Berlin-based artist Fingalick is set to drop EGO on Hyperboloid on November 10.
EGO follows releases from Fisky, Jan Amit, and Fibertalk, with six cuts that look to “celebrate the artist’s journey within his own psyche, sensuality, and perception of reality.” Musically, EGO sits in the realm of modern, experimental R&B; atmospheric bass-heavy cuts sitting on the fringe of the genre.
Ahead of the release next month, you can stream the EP’s single via the player below.
Rone‘s latest album, Mirapolis, will drop via Infiné Music next week.
The latest offering from the acclaimed French artist features a range of collaborations that finds the producer working with the likes of Saul Williams, Bryce Dessner of The National, Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead, and many more across 12 vivid, multi-colored tracks. A concept album of sorts, the title and its contents look to sonically envision Rone’s early memories of amusement parks and circuses, as well as the 1927 film Metropolis. Like its subject matter, the album is a fluorescent ride through kaleidoscopic beats and winding synth arrangements.
Ahead of the release next week, Rone has shared the latest single, “Down for the Cause,” a beat-driven piece of psychedelia which also features Blonde Redhead vocalist Kazu Makino’s soothing vocals.
You can stream the new single below, with the album available for pre-order here.
New York’s Onyx Collective have today released a new EP via Big Dada.
In September of 2016, Onyx Collective, a jazz ensemble who had been performing throughout New York for years in both rugged DIY spaces and esteemed clubs, quietly released their debut album 2nd Ave Rundown on vinyl via Supreme. In the ensuing year, they would continue to build an underground profile in the city, in spite of the fact that none of their recordings existed online. Now, they make their proper debut through the release of three projects (two EPs and an LP) via Big Dada.
Lower East Suite Part One is the first installment of three. To coincide with the announcement, they’re sharing the lead single from the EP, “Fruit Stand”— a measured and soulful track, and a good introduction for those unfamiliar with Onyx Collective’s unique style of jazz.
Titled Lower East Suite the recordings that make up the three releases are taken from Onyx’ performances over the past year. Storefronts, bars, and street corners act as both venues and studios for Onyx Collective. Many of the highly atmospheric songs from Lower East Suite Part One take their names from the addresses where they were recorded: “172 Forsyth St.,” “175 Canal St.,” “Market St.”
Tracklisting
01. Color Images
02. East River
03. Fruit Stand
04. 172 Forsyth St.
05. 175 Canal St.
06. Mambo Pancakes
07. The Mask
08. Market St.
Lower East Suite Part One is out today, with “Fruit Stand” streaming in full above.
Helena Hauff has shared a mix to mark the release of Have You Been There, Have You Seen It, her latest EP which lands today via Ninja Tune.
The mix is an amazing set of electro gems for Solid Steel, which was broadcast via NTS last night and is now available to stream in full below.
Hauff describes the mix as “a small selection of feel-good electronic sounds from the heart of gentrified Hamburg.”
Meanwhile, you can also stream “Gift,” taken from the EP, below.
Tracklisting
01.The Pulse Projects “Black Catalogue Rituals”
02.Damcase ”PI03.1″
03. Datasmok “004”
04.I-F ”Lost Tracks For Lost Minds”
05. The Exaltics “Leave The Ship Now!!!”
06. V_3.378 “Gateway”
07. Cestrian “Hearse”
08. Adapta “Kord Port”
09. Q-Chip “Pleasure Anxiety”
10. Hieroglyphica “Atomic”
11. One Day In Metropia “Homeless” (Credit 00 Rmx)
12. Volruptus “Alien Transmission”
13. N.F.D. “Robot”
14. Exterminador “Aboriginal Nations”
15. Lowfish “Bitter”
16. Subhead “021”
17. Helena Hauff “Continuez Mon Enfant Vous Serez Traité En Conséquence”
Bibio has shared a beautiful new track from his upcoming album, Phantom Brickworks.
The nine-track collection is a collection of “mostly improvised musical pieces, that for some years now, have provided me with a mental portal into places and times—some real, some imaginary, some a combination of both,” Bibio explains. “Human beings are highly sensitive to the atmospheres of places, which can be enhanced or dramatically altered when you learn about the context of their history. Echoes and voices can sometimes be heard, in some way or another. Places sometimes have things to say.”
Have already shared “Phantom Brickworks III,” he has now shared “Capel Celyn,” which can be streamed in full via this link.
“The landscape is ever changing. There are many places that have been abandoned, only to become hidden among plant life, often making them more beautiful in the process. There were also some beautiful places, claimed by force and deliberately buried forever, never to be seen again. This track has always taken me to lost and overgrown places in my mind, but it was the submerged quality of the music that led me to one particular place.”—Bibio
Tracklisting:
01. 9:13
02. Phantom Brickworks
03. Pantglas
04. Phantom Brickworks II
05. Capel Celyn
06. Phantom Brickworks III
07. Ivy Charcoal
08. Branch Line
09. Capel Bethania
Phantom Brickworks LP is scheduled for November 3 release via Warp Records.
Epizode Festival in Vietnam will present a HYTE stage in which will be the first ever Asian appearance of the Berlin-based brand.
HYTE is well-known for its headline-making festival and warehouse events in New York, Miami, Amsterdam, Berlin and many other places in the world. Not to forget, their weekly events at Amnesia Ibiza, which are a big part of the nightlife of the party island.
Epizode Festival takes place on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam from December 31 to January 10, 2018; and HYTE will take over the main stage for three days of the event January 5, 7, and 9, 2018. In doing so, they’ll add some big names to the lineup, such as Loco Dice, Chris Liebing, Richie Hawtin, Pan-Pot, Marcel Dettmann, and more.
These new additions brought by HYTE add to a lineup that already features Carl Cox, Dixon, Âme, Guti, Dubfire, and Luciano.
More information on this year’s event can be found here.
Having spent seven years in his adopted home of London steadily crafting a hazy, ambiguous identity that fuses ambient onto drone and techno, Tom Hang (a.k.a Lobster Theremin boss Jimmy Asquith) finally steps up the the plate with To Be Held In A Non Position, a one-take LP that explores extended themes of isolation, loneliness, personal loss, disconnection, and reconnection with reality and (self)-identity.
Through his long-lost label Tidy Bedroom—on which To Be Held In A Non Position will be released—Tom Hang engages in a more introspective path, exploring sonic territories that find an echo with dislocated past experiences.
Tom Hang’s previous releases have come via London experimental powerhouse Where To Now?, with an effusive live cassette, Tidy Bedroom Versions 2009-2013, released in February 2015. Later followed by an organic, textural techno EP The New World released via the same imprint in September 2016.
Ahead of To Be Held In A Non Position‘s December 8 vinyl release, you can grab “All Lost & Forgotten Woes” via the WeTransfer button below.
Tracklisting:
A1. Tibetan Crash
A2. Theme For B======
A3. Everything Is Ending
A4. Intel
A5. Hiya
B1. The Calling
B2. Everybody Left Behind
B3. Open Sanctions
B4. Please
B5. Love Song For Hammer
B6. All Lost & Forgotten Woes
B7. The Calling (Reprise)
After supporting major French electronic acts such as Rone, Agoria, and Thylacine, InClose, at the young age of 22, is about to release his second EP Synchronized—a “turning point” in his artistic direction. Darker and more impulsive, it’s described as “a new chapter” for the producer.
Ahead of the November 3 release of his new EP, you can grab “White Lack,” an unreleased track, via the WeTransfer button below.
Stimulator Jones is the latest signing to Stones Throw.
Stimulator Jones is a new multi-instrumentalist and singer on the funk scene from Roanoke, VA. After his start in the music world as a hip-hop DJ, he began writing songs, and his ballad “Soon Never Comes” was featured on the Stones Throw compilation Sofie’s SOS Tape. Peanut Butter Wolf took note and immediately signed Jones to his label. A singer and multi-instrumentalist who can play anything you set in front of him—-from banjo and fiddle to harmonica and sitar—Stimulator insists on playing all the instruments on his songs himself, for complete and total control over the results.
“Need Your Body,” which is streaming below, is said to be “a taste of his debut album” out early next year.
The next release on Melisma Limited comes in the shape of a collaborative EP from label heads Felipe Valenzuela and Dani Casarano.
Back & Forward — a five-tracker — will be the label’s seventh release, following on from EPs by Felipe Venegas, Federico Molinari, and last year’s Ricardo Villalobos & Argenis Brito collaboration. It will be the label’s first release of the year, and the second time the Chilean-Swiss duo have collaborated; they launched the imprint in 2012 with the Better Than Less EP.
Aesthetically speaking, Back & Forward is what you’d expect from the pair: five expertly produced minimal house tunes. “The Spiral,” “Sonico,” and the title track are darker affairs, perfect for the after-hours; while “Blue Rally” and and “Ocio” are more playful though typically off-kilter cuts.
Tracklisting
A. The Spiral
B. Back & Forward
C. Sonico
D1. Ocio
D2. Blue Rally
Back & Forward will land in November, with clips streaming below.
Felipe Valenzuela and Dani Casarano are playing the Melisma / XLR8R party this weekend at Berlin’s Hoppetosse alongside Dan Andrei, Bruno Schmidt, and more.
