Podcast 775: The Spy

Wessel Janssen, the Dutch artist better known as The Spy, connected with music in his youth, when it became a distraction to a serious illness. But it wasn’t until around 2015 that he began to take it seriously, buying his first Roland MC-303 synthesizer and using it to produce functional techno as SØRN. He enjoyed the way music “connects people,” Janssen says, and how it can help you “forget about certain stuff that’s going on in your life.”

Nowadays, as The Spy, Janssen has veered towards a more experimental, evocative style, and in June he released a full album on Osàre! Editions, combining boot-stomping techno with cybernetic groove, jittery IDM, and sinister electro. Like much of Janssen’s work, it’s a fitting soundtrack for a dark, pounding basement devoid of time, and the same could be said for his XLR8R podcast, which has been in the works for weeks. Recorded in October in the Netherlands, it’s filled with electro, IDM, and pumping techno from R Gamble, E-Saggila, Violetov General, plus some unreleased music from Janssen and his favorites from his vinyl collection. Press play for some brutal ominous electronics from Amsterdam.

01. What have you been up to recently?
There’s a cassette release coming up on Osàre! Editions called The Male Body Will Be Next, which also includes artists like Laurel Halo, Upsammy, Solid Blake, Sepehr, Levente, plus many others. I’ve also been working on an album together with the Mechatronica crew. The selected tracks are now with the mastering engineer and the artwork is in the making. You probably can see it’s mainly producing music and releasing it at the moment; not that many gigs right now.

02. What have you been listening to?
I’m really into dubby stuff. I don’t know why but it keeps drawing my attention. That’s why I really like the new podcast from Identified Patient for Voltage. Mix-wise, I’m also really into the new one from Nite Fleit for DJ Mag. I met her the last time I was in Berlin; she’s just so humble and easy going. Release-wise I’m really into the new Modern Intimacy Volume 2 on United Identities, the label from the Dutch Carista. Besides that I’m still digging the Violetov General album called Gentle Reactor on Osàre! Editions. The album is so diverse and every track has its own story.

03. Where and when did you record this mix?
I recorded the mix on October 14 at my apartment in Amsterdam.

04. What setup did you use?
I used a Pioneer XDJ-RX. This one is handy if you don’t have the money for a full Pioneer setup. Plus one Technics record player.

04. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
I always try to add as much new music as possible, from myself and other producers I like, and I combine that with older tracks. In this case I did a dig in my own vinyl collection and added some of them. Most of the “new” tracks come from promotions in my inbox.

05. How does it compare to what we might hear you play out live?
I think this podcast is the same as what you would hear from me when I play somewhere live. I always try to build up my DJ sets and get the people on the dancefloor into a rollercoaster, going up, down, and doing that all over again to keep it interesting. The only thing that can switch per gig is the amount of electro or IDM tracks that I play in a set; I’ll always try to push some through and check how the crowd is vibing on that. But that’s a normal DJ thing, I guess!

06. What’s next on your agenda?
Next on my agenda is the various artist release from Osàre! Editions, which I mentioned before. I also have some radio shows and I’m working on some gigs.

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. Bobby Boycott “Plasma Display” (Unreleased)
02. Exhausted Modern “Thought Forms” (Brokntoys)
03. RNXRX “Symbol Skin” (Veyl)
04. The Spy “Spiegelpaleis” (Unreleased)
05. E-Saggila “Digital Them” (Northern Electronics)
06. RX-101 “Sys.rx.3.a006” (Suction Records)
07. R Gamble “Pit Of Vipers” (Public System)
08. Muslimgauze “Hand of Fatima” (Soleilmoon Recordings)
09. Panoramic Barrier “Az Erők Harca” (Dalmata Daniel)
10. R Gamble “Disrupted” (Public System)
11. Ether “Detonator (Furious Frank’s Placid Acid Edit)” (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
12. S.R.I. “Grand Slam” (New Transatlantic Cologne)
13. Lord Jalapeños “Step Function” (Unreleased)
14. Violetov General “Give me all your love-III” (Osàre! Editions)
15. Chino “Shiny Leather” (Mindri/Pinkman)
16. Tafkamp “Lost In Translation” (Revenge Techniques)
17. cv313 “Stained Glass (Variant Etherscope)” (Modern Cathedrals)
18. Solar “Leo” (Pildoras Tapes)
19. Jensen Interceptor & Assembler Code “Material Rhythm” (Kaptcha)
20. L.F.T. “Nest Of Bones” (Return To Disorder)
21. Talismann “Matam” (TALISMANN)
22. DJ Hash4cash “Cairo” (Gestalt)
23. NVST “Drum in the Bass of Attention (Jan Loup Remix)” (Big Science Records)
24. RNXRX “Proto Net (Rave Mix)” (Veyl)
25. Nasenbluten “Blinded” (Bloody Fist Records)

Kali Malone Recorded Her New Album at Berlin Funkhaus

Photo: Chris Fullard

Parisian label Ideologic Organ will release Kali Malone‘s new album.

Does Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive piece that features Stephen O’Malley on electric guitar, Lucy Railton on cello, and Malone herself on tuned sine wave oscillators. She created it between March and May of 2020, during an unsettling period of the pandemic.

Malone found herself in Berlin with a great deal of time and conceptual space to consider new compositional methods, and she was invited to Berlin Funkhaus to record new music within the empty concert halls. She took this opportunity to form a small ensemble with her close friends, including Railton and O’Malley, to explore these new structural ideas within those various acoustic spaces.

“Like most of the world, my perception of time went through a significant transformation during the pandemic confinements of spring 2020. Unmarked by the familiar milestones of life, the days and months dripped by, instinctively blending with no end in sight,” Malone says. “Time stood still until subtle shifts in the environment suggested there had been a passing….playing this music for hours on end was a profound way to digest the countless life transitions and hold time together.”

The music is a study in harmonics and non-linear composition, we’re told, with a “heightened focus” on just intonation. While the music is distinctly Malone’s sonic palette, she composed specifically for the techniques of O’Malley and Railton, “presenting a framework for subjective interpretation and non-hierarchical movement throughout the music.”

Does Spring Hide Its Joy follows Malone’s The Sacrificial Code, on Ideal Recordings in 2019, and Living Torch, on Portraits GRM earlier this year.

The album comprises three one-hour tracks, but it has been split into nine segments for DSPs. It’s mastered by Stephan Mathieu and cut at Schnittstelle Mastering.

Tracklisting

01. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.1
02. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.2
03. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1.3

04. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.1
05. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.2
06. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3

07. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v1
08. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2
09. Does Spring Hide Its Joy v3

Does Spring Hide Its Joy LP is scheduled for January 20 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3” in full via the player below, and pre-order here.

Little Snake Drops New EP on Brainfeeder

Photo: Harrison Neef

Little Snake has returns to Brainfeeder with a new digital EP.

DRIVING ON ACID comprises six hyper-detailed and, somewhat paradoxically, minimalistic take on avant-garde rave music, including a collaboration, “RTF150,” with fellow Alberta resident Cerdin.

“The aim of the EP was to create an honest and ultra-refined collection of acid-laced tunes that would unapologetically appeal to a sweaty club,” says Little Snake, real name Gino Serpentini. We’re told the the entire package is “carried by undertones of deconstructed club.”

Little Snake began making music at 17-years-old, releasing experimental beats on streaming sites. These soon caught the attention of Brainfeeder head honcho Flying Lotus, and he became the youngest member of the Brainfeeder family when he released his sophomore EP, Enter.

In 2021, Little Snake collaborated with two of his heroes, Flying Lotus and Amon Tobin, on his debut album, A Fragmented Love Story, Written by the Infinite Helix Architect. You can read more about his work here.

Tracklisting

01. LAUNDRYPLEX TEKK (2Ci MIX)
02. HOTBOXING THE PSYCHWARD (LSA MIX)
03. STAPLES:STITCHES (25i-NBOMe MIX)
04. ALXRPLTZ (5-HT2C MIX)
05. RTF150 (feat. Cerdin)
06. POLARITY VEIL (5-MeO MIX)

DRIVING ON ACID EP is available now. You can stream it in full below and order it here.

Fever Ray Returns with ‘Radical Romantics; Shares New Song

Fever Ray, born Karin Dreijer, will release Radical Romantics, their first new album in five-plus years, on Mute.

In the world of Radical Romantics, Fever Ray presents their struggle with love, or to be precise, “the myth of love.”

In contrast to 2017’s Plunge, their last album, Radical Romantics “speaks to both the heart and the head, the dancefloor and the bedroom.”

Dreijer first started working on Radical Romantics in fall 2019, in the Stockholm studios built with brother and fellow The Knife member Olof Dreijer. Some time in mid-2020, Olof joined Dreijer in working on Radical Romantics, co-producing album opener “What They Call Us,” released last month.

The tracks on Radical Romantics are the first time the siblings have produced and written music together in eight years. Other co-producers and performers include the power duo of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, from Nine Inch Nails; Portuguese DJ and producer Nídia; Johannes Berglund; Peder Mannerfelt and Pär Grindvik’s technicolor dance project, Aasthma; and Vessel.

Long-time collaborator Martin Falck joins Dreijer in creating the all encompassing visual world of Radical Romantics-era Fever Ray.

Alongside the announcement, Dreijer has shared bubbling, electro-pop lead single “Carbon Dioxide,” on which Dreijer wanted to describe the feeling of falling in love.

Radical Romantics arrives two years after Mute reissued a series of rare records and remixes from The Knife.

Tracklisting

01. What They Call Us
02.Shiver
03. New Utensils
04. Kandy
05. Even It Out
06. Looking for a Ghost
07. Carbon Dioxide
08. North
09. Tapping Fingers
10. Bottom of the Ocean

Radical Romantics LP is scheduled for March 20 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Carbon Dioxide” in full below and pre-order here.

Kenyan Sound Artist KMRU’s New Album Emerges from a Desire to be Grounded

Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (a.k.a KMRU) has released a new album, epoch.

Written in spring 2022, epoch is Kamaru’s first album since 2020’s Jar, and it emerged from a desire to be grounded. Constant touring had left Kamaru with a desire to slow things down to sooth some of the emotional intensity of continual movement. It felt fulfilling for him to be back home in Berlin for a while, so he channeled this energy into the technical challenge of getting to know a brand new synthesizer, the Sequential Prophet REV2, which is responsible for the majority of the sounds on the album.

Secluded in his home studio, Kamaru dubbed synth sounds on the fly using pedals, looping, and layering, then filling out the tracks with field recordings captured while on tour in the US. “It was effortless,” he tells XLR8R. “The album finished itself”

Kamaru had been listening obsessively to iconic American synth trio Emeralds which motivated him to build sounds from scratch and form his music in a more holistic, emotionally connected way. Grateful for the experiences he’d managed to have while traveling and meeting new people, epoch his way of “unravelling these feelings in slow-motion,” we’re told.

Across eight new tracks, he uses colors to paint his own unique landscape, “broadcasting a story that’s steeped in experience, movement, and careful observation.” Tracks “bleed into one another like dye in water, and the record takes on a dreamlike quality.”

Tracklisting

01. guise
02. in pieces
03. luminous beings
04. in new fields
05. mood
06. other times
07. as I wandered
08. just

epoch LP is available now. You can stream it in full below and order it here.

Dial Records Welcomes Ben Kaczor

Ben Kaczor has released a new album on Dial Records, the label of Lawrence and Carsten Jost.

Petrovo Uho LP follows the Swiss producer’s Sun Chapter One album, released in May. There’s little known about the album, other than that it comprises 11 tracks of sumptuous deep house and techno sound, typical of Dial.

It was initially inspired after Kaczor encountered a rare ear-shaped seashell he called Petro Uvo, meaning Peter’s Ear, while diving in Croatia over the summer. Inspired by the sound of a foreign language, he decided to keep all the tracks in Croatian, some of them in the dialect of the town of Dubrovnik, because “the atmospheric soundscapes of the tracks reflect memories and feelings of traveling through Croatia, the force of the sea and wind, the play of lights and moods,” he says.

Tracklisting

01. Svjetionik
02. Tramuntana
03. Uspon
04. Odsjaj
05. Bura
06. Katamaran
07. Ludilo
08. Špilja
09. Tohatsu
10. Oluja
11. Neboder

Petrovo Uho LP is available now. You can stream the release in full below and order it here.

Podcast 774: Ivy Lab

Hip-hop may have collided with electronic music many times, but few artists fuse them like Ivy Lab. The London production unit, comprising established beat makers Sabre (a.k.a Gove Kidao) and Stray (a.k.a Jonathan Fogel), has assembled an original compound between the two disparate styles, drawing partly from their past as drum & bass producers, and partly from their love of film soundtracks, synths, and the psychedelic beats of producers such as Flying Lotus or Samiyam.

Originally a trio (former member Halogenix went solo), brought together out of a shared enthusiasm for experimentations on the fringes of the UK bass music scene, Ivy Lab first pooled its individual strengths in 2013 with the single “Afterthought/Brat,” and subsequently released a run of singles and EPs for respected drum & bass label Critical. To start with, their beats conformed to a drum & bass structure, with soulful vocals, techno textures, and crisp sound design their signature. But 2014’s “Sunday Crunk” and 2015’s “Two By Two” hinted at their future direction: electronic hip-hop with subtly swung beats, weird riffs, heavy bass, and rowdy samples.

Later that year saw the creation of the Twenty Twenty London venture. Often abbreviated to simply TW/TW, the project was minted as an events series and record label, and features the majority of Ivy Lab’s catalogue including their pseudo-mixtape/LP 20/20 Volume One (2015), and their follow up, 2018’s Death Don’t Always Taste Good. In the wake of the pandemic, the duo has responded with an increasingly experimental and subdued catalogue, doubling down on the under-produced minimalism that has always been a lingering theme of the outfit’s work. Last month, they released Infinite Falling Ground, a clear shift towards this spacier, more emotional side of Ivy Lab.

To mark the album, we’re sharing a much-anticipated Ivy Lab podcast, which is jam-packed with Ivy Lab originals, several of which are unreleased. What you can expect is an expanded version of the more sultry sections of the pair’s live sets, “which frankly are our favorite passages when we perform,” Ivy Lab told XLR8R. “If the mood is right, this is more or less exactly what we hope to be playing.” Press play for just over an hour of contemplative downtempo electronica.

01. What have you been up to recently?
Mostly relentless video editing to get this live show ready, capped off with an American roadtrip with my young son. Jay is flexing his intellect right now, having just kicked off a part-time masters degree in psychotherapy.

02. What have you been listening to?
James Ruskin Hate Music mix series 2022; Skee Mask with Flowdan, Trim, Chunky, and SP:MC, Live from HVYWGHT LDN; Black Zone myth Chant Embryo Issue #2; Flohio Highest LP; plus lots of Wowflower, which is just beautiful enveloped-in-a-blanket music.

03. Where and when did you record this mix?
Jay’s studio in east London, at the start of November 2022.

04. How did you go about choosing the tracks you’ve included?
Just trying to reflect as greatly as possible our current wave of alt-R&B-inspired music, while hoping to showcase our favorite cuts from our latest album!

05. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
Parked up in neutral at the side of the road, all alone after the late shift.

06. What’s up next on your horizon?
Time to reflect and consider which direction our irritable sense of inspiration takes us. This whole project is an ode to a troubled era in our lives, so continuing its aesthetic with new material without the now-partially-transcended background melancholy will be a fresh process.

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. Kelela “Washed Away” (Warp Records)
02. Ivy Lab “Balaclava” (TW/TW LDN)
03. Alphafox “Family Style” (TW/TW LDN)
04. Oakk “WHO R U” (TW/TW LDN)
05. Joe Armon-Jones & Mala “All Ways” (Aquarii Records)
06. Ivy Lab “Celeste” (TW/TW LDN)
07. Antwon “Rain Song” feat. Lil Ugly Mane (Nature World)
08. Rochelle Jordan “Shotgun” (Protostar Records)
09. Ivy Lab “Merlot” (TW/TW LDN)
10. Ivy Lab “Our Time” (TW/TW LDN)
11. Ivy Lab “Touch & Go” (TW/TW LDN)
12. Cousin Stizz “Look Both Ways” (Stizz Music Inc.)
13. Ivy Lab “Late Night Fit” (TW/TW LDN)
14. S-Type & Martyn Bootyspoon “Drip” (LuckyMe)
15. Alphafox “Calling Me” (TW/TW LDN)
16. Hudson Mohawke “Bow” (Warp Records)
17. Ivy Lab “Fidget” (TW/TW LDN)
18. Ivy Lab “Untitled” (Unreleased)
19. Ivy Lab “Untitled” (Unreleased)
20. Double Cup Kase “Mushrooms” (Self-released)
21. Jimmy Edgar “SLIP N SLIDE” (Innovative Leisure)
22. 645AR “Bag” feat. Beam (SOS)
23. Andre Palace “No Stopping Me” (TW/TW LDN)
24. Nah Eeto & Black Josh “From Nout” (TW/TW LDN)
25. Ivy Lab “NOVV” (TW/TW LDN)
26. Deft “Humble” (TW/TW LDN)
27. Knucks “Lucious” feat. Kwengface (Unreleased)
28. Andre Palace “Untitled” (Unreleased)
29. Ivy Lab “Untitled” (Unreleased)
30. Deft “Hotpot” (TW/TW LDN)
31. Ivy Lab “Untitled” (Unreleased)
32. COUCOU CHLOE “Zero Five Stars” (Kelvin Crash Remix) (Self-Released)
33. Ivy Lab “Untitled” (Unreleased)
34. Deft “Look Back Forward” (TW/TW LDN)

Podcast 773: Roméo Poirier

Roméo Poirier, a Brussels-based musician, photographer, and life guard, began his career as a percussionist, playing military marches in Strasbourg, France, before becoming a drummer in local pop bands. Electronic music really grabbed him through a loop station, and he would go on to store those loops and his music today largely draws on resampling them over and over again. “The sound is evolving with me in parallel,” he says, “and the loops carry in their DNA all transformational stages, filled with previous tracks, sedimented.”

You’ll hear his music on labels such as Kit Records, where he shared Plage Arrière, an ode to eight Greek beaches, before moving to Manchester label Sferic for Hotel Nota. More recently, he’s signed to Jan Jelinek’s Faitiche label for Living Room, on which he explores the mysteries of music as a time-based art—not simply in the sense of duration, but the way time refracts through autobiographical experience, historical dimensions, and stages of evolution. It uses a collection of samples assembled by his father, an adventurous musician himself, and sees Poirier using his own voice in his work for the first time.

In celebration of the new album, Poirier has compiled an XLR8R podcast, filled with his favorite tracks from the past six months or so. As with his own productions, the result is an organic, fluid, free-flowing pulse that feels both nostalgic and enigmatic, with tracks that glide in and out of earshot, shifting between picturesque beauty and unsettling oddness. Press play for just over one hour of warped, free-flowing immersion.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve just released an album called Living Room on Faitiche, and I’m currently presenting it live in Europe and the UK.

02. When and where did you record this mix?
I made this mix at home in Brussels, during a few evenings at the very end of summer, after coming back from a journey in the west coast of France.

03. What setup did you use?
A few digital items: a laptop, a granular module. And a few archaistic items: cigarettes and wine.

05. What can the listener expect?
Some rare French answering machine material, a crazy story in Dutch, short edits here and there, people counting, someone laughing, fishing emails being read by a non-human voice, etc.

06. How did you go about choosing the tracks you’ve included?
As I’m not a DJ, I don’t discover new music so frequently. I guess I only provide about two mixes a year. So I would say this mix gathers what I’ve been enjoying the last six months or so.

07. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
In someone else’s living room, maybe with the presence of an animal.

08. What’s next on your horizon?
I picture my horizon among cypresses, people wearing long velvet pointed shoes, eating mozzarella baked on lemon leaves, like in an Italian renaissance painting: going to play a few shows in Milan, Bologna and Florence next week, and looking forward to it!

XLR8R has now joined Mixcloud Select, meaning that to hear the podcast offline you will need to subscribe to our Select channel to listen offline, or subscribe to XLR8R+ to download the file. The move to Mixcloud Select will ensure that all the producers with music featured in our mixes get paid. You can read more about it here.

Full XLR8R+ Members can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R+ member, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Lawrence Weiner “Une chose, deux choses, plus et vers les étoiles” (Nouvelles Scènes)
02. Heiner Goebbels “Waiting” (Nouvelles Scènes)
03. David Shea “Kuan-Yin Mirrors” (Sub Rosa)
04. Les Baxter “Fruit Of Dreams” (Capitol Records) (edit)
05. Mondrongo “Coração Pùrpura” (Brava Editions) (edit)
06. Sondre Lerche “Turns Out I’m Sentimental After All” (Roméo Poirier Rework) (PLZ)
07. Buddy Fo & His Group “People” (Lehua Records) (edit/processed)
08. Chris Dave and The Drumhedz “2n1” (Blue Note)
09. The Exposures “Collage Of Digital Passion” (Eastern Developments)
10. Sam Gendel “My <3 Sing” (Leaving Records)
11. Raymond Scott, Dorothy Collins “Stop at the Esso Sign” (Modern Harmonic) (edit)
12. Roméo Poirier “Unknown” (Unknown)
13. Andrew Pekler “Sleepless” (~scape)
14. Raymond Scott, Dorothy Collins “Look For That Hotpoint Difference” (Modern Harmonic) (edit)
15. Robert Maxwell “Strange Music” (Decca Records) (edit/processed)
16. Arve Henriksen “Blue Silk Live” (edit) (Unreleased)
17. Andrew Pekler “Live Ina Grm” (excerpt) (Unreleased)
18. Robert Ashley “Personal” (Lovely Music, Ltd.)
19. Madalyn Merkey “Archipelago” (New Images) (excerpt)
20. Sam Kidel “Disruptive Muzak” (The Death of Rave) (edit)
21. Paul DeMarinis “The Dream Advisor” (Nouvelles Scènes)
22. frere tuck “dofus” (Santé Loisirs) (edit)
23. Paul Lovens “Anselma” (Nouvelles Scènes) (edit)
24. Raymond Scott, Dorothy Collins “Miller Beer Theme Instrumental Rehearsal” (Modern Harmonic)
25. Curd Duca “Nelson” (Normal)
26. Curd Duca “Dark Swing” (Milles Plateaux)
27. Esquivel! “Latin-Esque” (RCA Victor) (edit)
28. Rodolphe Burger “Picture Music” (Dernière Bande) (edit)
29. Philippe Poirier, Stefan Schneider “Les Images” (Tal)
30. Yves Dormoy, Philippe Poirier “Analyse de la valeur” (Dernière Bande) (edit)
31. Jack Sheen “Sub Three” (SN Variations)
32. Robert Ashley & The Ensemble MAE “Hidden Similarities” (Unsounds)
33. Florian T M Zeisig “VIII” (Enmossed)
24. Jan Jelinek “Social Engineering” (Unreleased)
25. Nikolaienko “Well-degraded” (Faitiche)
26. Christian Marclay “Busy” (Nouvelles Scènes) (edit)
27. O. G. Jigg “Part II” (Earth Memory Recordings) (edit)
28. Buddy Fo & His Group “When It’s Time to Go” (Makaha)

Ulla Delivers Surprise Album of Looped Jazz and Dub

Ulla Straus, better known as Ulla, has released a surprise new album on Berlin’s 3XL.

Foam is the mysterious producer’s first full-length since 2021’s Limitless Frame on Motion Ward. The year before, she put out Tumbling Towards a Wall, one of our favourite releases of the year.

We’re told that Foam is quite a departure from her previous albums, opting for a sort of glitched jazz, dub, and ambient aesthetic. “It just might be the weirdest ambient/pop dislocation of the year so far.”

Featuring 14 new tracks, the album dissolves into a sort of jazzed bliss that’s best compared with Jan Jelinek and the piano minimalism of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s recent collaborations, as well as the memory-frothed echo of claire rousay and Co La.

Mastering comes from Rashad Becker.

Straus is based in Philadelphia, having moved through Kansas and California. She has released music on an array of labels such as Quiet Time, Experiences Ltd, and West Mineral Ltd.

Tracklisting

01. Song
02. Gloss
03. Popping Out
04. Marina
05. Creepy Girl
06. Sad Face
07. Indoor Type
08. Blush
09. For Your Love
10. Scrubby
11. 11
12. Egg
13. Macys
14. Foam Angel

Foam LP is available now. You can stream the album in full below and order it here.

Download: Troy Kurtz “Acid for Horses”

Troy Kurtz will drop his latest EP, Floating In Yellow, in December.

The four-track EP will be the fourth release on Kurtz’ label Pulp Trax, following on from two solo efforts and a collaborative EP with Lubelski. The EP was recorded during “many sleepless nights raging with lust and desire while trying not to suffocate in the thick tropical air” of Miami, Kurtz explains.

Recorded mostly with a Roland TR-8 and Korg Minilogue, the EP’s tracks focus on groove, delivering a set of cuts that run the gamut from smooth deep-house to raw acidic stompers. It’s the first EP he has sung on since his Kurtz & Bomber, released on John Digweed’s Bedrock imprint in 2012. 

In support of the EP, Kurtz has offered up “Acid for Horses” as a free download for XLR8R subscribers. With a solid groove as its backbone, the track builds tension with a deep and searing acid bassline that rises and develops across the track’s five-and-a-half-minute run time—one for the deep dancefloor moments.

Kurtz will be donating all the Bandcamp profits to the Hurricane Ian victims in Florida.

You can pre-order the EP here, with “Acid for Horses” available as a download below.

XLR8R Subscribers can download “Acid For Horses” below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

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