Web3 Wrap: Snoop Dogg Crashes Sound, Tale of Us’ Anyma Drops New Single, Voice’s Artist Residency, and More

Tale of Us’ Anyma Releases New Single and NFT With Innellea 

Anyma (Matteo Milleri of Tale of Us) and Innellea have announced a new single and NFT.

The single, titled “Angel 1,” is an audio-visual piece that was originally premiered during Tale of Us’ set at the Afterlife Sao Paulo event earlier this year. It’s the fourth single to be released from Anyma’s debut album, Genesys, which will be a tokenized collection of NFTs and music that will invite collectors and fans to collaborate in its evolution. The buyer of the NFT will be able to earn 50% of the record’s streaming and DSP royalties, which will be baked into the ERC-721 contract and delivered to the NFT owner automatically.

The visual component of “Angel 1” is a collaborative piece created by SuperRare chief curator, Alessio De Vecchi, 3D artist Filip Hodas, and Adam Priester.

“Angel 1” is out today on Afterlife, the label created and run by Tale of Us.

Snoop Dogg Sells Out Sound Drop and Crashes the Platform

This week, Snoop Dogg sold out a drop on NFT platform Sound, crashing the site in the process.

The drop went live on March 14 with 1000 limited-edition NFTs available for Snoop’s Death Row Mix: Vol. 1 at 0.1 ETH each. The 27-minute mix is full of “bits and pieces from my friends and family for you to enjoy,” Snoop notes, and sold out almost instantly, crashing the Sound platform in the process. The drop has so far traded 388 ETH in volume (around $1,068,732 at the time of writing).

The mix and drop follow Snoop’s acquisition of Death Row Records, which finds him positioning the label to “be the first major in the metaverse.”

Sound also noted this week that Sound records have now traded $1 million in volume on the secondary market.

NFT Platform Voice Opens Registration for New Residency Program

Voice, an NFT platform supporting a variety of creators, has opened registration for the second season of its residency program.

The virtual NFT residency program is aimed at supporting creators from underrepresented and marginalized communities. Accepted residents will work with a team of curators and technologists to transform a body of work—created before or during the residency—into an NFT collection. During the program, the creators will receive a creation stipend, bonus incentives, project guidance and support, and homepage and social promotion from the Voice team.

The current residency program features artist and film director Marco Brambilla, recording artist Shan Vincent de Paul, and Jersey club producer UNIIQU3, among others.

You can read more about the program here and those wishing to apply can do so here.

NoPattern Announces New NFT Drop in Partnership With Chain/Saw

Chicago-born artist Chuck Anderson (a.k.a. NoPattern) will release a new NFT collection on March 31.

The collection, titled INFINITE PRESSURE, will feature 99 unique NFTs and explores the question: “Where does the machine end and the human begin?” The artworks within the collection are “heavily influenced by the premise & aesthetics of generative art yet not in fact generative at all,” Anderson states, “comprised of tens of thousands of vector shapes extracted from my photography, blended along hand-drawn bezier curves in Adobe Illustrator.”

Anderson, a member of popular DAO and Web3 community Friends With Benefits, partnered with NFT platform Chain/Saw for the collection which will feature 90 solo works and nine with as-yet-to-be-announced collaborators—the nine artists will be revealed one-a-day beginning March 22.

The collection will also be presented in a 68-page 11″x15″ book, which will give a close look at the 90 solo works in the collection and a behind-the-scenes look into Anderson’s creative process of the collection.

INFINITE PRESSURE will be available on a custom-built platform on March 31. You can find more info here.

What to Join and Who to Follow:

Jacob Horne: Zora co-founder.

Showtime: Web3 social network and NFT marketplace.

Disco: Web3 identity and data.

Boys Club: a social club that will help onboard women and non-binary people into Web3.

µ-Ziq Revisits the ’90s with New EP Series

Mike Paradinas, the artist better known as µ-Ziq, has unveiled a new EP on Planet Mu.

The six-track EP, called Goodbye, is the first in a series of releases by the pioneering British artist, all of which are centred around the 25th Anniversary Edition of Lunatic Harness, his classic 1997 album. It’s inspired by Paradinas going back through the archives while he was remastering the album, and it sees him revisiting the ’90s, taking on jungle and its precursor jungle tekno, and “upgrading them with the benefit of hindsight and contemporary software,” we’re told. Goodbye approaches these old genres “like a sandpit, and stretches them in directions only Mike might take.”

According to Paradinas, the release is imbued with his “lush sense of melody” and his “knack for striking contrasts.” We’re not to be shocked to hear maudlin piano, 303, and amens in the same track.

Paradinas’ last album, Scurlage, came last year on Madrid’s Analogical Force. It was his first full-length since 2013.

Tracklisting

01. Goodbye
02. Giddy All Over
03. Moise
04. Rave Whistle
05. Rave Whistle (Darkside Mix)
06. Rave Whistle (Jungle Tekno Mix)

Goodbye LP is scheduled for April 1 release. Meanwhile, you can stream the title-track below and pre-order here.

Podcast 740: The Maghreban

Over a storied career that spans more than three decades and various different aliases, Ayman Rostom has tried his hand at his fair share of genres. Though he’s spent the majority of his journey in music releasing jungle 12″s under his own name or abrasive hip-hop beats as Doctor Zygote, he’s arguably made the most noise as The Maghreban, an alias he launched in 2014 dedicated to his dancefloor-ready house and its various curious offshoots. Later this year, he’ll return with The Maghreban’s second album, following on from 2018’s 01deas on Belgium’s R&S Records.

The son of Egyptian and Saudi immigrants who was born and raised in Guildford, a quaint town on London’s outskirts, Rostom first came to music in the mid-1990s. For years, he found himself blinkered to any sounds that stepped beyond the parameters of jungle and hip-hop, but that all changed one day in 2012 when an exercise in creative limitation prompted him to make a flurry of old-school-style dance tracks—a breed of uptempo house flavoured with off-kilter rhythms. Fascinated, he couldn’t wait to share them with the world.

As The Maghreban—the name a reference to a north African man who was a regular in his local pub—Rostom began by rolling these sketches out on his own Zoot Records, and it didn’t take long for an audience to build. If 2014 was the beginning, then 2018 was the pinnacle: after a steady output of singles—across Paris’ Versatile and Bristol’s Black Acre, besides Zoot—Rostom caught the attention of R&S, who snapped up 01deas, on which he paid tribute to the dance music of late-’80s and ’90s America by lacing it with infectious grooves and plenty of funk.

With his new album just a few months away, Rostom has compiled an XLR8R podcast. As you’d expect, it’s a collection of oddball dance music that you’ve probably never heard before. In this particular case, that means heaps of old techno, wonky house, and warped electro that he ripped from his mate’s record collection, plus a few more familiar names. From a man who has always sought to disrupt the mainstream, this is music that does the same, and it’s sure to lock you in from the first beat.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been working on some remixes to support my album release later this year, and planning the release in general. I’m trying to sort vinyl pressing. Plus singing a little, and moving house. I’m looking after a toddler. Making dumb dance music again. And some post-punk oddball stuff.

02. What have you been listening to?
I’ve been listening to a lot of promos that I’m being sent, and some of it is really good stuff. During lockdown, I just let those emails build up, and there were hundreds. I wasn’t interested in listening to them. Then I sat down and sifted through, and there were a few nice bits there! Now I seem to be getting stuff through that I actually want to play! That and listening to a lot of old techno. A dear friend of mine let me look after his records for a couple of years. He has lots of ’90s techno so it was a real education for me, and I ripped a load of those records and some of them are here. Other than that, I’ve been incessantly listening to music that I am working on. But only once I’m finishing it up. I don’t listen to it while I’m still getting ideas down!

03. When exactly can we expect some more material from you?
This summer! My second album as The Maghreban is coming out on my own label, Zoot. It’s been coming for a long time, and it’s been a pretty bumpy road so I’m eager to get it out. I’m proud of the music. I’ve got some great guests on there and it feels more together than anything I’ve done.

04. Where and when did you record this mix?
February 2022 in my brother’s old bedroom at my parents’ house.

04. What setup did you use?
Two CDJ850s and a DJM750.

05. How did you go about choosing the tracks that you’ve included?
It’s a mixture of new stuff that interests me and a load of old techno that I ripped from my mate’s record collection. With a lot of the new stuff, I found the tops quite interesting. I’m not sure if it’s because people are using modular and field recordings for a lot of sounds these days or what, but there is a real crispness to many of these new productions; its real hi fi! My own material, and some of these old techno records, they’re a bit more fuzzy in the top end. So I was trying to put these together in a way that made sense!

06. What can the listener expect?
Highs. Lows. Crying into breakfast cereal. Pazazz. Reverb. Me trying and failing to up the tempo without them noticing. Some edits where I messed up. A cynical attempt to bring in DJ gigs.

07. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
Whilst jogging. In the second half it’s the right tempo for my clumsy gazelle strides. Or in the car. I’ve just listed the situations generically where I might listen to a mix.

08. What’s next on your horizon?
I’ve recorded an album of vocal material and I’m working on finishing that. Using my voice is new for me. Also, I have the thirst to make some crass dance music again, which I lost for a minute, so I’m messing with that. That’s fun!

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. MMM “Everything Falls Into Place” (MMM)
02. Griffit Vigo “The Underdog” (Maloca)
03. Patrick Conway “Lorentz Factor” (ESP Institute)
04. Simo Cell “El Gato Loco” (Livity Sound)
05. Nikki Nair “The Person or Persons” (Breaks ‘N’ Pieces)
06. Drax “The Silent Meadow” (Trope)
07. VIC-20 “Adventures in Anti Realism A1” (Word Music)
08. Mat Carter “Venting Steam” (Firewire)
09. The Kosmik Kommando “Quondam” (Rephlex)
10. The Hypnotist “Untitled” (Live in Berlin) (Rising High Records)
11. Al Wootton “Doxa” (TRULE)
12. Tim Taylor & Freddie Fresh “The Penguin” (Missile)
13. Troy Gunner “Swede Get Spun” (Only Ruins)
14. Bruce “Just Getting On With It” (Livity Sound)
15. Geo Rip “Tooni” (The Trilogy Tapes)
16. Hooverian Blur “Old Gold” (Monopolypella Mix) (Sneaker Social Club)
17. Beverley Hills 808303 “The American Lie A2” (Reference Analogue Audio)
18. Beverley Hills 808303 “Dinner at Barney’s” (Reference Analogue Audio)
19. Radioactive Man “Trespasser” (R.G.C. Records)
20. Dubversive “Theme From Dubversive” (Copasetic Records)
21. G 104 “Looking into Brighter Future” (Gravitation Off Mix) (Force Inc. Music Works)
22. Wild West “Citric” (Plink Plonk)
23. Sysex “Big Bang” (Plus 8 Records)
24. Transits of Tone “Molecular Structure” (Intelligence Records)

Droopy Eye, from Pennsylvania, Next on Leaving Records

Leaving Records will release the debut album from Droopy Eye, an anonymous producer based in Pennsylvania.

For nearly a decade, Droopy Eye has been exchanging genre-fluid demos and audio email attachments with Leaving Records’ founder, Matthewdavid. Then, last year, he put out Lifedit / Lullabiz ‎on the Los Angeles label, showcasing “some of the spectrum within the Eye,” we were told.

The full album, Embruja, spans 14 tracks of house, beats, grime, hip-hop, and jungle. Its sonic and philosophical influences, we are told, include Terrence McKenna, underground UK dance music culture, and the Los Angeles beat community.

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

Tracklisting

01. embruja 0
02. Terry jam
03. embruja 1
04. fffphphph
05. tugged in
06. puddlez
07. hand maiden gloom
08. embruja 2
09. foam region
10. hazetrill
11. cumbia riddim
12. thursnacht
13. embruja 3
14. painfell

Embruja LP is scheduled for April 8 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “fffphphph” in full below and pre-order here.

Batu’s Debut Album is Incoming Next Month

Photo: Adama Jalloh

Batu will release his debut album on Timedance next month.

On Opal, Batu, real name Omar McCutcheon, “seizes the opportunity to incorporate ideas beyond dancefloor impetus into his animated, forward-leaning sound,” we’re told. It’s a sound and style that’s “intrinsically connected” to the Bristol artist’s previous club 12”s, EPs and collaborations on Hessle Audio, Timedance, and XL Records, even as it moves into unfamiliar terrain, “guided by abstract inspiration from coastal landscapes.” Through the course of 11 tracks, rhythmic forms are mutated and manipulated, sonic matter bends across the frequency range, and narrative structures coalesce and dissolve according to McCutcheon’s “own internal logic.”

McCutcheon has been producing music as Batu for half a decade, having spent his childhood in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, where he found a connection with music. Enrolment in Music Production at Bath Spa University helped him shape his sound and served as a gateway to the nearby Bristol scene, which is where he first crossed paths with the likes of Peverelist, Bruce, and Pinch with whom he worked to shape his dubstep, grime, and broken-beat influences into the bass-heavy brand of club music he’s been pushing ever since. You can read more about him here.

Tracklisting

01. Former World
02. Mineral Veins
03. Convergence
04. Even Here
05. Atavism
06. Emulsion of Light
07. Solace
08. Squall
09. Spectral Hearts
10. Eolith
11. Always There

Opal LP is scheduled for April 29 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Atavism” in full below and pre-order here.

Download: Marco Cassanelli and Deckard “Oval”

The new EP by Marco Cassanelli and Deckard, Opus Sectile, will be released on April 15, 2022.

For the EP, the two producers have merged their backgrounds and passion for analog sounds into a musical project that takes inspiration from geometrics used in sculpture and performing arts. This is reflected in the title of the EP, a Latin reference to the mosaic inlay of ancient Roman buildings.

Opus Sectile was recorded and produced in Trani, Italy in January 2022 at Deckard’s Studio and contains four instrumental tracks. The duo’s recording approach is largely based on improvisation, with none of the music digitally calculated or programmed, therefore, the music is heavily influenced by context and environment.

Today’s XLR8R download, “Oval,” is the euphoric third track on the EP, a cut that builds with slow, eerie, and ambient sounds before transcending into an epic and uplifting conclusion.

“Oval” is available to XLR8R+ subscribers as a free download below.

Tracklisting

01. Octogan
02. Square
03. Oval
04. Circle

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

Lebanon’s Mhamad Safa Next on Lee Gamble’s UIQ

Photo: Jimmy Mould

Next up on Lee Gamble‘s UIQ imprint is an album from Lebanese musician Mhamad Safa.

Safa is a musician, architect, and researcher based between London and Beirut. Through his work, which focuses on multi-scalar spatial conditions and their sonic make-ups, he explores the aural legacies of traditional and subcultural practices.

Ibtihalat, his debut album, is a “throbbing summoning of an otherworldly force” constructed in the face of “geographic calamities and contingencies.” It draws inspiration from the musical traditions of the Gnawa population in north Africa and introduces novel processes of musical synthesis using predictive algorithms and polyrhythms within beat-based compositions, each of which is inaccessible through dominant tools in music production.

We’re told that the 10 tracks are “heavily percussive and rhythmically odd interventions,” that can be repurposed as “speculative experimentations on the futures of dance culture.”

For more information on Lee Gamble, check out his memorable XLR8R Influences podcast, an outing in retrospective hip-hop, here.

Tracklisting

01. Terminus Messao
02. Supranomadic
03. Liturgies For Cyborgs
04. Bel Abbes
05. Proto—Ismael
06. Hydrobenediction
07. Ouda And The Strikers At Najd
08. Fugues
09. Gazelles
10. Coastal Worship

Ibtihalat LP is scheduled for April 29 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Bel Abbes” in full via the player below.

Overmono to Release New EP on XL Recordings

Overmono, the collaboration of Tom and Ed Russell, have announced a new EP with a new track called “Gunk.”

Cash Romantic, the EP, follows on from the British pair’s 2021 releases BMW Track / So U Kno, Diamond Cut / Bby, and Pieces Of 8 / Echo Rush. We’re told to expect a “future-facing, contemporary celebration of sound-system culture” that’s set to “electrify” club and festival dancefloors throughout the year.

The inspiration for the release comes from a box of old tapes they’d recorded when they were kids, where they’d “basically try and mashup old records of our parents with whatever records we were buying at the time,” Tom and Ed Russel say in a statement. “Gerry Rafferty mixed with London acid techno, Dr. Hook mixed with old weirdo trance tracks, and that sort of thing.” The tapes are a “proper mess,” they add, “but there was always something about trying to get two totally different worlds to collide that stuck with us.”

The release also marks a new phase in the duo’s evolution—one that sees them introducing a “broader spectrum to their deft compositions” to take their sound beyond the dancefloor.

Tracklisting

01. Cash Romantic
02. Gunk
03. Gfortune
04. Bone Mics
05. Phosycon

Cash Romantic EP is scheduled for April 8 release on XL Recordings. Meanwhile, you can stream “Gunk” in full below, and pre-order here.

Web3 Wrap: UnicornDAO Launches, Web3 at SXSW, Foundation Gets an Upgrade, and More

This week’s Web3 Wrap includes the launch of UnicornDAO, a DAO focused on supporting female, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ artists in Web3, Foundation’s upgrade, Web3 events at SXSW, Iain Howie’s Leaf Syndrome Stems drop, a new research report by Water & Music, and more.

Check it out below.

Pussy Riot Co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova Announces UnicornDAO

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova launched UnicornDAO this week.

The new DAO, as reported by Decrypt, is “a feminist movement aiming to tackle patriarchy in Web3,” and will solely invest in female, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ artists operating in the Web3 space. Co-founder Rebecca Lamis told Decrypt that UnicornDAO is “looking to secure $5 to $10 million in its first fundraising round,” which will be raised by selling “seats,” which are essentially governance voting rights—investors will also receive equity via the DAO’s rainbow token. Lamis went on to say that they are looking to create “a platform that showcases…a collection of female, non-binary LGBTQ+ work, featuring people that are in the larger ecosystem that we think deserve to be featured.”

UnicornDAO will have its launch party today at SXSW, with details in the piece below.

You can check out the newly launched UnicornDAO platform here. [UnicornDAO art by Glam Beckett]

Web3 Hits SXSW

SXSW returns this week, kicking off today, Friday, March 11 and running through March 20, with a host of Web3 music folx in tow.

Three of the biggest Web3 events will go down for HOUSE OF MEDALION at Empire Control Room. First up, today, Friday, March 11, will be UnicornDAO’s launch, which will feature a day-time women+ in Web3 panel featuring, among others, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Latashá, and Diana Sinclair, a Sad Girls happy hour, and performances by REI AMI, Pussy Riot, Latashá, Venus X, and more. Up next, on Saturday, March 12, will be Zora’s Zoratopia, which will play host to a panel on the future of music and web3, featuring Jacob Horne and Dee Goenz, Cecilia Palmquist, Black Dave, Cheri Hu, Sassy Black, Iman Europe, and moderator, Latashá, as well as performances from Black Dave, Sassy Black, Stonez the Organicz, and more. Rounding it out later that night, Zora will join forces with Friends With Benefits for an after-party featuring performances by Girlpool, Exum, Panther Modern, Iman Europe, Latashá, Debit, Raihan_, and more.

Elsewhere, there is Blcokchain Creative Labs, an immersive series of Web3 parties, events, and experiments running from March 11 to 13. Blockchain Creative Labs will feature various music-related Web3 initiatives, including BCL_RECORDBLOCKS, an interactive audio-visual NFT installation; a “Web3 For the Rest of Us” panel featuring Latashá; 3LAU’s “When Artists Take Control” panel, which will also feature Jamal Dauda, VP of Creative Strategy for Blockchain Creative Labs; and a panel asking “Can Blockchain Revolutionize Music Royalties?,” featuring Royal’s Head of Growth, Nait Jones, Coin Desk’s Emily Parker, Charlie Durbin, Mark Kovic, and VÉRITÉ and Pussy Riot’s manager, Vanessa Magos.

You can find more information on the events at the SXSW site.

Foundation Gets an Upgrade

This week, Foundation announced and shipped an upgrade.

The upgrade, which was shared in a video post on Twitter, shipped a range of new features to the platform, including “buy it now” functionality; the ability for users to make offers on NFTs on the platform, even if not listed for sale; a sleek update to the auction functionality; and a reduction in the fees Foundation takes with every sale (from 15% to 5%).

You can check out the upgrade video here.

Water and Music Releases Season 1.5 $STREAM Report

Water & Music has released its latest $STREAM research series on music and Web3.

Water & Music notes that over 90 community members have contributed to the report over the last two months, following on from December’s in-depth five-part project. The latest report went live on Monday with an 11-part interview series on the state of music DAOs. From that jumping-off point, a new piece went live each day, including Tuesday’s deep-dive analysis of music NFT platforms’ onboarding strategies; a modular music NFT contract template on Wednesday; a survey-based analysis of the music industry’s sentiment around Web3 on Thursday; and finally, today, a community initiative which resulted in the release of a Spanish language version of the Season 1 research series.

You can read more about Water & Music and the research series here.

Iain Howie Launches IainHowieNFT Storefront With Free “Stems” NFT

Today, Iain Howie launches IainHowieNFT, a new NFT storefront. 

The platform launches today with the Leaf Syndrome Stems NFT drop, which will be available from 12:30 p.m. PST. Leaf Syndrome Stems is a utility NFT and is available for free on the Polygon (Matic) chain. As the name suggests, Leaf Syndrome Stems includes downloadable audio stems to Howie’s single “Leaf Syndrome,” as well as 100% ownership of the copyright in the master recording of any remix or derivative work that NFT owners create using the stems—NFT owners have the rights to share, distribute, sell, and exploit their “Leaf Syndrome” NFT remix however they like. 

The team behind the platform has offered to help with any setup inquiries and is fielding questions over at the main site.

You can find more information on the drop, including an FAQ, here.

What to Join and Who to Follow:

Gabagool.eth: “on-chain sleuth” and Information Token founder.

Bobby Hundreds: streetwear legend and The Hundreds and Adam Bomb Squad co-founder.

My Panda Shall Fly: beat scene OG and Web3 explorer.

DAO Social Club: a platform presenting weekly conversations from leaders and builders in the DAO space.

Andy Stott Shares Tape of “Slow Jamz” for Ukraine

Andy Stott has released a tape of unreleased “slow jamz” through his own Modern Love label.

The Slow Ribbon is the British artist’s first new material since Never The Right Time, which he released in 2021. It comprises seven tracks of techno, downtempo, and ambient recorded between 2019 and 2022, with a total run-time of 40 minutes.

The tape will be remain on sale for one week only, until 23:59 on March 17. A download version will be made available for a limited time after that.

All proceeds will be split between Medical Aid Ukraine and the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Tracklisting

01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. The Slow Ribbon

The Slow Ribbon is available now via Boomkat, with “V” streaming in full below.

https://soundcloud.com/modernlove/andy-stott-the-slow-ribbon-v
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