J.S. Zeiter Signs to Andrey Pushkarev’s Luck of Access

Luck of Access, Andrey Pushkarev‘s label, has released an EP from J.S. Zeiter.

J.S. Zeiter, born James Zeiter, is a name that will be familiar to collectors of the finest dub techno. Over the last 15 years, the mysterious Manchester artist has quietly rolled out an array of beautifully crafted deep dub techno, some of which fetch crazy prices on the second-hand market.

Here he delivers three elegant tracks that connect the dots between Detroit dub and ambient.

On the A-side, you’ll find “Scatter,” a rolling slice of melancholic dub techno that’s enhanced by drifting delays, gentle forthright drums, and crisp percussion.

On the flip, you’ll meet an impressive duo: “Silent Running” is a delicious closing track while “Absence” reveals epic and immersive soundscapes that give you a glimpse of what a dystopian future may sound like.

For more information on Pushkarev, check out his XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. Scatter
02. Silent Running
03. Absence

Scatter EP is available now. You can stream it in full below and order it here.

HTRK Release Bewitching Demos Collection

Nigel Yang and Jonnine Standish, together known as HTRK, have released Death is a Dream, a collection of demos, alternate takes, and sketches from the genesis of Rhinestones, their 2021 studio album.

Inspired by an infatuation with “eerie and gothic country music,” Rhinestones moved away from the whispered lament of the pair’s debut album, Venus in Leo, to downtempo vignettes. Now, hearing the songs in a starker state illuminates “just how striking and durable these arrangements are,” we’re told. “Like lost highway jukebox standards, the melodies radiate spectral heartbreak in nearly any key or tempo.”

Although few tracks diverge radically from their final form, they exude a looseness and transience that “deepens their beguiling beauty.” This is particularly true with the “rehearsal” take on “Gilbert & George” and the slow thrumming “Eurodance” version of “Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones.”

The release includes unheard instrumentals like “Renaissance” and “Death Is A Dream,” which spin minimalist mirages from minor key riffs.

Tracklisting

01. Renaissance
02. Gilbert and George (Dec 30 Rehearsal)
03. Valentina (Cali Highway Version)
04. Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones (Eurodance Version)
05. No Big Thing
06. Devil Do
07. Straight to Hell (Demo)
08. Reverse Deja vu (Demo)
09. Fast Friend (Demo)
10. Death Is a Dream

Death is a Dream LP is available now. You can stream the album in full below and order here.

Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder is Back with a Solo Album

Cabaret Voltaire co-founder and frontman Stephen Mallinder will release a new solo album on Dais.

Tick Tick Tick, Mallinder’s second album for the Brooklyn, New York label, further distills his fusion of minimal synth and wonky disco into a suite of nine tracks recorded at MemeTune Studios in Cornwall. We’re told that the British musician channels the “temporal malaise” of lockdown and that lyrically the record is “rich with allusions and associative linguistics.”

“Music should draw you in; lyrics should make you think,” Mallinder says. “Most interpretation is misinterpretation.”

While steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980s, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album, Pow Wow. Since the album’s release in 1982, Mallinder continued recording with his electro projects Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, and Kula. Then, in 2019, he returned with Um Dada, his first solo album in over 35 years, which was laced with left-field house and cut-up sound collages.

Tracklisting

01. Contact
02. ringdropp
03. Galaxy
04. Wasteland
05. Hush
06. Shock to the Body
07. Guernica Gallery
08. The Trial
09. tick tick tick

Tick Tick Tick LP is scheduled for July 15 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Hush” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Félicia Atkinson Announces New Album, ‘Image Language’

Felicia Atkinson will release a new album, Image Language.

Atkinson recorded Image Language at Leman Lake, during a residency at La Becque in Switzerland, and at her home on the wild coast of Normandy. Recognizing the normalization of home studios, she revisited the work of 20th-century women artists who chose their homes as a place to work: the desert retreats of Agnes Martin and Georgia O’Keefe, the life and death of Sylvia Plath.

“Building a record is like building a house,” she says, “a structure in which one can encounter oneself, each room a song with its own function in the project of everyday life.”

The album is built from instruments recorded as if field recordings, sound-images of instruments conjured from a keyboard, and instruments Atkinson treats like characters, what she calls “a fantasy of an orchestra that doesn’t exist.” There are also monologues, operating as both experimental-cinematic device and a literary style of narration.

Conceptually, Image Language is an environmental record, in the vastest sense of the world. “It is about getting lost in places imagined and real,” the label, Shelter Press, says. “It registers, too, the dizzying feeling of moving between such sites.”

Atkinson lives on the wild coast of Normany and has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. In 2020, she put out Echo on Boomkat Editions. More recently, she put out Un hiver en plein, a collaboration with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, on Shelter Press.

Tracklisting

01. La Brume
02. The Lake Is Speaking
03. The House That Agnes Built
04. Our Tides
05. Image Language
06. Les Dunes
07. Becoming a Stone
08. Pieces of Sylvia
09. The World is Full of Abandoned Meanings

Image Language LP is scheduled for June 24 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Becoming a Stone” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Dialogue Hosts Zip and DJ Sneak in Los Angeles

Popular Los Angeles-based event series and record label Dialogue will host a huge day-into-night party today, Saturday, May 7.

Known as the premier party destination for those seeking stripped-back house and techno in Los Angeles, Dialogue has a brand-new open-air venue set for today’s soirée, which will run from 5pm through midnight. Heading up proceedings will be one of finest DJs to grace the decks, Perlon label head, Zip, fresh from a stellar showing at last week’s Sunwaves Festival in Romania, a slice of which you can watch in the video below. Zip is set to perform alongside house pioneer DJ Sneak, plus Dialogue resident Halo and Detroit’s Loren, two masters of the warm up, so get there early and don’t miss a beat.

Tickets are on final release and can be purchased from the Resident Advisor event listing here.

Arp Returns with New Album of Ethereal Psychedelia

Arp, the alias of Alexis Georgopoulos, will return to Mexican Summer with a new album.

New Pleasures is the second chapter in Georgopoulos’ ZEBRA trilogy and it advances the narrative begun with 2018’s ZEBRA. Pastoral in mood, expansive in style, that record acted as a dawn on a nascent world; now, though, Georgopoulos drops us deep into the grid of the city.

“New Pleasures fast-forwards a few centuries, locating listeners in a post-industrial Sprawl (to borrow an expression from William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”) of concrete and glass,” the Brooklyn label explains, “imbuing the album with the flinty glow of commerce, the sleek rhythms of industrialization, and the cool finesse of brutalism.”

We’re told that the sensation the music offers is almost rubbery; it makes you feel as if you could flex, bend, and squeeze your body inside out. Sonically, we can expect a vivid, deconstructed take on high-definition pop and ethereal psychedelia.

“New Pleasures,” streaming below, comes alongside a striking video directed by filmmaker Adinah Dancyger. “My first impressions when listening to the song made me think about the life of a dollar in one given day and how a web of connections amongst people / New Yorkers can be formed through the act of transaction,” Dancyger says. “It was cool to discuss this with Alexis as his angle for this video was leaning towards similar images of commerce. It was an opportunity to explore the plethora of relationships one has to ‘things’ despite the connotations with any given scenario.”

Before signing to Mexican Summer, Arp put out albums on Smalltown Supersound and Rvng Intl.

Tracklisting

01. The Peripheral
02. New Pleasures
03. Preset Gloss
04. Sponge (for Miyake)
05. Eniko
06. i: /o
07. Plaza
08. Le Palace
09. Traitor (Dub)
10. Embassy Disco
11. Cloud Storage

New Pleasures LP is scheduled for July 15 release. Meanwhile, you pre-order here.

BLOND:ISH to Launch World-First “Impact To Earn” Token Activation For Bye Bye Plastic 

DJ and activist Vivie-Ann Bakos (a.k.a. BLOND:ISH) will launch the $BYEBYE token and a world-first “impact to earn” activation for her foundation, Bye Bye Plastic.

Announced during IMS Ibiza, Bakos will build and launch a $BYEBYE token off the back of a $75,000 grant through Socialstack as the inaugural recipient of Socialstack’s Climate Action Social Token Fund, an initiative in collaboration with Celo’s Climate Collective to fund and provide infrastructure to Web3 communities addressing the climate crisis. 

With the $BYEBYE token, Bakos will look to change the way the general public take to and implement true “climate change” and action.

“The sustainable and circular economy still needs to appear stimulating and incentivising in our everyday lives in order to win the tide of climate change,” Bakos explains. “With a token that rewards environmental actions, we aim to not only gamify, but also to effortlessly change the culture that will shape a plastic-free and more regenerative world.”

As part of the grant initiative, Bye Bye Plastic, a foundation that aims to remove single-use plastics in the music industry, will also run the first-ever Impact To Earn (I2E) campaign, which will aim to mobilize climate action through incentives and rewards, including $25,000 worth of $CELO tokens. 

You can find more about $BYEBYE and the initiative here.

Web3 Wrap: BLOND:ISH Announces $BYEBYE, Maceo Plex’s NFT Collection, Water & Music’s NFT Sales Report, and More

This week’s Web3 Wrap includes BLOND:ISH’s announcement of a world-first environmental impact-to-earn token $BYEBYE, Maceo Plex’s NFT collection in collaboration with EXIT Festival, the release of Emanate GO 2.0, Water & Music’s in-depth music NFT sales report for 2021, and more.

Check it all out below.

BLOND:ISH to Launch World-First “Impact To Earn” Token Activation For Bye Bye Plastic 

DJ and activist Vivie-Ann Bakos (a.k.a. BLOND:ISH) will launch the $BYEBYE token and a world-first “impact to earn” activation for her foundation Bye Bye Plastic.

Announced during IMS Ibiza, Bakos will build and launch a $BYEBYE token off the back of a $75,000 grant through Socialstack as the inaugural recipient of Socialstack’s Climate Action Social Token Fund, an initiative in collaboration with Celo’s Climate Collective to fund and provide infrastructure to Web3 communities addressing the climate crisis. 

With the $BYEBYE token, Bakos will look to change the way the general public take to and implement true “climate change” and action. “The sustainable and circular economy still needs to appear stimulating and incentivizing in our everyday lives in order to win the tide of Climate Change,” Bakos explains. “With a token that rewards environmental actions, we aim to not only gamify, but also effortlessly change the culture that will shape a plastic-free and more regenerative world.”

As part of the grant initiative, Bye Bye Plastic, a foundation that aims to remove single-use plastics in the music industry, will also run the first-ever Impact To Earn (I2E) campaign, which will aim to mobilize climate action through incentives and rewards, including $25,000 worth of $CELO tokens. 

You can find more about $BYEBYE and the initiative here.

Maceo Plex Announces NFT Collection in Collaboration With EXIT Festival 

Maceo Plex has partnered with EXIT Festival on a new NFT collection.

The full collection and its details will be unveiled on May 9, with minting starting on May 14 during the RAVERSE panel at the upcoming TOMORROW conference, which will run from May 13 to 15. Joining Maceo Plex on the RAVERSE panel will be VP of Global Partnerships at Pixelynx, Maria May, and EXIT Festival CEO, Dušan Kovačević, among others. The panel will be streamed live for those that can’t attend in person. Maceo Plex will celebrate the launch of the collection with a headline performance after the RAVERS panel at an exclusive party at the Belexpocentar the night of May 14.

The TOMORROW conference is Europe’s biggest Crypto, NFT, and Metaverse conference, bringing together around 100 speakers across seven exclusive panels, and more than 50 keynotes.

Stay tuned for the collection reveal on May 9.

Emanate Releases Emanate GO 2.0 With NFT Support

Web3 music service Emanate has released version 2.0 of its Emanate GO app.

The latest version of the app has a range of new features for music NFTs, including full streaming support (for all music NFTs, not just those you own), link support for NFTs and Opensea profiles, track downloads, offline listening via music caching, featured content hubs, and more. So far, the app has support for Ethereum and Polygon NFTs.

For those unfamiliar, Emanate is a Web3 music ecosystem that provides artists with distribution, streaming, and revenue support for Web3 music. Via the $EMT token, Emanate also gives fans ways to earn via sharing and collaborating with artists.

You can check out Emanate GO 2.0 here. 

Water & Music Released an In-Depth Report on 2021 Music NFT Sales

Today, Water & Music released an in-depth report on 2021 music NFT sales.

The report was the result of a month of collaborative work by several contributors from the Water & Music community, with the contributors analyzing music NFT data from Water & Music’s members-only music NFT database. The report covers over $86 million in revenue and also offers commentary on the data and insight into the different forms of utility emerging in the format.

Some of the main takeaways from the report include a noted spike in revenue in early 2021, due to celebrity “mega drops,” before a cooling down period in summer and a rise again in fall; indie artists account for 64% of revenue, while major-label artists accounted for 36%; from February to December, the average price per music NFT fell from $18.8K to $10.2K, with the median price falling from $1,000 to $825 per unit; electronic music was the most popular genre with 64% of the market share; and a significant amount of new utility forms was seen across the year, including “royalty shares, usage rights, NFT splits, online/offline bundles, live music, and community-building.”

The report also gives an overview of the space’s leading artists, distribution of sales per platform and blockchain, on-and-off-chain utility, big brands in the space, secondary sales, and more.

You can read the full report here, with information on the members-only database here. 

What to Join and Who to Follow:

HOLDERSLAND: a Barbados-based multi-disciplinary institution led by Haleek Maul.

Mirror Latest: an RSS-like feed for the latest editorial on publishing platform Mirror.

Guild: token-enabled membership management for apps such as Discord.

0x-Jitzu: Web3 music producer and artist.

Download: Kenneth James Gibson “The Groundskeeper”

Groundskeeping, the latest LP from Kenneth James Gibson, is incoming on May 6 via a new label, Meadows Heavy Records.

This will be the Los Angeles artist’s third full-length album of ambient works, and the follow-up to his 2018 LP, In The Fields Of Nothing, on Kompakt records.

The release came out of “dark times” that started close to two years ago with the enforced lockdown caused by the pandemic. As a response, Gibson secluded himself away in an old cabin in Idyllwild, California, eventually birthing eight original tracks. Each one started with a single sound idea and a title, out of which grew a “coherent story,” we’re told, and eventually the album.

In support of the LP, which lands tomorrow, Gibson has offered up the title-track on the B-side, “The Groundskeeper” as an XLR8R download, available to XLR8R+ subscribers below. The video from the track is also available to view

Tracklisting:

01. The Grounds
02. Small Triumphs and Deep Disappointments
03. A Snowy Year In The Meadows Heavy
04. In Time You Will
05. The Groundskeeper
06. An Untroubled Moment On Magnus Bridge
07. David’s Pass
08. Pacific Mountain Express

Full XLR8R+ Members can download the track below. If you’re not an XLR8R+ member, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Podcast 747: Marco Weibel

Marco Weibel is one of the brightest DJs to have emerged from the south-east Asian music scene. Born and raised in Singapore, he was introduced to music through his mother, who’d play soulful, funky, and jazzy music around the house, and as he entered adulthood he started hanging out at Zouk, a local club where he attended Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival. Through this, he discovered the music of acts like Dorian Concept, Floating Points, Mala, and Dâm-Funk, and as his palette developed he knew he wanted to commit his life to collecting and playing records.

Fast-forward to today, and Weibel can be found spinning a wide range of sounds, from beats, jazz, and hip-hop to house, techno, and dub across platforms like Worldwide FM, NTS, and Red Light Radio. In New York, his home since 2014, he’s flies the flag for Darker Than Wax, a Singapore/New York collective that nods to jazz, soul, and blues while embracing electronic sounds. His weekly radio show, Darker Than Wax FM, is hundreds of episodes deep and has earned a cult following with guests such as Byron The Aquarius, Suzi Analogue, and Yaeji.

What makes Weibel’s shows memorable is not just his ability to connect the dots between the old and the new, but also to dish out cuts for different vibes, whether that’s to ignite the dancefloor with infectious groove or to listen to the morning after. As part of Darker Than Wax, he also compiles the Various Channels compilation, the first of which featured artists like Jitwam and James Tillman. The next one will be landing soon.

Recorded last week, Weibel’s XLR8R podcast is full of the sort of upcoming or exclusive hidden gems you’d expect from him, including new material from Dj Snoekfish and fleet.dreams. As with Various Channels, it serves to support the fresh crop of DJ-producers that are elevating the music of New York, but this is a mix that’ll suck you in wherever you are, as it moves from hazy deep house and soul into electro, bass, and acid.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been enjoying the change in seasons, and being out more after a long winter, and back on my bike. On the radio front, I’ve been co-hosting the six-year strong Darker Than Wax FM show on The Lot Radio every Saturday where we focus on presenting fresh and upcoming music. It’s a mix of exclusive, forthcoming material I get sent alongside overlooked gems found through digging, both online and in the crates. There’s often a guest mix feature on the radio show, trying to highlight upcoming DJs and seasoned talents. Some of the recent guest highlights include Mesmé, 4AM NYC, Arushi Jain, and Joshua Lang. All very talented artists in their own right!

02. What have you been listening to?
I’ve really been back in the record stores, digging through the $5 12″ sections—mostly looking for ’90s and ’00s house, R&B, and broken beat. Growing up in Singapore, I was definitely more exposed to a UK sound and now that I’ve been in the United States for a good couple of years, it’s amazing to have easier access to the music that was coming out of New York, Chicago, and Detroit, and I’ve really grown akin to that sound. Kenny Bobien, Quentin Harris, Peter Daou, K-Hand, Blaze, Ron Allen, and Hayden Brown come to mind. That’s what I’ve been excited about! I’m really lucky to have been surrounded by a couple of great shops here that have a constant flow of inventory and employees that really hustle to make their bins interesting. Big shouts to Human Head, A1, and Ergot Records.

I’ve also been really into Jordan GZC’s latest album, My Brain’s Brain, which is everything from hazy ambient, downtempo, and futuristic soundscapes to melodic techno, otherworldly jazz, and deep house. It’s amazing and has been on repeat at home; that and a lot of reggae and dub is always on rotation!

03. What is it that appeals to you about music?
I think the music that appeals to me most is raw, unpolished, and not over-produced. It’s about capturing emotions and moments, good or bad. I tend to play and gravitate towards music that speaks to me in that way. It’s definitely a spiritual thing; how music can transcend cultures, language, and eras. It’s irrelevant what genre it is. If it comes from a true and honest place, I’m into it!

04. When and where did you record this mix?
I recorded this mix on a Thursday night in my living room. It’s a one-take-straight-from-the-recorder sort of situation, which is how I like to do my mixes. I prefer the spontaneity rather than over-planning. I don’t like to touch up my DJ mixes because I want them to be a true reflection of my DJing live.

05. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
I put aside some recent records I’ve picked up lately, like the Larry Heard on Guidance, Jay Salino, and Scott Grooves, loaded up a USB with some new and exclusive music I’ve gotten sent for radio play and just went to work on the controls for a little over an hour. I wanted to also show love to some of my New York contemporaries who have been out here and doing the damn thing. So here’s a shout out to musclecars, MoMA Ready, DJ Monchan (who runs Dailysessions), Eto Ano, fleet.dreams, and K Wata, who are all feature on this mix!

06. What can the listener expect?
Something to get you moving, straight into the dancefloor sort of situation with this mix. The mix starts off with house and goes into deeper sounds with hints of electro, bass, acid, UK garage, and deconstructed club stuff.

07. How does it compare to what we might hear you play in a club?
I think this is a pretty accurate representation of what you’d here me play in the club nowadays. It’s hard to say though because, as I mentioned earlier, I really don’t like to plan my sets too much. I like to read and feed off of the energy of a room; if the room warrants more disco and uplifting sounds then my set would be a reflection of that. This set is definitely more on a heads-down, deep in the dance sort of vibe. I’d see this go down in a smoked out basement with low visibility, with a couple of strobes and a banging sound system.

08. What’s up next?
Keeping things moving, working on a second volume to my compilation series, Various Channels. There’s also a couple of mixes in the works.

XLR8R has now joined Mixcloud Select, meaning that to hear the podcast offline you will need to subscribe to our Select channel to listen offline, or subscribe to XLR8R+ to download the file. The move to Mixcloud Select will ensure that all the producers with music featured in our mixes get paid. You can read more about it here.

Full XLR8R+ Members can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R+ member, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting
01. Jay Salino “Here Is” (Lypid Re-Visit) (Strata Recordings)
02. Scott Grooves “We Move” (Modified Suede Recordings)
03. Bad Colours “Skin to Skin” (musclecars Remix) (Bastard Jazz)
04. Jordan Fields “17th Level” (Deep N Dance Mix) (Dailysessions Records)
05. MoMA Ready “Backroom Trouble Sway Dub” (Self-Released)
06. Mark Broom “Second Hand” (Pure Plastic)
07. Larry Heard “Freaky” (Chaos) (Guidance Recordings)
08. Ricochet “Work It!” (RZ Records)
09. Dj Snoekfish “J Read” (No Label)
10. Reese & Santonio “Bounce Your Body To The Box” (KMS)
11. Pearly “Dreams Of” (Colt Remix) (Eto Ano)
12. Esposito “Framing Void” (Spec Records)
13. Escape Artist “Wanna Dance?” (Rosa Terenzi Bassbin Mix) (X-Kalay)
14. Ben Hauke “Turn It On” (Touching Bass)
15. fleet.dreams “Feel ur Fire” (Unreleased)
16. K Wata “Bonę Tags” (Slink NYC)
17. downstairs J “Wired” (Incensio)
18. Jeshi “3210” (Ross from Friends Remix) (Jeshi)

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