Web3 Wrap: Forefront and Coinvise’s Tokenized Community Hackathon, Refraction Festival NFTs, and More

This week’s Web3 Wrap includes Forefront and Coinvise’s tokenized community hackathon, Refraction Festival Season 0 NFTs, Seed Club’s fourth cohort Demo Day, music NFT platform Sound’s exclusive presale feature, The Willow Tree’s second IRL event, Enter The Den, and more.

Check it all out below.

Forefront and Coinvise Announce Tokenized Community Hackathon 

Forefront and Coinvise have announced a virtual tokenized community hackathon, running from April 6 to April 8.

The hackathon is aimed at “supporting creators who want to launch and build tokenized communities,” bringing together and connecting a wide-range of creatives, coders, contributors, and Web3 explorers and providing them with tools and a support network to allow them to explore the opportunities of community tokens.

The Forefront and Coinvise teams will provide guidance to hackathon participants via workshops, talks, and resources, as well as access to leading Web3 mentors, including Scalar Capital founder, Linda Xie, 1kx partner Pet3rPan, Showtime founder, Alex Masmej, BlvckHvnd founder, Ameer “Sirsu,” Global Coin Research founder, Joyce Yang, and The Late Checkout CMO, Vyara Ndejuru.

The hackathon will award over $10,000 in prizes, available in various prizes and bounties.

You can find out more about the hackathon and sign up here.

Refraction Festival Extends Minting of Season 0 NFT

Refraction Festival has extended the minting of its Season 0 NFT through April 4.

The Season 0 NFT features seven individuals NFTs from leading crypto artists Claire Silver, Setta Studio, Ellie Pritts, p1xelfool, Yoshi Sedeoka, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, and Linda Dounia. 

The NFT will also include guest list and express entry to all Refraction events until March 20, 2023, plus greenlist to future drops, physical and digital merch, and an exclusive metaverse and IRL experience during Refraction’s extended NFTNYC event. Holders will also have access to a special section in Refraction’s Discord server, which will provide “alpha on all of the events and happenings in the Refraction community.”

Refraction is a DAO building a new model for festival and event curation and presentation, with satellite events happening across the globe in over 16 cities. Artists set to perform include Danny Daze, Mathew Jonson, HRDVISION, Yu Su, Deadbeat, Byron the Aquarius, and more.

The Refraction Season 0 NFT can be purchased for 0.202 ETH (round $680 at the time of writing). Season 0 NFT owners will be given access to batch mint the seven individual artworks for free (plus gas fees)

You can find more about Refraction and mint the Season 0 NFT here.

Seed Club Hosts its Latest Cohort Demo Day

Seed Club will have its latest Demo Day on Friday, April 1.

The Demo Day will run at 12 p.m. Pacific Time, featuring all the projects from the latest Seed Club accelerator cohort. Each project lead will be given the chance to take the Seed Club stage and showcase their community’s “call to adventure” (essentially the project’s mission). Seed Club notes that the Demo Day is a perfect “opportunity to scout the most innovative web3 communities.”

Projects included in this latest cohort include Mirage, an AR (augmented reality) marketplace; MusicOS, a Web3 music dashboard; Kali, a DAO focused on solving and helping with legal issues surrounding DAOs; Metalabel, a cultural projects fund; COLORS, a media and content organization; gmgn Supply, a Web3-native physical food brand producer; SongADAO, a DAO focused on helping musicians make a living in Web3; Boys Club, a social club that will help onboard women and non-binary people into Web3; ClimateDAO, a decentralized fund focused on climate action and community; and Floppy, a Decentralized Audio Workstation.

You can RSVP to the Demo Day here.

Sound Opens Collector Presale Access Feature

Music NFT platform Sound has released a new feature allowing Sound NFT collectors exclusive presale access to new drops.

Sound’s latest feature rewards Sound NFT collectors by allocating a portion of the total supply of new drops to Sound holders. Artists returning to the platform for new releases, can allocate up to 25 of the 50 available editions to holders of their previous drops; whereas new artists releasing on Sound for the first time will have 10 editions reserved for the top 10 overall Sound NFT collectors. Any editions that are unsold in the presale will be automatically released in the public offering.

The new presale feature went live on Tuesday with Vic Mensa’s new drop, which you can check out here.

The Willow Tree Hosts Enter The Den Event

On Friday, April 1, The Willow Tree (TWT) will host its second IRL event, Enter The Den.

Enter The Den follows the first event iteration, Enter The Willow Tree, this time taking place at Dalston Den in London from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Like the first event, Enter The Den will “exhibit DJs, projects, and creations from the community,” while connecting members of the rave community with TWT members and Dalston Den’s eclectic community.

The event will also act as a warm up for Dalston Den’s Rough Cuts, running from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. with a lineup headed up by Shawn Cartier.

You can find more and get tickets to Enter The Den here. 

What to Join and Who to Follow:

hedsDAO: a decentralized audio-visual community releasing music.

Dev Moore: Creative Director at Felt Zine.

Mad Keys: music producer and Web3 artist.

unkfunk: music producer and SidewaysDAO member.

Bruno Silva is Back with New Serpente Album

Bruno Silva will release Dias da Aranha, his new album as Serpente.

Silva, a prolific fixture of the Portuguese music scene, has operated under numerous aliases throughout the years, including the much-loved Ondness and Serpente. Whereas Ondness deals personally with Silva’s obsessions, anxieties, and hauntings, Serpente is more “strict,” Silva says, and focused on percussion. In 2020, he contributed a track to XLR8R+, alongside DJ Nigga Fox, and a podcast to XLR8R.

Featuring collaborations with Maxwell Sterling, Kelly Jayne Jones, Pedro Sousa, Vasco Alves, and Gabriel Ferrandini, Dias da Aranha is a “leap” from previous Serpente releases. These includes Parada, released in June 2019, and Fé/Vazio, an album of “properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia, released last year on Ecstatic Recordings.

There’s no restrain here, we understand, the beats evolve in a self-confident way, and the way it assembles and incorporates other people’s sounds is “a bliss,” the label says. While escapism is very present in all Silva’s music, because in the past the idea of searching for it was key, in Dias da Aranha he “lives in it.”

Mastering comes from Carlos Nascimento.

Tracklisting

01. Nunca Morras
02. Meio Ondness
03. Símbolo IV
04. Símbolo V
05. Vala da Luz da Manhã
06. Ritos de Poeira

Dias da Aranha LP is scheduled for May 6 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Símbolo V” and “Ritos de Poeira” in full below, and pre-order here.

DVS1 Launches Software to Enable DJs to Donate Percentage of Gig Fees to Producers

Photo: Yonothan Baraki

Zak Khutoretsky, better known as DVS1, has launched a desktop software designed to capture the music played by DJs so more producers receive their fair share of income.

Available now in public beta, Aslice tackles the old problem of DJ fees rising and producers finding it harder to make a living off music alone. You can consider it a technology-based, community-built version of a performance rights organisation, except that it “actually works for electronic music and DJ culture,” we’re told.

As part of the software’s launch, Khutoretsky said the current system doesn’t work because music collection societies depend on DJs to provide handwritten playlists, while music-recognition software is installed in very few music venues worldwide. “Millions of dollars are collected each year that never end up back in the hands of the artists whose music is actually played in these venues,” Khutoretsky explained.

He conceptualized and founded Aslice in 2020 and recruited music and media veteran Ethan Holben, former Global Head of Red Bull Radio and Vice President at Yadastar, to serve as the CEO.

For DJs, Aslice simplifies reporting by capturing DJ software playlist data (from leading brands such as Pioneer, Serato, and Traktor) and uploading the text file via the Aslice app. Utilizing metadata and other identifiers, Aslice matches songs through its proprietary machine-learning algorithm to public databases in order to identify and attribute tracks correctly. Aslice then enables DJs to share a small portion of their gig fee to all producers on the playlist. Aslice suggests five percent, though whatever the amount, it won’t be disclosed.

“The 5% won’t fix the problem by any means, but it can immediately change an artist’s perspective about what’s possible, not only financially, but with the statistics and information they will get through the service,” Khutoretsky added.

For producers, it’s as simple as registering their details with Aslice. Every time an Aslice-registered DJ uploads a playlist with their song, they get paid. Even unreleased music is attributable in the system by adding the producer’s Aslice ID to the metadata.

During Aslice’s beta-testing phase in November, 100 DJs uploaded 110 playlists and 5291 tracks. 82% were accurately identified and matched. This led to payments for 2,213 producers, with $1.40 the average amount earned per track. Any money not attributed will be channeled into charities chosen by the Aslice community.

You can learn more about Aslice here.

Web3 Wrap: Hyperboloid Drops New Compilation, Maelstrom’s On-Chain Techno Mix With Split Payments, NFT | LA, and More

This week’s Web3 Wrap includes the new Hyperboloid compilation, which is released as an audio-visual NFT collection, Maelstrom’s sold-out Sound drop, which featured the first on-chain techno mix with split payments, the NFT | LA conference, Spike Art Magazine’s NFT cover collection, and new music NFTs from Seafoam, Kamran Sadeghi, Luciano, and more.

Check it all out below.

Hyperboloid Releases New Compilation as an NFT Collection 

Popular experimental label and XLR8R favorite Hyperboloid released a new NFT collection this week.

The collection features 22 audiovisual pieces, presented as 21 singles from 21 different artists and one album wrapping the singles together. gsm_garden created all of the visual art for the collection, which features audio from Pixelord, Max Dahlhaus, ellijah, Sangam, ZAKLADKI, Raumskaya, and more.

NFT holders will receive an as-yet-to-be-revealed airdrop from the Hyperboloid DAO and the artist subDAOs, which are said to be going live sometime this year, plus free tickets to all Hyperboloid events as long as they are running, access to private discord channels, and other goodies as the label progresses to metaverse.

You can check out the collection here.

Maelstrom Sells Out First On-Chain Techno Mix With Automatic Split Payments Going to All Artists Featured

This week, French producer, DJ, and live performer Maelstrom sold out the first on-chain techno mix with split payments on the Sound platform.

Maelstrom wanted the NFT drop to be an experiment that explores a new model for the way online mixes are delivered, as well as rethinking the relationship between DJs and producers; “99% of the time the DJ gets most of the light while the producers don’t even get mentioned (and almost never get paid),” he stated. 

The Parisian trawled through records on Catalog and Nina, finding tracks that fit the direction of the mix from producers already releasing Web3-based records. Each artist with a track featured on the mix received a 5.7% cut of total sales, while Maelstrom collected 15% for the curation (and further % for a track of his own). 

The mix sold out, bringing in 15 ETH (around $46,570 at the time of writing), which meant that the artists with tracks featured were automatically sent payments equalling $2,654, with Maelstrom himself making around $12,100.

You can check out more information about the release here, with the NFTs available on the secondary market here.

‘NFT | LA’ Kicks Off on March 28

‘NFT | LA’ kicks off Monday, March 28.

The NFT conference was preceded by ‘NFT in America,’ a one-day meetup that ran on Friday, presented by SuperRare and Dropbox. The event featured a day of speakers and lectures, including Zora’s Head of Community and leading Web3 artist LATASHÁ, Beeple, SamJ, and more.

Then, on March 28, NFT | LA officially kicks off, running through March 31 throughout Los Angeles. A range of music-and-culture events will take place, including a talk with Flosstradamus and other music-industry and Web3 leaders asking “Will NFTs Reshape Or Accent The Music & Entertainment Industry?”; “More Than JPEGS: How NFTs Can Amplify Culture, Awareness & Education,” with UnicornDAO, Paisano DAO, and REFORM Alliance; “NFTs Across Genres: Emerging Best Practices for Building Community with NFTs in Music” with Joel Cassady, Kiesza, and Matt Sanders; and “The Art and Disruption of Designing NFTs” with Bobby Hundreds, GMoney, Mec Zilla, and Betty.

You can find more on NFT in America here and NFT | LA here.

Spike Art Magazine Sells Covers as NFTs 

Berlin-based artist-run Spike Art Magazine has announced an NFT drop featuring all of its covers.

For the drop, Spike has collaborated with left.gallery to create unique NFTs of all 70 magazine covers from its 15-year publication history. The drop kicked off last Thursday, March 24, with the magazine’s latest cover, Spike #70 (the Web3 issue), and was auctioned off for 24 hours. The cover eventually sold for 0.3 WETH (around $1022 at the time of writing). Following that sale, On Friday, March 25, the minting of the other 69 covers began, with one dropping each day in chronological order, on sale for a fixed price of 0.1 ETH (approximately $340 at the time of writing).

You can check out the collection from Spike Art and left.gallery via Zora here.

XLR8R NFT Picks, Featuring Kamran Sadeghi, Luciano, Seafoam, and More

This week, we combed through Nina, Catalog, and Pianity and picked out our favorite music NFTs.

Nina once again delivers the good with a wealth of world-class tunes, including an acidic heads-down techno jam from ЯTRA; an expertly mixed, stunning ambient piece by Kamran Sadeghi; shifting and evolving experimental electronics from ' beautifully weird sound experiments from John Elliot; acid-soaked breakbeat wizardry from rave industries; and a frayed prepared-piano outing by Fine Form & Nick Hyatt.

On Catalog, you can find a dreamy beatscape by Harris Cole; head-nodding bass grooves from Great Dane; an emotive and nimble beat cut from Alexander Lewis; and a feel-good bass track from 0x-Jitzu.

Pianity has a helping of dancefloor tunes, including a swinging deep house from Seafoam; deep atmospheric minimal by GIAS; immaculately produced melodic grooves from Moonwalker; and a dubby piece of house from the legendary Luciano.

What to Join and Who to Follow:

SamJ: non-binary artist on SuperRare.

Dillon ATM: co-founder and Creative Director of e-sports co-op and DAO BLVKHVND.

Leonidas: NFT archaeologist.

Farokh: Web3 writer and founder and Rug Radio.

Catalan Pianist Marina Herlop Next on PAN with Third Album

Photo: Simone Trabucchi

Marina Herlop will release her third album on Bill Kouligas’ PAN in May.

Though Herlop is described as a Catalan pianist, she’s moving into experimental composition and production. Pripyat, her first full album produced on a computer, following 2016’s Nanook and 2018’s Babasha, is described as her most “intensely emotional” work to date by the Berlin label.

Listening to Pripyat, we’re told you can feel the “emotional toil and creative endeavour” that went into the record.

Fans of Nanook and Babasha will recognise the combination of melancholic piano, but the album has a fuller, almost chaotic sound when compared to Herlop’s previous work, with the addition of electronic drums, electric bass lines, and other production effects. The release is the “perfect combination of computer production trickery and intimate emotional release.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Herlop has shared “miu,” on which she employs the intricate trickery of her voice, tracing rhythmical clusters around the subtlest of musical beds, in a technique inspired by Carnatic music of southern India. It was among the first songs that she ever made on a computer.

Tracklisting

01. abans abans
02. shaolin mantis
03. lyssof
04. miu
05. ubuntu
06. Kaddisch
07. miu (Choir Version)

Pripyat LP is scheduled for May 20 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “miu” in full below and pre-order here.

Fabric Resident Anna Wall Releases Ambient Album

Anna Wall, a resident DJ of Fabric in London, has released her debut album.

Missing Moments is the third release on Wall’s own Dream Theory label, which focuses on sounds across the ambient and experimental spectrum. All nine ambient soundscapes were produced between 2018 and 2021, and together they comprise a “contemplative trip through various different ideas, thoughts, and moments.”

“This is quite a personal, introspective project that I’ve been working on over the last four years,” Wall says. “I found a sense of escapism during the writing process, especially in the last few years, when we were in moments of standstill.”

The album explores analogue recordings from synthesizers such as the Roland SH-09 and Oberheim 12, and field recordings from Wall’s travels to Ibiza and Portugal that provide subtle atmospheres, plus some other sounds recorded from her local environment such as the Hackney Marshes in London. It features collaborations with multi-instrumentalist Steve “Bertle” Burton and singer-songwriter Binky.

In 2021, Wall released an EP with Josie Danielle titled Rainbow.

The album artwork comes from Natalia Latyszonek.

Tracklisting

01. Memories feat. Binky
02. Missing Moments
03. Venus feat. Steve “Bertie” Burton
04. Murmurations
05. Alone Tonight feat. Binky
06. With You
07. I’ll Try Feat. Steve “Bertie” Burton
08. Will You Ever Forgive Me feat. Steve “Bertie” Burton
09. It Was Never The Same Again

Missing Moments LP is available now. You can stream the album in full below and order it here.

William Basinski and Janek Schaefer’s New Album Took Eight Years to Produce

Avant-garde composers William Basinski and Janek Schaefer have teamed up on a new album for Temporary Residence Ltd.

. . . on reflection, a five-song collaboration, was created between Los Angeles and London. Time and duration are core themes in the work of both Basinski and Schaefer’s work, and this long-distance collaboration took a suitably long gestation of eight years—from 2014 and 2022—from start to finish. In that time, our collective perception of time has at times become disorienting, and . . . on reflection remodels that instability as a work of art that’s “unmoored by time or space.”

“. . . on reflection looks backwards, a bustling revelry of positive emotions heard through the ageing mirrors of memory,” we’re told. “It is a celebratory meditation where sound shimmers through time like the light of the sea’s waves glistening as it folds and unfolds upon itself.”

Alongside the announcement, Basinski and Schaefer have shared the album’s first track, accompanied with a video cut from Basinski’s forthcoming feature film, “Iceland Celeste,” co-directed with his longterm partner James Elaine. Deploying a delicate piano passage from their collective archive, Basinski and Schaefer weave and reweave in numerous ways, forging an iridescent flurry of flickering melodies.

The album is dedicated to the late Harold Budd.

Tracklisting

01. . . . on reflection (one)
02. . . . on reflection (two)
03. . . . on reflection (three)
04. . . . on reflection (four)
05. . . . on reflection (five)

. . . on reflection LP is scheduled for April 29 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “. . . on reflection (one)” in full below and pre-order here.

Bye Bye Plastic to Host Miami Week Fundraiser

Bye Bye Plastic, an organisation aiming to eliminate single-use plastics from the music industry, is hosting a fundraiser at Miami Music Week tomorrow.

The fundraiser, hosted by SolSun, aims to scale consciousness and deepen our commitment to Earth, featuring music from Blond:ish, a Bye Bye Plastic co-founder, with opening DJ sets by Differ and Soul Real (Ellina Sukh b2b Hanna Leon). There will be additional “consciousness programming” that includes panel discussions, yoga, sound healing, and art activations and NFT galleries by Miami Art Society, featuring Hoxxoh, Brian Butler, Baghead, and Jeff Dekal.

All ticket proceeds go to Bye Bye Plastic, to support their mission.

Tickets for this event are available here, with more information.

Podcast 741: Masha Mar

Masha Mar is a DJ-producer and promoter known for moving dancefloors with her eclectic house selections that move through different moods and tempos. She’s also widely known for co-founding Dig Deeper LA, a Los Angeles party series aimed at open-minded people that showcases the best electronic music artists she can find, irrespective of names and social media following. This ethos is something that she applies to her own DJ sets, whether that’s in clubs across north America or through her residencies on NTS Radio (Beyond The Clouds), where she plays sun-kissed dub and balearic beats, and dublab (Analogue Players Club). You’ll regularly find her playing at warehouse and loft parties across Los Angeles, and at festivals like Coachella and Secret Project.

House music found Mar while she was growing up in Greece. Unlike in Serbia, where she was born, electronic music was prevalent, so much so that the jingle for the evening news was the hook from Faithless’ “Insomnia.” Her three older siblings worked in nightclubs and would bring home house music compilations, but she also developed an unhealthy obsession with the dance charts. By the time she joined her family in Los Angeles as a teenager, she’d read up on raves like Monster Massive and she dived right in. Over time, though, she discovered more left-field dance music, which eventually led her into DJing herself, and she launched Dig Deeper alongside Alison Swing as a platform to play her favorite records alongside the artists that excite her.

Fast forward to today, and Dig Deeper is established as a staple of the southern California music community, and the same can be said of Masha Mar. With nightclubs reopening and festivals back, she’s compiled an XLR8R podcast filled with the music she’s ready to play out. At just over one hour in length, it’s a mix of uplifting, funky house and Italo disco from artists including Harvey Sutherland, Das Complex, and Budino. If you listen carefully, you’ll also hear an exclusive first taste of Mar’s debut EP, coming later this year.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been enjoying the world reopening and the dance music scene being back in full force. I’ve had a lot of fun gigs these past few weekends, from playing the underground Pegasus party to opening for Bicep at the Mayan theater and road-tripping to DJ in Bombay Beach out in the desert. I just started surfing again after a winter hiatus and I’m looking forward to spending more time in nature to balance the club nights.

02. What have you been listening to?
Recently I’ve been listening to System Olympia, Space Ghost, and Alex Ho’s new album out on Music from Memory. Tip! I’m always digging for music to play out as well as on my radio shows via NTS and dublab. My NTS show, Beyond the Clouds, is mostly chilled daytime music, with lots of dub/lovers rock, synth-pop, and “songs.” My dublab show, Analogue Players Club, which I inherited from Peaking Lights, is a more traditional dance show. It kicks off the weekend on the first Friday of the month with a lot of new and old discoveries in house, electro, and disco.

03. What is it that appeals to you about electronic music?
Electronic music’s cathartic energy and physicality drew me in; you can’t help but move your body and feel a release. It’s really powerful, healing, and life-affirming. I also love how communal it is! It’s best enjoyed with kindred spirits in a liberating space.

04. Where are your favourite places to dig for electronic music?
I buy most of my digital music from Bandcamp and appreciate getting notified as soon as there’s a new release from a label or artist I follow. I love record shopping in real life, especially when traveling. Stellar Remnant, PB Vinyl, and Sound Metaphors are some of my favorite curated shops.

05. What are the standout guests you’ve had at Dig Deeper and why?
Daniele Baldeli, K-Hand, and Jay Daniel all had their Los Angeles debuts at Dig Deeper which always makes it really special. We were lucky to book The Blessed Madonna right before she blew up in 2015. That was a memorable night as we lost our venue hours before showtime and had to scramble to find a new one, but we somehow pulled it off! DJ Sprinkles and Lena Willikens on the same lineup was super dreamy. Axel Bowman and Kornel Kovacs have become close friends and it’s always a blast having them play and bring their Studio Barnhus signature sound!

06. When and where did you record this mix?
I recorded this mix in early February at home.

07. What can the listener expect?
An upbeat mix of records I’m feeling at the moment. A journey through the various styles of house, Italo disco, and funk I’m into.

08. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
I picked a lot of tracks I’ve been playing lately to make this mix a current representation of my sound. Some unreleased highlights include a track from Dave Aju on his excellent label Elbow Grease, Das Complex’s new record on Internasjonal, and a premiere of my forthcoming EP.

09. How does it compare to what we might hear you play in a club?
It’s kind of in between a club set and a radio show. it’s hard to play a full on club set if not in the club but I tried to capture that spirit.

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. Sangre Voss “Bona Fide Friday” (Al Zanders Remix) (A-Z Records)
02. Intimacy “Angelo’s Houz” (D50 String Mix) (Bouquet. Records)
03. Das Komplex “Gdziekolwiek” (Internasjonal)
04. Dave Aju “Space Tempo” (Elbow Grease)
05. Memphis “Deep Core” (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
06. e-freq “Freq Dub”(Hot Haus Records)
07. Dirty Channels & Don Carlos “Adriatico” (Dub Mix) (Polifonic)
08. Prom Night & Brynjolfur “Dr. Arpeggio” (Storken Remix) (Prom Night Records)
09. Eden Burns “The Siren’s Song” (Public Possession)
10. Budino “Venus in Crime” (Oddysee)
11. The Glimmers “U Rocked My World” (Pete Herbert & Tristan da Cunha Remix) (GOMMA)
12. Johannes Albert “Lemonade Fizz” (Live At Robert Johnson)
13. Masha Mar “Extended Release” (Forthcoming)
14. Lauer “Offset Pat” (Futureboogie)
15. DJ Fett Burger “MILKY WAY” (Digitalized Planet B)
16. Harvey Sutherland “Superego” (Dub Mix) “(Self-Released)
17. Neil Frances “Mr Blue” (Masha Mar’s Blue Dream Remix) (Nettwerk Music Group)

Gene On Earth’s Second Album is Incoming

Gene On Earth will release his second album, Time on the Vine, in June.

After being marooned in a small beach town in Brazil at the start of the pandemic, California-born Gene On Earth eventually made it home to Berlin, Germany. And, as the reality of the global situation sunk in, he set to work on his second album—a follow on from 2019’s Local Fuzz. He began by gathering an “arsenal of samples” and locked himself away in his studio, working an obsessive daily rhythm waylaid only by a nasty bout of covid.

The goal, he told was Resident Advisor, was to go outside of his comfort zone genre-wise, while simultaneously honing further in on the sound and mood he loves: positive, melodic, functional, and at times psychedelic.

The result is an album that’s “breezy yet assured,” comprising nine wonky minimal rhythms that are as feel good as they are fun, “a perfect antidote to the long and waning pandemic that birthed them,” Limousine Dream, the label behind them, explains.

Alongside the announcement, Gene On Earth has shared “Pinseeker” which is built for the dancefloor despite its chewy, melodic core. “Combining tripping effects and memorable melodies spun over a driving core, ‘Pinseeker’ is one of the centrepieces of the album,” he says. “It’s a track that I tested and revised numerous times until it became a complete dancefloor tune.”

Time on the Vine follows Limousine Dream’s 2021 compilation, The Sound Of Limo, and Gene On Earth’s 2020 EP, The Juggler.

Tracklisting

01. Snooze Operator
02. The City Special
03. Time Optimist
04. Pinseeker
05. Studio Dobra
06. To Bleep Or not To Bleep
07. Chuggy Elements
08. Flux Deluxe
09. Aston Martinez

Time on the Vine LP is scheduled for June 3 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Pinseeker” in full below and pre-order here.

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