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The Cinematic Orchestra to Reissue ‘Every Day’

The Cinematic Orchestra have announced the first ever reissue of their Every Day album, originally released 20 years ago.

Across its seven soaring tracks, the group, led by founding member Jason Swinscoe and Dominic Smith, took you on a journey through classic soul, jazz, choral pieces, minimalism, and more.

This reissue, which is spread across three LPs of translucent red vinyl, comes with bonus tracks from the original recording sessions: “Oregon” and “Horizon” featuring Niara Scarlett. There are also two tracks previously unreleased on vinyl in “Semblance” and the unearthed “Flite” (Original Version)

The release features new artwork from the original designer, Openmind, with Gilles Peterson’s original liner notes.

Since debuting with Motion, in 1999, The Cinematic Orchestra have sold hundreds of thousands of albums. Their last album, To Believe, charted in the UK albums chart. You can read more about them here.

Vinyl Tracklisting

01. All That You Give feat. Fontella Bass
02. Burn Out
03. Evolution feat. Fontella Bass
04. Man With The Movie Camera
05. All Things To All Men feat. Roots Manuva
06. Flite
07. Everyday Oregon
08. Horizon feat. Niara Scarlett
09. Semblance
10. Flite (Original Version)

Every Day LP is scheduled for March 24 release. You can order it here.

Alfa Mist is Back with Fifth Album

Alfa Mist will release Variables, his fifth album, on Anti-.

On Variables, Alfa Mist dives into the argument of nature versus nurture.

“I’ve been focused on who I am in my music, but now I’m exploring where I am,” Alfa Mist says. “I’m asking: how did I get here?” Traversing luscious, big band swing, head-nodding boom-bap rhythms, and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful and moving, in both body and spirit. Across 10 new tracks, we’re told he couples his keen ear for emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation.

Alongside the announcement, Alfa Mist has shared two new singles lifted from the album: the dark, introspective “4th Feb (Stay Awake)” and the seven-minute free improvised “BC.” Whereas the former is a lo-fi offering that pairs Alfa Mist’s reflective bars with a groove-heavy production, “BC” is a colourful swell of percussion.

Since the release of his first project, Nocturne, in 2015, Alfa Mist has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer Ólafur Arnalds. He released Bring Backs, his last album, in 2021.

Tracklisting

01. Foreword
02. Borderline
03. Aged Eyes feat. Kaya Thomas-Dyke
04. Cycles
05. The Gist
06. Genda (Go Away)
07. Apho feat. Bongeziwe Mabandla
08. Variables
09. 4th Feb (Stay Awake)
10. BC

Variables LP is scheduled for April 23 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “4th Feb (Stay Awake)” in full below and pre-order here.

Podcast 786: ASA 808

ASA 808 aims to push the boundaries of techno, house, and bass by combining classical instruments with analogue synths and drum machines. They began making music at the age of six, learning classical piano and guitar, and as a teenager they released a five-track EP as Hasta la otra méxico! (“Túrána hott kurdís,” the lead track, was a real hit.) A few years later, driven by their love for electronic music, in particular Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic” and the UK’s thriving post-dubstep and UK bass movement (Mount Kimble, James Blake, Airhead, etc.), they began producing as ASA 808, later releasing on George FitzGerald‘s ManMakeMusic, Soundspace, and Yarn Audio. More recently, they’ve released their work on TOYS, the label side of a party series that has featured DJs such as Ada, Avalon Emerson, Christian Löffler, Dark Sky, Dauwd, and Youandewan. In October, they returned to the label with Boy, crush, an album that subtly merges ambient, breakbeat, and house, just like their XLR8R podcast which they prepared in celebration of it. At just over an hour in length, here is a mix doused in contemplative electronica that, as it reaches its climax, moves towards house, techno, and UK bass—featuring tracks from Gold Panda, Floating Points, and Romare.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve just released my new album, Boy, crush, as well as my first music and talk radio shows on Berlin-based community radio station Refuge Worldwide. The album, radio show, and music videos for Boy, crush and “Love No Matter What” deal with detoxing masculinity, (gender-)queer visibility, my own quest for gender identity, queer/poly love, and the gender spectrum more generally.

02. What have you been listening to?
Mostly to Felbm, 2XM’s and Daphni’s new album, and DJ sets by Tereza or lectures by Joseph Goldstein and Thich Nhat Hanh.

03. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded it a couple of times. I wasn’t happy with it right away. I have to admit, I’ve never taken so many attempts for one mix! I recorded it at least three times in the last weeks at Berlin club about:blank and I always made little changes in the selection and mixing style.

04. How did you go about choosing the tracks?
I wanted it to display the whole musical spectrum I like to cross in my productions and DJ sets, from ambient and electronica through acid, house, UK bass, breakbeat, garage, and techno. And I always like to include tracks from up-and-coming female DJ friends and producers like DAEDE and Elisa Bee as well as Eris Drew and Karima F.

05. How does it compare to what we might hear you play out live?
The first 20 minutes of the mix are closer to my new album and live/hybrid set, while the following 40 minutes represent what I like to play in the club right now: rather fast acid, house, techno, UK bass, and breaks.

06. Where do you imagine it being played out?
Preferably in the sunshine at a festival.

07. What’s next on your horizon?
I have some new releases and a tour coming up with shows in Budapest, Paris, Stuttgart, Berlin, and other German cities. But before that, we’re releasing our first DJ TOYS compilation with tracks by 2XM, DAEDE, Dark Sky, Small Car NRG, and me.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. ASA 808 “Boy, crush” (TOYS Berlin)
02. Gold Panda “Plastic Future” (City Slang)
03. Mehmet Aslan “Rowndbass Acid” (Planisphere Editorial)
04. Romare “Seventh Seal” (You See)
05. ASA 808 “Bliss” (TOYS Berlin)
06. Eris Drew “Quivering In Time” (T4T LUV NRG)
07. Karima F “Crab Ride” (Schloss)
08. Floating Points “Problems” (Pluto)
09. DAEDE “Gefühl” (DAEDE)
10. Pangaea “Fuzzy Logic” (Hessle Audio)
11. Elisa Bee “Sample Minds” (Balkan Vinyl)
12. Hodge “Sub 100” (Two Moons)
13. Joy Orbison, Overmono, ABRA “Blind Date“ (XL Recordings)
14. ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ “()vȯ)) ̷̨ʅ(۝ʅ(Ɵʅ():::()̵̳̗̊(Ɵʅ()vȯ)) ̷̨ʅ” (⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ)
15. Erol Alkan “Automatic” (Palms Trax Remix) (Phantasy Sound)
16. Daphni “Mona” (Jiaolong)
17. Glaskin “Hydrogroove I” (Scuba’s Break Back Mix) (YAEL trip / Hotflush)

Yves Tumour to Release Fourth Album on Warp

Yves Tumor has announced a new album on Warp.

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) is Yves Tumor’s fourth album. It follows Heaven To A Tortured Mind, released in 2020.

The album spans rock, psychedelia, and electronica in a what’s a re-invention of pop music, ambitiously shifting and altering the boundaries of contemporary art and culture. It opens with “God Is a Circle,” which came out in November and underlines the album’s “intoxicating melange of addictive melodies and adventurously executed arrangements.”

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) follows on from Tumor’s 2021 EP, The Asymptotical World. It’s produced by Noah Goldstein, known for working with the likes of Frank Ocean, Rihanna and Bon Iver, and mixed by Alan Moulder, who has previously worked on releases for My Bloody Valentine and Nine Inch Nails.

Alongside the announcement, Warp has also shared the video for “Echolalia,” shot by Tumor’s longtime collaborator Jordan Hemingway that pays a transgressive, gory homage to Gulliver’s Travels.

Tracklisting

01. God Is a Circle
02. Lovely Sewer
03. Meteora Blues
04. Interlude
05. Parody
06. Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood
07. Operator
08. In Spite of War
09. Echolalia
10. Fear Evil Like Fire
11. Purified By the Fire
12. Ebony Eye

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) is scheduled for March 17 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Echolalia” in full below and pre-order here.

James Holden Reveals Fourth Album

James Holden will release his new album, Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, in March via his own Border Community label.

This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities is Holden’s fourth album. Standing in contrast to the expanded band and live take recordings of its predecessor, The Animal Spirits, the release is more of a continuous sound collage, artfully juxtaposing audio worlds.

Across 12 tracks, Holden’s sample sources are custom generated, drawn from recordings of his own performances on the modular synth, keyboard, organ, and piano, plus guest contributions from his drummer Tom Page, percussionist Camilo Tirado, multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett, and saxophonist Christopher Duffin.

“I wanted this to be my most open record, uncynical, naive, unguarded, the record teenage me wanted to make,” says Holden.

We’re also told that the album represents a coming-to-terms with Holden’s own musical past, filled with undulating dancefloor melancholy, spiralling kinetic pixie arpeggios, and hazy vocals.

For the album’s distinctive hand-drawn artwork and accompanying comic booklet insert, Holden called upon Amsterdam-based illustrator and musician Jorge Velez.

Along with the announcement, Holden has shared lead single “Contains Multitudes,” an almost 10-minute long joyful synth and tabla jamboree that breaks down around the midway mark into bold piano flourishes and trembling violin.

Speaking of the track, Holden says: “I’d been looking at John Stezaker’s collages, where things collide and it feels like it opens a window into them, thinking a lot about musical approaches to that idea, then the end part of this just appeared in my head as I listened to the loops of the beginning part. The two songs are opposite musics but also completely contained inside one another.”

Tracklisting

01. You Are In A Clearing
02. Contains Multitudes
03. Common Land
04. Trust Your Feet
05. The Missing Key
06. In The End You’ll Know
07. Continuous Revolution
08. Four Ways Down The Valley
09. Worlds Collide Mountains Form
10. The Answer Is Yes
11. Infinite Fadeout
12. You Can Never Go Back

Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities LP is scheduled for March 31 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Contains Multitudes” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Podcast 785: Pablo Arrangoiz

You probably don’t know Pablo Arranzgoiz but there’s a reasonable chance you’ve heard his music. Based in Miami, Florida, the prolific young Mexican artist has quietly been building his back catalog, displaying a variety of styles and genres as Baüzer Vep, DJ Fitness, Glue Boy, Decima Vittima, and Doctor Hotdog. And through this he has cultivated a small but dedicated cult following across Bandcamp and the United States—which is to say he’s come a long way since he began playing drums at 11. He discovered electronic music through Benny Benassi, The Bloody Beetroots, Justice, and Daft Punk but it was the work of Ricardo Villalobos and Aphex Twin that really drew him in. Since then he’s gone through “many transformations, stupid opinions, crippling dogmas, and the never ending search for new techniques and fresh inspiration,” he tells XLR8R, though now there’s a sense he’s really finding his groove. For this week’s podcast, he’s recorded a mix that shines a light on his expansive catalog of music, much of which is forthcoming and some of which will never see the light of day beyond this podcast. What this translates to is three hours of jazz, dub, reggaeton, house, and bass that just keep on giving, giving, and giving.

01. What have you been up to recently?
Making music, watching films, yearning, laughing, and digging through archive.org.

02. What have you been listening to?
Perotin, Bach, Pierre Bastien, Pascal Comelade, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Eduardo Zurita, Julián Mayorga, Ulla, Takako Minekawa, YL Hooi, CS+Kreme, Yasuaki Shimizu, Paul DeMarinis, Asmus Tietchens, Hematic Sunsets, and lots of old reggaeton in the car.

03. When and where did you record this mix?
The tracklistIing was carefully planned out. Then I used CDJs at a friend’s house with folders of all my aliases.

04. What setup did you use?
CDJ-900s and a Behringer DJ mixer.

05. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
Anywhere really. It goes through a lot of styles. But ideally in your house feeling curious and with plenty of spare time. It’s also really good while getting office stuff done! Or on a long drive. It’s also good for booting off with friends.

06. How does it compare to what we might hear you play out live?
I never play only my own material. I usually DJ as DJ Fitness and play a bit of all my favorite dance flavors.

07. What’s next on your horizon?
I have so many releases coming this year it’s unbecoming. There’s a Bauzer Vep album on Bruno Schmidt’s Assemblies of God, another Bauzer cassette on New Fair Deal, another Bauzer EP on Sports Records, and the debut release of DJ Fitness with a double album of pure dance music to DJ. I’ve also completed an album for Open Space Records that’s to be announced soon. Also, I have two El Gusano EPs locked in for 2023 coming on a new label that is gonna be hot! Aside from that, I’m working really hard on an electro-acoustic album which may or may not be done In the next few months.

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

01. Rental Snakes “Snake Whistle” (Unreleased)
02. Rental Snakes “Swamp Dwellers” (unreleased)
03. Rental Snakes “Mail Ghost” (Unreleased)
04. (╭ರ•́) “Aromageist” (Sonido Isla 2022)
05. El gusano, La momia, Águila Fugaz “blu blau ble ble” (Unreleased)
06. El Gusano “Activao”(Instrumental) feat. Strings by La Momia (Unreleased)
07. El Gusano, Bauzer Vep “Cumbia 666” (Self-Released)
08. El Gusano “Cumbia Cuatroveinte” (Unreleased)
09. El Gusano “Desvelao” feat. La Momia” (Self-Released)
10. “Drum Solo + Car Skrrrttt” (Unreleased)
11. “Muzak 1 Suspenso” (Unreleased)
12. El gusano, Nap “Dub_cumbia_cdmx_2” (Unreleased)
13. (╭ರ•́) “Sheeeeeeeeesh” (Sonido Isla 2022)
14. Bauzer Vep “Spaghetti” (Assemblies of God)
15. Mister hands, Bauzer Vep “Smelly Feet” (Sports Records)
16. Gusano “Asi” (Hardworksoftdrink)
17. El gusano, Nap “Pegale” (Unreleased)
18. El Gusano, La Momia “Carnada [Pa Pinchar]” (Self-Released)
19. El Gusano “Alberca” (Unreleased)
20. Mister Hands, John Patrick “Sarcoughagus” (Unreleased)
21. Bauzer Vep “Vu Vu Be Zon” (Assemblies of God)
22. Bauzer Vep “Bring the Bag” feat Quest (New Fair Deal)
23. Bauzer Vep, Pig DJ “Broken Nose” (Sports Records)
24. Bauzer Vep “Snapping Necks cashing Checks” feat. Quest (Sports Records)
25. Bauzer Vep “Tammy Tapeworm” (Sports Records)
26. Bauzer Vep “Unknown” (Unreleased)
27. La Decima Vittima “La Danza Macabra part 2” (Unreleased)
28. Bauzer Vep “The Gurner” (Assemblies of God)
29. Rental Snakes “Mom’s Dub” (Unreleased)
30. Glue boy, Nick León “Bang Gang” (Unreleased)
31. Glue Boy “Yeeeeeeeeeee” (Schematic Music Company)
32. Glue Boy “Junkie Research” (Schematic Music Company)
33. El Gusano, El Descaro “Singeta” (Unreleased)
34. Glue Boy “Whip It” (Schematic Music Company)
35. Bauzer Vep “Modern Dog” (Assemblies of God)
36. Sshades “Diskoteka” (Domesticated)
37. Rental Snakes “Harolds House” (Unreleased)
38. Bauzer Vep “Ode 2 tietchens” (Assemblies of God)
39. Señor Faxwater “Bgm Lodge” (Unreleased)
40. Señor Faxwater “Bath Time” (Unreleased)
41. Vuvu bezon, John Small “Man Feelings” (Open Space)
42. “Beachside” (BBC Sound Library)
43. Vuvu Bezon, Alodie Ayers “Pinocchio Beach” (Open Space)
44. “Cash register” (BBC Sound Library)
45. Santo and Johnny “Sleepwalk Midi Cover” (Unreleased)
46. “Beachside + Owl Hooting” (BBC Sound Library)

Weval to Release Third Album on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour

Weval, the collaboration of Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers, will release a new album on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour.

Remember, the Amsterdam duo’s third album, embarks on a journey of nostalgic memories and euphoric emotions, we’re told, seeing them reminisce on their own musical journey while reflecting on key influences over the years. “We played and embraced this with unshameful nostalgic feelings around discovering music as young music fans,” they told XLR8R.

The album’s central theme is how memories distort, “sometimes negatively, sometimes fake, sometimes euphoric and romanticised.” They explore it by deploying heavily contorted beats with the potential to destroy speakers, only to be salvaged by melodically hopeful chords.

“Elements of pop, dance, and every genre in between are thrown in and whittled down to make their most intense, spontaneous, and substantial work to date,” we’re told.

First meeting in 2010, Harm and Merijn formed their creative alliance back in 2012 when they were both working in film, when Harm brought Merijn on board to assist with a music video for some friends in a band. They began experimenting together, enjoying the music production more than the film-making. Neither had experience of making music before forming Weval, so they have evolved organically together throughout their partnership. You can read more about their project in their XLR8R studio feature here.

Tracklisting

01. Remember
02. Everything Went Well
03. Losing Days
04. Where It All Leads
05. Don’t Lose Time
06. Never Stay For Love (feat. Eefje de Visser)
07. Day After Day
08. Changed For The Better
09. I Saw You
10. Is That How You Feel It
11. Forever

Remember LP is scheduled for March 3 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Don’t Lose Time,” “Never Stay For Love” feat. Eefje de Visser, “Changed For The Better,” and “Forever” in full below and pre-order here.

Surgeon Unveils First Album in Five Years

Tresor Records will release Crash Recoil, a new album by Surgeon, born Anthony Child.

Crash Recoil is Child’s first album in five years, following 2018’s Luminosity Device. It stems from a period in which he felt uncertainty in his role as a techno producer and found it tough to feel inspired.

This album encounters him drawing on spontaneous techniques from his live sets, which enabled him to capture the spontaneous energy of his shows in a way he had never done before.

“This is not a live album, since it has not been recorded in one go during a live performance. In the same way that bands tour songs before going into the studio to record an album, I was able to explore these songs and hone their effectiveness during my live performances before creating a studio version.”

The result is eight tracks that emphasise a “new techno sound” for Surgeon, we’re told, drawing in references from across the musical spectrum. “I can hear Coil, King Tubby, Detroit techno, and The Cure all wrapped up with 30 years of DJing,” Surgeon says of the album.

Surgeon has been at the forefront of UK techno since 1992, releasing albums on Tresor, his own Dynamic Tension Records, and more. Last year, he put out The Golden Sea on Ilian Tape. Over the course of his career, the Birmingham, England resident has become known for his tough techno sound with an industrial murk, but also plenty of funk, swing, and a sophisticated sense of dub-space.

Tracklisting

01. Oak Bank
02. Second Magnitude Stars
03. Metal Pig
04. We laugh and clap at the circus
05. Leadership Contest
06. Masks & Archetypes
07. Subcultures
08. Hope Not Hate

Crash Recoil LP is scheduled for March 17 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Crash Recoil” in full below and pre-order here.

DJ Lilocox Shares 80 Minutes of House Grooves

DJ Lilocox, born Ricardo Vieira, has released Drums (Lata), a tape of once-private beats, on Príncipe.

All 43 tracks on Drums (Lata) have featured heavily across Lilocox’ own DJ sets as he has established himself as a prominent figure in Afro-portuguese dance music. We can expect 80 minutes of house grooves informed by his Cape Verdean descent and adventures as a young kid producing harsh batida polyrhythmia, solo and as part of the Piquenos DJs do Guetto crew with Firmeza and Maboku.

“So travel the spaceways with this smoothly mixed and blended set of music we thought criminal to just let sit as archival memory,” Príncipe says. “Deep, sprawling house ambience and slick beats.”

Lata was the derogatory term used by Lisbon’s African night club owners to stamp out the outlawed music Vieiraand other producers were creating a decade ago. But they proudly ran with it and turned Lata into an affectionate name for a certain standard, tinny sound typical of old school batida beats.

Artwork, as usual, comes from Márcio Matos.

Side A

01. AfroTech (Original)
02. Electrohouse Style (OriginalMix)
03. Various (Original)
04. (LATAS VOL.1)
05. LISBOA MUSIC (Original)
06. GANANÇIA (Original)
07. Floute Style (Originalmix)
08. Ritmos (Original)
09. Alto Percurço (Original)
10. BANAH Edit-Vocall
11. BASS
12. BEATS (Original)
13. Crazy (Original)
14. DA CU PEDRA
15. DRUM CLASSIC (Original)
16. DRUMS (LATA)
17. E LOCURA 2 (Originalmix)
18. FILHA DA GODA (OriginalMix)
19. House Deep Tech
20. Hoje é undi (Original)

Side B

01. NO LUME
02. KAPETA(MALUCO) (Originalmix)
03. UNICO (Original)
04. LOS HERMANOS (Original)
05. ‘What Pho’ (Edit) (Original Mix) feat. DJ Nigga Fox
06. OLHA OH (Originalmix)
07. MALUQUIÇE (Original)
08. SAMBAPITO (OriginalGhetto)
09. VIOLAS DJ JESUS (GIRA-A-BULA) (Originalmix)
10. Soculentaa (Original)
11. The World Dance (Original)
12. vibe (Original)
13. TOKIO (Originalmix)
14. JAZZ (OriginalMix)
15. PARABENS PEDRO(RITMOriginal)
16. ROTREDAO
17. PASSA-TEMPO (OriginalGhetto)
18. Marimba (T-Box) (Originalmix)
19. RUMOS (Originalmix)
20. SEGURA (Original)
21. Zona J (Original)
22. REALITE (Original)
23. VAMO NO SALO (Originalmix)

Drums (Lata) is available now. You can stream it in full below and order it here.

Podcast 784: DMVU

As DMVU, Denver-based producer Matthew Phillpot-Jones is trying to etch his own indelible mark into the future of electronic music. The only child of two musically gifted parents, he was constantly exposed to a diverse selection of music growing up, and quickly learned to play the piano and drums. But as a teenager, as he became infatuated by the hip-hop culture of the late ’90s and early 2000s, he traded in the drumsticks for a copy of FL Studio, curious to try emulating the beats he was listening to in his bedroom. Then, over time, as he became more connected to the rich dance music underground of Colorado, he redirected his artistic focus to dubstep and bass music, and in 2015 he became DMVU—a vehicle for his musings. It didn’t take long for him to catch the attention of dubstep legends TRUTH, who released his Bloccd EP on their Deep, Dark And Dangerous imprint, and Doctor P and Flux Pavillion, who signed him to their Circus Records label in 2017.

Fast forward to today, and DMVU is most closely affiliated with Wylie Cable‘s Dome of Doom, the Los Angeles label where he’s released his two most recent albums: 2020’s Two Pairs Of Eyes Gazing Only At Each Other, which hovered in the realm of experimental electronic music and modern film scores; and Praise Be Delusion Or, The Ripple, an album of futuristic synth tones, lush drums, and cascading rolls of piano lines. As he works hard in his Denver studio on a new album, Phillpot-Jones has recorded an XLR8R podcast filled with all original material, much of which is previously unheard and unreleased. (Yes, that includes a particularly cool Aphex Twin remix!) At just over 90 minutes in length, this is a mix of evocative and narrative environments that’ll lead you along a path that’s both familiar and contemplative, at times frenetic but always feel-good.

01. What have you been up to recently?
A bunch! With the recent release of my previous album, I figured it would be a good time to take a little break and just kind of chill, but I have done pretty much the opposite of that. Between all of the one-off shows, we are currently planning a tour. I also have my release calendar booked until almost next year, even though I’m still writing lots of music. But most importantly I’ve been spending a lot of time with my cat!

02. How was your 2022?
It was good! This really felt like the first year back in full swing since the pandemic. 2021 was kind of a transitional year but last year really felt like the closest it has to normal in a long time. I played lots of cool shows with a lot of friends, and I wrote and released some music that I am really really happy with.

03. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded this a couple of weeks back at my house in my basement turned studio. My studio backs up to an open forest with a river running through it. It’s always a pleasure recording anything there.

04. What can the listener expect?
I tried to include an even amount of music that has been released off of the previous three albums I have done for Dome Of Doom as well as some new music written in 2022. It’s definitely an emotive selection!

05. How did you go about choosing the tracks you’ve included?
I specifically tried to kind of tell a story, and I know that sounds cliché, but I mean more so literally through the use of vocal samples. With the cuts in between each track as well as the vocals that I have sampled that are on the actual songs, I hope for it to convey and almost coming-of age-story. Although that it’s really up to the listener!

06. How does it compare to what we might hear you play out live?
Usually my live sets are a little more DJ-oriented; I will play other people’s music and it would be more upbeat. This year, I’m trying to gravitate towards playing all originals, as well as slowing things down a bit. I definitely don’t plan to go totally in either direction but I do want to shift the weight a little bit.

07. What’s on your agenda for 2023?
The usual: lots of shows, and lots of music! My first release of the year is going to be a heavier one. I can’t reveal too much, but it’s on a label that was recently started by a dear friend of mine. Also, I’m planning on playing more all-original downtempo sets as well! I’m really trying to follow my heart and my nose this year!

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. DMVU “Sextant” (Dome Of Doom)
02. DMVU “For Charlie” (Unreleased)
03. DMVU “Diana” (Previously Unreleased)
04. Aphex Twin “Lichen” (DMVU Cover) (Unreleased)
05. DMVU “Marilyn” (Unreleased)
06. DMVU “Tell Em” (Unreleased)
07. DMVU “Moon Mask” (Unreleased)
08. DMVU “Say something (hello)” (Dome Of Doom)
09. DMVU “Rhinestones” (Dome Of Doom)
10. DMVU “Polaris” (Unreleased)
11. DMVU “The Mask Makers Mark” (Unreleased)
12. DMVU “Virtues?” (Unreleased)
13. DMVU “The Ghost In My Window” (Dome Of Doom)
14. DMVU “Melody” (Dome Of Doom)
15. DMVU “Goodbye To A Year” (Previously Unreleased)
16. DMVU “Words Like Ghosts” (Dome Of Doom)
18. DMVU “Alone” (Unreleased)
19. DMVU “My Foolish Heart” (Dome Of Doom)
20. DMVU “Haikus About Nothing” (Dome Of Doom)
21. DMVU “The Sun And The Shadow” (Dome Of Doom)
22. DMVU “Where Did I Go” (Dome Of Doom)
23. DMVU “Fold Ur Heart” (Dome Of Doom)
24. DMVU “When You’re Alway, It’s Always Raining” (Unreleased)

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