LGBTQ DJ Bubbles Shot and Killed in San Francisco

San Francisco DJ, activist, and artist Bubbles (real name Anthony Torres) was fatally shot at 3 a.m. Saturday morning outside the New Century strip club, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

Bubbles was a well-known and much-loved presence in the underground house and techno scene in San Francisco and once news spread, an outpouring of love was seen in a memorial at the scene of the crime and in a slew of posts online. Dark Entries boss Josh Cheon, who operates out of RS94109, a record store located near the scene where Bubbles would often DJ outside, posted a tribute to Bubbles in a Facebook post:

“If you were lucky enough to meet Bubbles you would never forget her, a true artist in every meaning of the word,” Cheon added. “Not of this time or planet, she was always full of the most positive energy she would excitedly share stories about launching a new fashion line, discovering a Severed Heads B-side and throwing a party in an underground space all in the same conversation. San Francisco lost one [of] the best and will never be the same.”

Craven Faults Preps Debut Release, Shares Video

Netherfield Works is the debut release from Craven Faults.

The 12″, which drops on September 22 via Lowfold Works, features two long-form pieces created “for half-remembered journeys across post-industrial Yorkshire.” To announce the release, Craven Faults has shared the video for a-side cut, “Eller Ghyll,” a 16-minute journey through twisting and winding soundscapes.

You can pre-order Netherfield Workshere, with the video streaming in full via the player above.

Santiago Salazar ‘Bloodline’

Earlier this month, Pastel Voids released Aspirations For Young Xol, the sophomore album from Santiago Salazar.

In the creation of the album, Salazar pulled inspirations directly from his life: “personal experiences ranging from the growth of his son into adulthood to memories of growing up in Bassett California, a struggling Latino suburb outside of Los Angeles.” Across the 10 cuts on the album, Salazar draws an autobiographical arc, from the feel-good grooves of the title track, which is dedicated to his son, to the James Stinson tribute “Ode To Stinson” and “Orange Blossom,” a faux soundtrack to the gang-filled street he grew up on.

In support of the LP, Salazar and Pastel Voids have offered up “Bloodline,” a machine-driven house cut, as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.

You can pick up the full album on limited-edition cassette, CD, and digitally here.

Bloodline

Iglooghost Shares New Track

British producer Iglooghost has shared a new track from his upcoming LP.

Iglooghost is preparing to release his debut album Neō Wax Bloom on September 29 via Brainfeeder, which includes a glorious limited edition 2xLP clear vinyl format featuring original artwork by Iglooghost, a Riso-printed comic booklet, and a character sticker sheet. Today, he shares a new track from the record: “White Gum.”

“”White Gum”” takes place during a fight between Yomi—a monk made of multi-colored fog—and Uso —a cloaked bug bandit,” Iglooghost explains. “Nimbly hopping across levitating fruit, the two beings frantically fire lasers at each other.”

Stream it now above.

Lorenzo Senni Preps Warp EP

Italy’s Lorenzo Senni will release a new Warp EP, titled XAllegroX / The Shape Of Trance To Come. 

We’re told to expect a two-tracker that explores “his deep seated influences of punk hardcore straight-edge via basslines and sudden breaks. The two tracks are said to “serve as a musical mechanism into rave music’s darker sides.”

The 12-inch follows Senni’s Persona EP, which was his first for Warp, which landed last year.

Tracklisting

A. XAllegroX
B. The Shape Of Trance To Come

XAllegroX / The Shape of Trance To Come is scheduled for September 29 release, with “The Shape Of Trance To Come” streaming above.

K-LONE Debuts on Soundman Chronicles

Following a two year hiatus, bass purveying record label Soundman Chronicles is back with another EP to add to its collection, this time by Wisdom Teeth label head K-LONE.

The label describes the three-tracker as a “label of love” which has taken “around a year to complete.” We’re told to expect a three-tracker that “borrows from old school dub influences and breathes new life into the Basic Channel pioneered dub techno sound.”

The EP comes with a remix from low-key Bristolian duo O$VMV$M.

Tracklisting

01. Old Fashioned
02. In The Dust Of This Planet
03. Old Fashioned (O$VMV$M remix)

Old Fashioned EP is scheduled for October 20 release, with “In The Dust Of This Planet” streaming in full below.

Robert Dietz ‘B-Ebene’

Berlin-based producer Robert Dietz is set to release a new EP.

TBT005 will land on his own TBT label, and we’re told to expect “five tracks all made in the last couple of lousy summer months here in Berlin in nostalgia for the better days,” Dietz explains. “It’s about house and a bit of electro. Plain and simple, no gimmicks.”

Tracklisting

A1. Vitello Tornado
A2. Kinda Nice
B1. Shesout
B2. Quadruples
B3. B-Ebene

Ahead of the EP’s release, “B-Ebene” is available for stream and download below.

B-Ebene

Download a New Mix From Cooper Saver

Los Angeles artist Cooper Saver has shared a fresh 90-minute mix of worldly grooves and uncovered house gems.

The mix lands ahead of his performance at the upcoming CRSSD Festival in San Diego—Cooper is set to play alongside Matthew Jonson, Hito, KiNK, The Black Madonna, and more—and two of his own Far Away parties (tomorrow night with Marie Davidson and Courtesy and Palms Trax and Octo Octa on September 29).

On the production front, Cooper has a collaborative disco edit with Patrick Holland (a.k.a. Project Pablo) dropping on vinyl via the Common Edit label next month, which also features cuts from Eddie C, The Mole, and Dane, and an anticipated remix for Eric Copeland dropping on DFA in the very near future.

You can stream and download Cooper’s mix below, along with his upcoming tour dates, with tickets to CRSSD available here.

Tour dates:

September 29 – Lot 613 – Los Angeles
October 1- CRSSD Festival – San Diego
October 6 – Denis Simachev – Moscow
October 7 – Skotny Dvor – St. Petersburg
October 13 – Under Bron – Stockholm
October 14 – Uberdooze – Thessaloniki
October 17 – Red Light Radio – Amsterdam

RVNG Intl. Drops New Album From Greg Fox, Shares Video

Greg Fox‘s sophomore solo album, The Gradual Progression, is out today on RVNG Intl.

To celebrate the release, RVNG have shared a new video for album cut “By Virtue of Emptiness,” directed by Johann Rashid, a regular RVNG collaborator whom also directed the documentary on the making of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Ariel Kalma’s We Know Each Other Somehow and the official video for Stellar OM Source’s “Live.”

The video is “a visual representation of Greg’s individual and universal progression as a musician through personal and performative dream states and stages,” and features Maria Kim Grand (tenor sax) and Michael Beharie (nylon guitar) playing alongside Greg on a NYC rooftop, cut with a collection of shots that Greg has captured over the years.

You can check out the video via the player above, with the album available here.

Jilk ‘Become The Build’

Bristol-based band Jilk have just released their new album, Joy In The End, via Project: Mooncircle.

Following last year’s stunning six-track EP In Need Of Tess, Joy In The End features all the hallmarks we’ve come to love from Jilk, namely synesthetic atmospheres, jazz-like percussion, and future-leaning electronics. The band have a way of crafting stirring songs that, while conjuring poignant emotions, keep one foot in the experimental world.

Joy In The End dropped on September 1 on limited handmade postcards (including a download code) and digital and can be grabbed here. In support of the LP, Jilk have offered up the achingly beautiful cut “Become The Build” as today’s XLR8R download, available via WeTransfer below.

Jilk also put together a mix full of their influences, featuring artists such as Stars of the Lid, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thomas Knack, Tortoise, Prefuse 73, Mogwai, Talk Talk, Radiohead, DNTEL, Xela, David Bowie, and Susumu Yokota. You can hear that here.

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