DJ Shadow ‘Blood On The Motorway’ (Jozef K’s Eternal Blood Edit)

Jozef K began his career DJing at Sankeys Manchester aged 19 before becoming an official resident at 20. He subsequently went on to tour the world, with shows in New York, Beijing, Moscow, and the rest of Europe.

As a producer, he has received DJ support from several key artists, including Laurent Garnier and Kim Ann Foxman. The latter even released Jozef’s track “Tribal Rhythm” on her NYC-based label Firehouse. With production partner Winter Son, too, Jozef has released on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth and San Francisco-based Acid Test; and as a solo artist he has remixed Bicep and released on Brazilian label Upfront Sounds.

Today, however, he shares a rework of DJ Shadow‘s “Blood on the Motorway,” which is available to download below. This is what he had to say:

“It has been a mad few months. My girlfriend broke up with me and evicted me out of the house; it felt like I had to start again in many respects.

“A positive I took from the experience is that it reminded me that no matter what, music will always be there. Since then I have locked myself away in the studio, finishing a solo album and more. I have had some amazing feedback from people I truly respect, which is pretty surreal.

“This is a pre-cursor of the stuff I’ve been making. It is not expressly club music, but it is straight from the heart. As a lifelong fan of DJ Shadow, I have envisioned this re-work of one of his melancholic classics for many years.”

Blood On The Motorway (Jozef K’s Eternal Blood Edit)

Priku’s Atipic Welcomes Andu Simion

Priku‘s Atipic Records label has welcomed Andu Simion for its third release.

003 is Andu Simion’s debut on the label. The Romanian DJ-producer, born in Ploieşti, has previously collaborated with local artists in various projects such as Lisière Collectif (with Dan Gheorghe and Bogdan Ardeleanu), Nohyansi (with No Hype), A Dublu (with Bogdan Ardeleanu), and Awendu (with Constantin Mihăiţă ). As a solo artist, he has previously released on Baile Musik and Brachtune.

The Bucharest-based imprint describes the four-tracker as a “house journey bearing different twists, presented in for episodes chained at an almost imperceptible layer.”

Tracklisting

Side A

01. 003.1
02. 003.2

Side B

03. 003.3
04. 003.4

003 EP is available on vinyl now, with clips available here.

Sacred Ground Festival Completes Lineup

Sacred Ground Festival has confirmed its full lineup for its 2017 edition, including Âme (DJ), Howling, Robag Wruhme, Schwarzmann, to name just a few.

Sacred Ground is more of an intimate garden party than a festival in the more traditional sense—this is the “core of the philosophy out of which the festival was born,” say the organizers, Ry X and Frank Wiedemann. It is described as a gathering where “guests, artists, high-quality food and drinks, as well as a lush and comfortable surrounding, are at the center.”

The beautiful 100-year old farm property where the festival is held is in the middle of an idyllic 36 house village, where all the village inhabitants from the youngest to the oldest are part of the festival and actively involved, either through helping setting up, running the food stalls or lending their property. The capacity is limited to 1000 people, so expect an intimate and personal event.

The annual event has been growing organically throughout the last two years and keeps on developing and improving, “striving to give everyone involved an unforgettable experience,” say the organizers.

The full lineup for this year’s edition is as follows:

Alex From Tokyo
Alex.Do
Âme (DJ)
Fort Romeau
Gigi Masin
Gunjah
Hannah Epperson
Howling
Jono McCleery
Káryyn
Keope
Lossless
Nick Mulvey
Olaf Boswijk
President Bongo
Robag Wruhme
Robin Drimalski
RocketNumberNine
Ry X
Schwarzmann
Tender Central
The Invisible
The Legendary Lightness
Thomas Fehlmann
Toto Chiavetta

More information and tickets to the festival can be found here.

For more information on the event, read our review here.

Rrose Remixes LAIR

The second release on Eomac‘s new Dublin-based EOTRAX imprint come from LAIR and features two remixes by Rrose.

LAIR, an Irish producer, classifies herself as a composer, vocalist, producer, artist, sound healer, and yoga teacher. Her background consists of singing classical and traditional material, and she has a certification in jazz performance and a masters degree in Music and Media Technologies from Dublin’s Trinity College. Currently, she creates electronic music, contemporary classical music, and healing music under a variety of aliases, including Laura Kilty and Luminou Sounds (for healing music). She is also in the duo noeverything with Eomac.

The EP includes two remixes from Rrose—one for the vinyl and a second digital bonus exclusive.

Tracklisting

01.Invoke
02.Meld
03.Meld (Rrose Remix)
04.Searching in Circles
05.Incant
06. Meld (Rrose Distillation)

LAIR EP is scheduled for June 9 digital release with vinyl on June 21.

Meanwhile, the Rrose rework of “Meld” is exclusively streamable in full below, with the snippets of the entire release available too.

Suplington ‘Loss Of Free Will’

Today, NYC and LA-based label Youngbloods released UK artist Suplington‘s newest full-length album and his third outing on the label, Repeating Flowers.

The release looks to “the processes of birth, growth, death, and the inevitabilities of life itself” via tightly woven field recordings, ritualistic rhythms, and endlessly expanding soundscapes. The album’s singular vision brings to mind the work of artists such Tim Hecker, Andy Stott, and Olatunji, it’s an explorative release and, arguably, Suplington’s finest work to date.

Repeating Flowers is available today via all digital stores and on limited edition Cave Brown Cassette equipped with plantable download card embedded with wildflower seeds. You can pick up the release here, with album cut “Loss Of Free Will” available via WeTransfer below.

Loss Of Free Will

Premiere: Stream a Track From Curses’ New Vinyl-Only Imprint

On June 2, Safer At Night label head Curses will drop the second release on his new imprint OMBRA INTL.

The vinyl-only imprint focuses on tracks that sit at the darker end of the sonic spectrum, slow-burning synth cuts heavily influenced by darkwave, rock, new wave, and punk. For each release, Curses invites a collection of artists from across the globe to contribute their interpretations, with the first release featuring a single from Montessori, alongside remixes from El Fulminador, and Mr BC.

OMBRA INTL 002 will be a four-track various artist EP, featuring cuts from Spanish producers K-effect and Cannibal Ink, Melbourne’s Dawn Again, and the label head himself. Staying true to the mission statement, the release provides a varied introduction to the label with a collection of hypnotic synth tracks.

You can pre-order OMBRA INTL 002here, with Cannibal Ink’s “La Haine” streaming in full below.

Sebastian Mullaert Remixes Moby; Hear it Now

Back on Record Store day, Rockets & Ponies dropped a special vinyl release that featured remixes of Moby’s classic track “Porcelain” by Timo Maas & James Teej and Sebastian Mullaert—following the release, the white label sold out within days.

The package follows a string of collaborations between Maas and Teej, including the Grammy-nominated reworking of Paul McCartney & Wings “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five.” For their latest, the duo serve up a trippy nine-minute dub of “Porcelain,” whilst Mullaert opts for a sun-soaked 14-minute journey into his notoriously infectious textures.

The release drops digitally today and can be grabbed here, with Sebastian Mullaert’s remix streaming via the player above.

Watch a Tutorial on Arturia’s Modular ARP 2600

In Point Blank‘s latest video tutorial, course developer and instructor Dan Herbert looks at Arturia’s ARP 2600 plugin.

In the video, which you can watch via the player above, Herbert gives a detailed overview of the plugin’s user interface, whilst explaining some of the functions available and the basics of modular synthesis. In the next video in the series, Herbert will be diving deeper into Arturia’s ARP 2600 step sequencer and developing some sounds.

You can find out more about Point Blank’s courses, which include music production, composition, mixing, mastering, and more, here.

Premiere: Stream a Track from Killawatt’s Return to 47

As announced, Killawatt is set to return to Tommy Four Seven’s 47 imprint for his sophomore single artist EP.

The UK producer Killawatt made his debut 47 appearance on the first Various Artist EP, 47001, in 2015 with his contribution, “Tensile,” alongside Kwartz, Isolated Lines, and Tommy Four Seven. He now steps up to deliver the label’s second solo artist EP, 47010, which “combines deadly broken rhythms, futuristic soundscapes’ and cutting textures to create four solid techno stepping experiments,” according to the label.

Tracklisting

A1. Meiotic Drive
A2. Mate Choice
B1. Base Analogs
B2. Allelic Drift

47010 EP is scheduled for June 1 release, with the A2 exclusively streamable in full below.

Alci Next on Seeing Sounds

Alci has a new EP on the way, titled Humanized Pattern.

Of Turkish origins but born and raised just outside of Zurich, Alci’s entry into DJing came via hip-hop and street culture, trying his hand at graffiti and breakdancing before discovering turntables. Over time, his taste has evolved, shifting into the electronic world where he now places his sound between funky house grooves and minimalistic techno.

In 2013 he released on Phil Week’s Robsoul Recordings, and by the end of the year he had followed up the EP with a three-part Early Beginnings series for the imprint. Other labels quickly took an interest, leading Alci to put out music on Infuse, the sub-label from Fuse London, and Apollonia.

Up next is the Humanized Pattern EP on his own Seeing Sounds. According to the imprint, the three-tracker is “loaded with dreamy, bewitching atmospherics as well as dancefloor-friendly sounds.”

Tracklisting

01. Rarely Listening
02. Humanized Pattern
03. Seeing

Humanized Pattern EP is scheduled for July 31 release, with snippets available below.

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