Premiere: Listen to David Sudmalis’ Mélodies Souterraines Contribution

Mélodies Souterraines will soon release O/P, a various artist compilation featuring works from artists discovered around the globe: East Europe, Australia, Norway, and Germany. It’s the label’s sixth “opus” and is wildly eclectic, exploring a diverse range of electronic music styles, such as new wave, dub, IDM, and more.

Mélodies Souterraines was founded in 2015 by Saulk Regurk, aiming to explore diverse genres and styles from past and present, “a meeting point for cold electronics.”

In support of the release, which lands April 30, you can stream David Sudmalis’ gorgeous “Aquamarine” contribution via the player below. The track was composed in 2015 in Sydney, Australia and is the first release of D. Sudmalis.

You can pre-order the compilation here.

Tracklisting

01. Леспинасс Гийом & Лyи Дe Лa Гekчe “Diskoteka Diskophonia”
02. Isak Anderssen “Roulette”
03. David Sudmalis “Aquamarine”
04. Oberst Gregor “Froschwurst”
05. Science Patrol “Dereks In The Desert”
06. Andy Rantzen, David Sudmalis “Barren Ground”
07. Pascal De Nuit “Point De Non Retour”
08. Art Teachers “We Don’t Earn Money”

London-Based Cellist, Composer, and Producer Oliver Coates Signs to RVNG Intl.

London-based cellist, composer, and producer Oliver Coates has returned with “Charlev,” his first original work on RVNG Intl.

“Charlev” follows a string of projects from Coates, including his recent interpretation of John Luther Adams’ Canticles of the Sky, the collaborative Remain Calm album with Mica Levi, and his work contributing to the recordings of Laurel Halo and Jonny Greenwood’s scores for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Phantom Thread.

“Charlev” sees Coates expand from the electronic leanings of his 2016 album Upstepping, layering haunted synth patterns and a pulsing kick around a folk melody. We’re told that it “marks the beginning of much more original music to come.”

Visual artist and filmmaker Leah Walker visualizes the frenetic energy of “Charlev” in her video portrait of Cuba. “Instinctually, with visuals, I want to compliment music with a kind of synesthesia. Maybe it’s like love at first sight, that music and image can be fully unrelated but connect so much. Cuba was an accidental base for the video, so I just felt through what I was seeing, scrapbook-style,” says Walker of the video.

“Charlev” is available on digital formats and platforms now via RVNG Intl. You can also stream it now via the player above.

Cabaret Records’ TC80 Returns to Sequalog with Play LP

TC80’s new album, Play, will soon be released on Sequalog.

The eight-track LP was composed with the idea of “living life with a video game concept” and is “all about a life cycle through the medium of computer technology.”

It is the French producer’s first album since 2016’s Vestiges Of Fools ‎on Cabaret, though he’s since put out several EPs including TOUR002 with the Howl Ensemble earlier this year.

It is the fourth release on his own Sequalog label.

Tracklisting

A1. Cloud
A2. Download
B1. New Life
B2. Play
C1. FM Stage
C2. Creation
D1. Vector 8
D2. Upload

Play will land in June 2018, with clips streaming below.

XLR8R to Host Edward, Tijana T, and Leeon at Nuits Sonores 2018

XLR8R will host an event at this year’s Nuits Sonores Festival, with Edward (DJ), Tijana T, and Leeon all confirmed to play.

Gilles Aiken (a.k.a Edward) is best known for his releases on and White and Giegling, where he joins the likes of Vril, Konstantin, and DJ Dustin. His music, both as a DJ, live act, and producer mixes techno with broken beats, delicate house, and acidic rave cuts. He’ll be sharing the evening with Serbian techno DJ Tijana T, a key figure in her home nation’s dance music scene for many years and now one all across Europe. On warmup duties will be Leeon.

The venue will be Le Sucre, a rooftop club in Lyon centre.

Tickets are available here now, for €12.

Meyers ‘Expectations 1’

Struggle Artist is the new album from Justin C. Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label.

We’re told that Struggle Artist portrays Meyers’ expectations and disappointments arising from making art in his free time. Created initially during lunch breaks and in hospital waiting rooms, and finished after being laid off from his job, it catalogues the despondency of the precarious life.

His previous album, 2016’s Negative Space (1981–2014), deals with the onset of chronic illness and near-death experience.

“I’ve been privileged enough to pursue art in my free time, but between my job and my health I was finding I had less time and energy to sink into music. I tried applying for emerging artist grants and fellowships in an attempt to alleviate the need to work full time, but the time investment would never pay off as they were awarded to other deserving artists. These kind of “granular opportunities” were emotionally draining, they would pump up my expectations only to fizzle into nothing. This rise and fall is the basis for the compositional structure of “Expectations 1.”

“The entire concept of Struggle Artist emerged as I arranged “Expectations 1.” Instead of taking a lunch break at my job I started taking material I had recorded over the past several years by editing and layering on my laptop. I would edit and arrange for 30 minutes and then clock back in. I would then listen in the background while I would work—reassessing the timing and layering of material to make mental notes for what to address for the next day’s lunch break. After about a month of this I was laid off with severance, which ended up functioning as a grant that allowed me to finish Struggle Artist while looking for a new job.

“Expectations 1″ is rather simple, but it’s my favorite track and the emotional backbone for the concept of the entire album—without it, I wouldn’t have made Struggle Artist.” —Meyers

Struggle Artistwill land on May 11, with “Expectations 1” available for download via the WeTransfer button below.

Tracklisting

01. Ambient Role Play
02. Draw Distance
03. Balloon Étude
04. NPC Loop 1
05. Self Portrait
06. Limit Break
07. Ambient Role Play (End)

B

01. Granular Opportunities 1
02. Granular Opportunities 2
03. Expectations 1
04. Expectations 2
05. NPC Loop 2
06. Noise Artist Cosplay
07. Struggle Artist

Expectations 1

Jon Hopkins Shares New Album Cut, ‘Everything Connected’

As the release of his new album, Singularity, nears, Jon Hopkins has shared “Everything Connected,” the latest cut that follows the lead single “Emerald Rush.”

Where Hopkins’ last album, Immunity, charted the dark alternative reality of an epic night out, Singularity “explores the dissonance between dystopian urbanity and the green forest.” It’s shaped by his experiences with meditation and trance states and explores the connectivity of the mind, sonics, and the natural world.

Designed to follow the build, peak, and release of a psychedelic experience and intended to be listened to as a complete body of work in one sitting, the album reflects the psychological states Hopkins lived through during the writing process.

Tracklisting

01. Singularity
02. Emerald Rush
03. Neon Pattern Drum
04. Everything Connected
05. Feel First Life
06. C O S M
07. Echo Dissolve
08. Luminous Beings
09. Recovery

Singularity will land on May 4, with “Everything Connected” streaming in full via the player above.

Armless Kid ‘Void’

Later this week, FINA White will release a new EP from young French pair Armless Kid & Tour-Maubourg.

Parisian artist Armless Kid is most known for his work as part of the Copie Blanche collective and releases for the likes of Luke Solomon’s Classic Music Company, which have picked up support from DJ Harvey and The Black Madonna, among others. Tour-Maubourg, on the other hand, has released on Folamour’s FHUO imprint and Pont Neuf, with a further EP lined up for the latter.

The new EP, titled Espace X, delivers a trio of banging dancefloor tracks, with two of the three being collaborative cuts from the pair and the third a solo outing from Armless Kid. The cuts on the EP are aimed squarely at the floor, with swinging grooves, tripped-out synth lines, and hip-shaking basslines the order of the day.

In support of the release, FINA White has offered up a bonus cut from Armless Kid as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.

You can pre-order Espace Xhere.

Void

Premiere: Hear a Driving House Cut From Eltron

Grego After All‘s UNDERTHESEA Records will return on April 27 with Polish artist Eltron‘s Le Volte EP.

The new EP continues Eltron’s relationship with UNDERTHESEA, following his headlining slot at its inaugural party and a feature on the label’s podcast series, and includes three original cuts and a remix by Canadian producer Basic Soul Unit. Like the EP preceding it, Le Volte sits in the realm between house and techno, flowing from the deep, bass-heavy grooves of the opening cut, “La Prima,” to the seductive playfulness of “L’ultima” and Basic Soul Unit’s broken beat rework of “La Prima”

In the lead up to the release, UNDERTHESEA has offered up a full stream of “L’ultima,” available to stream via the player below.

You can pre-order Le Voltehere.

Luke Vibert, Plaid, LFO, and More Feature on Balkan Compilation

Posthuman‘s Balkan Vinyl label will celebrate its 25th release with a new V/A compilation featuring tracks from B12, LFO, Luke Vibert, Plaid, Andreas Gehm, and Global Goon. Each track is taken from the label’s back catalogue; some are from sold-out 12″s, while others land from digital-only compilations.

The tracklisting and details are as follows, as told by Posthuman himself.

A1: LFO “I Love Acid”

I got to know Mark Bell initially on the internet about 15 years ago, we both frequented the same record label online forum. He had a brutal, acerbic wit and enjoyed trolling people—but in person/private was one of the most genuinely kind and supportive guys, always interested in helping out new artists too. When I put together my Acid Relief charity compilation, he was the first person to contribute—writing this track especially. It was the last ever track he released as LFO. He is very sorely missed.

A2: Luke Vibert “Jungle Hitler”

Luke has been a mate for a long time now, we first met when he played at one of our tube station bashes in the early 2000s. It was his track “I Love Acid” that I named my club night and label series after, and he’s gigged at more of my parties over the last decade probably than anyone except me or Placid. This was a digital-only track from a few years back that really deserved to be pressed on vinyl.

A3: Plaid “Hui”

Another digital-only track that needed a vinyl release. I don’t think I’ve ever told them this—we first met in 2000, when they came to one of our warehouse afterparties. Someone pointed them out to me and said, “See those two guys? That’s Ed and Andy from Plaid” …me and Rich were too nervous to say hello so we ran off into the stairwell for a smoke. We were excitedly saying to each other “Wow, Plaid are here!” like fanboys, only to look up and see them standing on the stairs above us. Not sure if they even heard, but we were absolutely mortified & embarrassed.

B1: Andreas Gehm “Heaven and Hell”

Bittersweet to re-release this. I found out that Andreas passed away on the same day my son was born. I’d been speaking to him just a few days earlier, he was in hospital and struggling with health and finances. Never expected that to be our last conversation. He’d released a 12″ on my label a few months previously, and we were planning on him coming to London to play a show but postponed the plan due to his health. I think it’s important that people hear this track. It’s one of his finest moments.

B2: Global Goon “Craehzrhd”

This is taken from the very first record on Balkan, Red from back in 2010. I still think it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been lucky enough to release. It’s become a bit of an anthem at I Love Acid too. Johnny Goon has done a few things on the label since, an I Love Acid 12″ and a full album included. He’s a hugely underrated talent.

B3: B12 “Proximity”

Before I started Balkan, I worked for the B12 guys for a while and was lucky enough to become one of the four acts to ever release on their label—along with Kirk Degiorgio, Stasis, and B12 themselves. We became good friends, played a lot of shows together, and when I started Balkan they were on the first release—and many others since.

Balkan Vinyl Allstars will land early May, with Luke Vibert’s “Jungle Hitler” streaming in full below.

Tensal ‘Zomb’

Soma will soon present the debut album from one of Tensal, the alias of Hector Sandoval. As one half of the duo Exium, Sandoval has already carved out a career in techno spanning over 20 years, with numerous releases on their self-run Nheoma, Warm Up Recordings, and Pole Group, to name but a few. In 2014, he started the Tensal project as an outlet for his own productions which allowed him the scope of pursuing the more direct and minimalistic approach with his music. After hooking up with the Soma camp in early 2017 and releasing a collection of singles, Tensal now delivers his debut album, titled Graphical. We’re told that in “searching to go beyond the realm of standard techno, Tensa lends his considerable production experience to this project and creates a sophisticated and immersive album experience that flows gracefully between IDM and techno.”

In support of the release, which lands May 25, Sandoval has offered up “Zomb” for free download. Grab it now via the WeTransfer button below.

Tracklisting

A1 / 1. Belga
A2 / 2. Santolaya
A3 / 3. Roj0
B1 / 4. Convulsa
B2 / 5. Polariex
C1 / 6. EgoAio
C2 / 7. Zomb
D1 / 8. P R U V I 4
D2 / 9. Mimix

Zomb

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