Jon Hopkins Shares “Epic” New Album Video

Jon Hopkins has shared the video for the title track off his latest album, Singularity, directed by Academy Films’ Seb Edwards.

We’re told that the video is the “visual pinnacle of this project,” and a “continuation and deepening of all the themes that pervade Hopkins’ work.” 

Hopkins says of the video: “This is the single most epic video I’ve ever had made. Seb has been a friend and collaborator for nearly 15 years now, but this is the first opportunity we’ve had to work with total freedom on a video for my own music. The power of what he has done left me speechless the first time I saw it. He translated the themes of destruction and defiance that I fed into the music into a powerful, violent ballet between male and female and I totally love it.”

“I’ve always loved Jon’s work and we’ve been wanting to collaborate for a while,” comments Edwards.“‘Singularity’ is such an incredible track, its merciless intensity somehow reflects our troubled times. I wanted to capture the feeling of defiance that rises from the initial brutality. The track is ultimately about acceptance and finding peace in nature. I hope I did it justice.”

Yoyaku Launches Main Label with Cabanne EP

Yoyaku has launched a new label of the same name with a Cabanne EP, titled Stereophobique. 

The leading Paris-based booking agency and distributor already has over 70 releases to its name, all coming through a slew of sub-labels, among them Hostom, Aku, YoY, Joule Imprint, and YYY series. 

Up first on Yoyaku, the “mother label” to the aforementioned, is Cabanne, the Perlon-affiliated French DJ-producer we profiled some time ago. 

All Yoyaku releases will be vinyl-only and will come accompanied by a piece of wood on which the release details will be engraved. “Wood is a really important material for us, since the shop is made out of it, so we wanted to have this material on the vinyl, too,” the label explains. 

Tracklisting 

01. Erobique 

02. Terepho 

Stereophobique EP is out now, with a full stream available below. 

Celer Announces Smalltown Supersound Album, ‘Memory Repetitions’

Celer will release a new album on Norway’s Smalltown Supersound, titled Memory Repetitions.

Celer is now the solo project of Will Long (from 2005 to 2009 it was a collaboration with Danielle Baquet-Long (a.k.a Chubby Wolf)). Long, a Tokyo-resident, has produced prolifically across genres, monikers, and countries since 2006; aside from his ambient explorations at Celer, he’s contributed minimal house works under his given name to DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse label and Smalltown Supersound. 

As Celer, Long has put forth over a hundred collections of ambient compositions, releasing on under-the-radar labels, his own Two Acorns label, and on his Bandcamp. This will be Celer’s debut on Smalltown Supersound. 

We’re told that Memory Repetitions serves to “reflect on the labyrinthine body of work that comprises Celer.” It spans five pieces, each roughly 30 minutes in length, and arrives as a five-CD box set alongside its digital format. 

Memory Repetitions is out November 9, with opening track “Tetra” streaming in full via the player below. 

Marie Davidson Shares New Single, “Work It”

Marie Davidson has shared “Work It,” the latest single from her upcoming album, Working Class Woman, out October 5 on Ninja Tune. 

“Work It” probes at Davidson’s workaholic nature and follows in the same darkly humorous tone of recent single “So Right,” released alongside a John Talabot remix. 

Working Class Woman is the Montreal-based producer’s fourth and “most self-reflective record,” the label explains, describing it as “a document of her state of mind, of operating within the spheres of dance music and club culture.” Drawing on her experiences, as well as an array of writers, thinkers, and filmmakers who’ve influenced her, Davidson explores her reaction to them and “pokes fun.” “It comes from my brain, through my own experiences: the suffering and the humour, the fun and the darkness to be Marie Davidson.” As she puts it, “It’s an egotistical album—and I’m okay with that.” 

The sound, we’re told, is “more direct than any of her previous outings.” She still mines the same influences, from italo-disco to proto-industrial and electro, but “leadens them with a gut-punching weight, making for a record that’s more visceral than any she’s released before.” This industrial heaviness is balanced by Davidson’s spoken text. 

The record builds upon the dancefloor-minded trajectory charted by her last solo album, Adieux Au Dancefloor [Cititrax / Minimal Wave], and is informed by a career which has spanned an ambient-influenced album as Les Momies De Palerme for Montreal’s Constellation label, her synth-disco styled duo DKMD with David Kristian, and Essaie Pas alongside husband and collaborator Pierre Guerineau.

Tracklisting

01. Your Biggest Fan 

02. Work It 

03. The Psychologist 

04. Lara 

05. Day Dreaming 

06. The Tunnel 

07. Workaholic Paranoid Bitch 

08. So Right 

09. Burn Me 

10. La Chambre Intérieure

Working Class Woman will land on October 5, with “Work It” and previous single “So Right” plus the Talabot remix streaming below. 

Pall Simon “The Black Lunch”

French artist Hugo Billionet will launch his Pall Simon project with new two-track EP, titled The Black Lunch, via his own Greek Statement Records, which he runs from the suburbs of Paris. 

Billionet has previously released as Paume in 2014 via Melodic Records. We’re told that this new project “conserves the luxuriousness of the artist’s previous releases, but the tracks are driven by a more forceful and stripped-down style of beats and basslines.”

The EP opens with the eight-minute title track, driven by a shifting yet repetitive bassline, yet conserving a dreamy, organic feeling with the inclusion of melodic keys and vocals, as well as a variety of delicate percussion and sample work. The B-side is a change of pace, dropping the listener into what feels like a small, dark room full of sweaty dancers, permeated by raw acid basslines, a slowly oscillating sub-bass, and dry, hard-hitting beats.

In advance of the EP’s October 26 release, you can download “The Black Lunch” in full via the player below—or here for EU readers due to temporary GDPR restrictions. 

Tracklisting

01. The Black Lunch

02. Ballroom Dancing

Lokomotiv Preps Mihai Pol Album, Shares Snippets

On September 25, Romanian producer Mihai Pol will drop his Edge of Echoes LP Lokomotiv.

The LP will be the label’s third release—following outings from Suolo and Piktor—presenting five tracks across a double-disc 180g vinyl pressing. Musically, Edge of Echoes features a set of low-slung grooves filled with tripped-out synths and Mihai Pol’s expertly crafted rhythms. Fans of minimally inclined house music will have heard the tracks doing the rounds in the sets of Raresh, Petre Inspirescu, Priku, and many more key figures in the scene.

Ahead of release date, you can pre-order Edge of Echoes at Deejay, Decks, or Yoyaku, with snippets available below.

Bruce Brubaker “Codex” (Olga Bell Remix)

Back in January, Bruce Brubaker released Codex, an album that looked to set up a clash—or discussion—between Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study 2 (1965) and pieces from the Codex Faenza, a 15th-century manuscript that is one of the earliest collections of keyboard sheet music. The stunning release dropped via the almost faultless Infiné Music, and at the end of the month, it will return in the form of Codex Versions, which brings together four interpretations from Max Cooper, Arandel—who provides two versions—and Olga Bell.

In support of the release, Infiné has offered up Olga Bell’s interpretation as today’s XLR8R download. Bell, a trained pianist and free agent of the Brooklyn global village, takes elements and different extracts from Codex and twists them into her own sonic tapestry—a three-and-a-half minute dance through warm sub-bass, syncopated rhythms, and head-swirling loops.

You can pick up Olga Bell’s version below, with Codex Versions available for pre-order here.

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

Podcast 560: Andy Hart

Australian DJ-producer Andy Hart has called Berlin home for over five years, but he’s been a regular in the German capital for the best part of a decade. He began making electronic music as a teenager in Melbourne—initially remixing and edits before making his own originals—while DJing with a friend at clubs and local house parties across the city. It was with said friend, namely Myles Mac, that Hart started the Melbourne Deepcast (MDC), a podcast series part inspired by that of XLR8R, aimed at building the Melbourne scene. Up until 2013, the platform also operated as a label through which Chet Faker, Hart, Max Graef, and others have all shared material.

The success of Melbourne Deepcast inspired a move to Berlin—“We made a lot of friends in Europe thanks to the MDC, it opened a lot of doors for us” Hart recalls. The relocation facilitated DJ bookings across Europe, and Asia, too, and helped build a platform from which to launch Voyage. The label, launched in 2014, pushes warm, space-influenced, machine music, much like the sound of Hart’s DJ sets. Hart himself has appeared on the label on several occasions—as have Roza Terenzi, LA’s Urulu, Youandewan, and Albrecht La’Brooy—and he’s soon set to return with Voyager One, his first material in over 18 months. “This is the first record I’ve put out in a quite some time as I’ve mainly been focusing on DJing and developing the label,” he explains. We’re told that the EP is a club-focused 12″, and precedes an EP from Melbourne artist Rings Around Saturn, plus an upcoming tour of Australia and Asia again starting in November. 

Hart’s podcast is a slick, stripped-back affair, impressively constructed with moments of driving dub—Bluetrain’s “Moving Forward”—and warped, distorted techno—Alex Falk’s “BETA”—contrasted with moments of utter bliss from the likes of Francis Harris and Vril, whose sublime “Haus” closer was originally released on tape but is now available on wax. 

What have you been up to recently?

We’ve just finished a tour of Europe with Wax’o Paradiso, a party and group I’m in involved in with Simon TK and Edd Fisher back in Australia. I’ve also been putting together the pieces for a Rings Around Saturn release on Voyage.

You’re about to release a new EP. Can you tell us some more about it? 

We’re launching a new series of 12”s with the label, more club-focused material. I’ve always liked double-sided 12”s from a DJing perspective and it’s something I wanted to introduce on Voyage for a while. Each of the tracks on this release was made quite some time apart, “Neutron Capture” being made back in 2014 or 15 and “LFTR” being made earlier this year after we re-organised our studio in Berlin.

How’s the label going? What’s on the horizon release wise?

I’m proud of what we’ve achieved with the label, the artists we’ve worked with, the visuals Sam has created and the support we’ve received over the years. The label continues to evolve and this upcoming EP from Rings Around Saturn is a great example. He’s an incredible artist and one of the most interesting producers I’ve come across, it’s worth checking out his entire back catalogue and various aliases (Dan White, Bleekman, Turner Street Sound, 2200).

Which Australian artists are really exciting you right now?  

Mosam Howieson, Fantastic Man, Roza Terenzi, Lou Karsh, and HYMNS. If you’re interested in what’s happening in Melbourne I would highly recommend checking out Skylab Radio, a new digital station featuring a who’s who of the scene there. Shout out Chico G and TK!

Having spent some time in Berlin, how do you feel it compares to the Melbourne electronic music scene? What’s good/bad about it? 

Berlin is very transient and has an international scene, people from all over the world move here to focus on music. Melbourne is very local, and there is an incredibly supportive scene for our home-grown artists. We also don’t really have many staple-clubs but people make parties in spaces whereas Berlin has clubbing institutions for the various types of electronic music. If Melbourne is lacking anything, perhaps that is something; however, the character of the venues that do get used is part of why Melbourne is what it is.

How and where was this mix recorded? 

The mix was made at home, here in Berlin with my Technics and an Allen and Heath mixer.

Is there a particular theme or idea behind it? 

No particular theme, however, there are some references to the music that inspired “LFTR” from the new EP.

How did you choose the tracks that you included? 

I knew I wanted to start with the Fugue track, which set the tone for the rest of the records in the mix. Once I have an idea of the aesthetic of a mix, I spend a day going through my records, pulling out anything that fits. Once I have 50 or so selected, I usually have them playing in the apartment throughout the week until I start to get an idea of how the mix will end up. 

How do you think it differs to your regular club mix? 

Given the right circumstances, it doesn’t deviate too far from what I would play in a club, although perhaps a little more subdued.

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

Tracklisting

01. Fugue “Contrapoint” (Likemind)

02. Baaz “Modual” (Office Recordings)

03. Kuniyuki “Between Shadow And Lights” (Sprinkle’s Lights Out Dub) (Mule Musiq)

05. Chaos In The CBD “Drum Therapy” (In Dust We Trust)

06. Francis Harris “Minor Forms” (Valentino Mora Underwater Rephase) (Scissor and Thread)

07. Orlando Voorn “Waveforms Ahead” (CV313 Redesign) (Body Works)

08. Bluetrain “Moving Forward” (Sushitech)

09. RV800 “Equanimity” (Formula)

10. Alex Falk “BETA” (International Black)

11. Andy Hart “LFTR” (Voyage)

12. Ashworth “Launch” (Made of Concrete)

13. KAAP “Ancient” (ÆX)

14. Nathan H “Atmosphere (in 5)” (Acid Camp)

15. Vril “Haus” (Giegling)

Truss & Tessela Return with Overmono EP

Ed and Tom Russell (a.k.a Truss and Tessela) will return as Overmono in October with a three-track EP via their own Poly Kicks imprint. 

Raft Living follows the Arla EP series, the UK duo’s last outing, released earlier last year on XL Recordings, after the project’s 2016 debut. 

We’re told that “Daisy Chain” opens with an infectious breakbeat topped with rich, effervescent chords, while “The Mabe” offers a mind-bending, 130bpm hardcore-jungle anthem. The record ends  “Raft Living,” a “two-minute arpeggiated earworm,” the label explains. 

Tracklisting 

A. Daisy Chain

B1. The Mabe

B2. Raft Living

Raft Living will land on October 8, with clips below. 

Truss & Tessela Return with Overmono EP

Ed and Tom Russell (a.k.a Truss and Tessela) will return as Overmono in October with a three-track EP via their own Poly Kicks imprint. 

Raft Living follows the Arla EP series, the UK duo’s last outing, released earlier last year on XL Recordings, after the project’s 2016 debut. 

We’re told that “Daisy Chain” opens with an infectious breakbeat topped with rich, effervescent chords, while “The Mabe” offers a mind-bending, 130bpm hardcore-jungle anthem. The record ends  “Raft Living,” a “two-minute arpeggiated earworm,” the label explains. 

Tracklisting 

A. Daisy Chain

B1. The Mabe

B2. Raft Living

Raft Living will land on October 8, with clips below. 

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