2017 has seen Dekmantel celebrating its 10th anniversary. A decade ago, the Amsterdam crew threw their first party in the Dutch capital; two years later Dekmantel Records followed. And for their decennial anniversary, Dekmantel Records are releasing ten, EPs over the course of 2017. For the series, Dekmantel invited producers who are close to their hearts, have been with them since day one or made a big musical impact on the crew. These artists include the likes of Gigi Masin, Levon Vincent, Voiski, Young Marco, and Call Super, who all graced the first EPs released earlier this year.
EP number eight features Donato Dozzy, Peter Van Hoesen, Matrixxman, and more. The tracklisting is as follows:
Tracklisting
A1. Donato Dozzy & Peter Van Hoesen “Storta” A2. Deniro “Serval” B1. Matrixxman “Sexual Frustration” B2. Talismann “Aciano”
10YEARS08 is scheduled for November 20 release, with clips streaming below.
Back on September 15, Alpha Pup teamed up with the creators of Nidhogg II to release the game’s soundtrack.
The 13-track release features original soundtrack tunes from Mux Mool, Geotic, Daedelus, and Dosoeone, and is available on cassette, CD, and digital formats. The Nidhogg team and creator Mark “Messhof” Essen sourced the soundtrack elements from Daedelus, who brought in Ghostly International’s Mux Mool and Osborne, and Anticon’s Doseone and Geotic (a.k.a. Baths). Like the game itself, which is a colorful return to side-scrolling style gaming, the music is a collection of vibrant, beat-driven cuts from some of the beat scene’s key stalwarts.
In support of the release, Alpha Pup has offered up Doseone’s warped outing “Number1” as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.
CRSSD Festival, the popular electronic music weekender taking place at San Diego’s Waterfront Park, has announced details surrounding the festival’s after party program, along with a special collaboration with Richie Hawtin’s ENTER.Sake brand.
CRSSD Festival’s Fall 2017 edition is set to return to Downtown San Diego on September 30 and October 1 with another heavy-hitting lineup, featuring the likes of Mathew Jonson, Dixon, Marcel Dettmann, Floorplan, Palms Trax, The Black Madonna, and many more. Although the primary musical programming ends at around 11pm each night, organizers have scheduled a solid lineup of after parties featuring select CRSSD Festival acts, which will go down at nightclubs and venues throughout San Diego. Highlights of CRSSD’s After Dark bill include a warm-up party on Friday night featuring All Day I Dream head Lee Burridge, Saturday night DJ sets from Breakbot at Bang Bang as well as Patrick Topping and KiNK at Spin, and an event at Music Box on Sunday featuring Cut Copy and a back-to-back DJ set from Gerd Janson and Prins Thomas.
In addition to their After Dark program, CRSSD Festival has announced an exclusive collaboration with Richie Hawtin’s ENTER.Sake brand in celebration of International Sake Day on October 1. Hawtin, who will also play the festival’s City Steps stage on Sunday, will bring a specially curated ENTER.Sake experience to the festival site, where attendees will be able to sample several of ENTER’s signature Sake batches. On Sunday night, Bang Bang will host an intimate ENTER.Sake after party featuring Lee K, Hito, and Richie Hawtin himself.
For more information and tickets to CRSSD’s After Dark events, click here.
For weekend passes and single day tickets to CRSSD Festival, go here.
Late this month, Infinite Machine will return with the label debut from Mun Sing, titled Witness.
Bristol-based artist Mun Sing is most known as one-half of Giant Swan, a duo with releases on Portals Editions, Howling Owl Records, and FuckPunk. For his first solo outing, Mun Sing delivers five twisted tracks built from stark, industrial textures, hard-hitting beats, and warped samples. The EP also lands with a remix from Infinite Machine regular Tomás Urquieta, who turns the EP’s opening cut, “Revenge,” into a post-apocalyptic techno bomb.
Ahead of the release on September 29, you can stream Tomás Urquieta’s remix in full via the player below.
Desert Hearts ‘Take The Ride’ Fall and Winter Tour will continue on to Brooklyn, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Portland, and many more cities across North America. For tickets and more info, click here.
Jennifer Cardini is a French DJ, producer, label owner, and electronic-music lifer now based in Berlin, Germany. Although not one of the biggest names in the scene, you’d be hard-pressed to find an artist with the resume and respect that Cardini commands. Her gig schedule reads like a guide to the best clubs and parties across the world, think Rex Club, Sub Club, Panorama Bar, DC-10, De School, Lux Fragil, Nitsa, and Fabric, and her tracks have landed on a range of labels of the same clout, although lately, her own Correspondant imprint has been her main focus, housing standout releases from artists such as Man Power, Agents Of Time, The Hacker, Zombies In Miami, Red Axes, and many more. Cardini’s expertise extends well beyond the club confines, too. Alongside her partner Noura Labbani, Cardini recently launched the Dischi Autunno label, which looks to focus on experimental music more in the vein of rock, indie, ambient, and prog. So far, the label has released Dollkraut’s Holy Ghost People LP, with a new self-titled album by The Magic Ray dropping next month.
Cardini is currently in the middle of a two-week US tour, followed by gigs in Ibiza, Israel, Paris, and Amsterdam. Come November, she will also participate in the Venice Art Biennale with Andre Bratten for an art installation in the French pavilion by Xavier Veilhan.
For podcast 508, Cardini has supplied an hour of low-slung grooves that give listeners a small taste of the hypnotizing magic on which she has built her name.
Where and when was the mix recorded?
The biggest part of the process—the search for the right music, the mix preparation, finding the best mixing matches etc.—was made at home in Berlin. Unfortunately, due to my heavy touring schedule and last minute label deadlines, I did not get a chance to fully record it live at home, so I had to finish it on the airplane to the US. Not ideal circumstances but I’m still very happy with the result.
On what equipment did you record it?
I’m fortunate to be fully equipped at home. I have two Nexus2 CDJs, two turntables (1210mk2), and an old Pioneer mixer. I’m actually looking into buying a rotary as it’s my favorite mixer. I love playing at home and to prepare well before heading out to play on the weekend, so it’s important to me to be able to do so.
Was there a particular idea or mood you were looking to convey?
A good mixture of home listening and music to dance to, I hope I succeeded. It’s always hard for me to deliver a podcast, so many tracks I love and only such little time. The mix starts with I:Cube, one of my favorite producers.
What have you been up to recently?
I moved to Berlin a year ago and this last summer I’ve pretty much been on the road constantly. Back home I try to do work on my two labels, buy gear for the studio, and spend as much time with my wife as possible.
You launched Dischi Autuno this year with an LP from Dollkraut, with one on the way from The Magic Ray—what are your plans for the label and what can we expect?
This label is more focused on bands and home listening music, we mainly focus on releasing albums without sticking to any genre, it can go from ambient to rock—nothing is defined. We already have so much good music piled up and I can’t wait to release it.
What else do you have coming up this year?
Lots of travel and releases on both labels and I’ll be joining Xavier’s Veilhan amazing project in Venice, together with Andre Bratten. I’m really excited about this as I haven’t been working on new music for a long time.
Tracklisting
01. I:Cube “Sequence 3” [Versatile Records] 02. Mekine u Teksi “Emersîon” [Themes for Great Cities Records] 03. Harmonious Thelonious “Abel” [Versatile Records] 04. Senyaka “Bayanyonyoba” [Rush Hour Records] 05. Moscoman “Moments In Space” [Treisar Records] 06. !!! !!! !!! – ??? ??? ??? – 🙂 🙂 🙂 07. Zombies in Miami “Take Control” (Simple Symmetry remix) [Correspondant Records] 08. Zombies in Miami “Mithril” [Correspondant Records] 09. Robotiko Rejekto “Rejekto US Dub” [Optimo Trax Records] 10. Fontän “Shadows (Pardon Moi)” [Höga Nord Records] 11. V “La Nouvelle Epoque” (Fred & Luna Remix) [Le Temps Perdu Records]
Many believe Behzad & Amarou to be one of Concrete club’s secret weapons. The French duo’s sets cruise between house and techno and reflect years spent in record stores—both in front and behind the cash register—as well as a “telepathic connection,” they say. Combine this with a profound love for music, and it’s understandable why they’ve performed at some of the world’s finest parties as well as alongside Nina Kraviz at her label launch party in Barcelona two years ago. More recently, in 2015, they launched their label Behzad et Amarou Records ” (BEAR) on which they actually intended to release this track.
The duo explain the story as follows:
“We made this track one year ago. This song means a lot to us because it’s about a dark period for the migrants in Stalingrad, and we wanted to get involved. We tried through this song to capture the moment because people forget fast and media don’t really help. It’s dedicated to the migrants in Paris, and next Sunday we will play at a party that gives the benefits to the association helping them. The original intention was to include it in our next EP for BEAR but we decided to give it away for download via XLR8R.”
As announced, Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music is touching down in Warsaw for True Music Poland, the third leg of the latest multi-city tour and the 18th show of their partnership.
This finale will feature the second True Music Forum, the coming together of some of the music industry’s leading figures to discuss the evolution of music, culture, and nightlife in 2017. The event will comprise four live-streamed panel discussions, plus an intimate “In Conversation With” interview with Seth Troxler.
XLR8R will be streaming the third panel, the topic being “The Future of Sound.”
New creative playing fields were ignited with the democratisation of music software, birthing new globally connected networks of bedroom producers. In more recent times, there’s been renewed innovation in hardware with experimental laboratories and incubators like Abbey Road Red and Music Hackspace at the centre. This conversation brings together those at the vanguard of sonic exploration to ponder what the most long-lasting new technologies may be and what the consequences on production and consumption of may be.
American-born, Berlin-based producer Xosar’s sound is a mix of unnerving atmospheres, keenly bolted onto raw techno tempos and haunting dark grooves. Xosar has released on well-respected labels L.I.E.S., Opal Tapes as well as her own Gyrocyre. Her live set is an accomplished, laptop-free one: taking in multiple drum machines, sequencer-samplers and effects.
Chagall is an Amsterdam-born, London-based electronic music producer, songwriter, and vocalist. She has been a part of the core development team and mi.mu’s wearable system since 2014 which now forms the technical centrepiece of her shows. In 2017 she worked with a team of artists to explore the interaction between music, technology, choreography, visual design and lights to develop an immersive live performance called “Calibration,” to be toured through the UK and Europe in 2017/2018.
Nadine is the Lead Product Specialist at Native Instruments, a highly-respected manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing, based in Berlin. She’s an expert in audio production as well as performing as a musician.
XLR8R will be hosting the stream on the site today, from 17.15 – 18.00 CEST, while you can tune into the rest of the panels at the True Music Forum.
Ableton has announced that BBC radio presenter, curator, DJ, and producer Gilles Peterson has joined the program for Loop in November.
Giles will join a huge list of artists and companies that includes live performances by Jenny Hval, Visible Cloaks, Nosaj Thing in collaboration with Japanese artist Daito Manabe, Laurel Halo with drummer Eli Keszler, Ben Frost, Goldie, The Roots’ Stro Elliot, JD Twitch, Goth-Trad, Jlin, Machinedrum, mastering engineer Mandy Parnell, Berklee professor and Prince’s audio engineer Susan Rogers, William Basinski, and music tech innovators Teenage Engineering.
Ableton has also released a limited number of Standard tickets, which include access to all talks and discussions, the night time program, open zone, installations, and plenty of newly added areas at Loop.
With our latest Ask The Experts feature in the works—this time with Steffi—we wanted to invite questions for our next one: Kiasmos.
Kiasmos is made up of BAFTA-winning Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, known for his unique blend of minimal piano and string compositions with electronic sounds, and Janus Rasmussen from the Faroe Islands, known as the mastermind of the electro-pop outfit Bloodgroup. Based in Reykjavík, Arnalds used to work as a sound engineer, often for Rasmussen’s other projects, where the two musicians discovered their common love for minimal, experimental music. They eventually became best friends, often hanging out in their studio, exploring electronic sounds.
After dropping two tracks on the split-EP 65/Milo alongside UK-producer Rival Consoles in 2009, Ólafur and Janus dedicated the year 2014 to exploring the area in-between Arnalds’ more acoustic, piano-based solo work, and Rasmussen’s synth-heavy electro-pop. All of their releases have landed on Erased Tapes, including their wonderful self-titled debut LP, showing their abilities in developing their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music.
They returned in 2015 with their Looped EP with re-interpretations by Dauwd and Lubomyr Melnyk, released for Record Store Day 2015, and then with three new tracks and Tale Of Us remix on their Swept EP. Recorded in various locations between Reykjavík and Berlin, the record showcases a more club-oriented beat structure alongside Kiasmos’ signature emotive instrumentation.
They’re now set to return with a new six-track endeavor, entitled Blurred, featuring four all new, original tracks, along with remixes from Bonobo and Stimming.
Now is your chance to ask Kiamos your questions on music, life, or anything you wish. All questions should be sent to [email protected] with “Kiasmos” as the subject line. We’ll pass them along to the duo who will then select their favorites, and soon we’ll publish the answers.
