Mike Kiraly ‘Do It For Rabbit’

Late last month, Mike Kiraly released a new two-tracker, titled Si Mani Revisited / We Get Messed Up, via Loot Recordings.

The new EP, which lands backed by remixes from Martin Landsky and Robin Fett, finds Kiraly once again delivering a set of slamming house cuts composed with his envious array of modular and analog gear. From the punchy, tripped-out opener, “Si Mani Revisited,” to the freaky grooves of “We Get Messed Up,” the new EP is a testament to Kiraly’s masterful dancefloor repertoire and another fine addition to the Loot catalog.

In support of the release, Kiraly has offered up a deep and twisted bonus cut as today’s XLR8R download. Titled “Do It For Rabbit,” it’s an eight-minute concoction of warped vocals, lively synth lines, and punchy grooves.

You can grab “Do It For Rabbit” below, with Si Mani Revisited / We Get Messed Up available here.

Do It For Rabbit

MUTEK.SF Finalizes Lineup With Moritz Von Oswald, Matias Aguayo, and Aux 88

Editorial / 2009 / Berlin Published in [www.thewire.co.uk linktext:The Wire] / Cover Story / London Few producers have had such an impact on the sound of techno as Moritz von Oswald, better known as Maurizio. Co-founder of the short-lived but highly influential techno label Basic Channel in the 1990s, as well as the ensuing imprints Chain Reaction and Rhythm and Sound, von Oswald has forged a sound that took electronic music beyond the dancefloor, into adulthood.

MUTEK has announced the complete lineup for its first US edition, taking place in San Francisco from May 3 to 6, 2018.

The new announcement includes the North American solo live premiere of dub techno innovator Moritz Von Oswald, live sets from Detroit techno-electro innovators Aux 88 and Cómeme label head Matias Aguayo, and Bay Area artists 8ULENTINA, Christopher Willits, DIBIA$E, Foozool, King Most, and Only Now. These artists will join previously announced acts including Lee Gamble, Tim Hecker, Equiknoxx, Telefon Tel Aviv, Underground Resistance’s Galaxy 2 Galaxy, Kyoka, Convextion, Francesco Tristano & Derrick May, Honey Soundsystem’s Jackie House, Russell E.L. Butler, and Solar (who will play alongside C.L.A.W.S.).

The festival will also present a variety of audiovisual and experiential artworks, including iAltar from Brian Reinbolt, The Chamber of Cerebral Geometry from Craig Dorety, Immersive Constructions from Last Faith Studio and Subpac, Strobe Piece from Greg Zifcak, and Lux Aeterna from Joey Verbeke & Yağmur Uyanık, among others.

You can find more information, including tickets and the full lineup, here.

Self Self ‘Provocation’

Richard Seeley and Andreas Geogiades have been friends for over 18 years. Georgiades enjoyed a more rock and band-influenced youth such as Pink Floyd and Manowar, but Seeley soon introduced Georgiades to electronic music and beat-matching vinyl records.

Fast forward a few years and they set up some events and ran some parties across the UK during the mid-2000s. Georgiades, meanwhile, began playing in Poland and invited Seeley over to play. By this time, Seeley was producing and had released on Rekids with several on VVVWI, too. He had also set up Glue Music, his own imprint with appearances from Bruno Pronsato, Public Lover, and Sierra Sam, to name just a few.

By the late 2000s, Andreas has started a family and Richard a business, meaning production was no longer a priority until Seeley built a large purpose-built recording studio in 2015. Since then, Seeley and Georgiades have been honing their sound and production and are now set to embark with their new Self Self project, with four new EPs set to land via their own Self Self Records later in this year.

Ahead of this, they’ve shared “Provocation,” a dark techno groover, available now to download via the WeTransfer button.

Provocation

Premiere: Hear a Sleazy, Psychedelic Cut From Theus Mago

Mysterious collective and label Ombra International will drop its fifth vinyl release later this week.

Following on from January’s Ombra INTL 004—which featured tracks from Bagarre Perdue, Sutja Gutierrez, Mondowski, and Seven Knives—the Ella EP will feature another collection of post-punk and wave-influenced cuts, this time from Theus Mago, who leads the EP with two originals (one featuring the work of Doog), Paris producer Il Est Vilaine, Arthur Johnson, and Berlin-based Curses.

In support of the release, Ombra has offered up a full stream of the hypnotic, neon-lit “Smokey Red Lights” (feat. Doog), available via the player below.

You can pre-order the release here.

Daedelus Next Up in Ask the Experts; Send Him Your Questions Now

Alfred Darlington, the artist better known as Daedelus, is up next in our series—following on from Moby, whose answers will drop imminently.

Like his mythological namesake, Daedelus is a creator of sonic labyrinths combining sounds into an innovative genre all his own. The Los Angeles-based producer has over two-dozen releases on a variety of labels and collaborates with musicians in many worlds: electronic, jazz, hip-hop, etc. In the past, he’s been featured on the cover of XLR8R magazine, appeared in countless articles, and provided the sounds for Podcast 313. And although he’s been at the forefront of electronic music for well over a decade, and is regarded as a founding father of the L.A. “Beat Scene,” the pioneering producer is still somewhat of a musical enigma. His notoriously hard-to-define sound, Victorian-era dress sense, and wealth of forward-thinking performance equipment all add to this mystique and aura—and so now we want to invite your questions.

Whether it be playing live, production, label management, or just about anything else, all questions should be sent to [email protected] with “Daedelus” as the subject line. We’ll pass them along to Daedelus who will then select his favorites, and soon we’ll publish his answers.

Photo by David Bodnar

Daedelus April Tour dates

April 19th Newspeak—Montreal, Canada*
20th U Street Music Hall—Washington D.C.*>
21st The Well—Brooklyn, NY “
22nd Club Downunder—Tallahassee, FL*
23rd Niche—Kansas City * (sold out)
24th Outland Ballroom—Springfield, MO *
25th The New Parish, Oakland, CA *
26th The Crocodile – Seattle, WA *
27th Union (Noise Room)—Los Angeles, CA *:

* w/ Lapalux
> w/ Huxley Anne
” w/ Wylie Cable
: w/ PBDY

Premiere: Hear Some Dream-Like Introspective Electronica from Gacha Bakradze

As announced, Gacha Bakradze will release a new mini-album on Barcelona’s Lapsus Records.

Lapsus Records has “closely followed” the career of the Georgian producer since he contributed to the 2014 DEU compilation with the track “Blackout” as Winter Flags, his more ambient moniker. Outside of this, Gacha has become something of a mainstay of the Belgian label Apollo, a sub-label of R&S Records. He also runs Transfigured Time.

He’s now set to release Word Color, a nine-song mini-LP in which Gacha “gives free rein to his most introspective electronica.” The album is described as “a cinematic arrangement of captivating melodies, rhythmic experimentation, textured landscapes, and micro-vocal samples.”

The release will be the Lapsus’ first of 2018.

Tracklisting

A1. Leaf
A2. The Prayer
A3. Stray
A4. The Single Hound
A5. Oneself
B1. Word Color
B2. Sarphi Rocks
B3. Clarinets
B4. Dream Debris

Word Color will land on April 13, with “The Prayer” streaming exclusively in full below.

To celebrate this album launch, Bakradze will present Word Color on April 7, exclusively within the framework of the Lapsus Festival 2018, with more information here.

RVNG Intl. Announces New Kate NV Album With Transfixing Video

RVNG Intl. has announced a new 10-track LP from Kate NV.

Titled для FOR, the album follows the Russian artist’s acclaimed debut, Binasu, and her track contribution on RVNG Intl.’s Peaceful Protest compilation—which evidently led to the new album—with a collection of colorful, emotive synth tracks “inspired by casual moments of ephemeral sound from within and beyond her apartment walls.”

The album release will be accompanied by a short online film series by Sasha Kulak in which a solitary figure performs ordinary tasks through an ever-evolving warped lens—the series will focus on “each song enacting a daily habit: waking, dressing, reading, and so on.”

Kate NV’s для FOR will drop via RVNG Intl. on June 22 on vinyl and digitally, with the first in the video series streaming in full via the player above.

The Noisemaker ‘Smell’

Later this month, KR/LF (a.k.a. Kill Ref Low Frequencies) will release the final instalment of Saturn Phases, a three-part 24-track compilation.

The three parts of Saturn Phases will feature eight tracks each, with each part dropping on dubplate LP vinyl and digitally via Bandcamp, along with a limited edition mix CD version recorded by label head Kill Ref. The ambitious project features cuts from some of techno’s most forward-thinking artists, including Oliver Deutschmann, Under Black Helmet, Ben Gibson, Patrik Skoog, Housemeister, Dez Williams, and The Noisemaker.

In support of the project and the approaching third part, the label has offered up a download of The Noisemaker’s bent acid track “Smell,” a cut guarenteed to warp the mind.

Parts one and two are out now and can be picked up here, with The Noisemaker’s track available via WeTransfer below.

Smell

Makeness Shares New Single from Debut Album

Scottish producer Makeness has shared another new single from his debut album, Loud Patterns, coming out this Friday, April 6, via Secretly Canadian.

“Who Am I To Follow Love” sees Kyle Molleson team up with Babeheaven vocalist Nancy Andersen to create a reflective mood. The track is accompanied by a new webpage designed by Kyle, featuring a collection of images documenting the making of Loud Patterns.

We’re told that Loud Patterns is an album that’s “noticeably indebted to house and techno.” Channelling avant-garde experimentalism and an outsider’s interest in pop, Kyle “embraces the distance between those two poles,” the label explains.

The album arrives after a series of releases that have established his particular, in-between approach to dance-minded music. He put out two EPs on Manchester-based imprint Handsome Dad, a one-off single with Adult Jazz, and the self-released Temple Works EP; Whities also released a limited-edition white label of a Minor Science dub of one of his tracks.

Loud Patterns LP will land on April 6 via Secretly Canadian, with “Who Am I To Follow Love” streaming in full above.

Cosmin Nicolae (a.k.a Cosmin TRG) Prepares Experimental Album for Opal Tapes

Cosmin Nicolae, the Romanian techno artist best known as Cosmin TRG, will release a new album under his birth name later this week—titled Semnal, landing on Opal Tapes.

Over the last decade, the work of Cosmin Nicolae has been a force of forward-thinking electronic music. His TRG alias formed the inaugurate release on Hessle Audio with the Put You Down / Broken Heart 12”. His music has featured across Tempa, ~scape, 50 Weapons, Hotflush, and many others, establishing him as an important part of the story of the cross-pollination of UK “bass” music with techno.

Semnal will be his debut release under his actual name. We’re told that Opal Tapes have “provided a space for Cosmin to have free reign to display another, looser, and more experimental side of his repertoire.” It’s also the first full-length effort he’s put out since his Cosmin TRG LPs for 50 Weapons, back in 2011 and 2013.

Tracklisting

A1. Semnal
A2. Demolare
A3. Simultan
A4. Sector Acuamarin
A5. Distors Util
A6. Autopilot Escapism
B1. Secvente
B2. Jos
B3. Vapori
B4. Iele
B5. Sulfuric
B6. Swept

Semnal will land on March 9, with “Autopilot Escapism” and “Iele” streaming in full below.

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