriels

R&S Records has released a new single from Los Angeles-based group Gabriels. 

“Loyalty” is said to be the first glimpse of music from a forthcoming EP on R&S. Full of lush vocal harmonies, string arrangements, and percussive elements, the track is a soulful rumination on the timeless mystery of love. It was initially revealed in Prada’s short film project The Delivery Man, featuring Academy Award-winning actor JK Simmons. Mastering was completed by Hebra Kadry, known for work with Prefuse 73, Mary Lattimore, Björk, Lightning Bolt, and many more. 

Gabriels is a new group from Los Angeles merging the worlds of music, film, sound design, and art to give a brooding soulful reflection of life today. Little is known about the members. 

“Loyalty” is available to buy now, with a stream below. 

Dave Harrington Shares New Album Track, “Belgrade Fever”

Dave Harrington has released new track, “Belgrade Fever,” the  second single from the upcoming Dave Harrington Group album, Pure Imagination, No Country. 

“Belgrade Fever” stems from touring the last Dave Harrington Group album, Become Alive, in Europe with longtime collaborators Andrew Fox, Samer Ghadry, and Will Epstein. “We were improvising heavily during the shows, using sound checks as rehearsals and developing new material every night,” Harrison recalls. 

“Belgrade Fever” started as one of those improvised pieces and quickly worked its way into the live repertoire. Mid-tour, the group found themselves with a few days in Belgrade, Serbia, and booked some time at a recording studio housed in an old warehouse. They recorded for three days, tracking a fleshed out “Belgrade Fever” and other material that eventually made its way into Pure Imagination, No Country. “This track reminds me of that run through Europe and is the product of the improvising, the mental writing and the chemistry of the band that was on tour that summer,” Harrison adds. 

We’re told that the nine-track album exists at a different axis in the same continuum as Harrington’s previous work alongside Nicolas Jaar as Darkside. Harrington uses guitar as a lead voice, sculpting and creating a new core language with vibraphonist Will Shore, synth bassist Andrew Fox, drummer Samer Ghadry, and post-rock polymath Lars Horntveth of Jaga Jazzist. It follows 2016’s Become Alive on Other People. 

Tracklisting

01. Well

02. Dreamfield

03. Belgrade Fever

04. Then I Woke Up

05. Slides Redux

06. Neoarctic Organs

07. Patch One

08. No Country

09. Pure Imagination

Dave Harrington’s Pure Imagination, No Country arrives February 1 via Yeggs Records, with “Well” and “Belgrade Fevere” streaming here. 

Toada “Airosa”

Earlier this month, Berlin-based Portuguese producer Toada returned to his Plūma label with his latest EP, Airosa Melanina.

The Toada project, which launched in 2015, is defined by emotive and utterly mesmerizing melodies and intricate, playful rhythms that pull from Northern and Southern European influences. The Airosa Melanina EP reportedly follows some defining personal experiences that lead Toada to reflect on the nature of melanin and its role in shaping “social hierarchies.” The music on the EP is subtle and elegant, ranging from the transfixing grooves of “Airosa” to the drunken rhythms and morphing synth lines of “Melanina.”

In support of the release, Toada has offered up “Airosa” as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below. You can pick up the full EP here.

Due to issues regarding the GDPR, EU readers can download the track here.

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