Yuki Ame has unveils the accompanying video for his track “Blue Room.”
The video follows unassuming bystanders around London’s iconic estate, the Barbican, and follows the release of the Anamnesis EP.
Director Innes Evans says about the clip: “Following on from “Circles,” I wanted to explore the sprawl of daily life and routine. “Blue Room” feels very grand for me: whilst “Circles” describes an individual experience, “Blue Room” feels like the structure that connects these experiences together.
“So, I wanted to set the impermanence of people and life itself, against the brutalist architecture of the Barbican—something that, to me, comes across as ever-present, dominating and perennial. On top of this, I wanted to explore some more unsettling themes that connected myself, the camera, and the subjects/objects in the video, all relating to how disproportionate power relations may be held by the possessor of ‘a camera’.”
Anamnesis was released last Friday via London label PANEL.
Yuki Ame started as a conceptual alias; a response to identity within Western Music, and retained an anonymous presence online for the first two years of output. Returning from Asia, Yuki Ame moved to Bristol, UK, and fell into the strong electronic music scene in the city. It was the conversion from Medicine to an Arts major in Humanities that formed an interest in the philosophy of identity within music. Despite previous roots in hip-hop and sample-driven music, Yuki Ame’s move to Bristol accompanied a shift in influence towards longer and more club-orientated production. Influences span from post-dubstep acts such as Mount Kimbie and James Blake to sample-based producers J-Dilla and Madlib.
In support the EP, you can download “Circles” feat. ZOE here.
Point Blank has released a video in which Saytek performs on Roland’s new TR-8S and gives a rundown of its features and capabilities.
In the video, Saytek gives a short performance on the unit, showing off some of the effects and live performance elements, before detailing some of its new features, including SD card sample loading, local and global effects, extra outputs, and more.
You can check out the video via the player above, with more on Point Blank and its courses here.
Parks Burton will soon release his first full-length album, Pare, described as “a distillation of themes” developed over the past four years on releases for Secret Songs, Hush Hush, and Grind Select. The release is described as “gnomic and psychedelic,” and consists of 16 “tightly wound pop songs that crackle with stacks of interlocking baroque vocals and dense, brawny synth arrangements.”
“Pare is an attempt at live-cell microscopy on small emotional themes. By way of a certain kind of layered synth density, I found I could illustrate and catalogue these totally minuscule perceptual moments that I didn’t otherwise have the vocabulary for. Pare is the total diagrammatic layout of these structures, trimmed and sequenced into something resembling pop music.” — Parks Burton
In support of the release, which lands via Grind Select, Parks Burton has shared “Wren,” an “attempt to nail down the feeling of distraction and light panic. When you can’t concentrate on anything but [the wren].” Grab it now via the WeTransfer button below.
Sacred Ground Festival will this year, once again taking place in Uckermark, a small 13th-century village approximately 90 minutes from Berlin. The event is more of an intimate garden party than a festival in the more traditional sense—this is the “core of the philosophy out of which the festival was born,” say the organizers, Ry X and Frank Wiedemann. It is described as a gathering where “guests, artists, high-quality food, and drinks, as well as a lush and comfortable surrounding, are at the center.”
The beautiful 100-year old farm property where the festival is held is in the middle of an idyllic 36 house village, where all the village inhabitants from the youngest to the oldest are part of the festival and actively involved, either through helping setting up, running the food stalls or lending their property. The capacity is limited to 1,000 people.
The annual event has been growing organically throughout the last three years and keeps on developing and improving, “striving to give everyone involved an unforgettable experience,” say the organizers.
This year’s line up includes Roman Flügel, ÄTNA, Gerd Janson, marsmobil, RY X, and Trikk with more artists to be announced soon. Acts will be split over three stages: a daytime stage, an Ambient Area, and an evening stage focussing on dance and electronic music.
This year’s edition takes place from July 13 to 15, with more information available here. Meanwhile, tickets are available here. Tickets start from 85,80 EUR, which includes camping on a hayfield as well as parking.
Jónó Mí Ló is an African-American artist, musician, and label owner currently based in Detroit. Over the past nine years, he’s worked, produced, and collaborated on a number of projects across a range of mediums, with his music landing on labels such as Ailanthus, Orange Milk, Bootleg, Wasabi, Exo Tapes, Splash Tapes, Hoko Sounds, Moon Myst Music, Hardvapour Resistance Front, Dream Catalogue, Dark Triad Records, and Pastel Voids. His also run a tape label Afternoons Modelling.
His latest release, Baseless Cultural Critique, landed earlier this month on Pastel Voids and presented five warped techno cuts, alongside a poem, which you can read below. The tracks range from the abrasive grooves of “Breath of Life” to the frayed acid of “Crisis of Character,” all mind-bending outings from an artist deeply embedded in experimental arts.
You were a snake you were when we met Slight of hand and quick exchange The eradication of Earth I realized life was a game And, Some people live to destroy
In support of the release, Pastel Voids has offered up “Crisis of Character” as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below. You can purchase the release here.
Though Pär Grindvik is recognized as something of a club DJ, his work is anything but straight-forward club music. His releases—from 2002’s debut, Shape, on Joel Mull’s Inside imprint to those on Drumcode, Semantica, Sinister, and Dystopian—have always had an edge, melding murky stretched-out sound design with broken beats and sci-fi-like ambience. It’s an engrossing sound and one that has positioned him as a central figure in the coveted Swedish electronic scene—he also runs a record store in Stockholm. Much of his back catalog has landed on his own Stockholm LTD, which he founded in 2002, a label that has also been home to like-minded artists like Peder Mannerfelt, Hardcell, André Kronert, The Persuader, and Z.I.P.P.O., among many others.
His DJ sets, too, are marked by this freewheeling attitude to techno. Those that have seen him perform at venues such as fabric, Tresor, Berghain, Concrete, Culture Box, or Output, to name just a few, are presented with an energetic and dynamic versatility that will be heady and atmospheric one minute and abrasive and confronting the next. Naturally, Grindvik’s podcast contribution subscribes to this ethos, presenting an hour of music that flows through dense soundscapes, gritty, claustrophobic rhythms, and bleep-driven minimalism that is all held together by an artist at the top of his game.
How has 2018 been for you so far?
2018 has been amazing so far! Just three months in and I already feel like this will be my most productive year ever. I’m writing music like never before, doing remixes and just started a new techno project called Aasthma together with Peder Mannerfelt. Peder and I also been working with Fever Ray’s current live show.
When and where was the mix recorded?
This mix was made on Ableton on a flight from Lisbon to Amsterdam a few weeks back.
Was there a particular idea you were looking to convey?
I tried to capture how I play when I’m DJ’ing, to choose tracks that I also play out. As DJ, I’m about mixing up new and old electronic music, the spine is dancefloor oriented but I always try to add flavors from listening pieces as well. I’m into a wide range of music and I think it’s my duty as DJ to not just play the expected. Ohh right, there are four Aasthma tracks in this mix if you’re curious.
What else do you have coming up this year?
I’m just about to leave to Asian as we speak, playing a five-stop tour over the coming two weeks. After that, I have Canada, UK, and Malta lined up for April. It’s a bit early to reveal any release dates for upcoming releases but I hope that my followers will like the new material as much as I do. Isn’t it lovely that one can be more excited than ever, even after 20 years of touring 🙂
Tracklisting:
01. Par Grindvik “London Marble” (Klara Lewis Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 02. Samuel Kerridge “Fascination Sustain” [Downwards] 03. B12 “One Thing In Mind” [B12] 04. Overmono “O-Coast” [XL] 05. Par Grindvik “London Marble” (Klara Lewis Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 06. Deniro “Rotate” [Indigo Aera] 07. Infiniti “Game One” (Steve Rachmad Remix) [Night Vision] 08. Hodge “Beneath Two Moons” [Berceuse Heroique] 09. Robert Hood “Idea” [Dekmantel] 10. Par Grindvik “Folium” (Damon Wild Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 11. Laval “Our Turn” [Stockholm LTD] 12. Aasthma “Glodie Arrie” [Tba] 13. Daniel Avery “Fever Dream” (Inga Mauer Remix) [Phantasy] 14. Aasthma “Number Mods” [Tba] 15. Lanark Artefakt “Styx” [Houndstooth] 16. Perc “I just Can’t Win” [Perc Trax] 17. Emmanuel “Hoary” 18. Laval “No Hypocrisy” [Stockholm LTD] 19. Daniel Avery “Radius” (Surgeon Remix) [Phantasy] 20. Jega “FZ Requiem” [Skam] 21. Exium – (Oscar Mulero Remix) 22. Par Grindvik “Ensemble” (Anthony Linell Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 23. Par Grindvik “London Marble” (Klara Lewis Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 24. Mistaken Identity “Mindset” [Synewave] 25. Aasthma “Arrested Line” [Stockholm LTD] 26. Adam Craft “Aphite” [Klockworks] 27. Tensile “Praxis” [Soma] 28. Nima Khak “Path Of A Projectile” [ODDEVEN] 29. Aasthma “Care” [Tba] 30. Par Grindvik “London Marble” (Klara Lewis Remix) [Stockholm LTD] 31. Rue East “Birmingham” (Suckut Edit) 32. Isabella “Dicey Takes It’s Form” [Peder Mannerfelt Produktion]
Stereolab founder Tim Gane’s band Cavern Of Anti-Matter return for their third studio album on their own Duophonic label on March 23.
The album, Hormone Lemonade, was recorded on a range of modular synths and gear from Roland, Arp, and Oberheim, as well as the self-constructed drum machines (the Taktron Z3 and Taktron Z2) of band member Holger Zapf. The album retains the loose and improvised sound familiar to fans of their first two albums, with treated guitar and live drums adding further hypnotic layers of texture and groove.
Hormone Lemonade will be released on vinyl, CD, and digitally later this week, with an edit of the album’s third single, “Malfunction,” streaming in full below.
Luca Cara, better known as Spacetravel, will release a new album on Vera and Alexandra’s Melliflow later this month, titled Ziusudra.
The eight-track release will be the Sardinian DJ-producer’s second album, following a 2016 LP for Perlon titled Dancing Therapy. It will be his second appearance on Melliflow, having served up the label’s first ever release in 2016. Since then, he’s released on Time Passages and Cabaret, and also started his own label, Traveling Without Moving.
Tracklisting
01. Sounds From The Island 02. Break Dance 03. Dreaming Good Time 04. Wake Up 05. Welcome Back 06. Tulip 07. Regressive Hypnosis 08. My Mind Your Mind
Kieran Hebden, the artist better known as Four Tet, recently returned to BBC Radio 1‘s Essential Mix.
The two-hour mix, shared on Monday, includes releases from Ben Klock, Selena Gomez, Bicep, Varhat, and Britney Spears. Included also is a new track called “Sway” and the new track that he shared on Twitter last week under an unintelligible alias.
The full tracklisting can be found here, with the mix streaming below.
MDRNTY Cruise has announced its second phase artist lineup.
Joining those announced in the first lineup, which included Andrey Pushkarev, Ion Ludwig, SIT (Cristi Cons & Vlad Caia), and more, will be Alci, Archie Hamilton, CAP, DJ Reas, Djebali, Edu Imbernon, Giorgio Maulini, Herodot, James Mc Hale, Jon Charnis, Lazare Hoche, Dana Ruh, Lunar Disco, Mathew Jonson (Live), Mihai Pol, Nima Gorji, and Suciu.
Taking place June 10 to 13 throughout the Mediterranean, MDRNTY will this year feature performances across 24-hour programming. Ticket options offer all-inclusive packages that include: cabin accommodation, unlimited dining, unlimited drinks (non-premium), 24-hour access to dancefloors, and four-part payment plans. The cruise also promises pop-up events, artistic and technological shows, film and documentary screenings, exhibitions of contemporary art, yoga, and more.
This year’s edition takes place from June 10 to 13, with more information here. Meanwhile, you can view the confirmed names below, with more to be announced soon.
Phase 1/3 line-up
Ricardo Villalobos Black Coffee Stephan Bodzin Apollonia Andrey Pushkarev Audiofly Behrouz Culoe De Song Eagles & Butterflies Hyenah Ion Ludwig (live) Jan Blomqvist (live) Matthew Dekay Osunlade Patrice Baumel SIT (Cristi Cons & Vlad Caia)
Phase 2/3 line-up
Alci Archie Hamilton CAP DJ Reas Djebali Edu Imbernon Giorgio Maulini Herodot James Mc Hale Jon Charnis Lazare Hoche Dana Ruh Lunar Disco Mathew Jonson (live) Mihai Pol Nima Gorji Suciu
