Lpascolatti is a Rotterdam-based, Brazil-born producer. He describes his work as “a more mental and visual” type of electronic music, where he mixes trippy synthesizers with hard, industrial drums.
It all started with the guitar at an early age, but he became enchanted with alternative rock after watching Kraftwerk in 2009. He has been producing and releasing independently since 2015.
His latest release, Up Side Down, landed late last year, and in support of the EP, LPascolatti has offered up “They Shall Not Pass” as one of XLR8R‘s free downloads. Grab it now via the WeTransfer button below.
Texan trio Khruangbin will release their highly anticipated second album, Con Todo El Mundo, on January 26 via Dead Oceans.
The band is formed by Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums. Together, they take influence from 1960’s Thai funk—their name literally translates to “Engine Fly” in Thai. Their 2015 debut album, The Universe Smiles Upon You, drew influences from ’60’s and ’70s Thai cassettes infused with classic soul, dub, and psychedelia—but this new record sees the band expand their global influence to sounds of Spain and the Middle East, particularly Iran, from the 1960s, 1970s and beyond.
The record’s name, Con Todo El Mundo, is in part dedicated to Laura Lee’s Mexican-American grandfather, who was a big influence on her life. She says, “My grandpa would always ask me ‘Como me quieres?’ (how much do you love me?) And he’d only ever accept one response: ‘Con todo el mundo’ (with all the world). He created his own world to live in. Khruangbin is the world we’ve created.”
Tracklisting
01. Como Me Quieres 02. Lady And Man 03. Maria Tambien 04. August 10 05. Como Te Quiero 06. Shades Of Man 07. Evan Finds The Third Room 08. A Hymn 09. Rules 10. Friday Morning
Con Todo El Mundo will land on January 26, with the video for the album’s first single, “Maria También,” streaming in full above. The video tells the story of Iranian women prior to the revolution of 1979. Celebrating their creativity, freedom, and ability to express themselves, the video shows a side of women in the Middle East that often isn’t seen in the Western world.
Credits:
Concept: Sanam Petri & Laura Lee Director: Chris Boyle Producer: Helen Power Created at Private Island
One year after its first release, Nagual Drift is back with a new various artist compilation, featuring tracks from Hymns, Amnfx, Phonom, and more.
Hymns, who featured in our list of 2017’s best new artists, is an Australian DJ-producer, real name Jacob Cusumano. The Melbourne-based artist has released on Salt Mines, LKR Records, Momentary Records, and Play !t Loud; while he also co-runs Melbourne parties Cool Room. His next release, landing on January 26, comes in the shape of a dancefloor-ready acidic house contribution to Nagual Drift’s new various artist compilation.
The seven-track release features pieces of “emotional music from talented producers,” the label explains. It embraces blooming ethereal soundscapes, breakbeat, melancholic leftfield house, and “deep dark sorrow” techno. It will land on a 2×12” double EP with a handmade silk-screen process cover, limited to just 500 numbered copies.
Samuel Rohrer has shared a new video for “Body of Ignorance,” taken from a live solo performance, and announced a remix bundle featuring all four remixes of his Range of Regularity LP.
Berlin-based Rohrer is the multi-faceted forward-thinking percussionist and producer behind the arjunamusic label, the AMBIQ trio, and a wealth of other musical projects. Last year he released a new LP, titled Range of Regularity, as a double vinyl set, and followed this up with two remix EPs, including remixes by Ricardo Villalobos, Vilod (a.k.a Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer), and Burnt Friedman.
These four striking reinterpretations are now to be re-released as a bundle (2×12″ and digital), including the original mix of “Uncertain Grace” as a bonus track. Each remix provides an intriguing parallax view of the original tracks, using the percussive eclecticism of the parent LP as a starting point from which to journey into sonically vibrant territories. Though each individual remix has its own character, they are all “united in their in that they are all strung together from fleeting phrases that evolve as if they are taking on a life independent of their creators.”
Meanwhile, you can find a new video clip of Rohrer’s latest solo work, recorded live, together with visuals by Andrea Familari.
Credits
Samuel Rohrer performs BODY OF IGNORANCE
Samuel Rohrer: drums, keys, modular synths, Moog, electronics Music instantly composed by Samuel Rohrer Live Visuals by Andrea Familari Recorded by Samuel Rohrer at Funkhaus Berlin Audio Mixed by Ingo Krauss at Candybomber Studio
Ambient artist K. Leimer will release a new album, Mitteltöner, later this month via Origin Peoples.
Leimer has been producing and releasing avant-garde and ambient music since the ’70s. Much of his work has landed on Palace of Lights, the independent experimental label he established in 1979, but he’s also shared work via RVNG, Autumn, and VOD.
This latest LP will land via Origin Peoples. The title, German for “midrange,” refers to the idea that the album “takes its conceptual cues from the idea that the midrange contains all the core information,” the labels explains.
Tracklisting
A1. Dunne Luft A2. Werbemelodie A3. Anode A4. As Long Ago As This A5. Entferntemusik B1. German Defaults B2. London Interiors B3. Auf Einem Fahrrad B4. SHM B5. Cafe Florian
Mitteltöner will land on January 22, with opener “Dunne Luft” streaming in full via the player above.
Theo Parrish will soon release a new EP, titled Preacher’s Comin / Gullah Geechee.
The three-track release is Parrish’s first since last year’s Gentrified Love Part 3. It features two solo cuts and another made in collaboration with Jovia Armstrong, Keith Beber, Carolyn Ferrari, and Craig Huckaby.
The release will land on Parrish’s own Sound Signature imprint.
Berlin party place Wilde Renate will host a 35-hour+ party this weekend in celebration of the new year.
The lineup for the event includes Cassegrain, one of the most successful producer teams at the moment, with their driving techno. They’ll be joined by the likes of Fango, Jennifer Cardini, and Lauer, who is widely acclaimed for his projects like Black Spuma or Tuff City Kids with Gerd Janson, plus many more names.
The event begins on December 31 at 11 pm and will end on January 2, with tickets available here. Meanwhile, you can view the whole lineup below and stream Jennifer Cardini’s recent XLR8R podcast in full.
Lineup:
Alexkid Cassegrain DJ Normal 4 Fango Jennifer Cardini Justin Van Der Volgen Lauer Paramida Rex The Dog
22ROCKETS Adam Aalias Cyranotaurus Cortex Jack Jenson b2b Oben Ole Jamaica Suk Johannes Albert Jonny Nyn Kotelett&Zadak Kevin STN Magda El Bayoumi PEAK & SWIFT Plattenali Samuel Gieben Sebastian Voigt Swam: Thing Tobias Gullberg
Emmanuelle 5 Jared Abbott Kirill Shapovalov Kolya Rish Olympia Bukkakis ROTCIV Sado Opera’s “Love Radio: welcome 2018 special” Some Chemistry
Holotone is the label of Daniele Antezza (a.k.a Inner8)— a member of Dadub. The label’s three previous releases have come from Antezza himself, as Inner8, Koichi Shimizu, and Scald Process in late 2017. It will be Rosati’s, an Italian sound and digital artist, first appearance on the imprint. He’s previously released on his own label Nephogram and Ripple Recordings, among others.
The releases lands with the following text:
“Gaining traction, gaining speed, the primaeval ritual reaches its boiling point, melting the borders of mind and flesh: a turgid vortex of unstable potential, constantly mutating and morphing itself. Unformed and unstructured morphogenetic flows of matter-energy-information, self-organizing processes constituting a veritable non-organic life: the Body without Organs, that glacial reality where the alluvions, sedimentations, coagulations, foldings, and recoilings that compose an organism occur, a motherly womb detonating hydrogen bombs in her prefrontal cervix, atomizing the doors of perception with sheer gargantuan sonic tremor.”
Eclektic is the solo project of Zürich-based electronic producer Daniel Stucki.
Daniel’s interest in music began at the early age of seven when he started playing acoustic guitar and listening to a lot of music from different genres. In 1995, he attended his first rave and became fascinated by this “new” electronic music as well as DJ mixing. A friend took him to his vinyl dealer and Dani started to mix at home with only a handful of LPs and a pair of decks. After several years, he was ready for public gigs—intially at private and small events, but he was soon booked as a resident DJ at clubs and bigger rave events across Switzerland and Germany.
Dani then moved on to composing his own music under his alias 7AIR, first together with friends in their studios before building his own. During this time, his interest evolved into downtempo music. He soon started to compose “what came from his heart,” he says. Then, in 2016, he had his first EP released under his new alias Eclektic. Under this alias, he aims to share “a unique, intuitive sound that creates a hypnotic trip of forward beats and almost palpable overtones.”
As a showcase of his work, he’s shared “Sky Holder,” a recent cut that can be downloaded in full via the WeTransfer button below.
Umfang, a top pick as one of our best new acts of 2017, is a producer and DJ hailing from New York City and a founding member of the Discwoman collective, who in recent years have helped refocus conversations of inclusiveness and representation in dance music. Musically, Olsen creates loose, vibed-out techno with an introspective touch that stands in stark contrast to harder, and purposefully challenging, DJ sets. Following a 2015 debut on Vancouver’s 1080p label, Olsen released her first album, Symbolic Use of Light, on Ninja Tune offshoot Technicolour.
In what is a rare in depth interview, Olsen’s lecture retraces her musical journey via early years in Kansas City while discussing the politics of dance music and her distinct approaches to both production and DJing. You can stream it in full via the player above. The topics and time codes are as follows:
Topics
4:20 —Early years 18:44 — Beginnings of Discwoman 23:37 — On the importance of listening 30:34 — The growth of Discwoman 38:07 — DJing approach 49:27 —Production approach
