K. Leimer ‘Noise Coiled Sleep’

First Terrace will soon present FTS001, the first in a new series of split 12″s, conceived to bring complementary and contrasting styles from two artists onto one disc. FTS001, released November 10, sees an experimental veteran go side to side with one of Portland, Oregon’s best-kept secrets: Like A Villain and K. Leimer.

Created by Alex Ives and Joe Summers in 2016 off the back of a show they have on Radar Radio, First Terrace Records started as an outlet to further push some of their favorite artists they had featured on the show.

Like A Villain is Holland Andrews, an extended technique vocalist, musician, and performer. Andrews explores the vast capabilities of the human voice, composing vibrant sonic landscapes that are at times cinematic and dissonant. In addition to her solo work as Like A Villain, Andrews has composed and performed work for theatre, dance and film projects and was a vocalist and composer in the recent release of Peter Broderick-led project The Beacon Sound Choir who released their album Sunday Songs via First Terrace earlier this year.

Kerry Leimer was born in Canada and raised in Chicago before eventually settling in Seattle in 1967. In the ’70s, inspired by artistic movements like Dadaism and Surrealism and German Kosmiche music, Leimer realised the potential of composing with minimal training and scoured pawnshops for cheap or unconventional instruments to compose and record with. With his punk ethos, new age, ambient sounds and experimentations with twitchy dance music, Leimer produced a broad range of records throughout the ’70s and ’80s that made him hard to pin down.

Tracklisting

I 1). Chance Favors Pattern (K. Leimer)
I 2). The Melancholy Of Departure (1916) (K. Leimer)
I 3). Noise Coiled Sleep (K. Leimer)
I 4). Small Collected Enclosures (K. Leimer)
O 1). Overcoming Emotional Trauma and Finding Your Inner Light Vol. II (Like A Villain)

Ahead of the EP’s November 10 release, you can grab K. Leimer’s “Noise Coiled Sleep” via the WeTransfer button below.

Tessela & Truss (a.k.a Overmono) Line Up Next XL Recordings EP

Ed & Tom Russell (known respectively for their solo Tessela and Truss projects) will complete their Arla EP trilogy as Overmono next month.

The Overmono project is born of the brothers’ collective creative impulse and staking out its own defined place in the contemporary landscape of electronic music. Instead of searching for commonalities between their earlier individual work, Overmono combines the duo’s talents in order to reach the spaces between ambient, techno, and UK hardcore dynamics.

Arla III, like the previous two records in the series, is a culmination of the duo’s combined influences. “A representation of our memories—both real and false, of UK rave culture,” the label explains. “These records have been informed as much by fantasy as they are real memories. The result of us piecing together our experiences of growing up and going out to raves in the Welsh countryside.”

Arla III will again come with artwork by Rachel Bungey.

Tracklisting

01. Inulin
02. Phase Magenta
03. Pom
04. Harp Open

Arla III will land on November 24 via XL Recordings, with “Inulin” streaming in full above.

AGF Preps 10th Solo Album

On November 17, Antye Greie (a.k.a. AGF, poemproducer) will release her 10th solo album and 31st executive produced album, SOLIDICITY.

The LP once again finds the forward-thinking sound designer using field recordings to craft rhythmic and arrhythmic structures, noise patterns, and warped bass frequencies using Logic, Radial, MPClive, and MAX from cycling74. The track titles also provide a further glimpse into Greie’s mindset while creating and reference “social justice, feminism, networking power, environmental concerns, Europe and the migration crisis, technological solutions for improving activism (Pursuance Project), and more.”

You can pre-order the record here ahead of the November release.

Les Inferno ‘What Do You Think (Dub)’

Earlier this month, De Gama‘s Samosa imprint released their second offering, a four-track EP from emerging producer and label co-founder Pierandrea The Professor under his Les Inferno moniker.

Titled Everything I Do / What Do You Think, the EP features two versions of two classic house jams in “Everything I Do” and “What Do You Think.” On the a-side, “Everything I Do” opens the record with left-field disco vibes, backed by a breakdown versions that strips the vocals and places the drums at the forefront. On the flip, “What Do You Think” goes down a funky route in the vein of Paradise Garage, with a stripped-back dub version closing things out.

In support of the release, Samosa have offered up the dub version of “What Do You Think” as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.

What Do You Think (Dub)

Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder Releases Locust Toybox LP

Flying Lotus‘ Brainfeeder has today released Drownscapes, a new sonic adventure by Locust Toybox.

Locust Toybox is David Firth, a British artist best known for his animated works, in particular, Salad Fingers. A good friend of label founder Flying Lotus, he joined the Brainfeeder Films family to share his most recent animated creations: “Cream” and “Umbilical World,” and worked with FlyLo on his debut feature film “Kuso.” David makes music too, composing the soundtracks for almost all of his work as well as releasing standalone albums when he finds the time.

“I really wanted the misty bleakness of Northern England to come across,” he says of his latest album Drownscapes. “It’s an exploration of spacious areas, of descending into comforting madness, of being submerged under miles of water, surprised you are still able to breathe.”

“I think almost every track has been used in my cartoons and videos somewhere,” he says. “It isn’t a soundtrack album, it’s more of a best of the last three years of my atmospheric output.”

“I incorporated a lot of field recordings that I made in my local surroundings,” he continues. For example, the track “Pipeo” is based around recordings of a large water pipe that David climbed into with a selection of instruments. This recording technique has its pitfalls though: “I live on quite a noisy street so sometimes I just hang a mic out of the window and record the youths and drug dealers. I sometimes worry they’ll see the mic and think I’m gathering evidence,” he laughs.

Tracklisting

01. Beehive Days
02. Return To The Meadow
03. Fika
04. Birthday Lungs
05. Saptiro
06. Bomb Night
07. Wamcood
08. Kuxir
09. God Lips
10. You’ll Never Look
11. Pipeo
12. Unborn
13. Straachen
14. For Girls
15. So

Drownscapes LP is out now, with “Saptiro” streaming in full below.

Powell Announces New Mini-LP and Shares Video

Powell‘s new mini-LP, New Beta Vol. 2, will land on November 3 via Diagonal.

The seven-track release is a follow up to New Beta Vol. 1, which landed in June. Powell had this to say about the New Beta series: “I wanted a different approach to making music this year—a way to explore, to make stuff without knowing what the destination was gonna be, to go back to just making stuff consistently and putting it out without the fanfare that can come with doing an album proper. I liked the idea of keeping it to vinyl for now because that’s how it started for me and it felt like a nice situation to be making music for the people who support me the most rather than feeling like you’re making it for the internet.”

Accompanying the announcement, “Wormhole,” one of Powell’s most UK-sounding tracks to date, gets a distinctly UK video as a night out on the provincial coast turns into an acidic trip through a land of pissed-up gnomes, Princesses eating kebabs and rabbits passionately kissing under pulsing rainbows.

The track itself, while sounding unmistakably like Powell, nods to UK hardcore with its high tempo, rapid-fire breakbeats, wigglin’ acid line and punishing sub-bass stabs. “Wormhole” was released on the now sold-out New Beta Vol. 1 mini-LP that dropped earlier this year.

Tracklisting

01. PosTAe
02. Sneak 2_05
03. Rudeboy, Let’s Funk
04. Slippy Pig
05. Drumz VIP
06. Hoi!!
07. Strobe

New Beta Vol. 2 will be released on Diagonal on vinyl only on November 3.

Pablo Valentino Releases on MCDE

Pablo Valentino has released a new EP on MCDE, the label he co-founded with Danilo Plessow.

Danilo and Pablo met in the late ’90s through their mutual love for obscure jazz, sample-based house, and all things soulful. Landing 20 years later, this EP is said to like the kind of music that “sums it all up, a testament of their musical backbone.”

The release lands four years after Valentino became a daddy, and the EP is a dedication to his son, Hugo-João. On “My Son’s Smile,” we can hear a recording of Hugo-João’s laughter over a mellow, summery house track that has been a big favorite of Danilo over the years. With a little help from Lyon producer Patchworks, who played bass on the track, Valentino pulls off one of his most sophisticated productions yet.

GE-OLOGY, the legendary hip-hop and house producer from New York, flips it into a more of a peak-time thing, replacing the Fender Rhodes from the original with layers of thick synthesizer chords and a very vibrant, musical vibe reminiscent of his earlier release on Sound Signature. “Atlantic’s Calling” is one of those signature, late night house tracks

Tracklisting

A1. My Son’s Smile
A2. Atlantic’s Calling (One for Portugal)
B1. My Son’s Smile (GE-OLOGY ‘Teach The Babies’ Remix)
B2. Good Ol’ Days

My Son’s Smile EP is out now, with clips streaming below.

Atom™ Lines Up Raster-Media EP

Byetone‘s Raster-Media label has today shared a track from Atom™‘s forthcoming seven-track EP, in collaboration with Russian singer Lisokot.

Walzerzyklus sees Atom™ return to the raster family to complete his series that has once begun with Liedgut and continued with Winterreise. The seven tracks, all created in collaboration with Russian singer Lisokot, are subdivided into three pieces of two minutes each and four pieces of three minutes each, intentionally reflecting the 3/4 time of a classic waltz.

Throughout the release, Lisokot’s delicate vocals are connected to Atom™’s machine music, either complementing or contrasting each other. In the same line, the three shorter “Leitmotifs” provide the main theme that is taken up repeatedly in the course of the release.

The EP will be released on CD and as special vinyl edition limited to 300 copies.

Tracklisting

01. leitmotif I . (02.00)
02. transhuman melody (03.00)
03. be bop a lula (03.00)
04. leitmotif II . (02.00)
05. maschinenwalzer (03.00)
06. alliiertenwalzer (03.00)
07. leitmotif III . (02.00)

Walzerzyklus will land on December 8, with “transhuman melody” streaming in full below.

Ghostly Releases Xeno & Oaklander Single

Ghostly International recently released Xeno & Oaklander’s new single, “Moonlight.”

“Moonlight” is an evocative synth reverie. Liz Wendelbo’s voice glides above a Bossa Nova beat — romantic, hypnotic, like a strange recollection or a surrealist film — singing of moonlit dances and distant landscapes.

Tracklisting

01. Moonlight

Available now, the track was originally released on vinyl in association with Electronic Sound magazine. Stream it now below.

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