Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet) recently shared a remix of “A Violent Noise,” a cut taken from The xx‘s latest album.
The eight-minute rework surfaced on the London artist’s Soundcloud page and is streamable in full below.
Octave One, Avalon Emerson, and Tale Of Us Added to Neopop Lineup
Neopop Festival has announced the final names for this year’s edition, including Tale Of Us,Octave One (live), and Avalon Emerson.
Now entering its 12th year and taking place across two stages in the northern Portuguese coastal city of Viana do Castelo from August 3 to 5, Neopop is Portugal’s premiere festival for electronic music and culture.
Added to the lineup this year are the following:
August 4:
Danny Tenaglia
August 5:
Tale Of Us,
Octave One (live),
The Field (live),
Avalon Emerson b2b Courtesy,
Trikk
Alex FX
The previously announced names are as follows:
Kraftwerk 3D (live concert)
Moderat (live)
Rødhad
Planetary Assault Systems (live)
DJ Stingray
Voiski (live)
Sonja Moonear
Dax J
Paula Temple
Eric Cloutier
Dixon
Maceo Plex
Helena Hauff
Loco Dice
Paco Osuna
Chris Liebing
Solar
Speedy J (live)
DJ Bone
Jane Fitz
Svreca
Dr. Rubinstein
Zadig (live)
Lewis Fautzi
This year’s edition takes place from August 3 to 5 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, with more information and tickets available here.
Dadub ‘Rain On The Earth’
Dadub, a project founded in Italy in 2008 by Daniele Antezza, is dedicated to combining sound design and audio synthesis experimentation with the aesthetic and musical heritage of bass music and dub.
Following the first period of activity in the copyleft/creative commons community with the label A Quiet Bump, in 2009 Daniele moved to Berlin where he began a collaboration with Giovanni Conti. They founded Artefacts Mastering Studio and, under the aegis of Dadub, collaborated with the groundbreaking label StroboscopicArtefacts, profoundly influencing the label aesthetics and musical output. Their collaboration reached its peak in 2013 with the release of You Are Eternity, their debut album as Dadub that brought much acclaim.
In the past three years, Daniele and Giovanni shifted their focus onto individual projects, until 2017 when Daniele left Artefacts Mastering and founded his own production and mastering studio, the brand new Dadub Studio. Moreover, staying true to the collaborative nature which has always characterized the project, Dadub is being re-launched as a collaborative venture between Daniele and Marco Donnarumma, renowned Berlin-based sound artist, performer, and producer, previously appearing as Kuoyah with the labels Frijsfo Beats and Combat Recordings.
Inspired by contemporary philosophy, science fiction, sound design and the material forces of low-frequency sounds, Daniele and Marco have been evolving the signature Dadub sound into what they call “Post-Apocalyptic Dub.” Working together for over a year now, they have accumulated three yet-to-be-released EPs and are preparing a new live set. To celebrate the new incarnation of Dadub, they decided to offer for free the first unreleased Dadub track after four years of absence from the scene. Entitled “Rain On The Earth,” the track offers (more than) a glimpse of what is to be expected by the forward-thinking duo, and is available as a free download below.
Photo: Margherita Pevere
Actress, Babyfather, and Galcher Lustwerk Remix Sporting Life
R&S Records have announced an EP featuring remixes of Sporting Life by Actress, Babyfather (a.k.a Dean Blunt), and Galcher Lustwerk.
The EPs three original tracks first emerged on a three-part series of digital EPs on R&S last year. It was then compiled into a double-vinyl album, Sporting Life, which came out late last year on the Belgian label, with the remix EP available today.
Tracklisting
A. Court Vision feat. Evy Jane (Actress Remix)
B1. Hydrate The Hustle (Galcher Lustwerk Remix)
B2. Nothing To Hide feat. Devonté Hynes & Wiki (Babyfather Honeytrap Mix (For Shakilus))
Sporting Life Remixes EP is out today, with the Actress rework streamable below.
Download a New Mix from Cassius Select
On April 21, Cassius Select will drop his latest EP, 90/HERD, on Matthew Herbert‘s Accidental Jnr.
Over the last few years, Cassius Select has crafted his own intriguing brand of drum-led club tunes—the music he makes seems to defy classification, which is only ever a good thing. He’s also a regular on our pages, the most recent time being a slot in our Top 10 Rising Australian Producers feature. His latest outing on Accidental follows much in the same vein, deconstructing regular club styles and fitting them to wonky and skewed frameworks with confounding, swinging rhythms.
As a precursor to the EP, the now Toronto native has put together a near-hour-long mix of equally bent tracks, from tribalistic drum workouts to tense atmospheric techno, smoky grime, and tripped-out synth outings.
You can download the mix via WeTransfer below, with 90/HERD available to pre-order here.
Sacred Ground Festival Begins Lineup Announcements
Sacred Ground Festival, the intimate summer event curated by RY X and Frank Wiedemann of Innervisions, has announced the first details surrounding the lineup for their third edition, which is again set to take place at a 100-year old farm in the Uckermark region of Germany.
Sacred Ground’s organizers, starting today, will gradually reveal the full program of music, with a new artist announced every few days. The first artist announced for the event is SCHWARZMANN, the live improvisation-oriented project from Innervisions core members Henrik Schwarz and Frank Wiedemann.
Stay tuned for the rest of the Sacred Ground artist announcements over the coming days. More information and tickets to the festival can be found here.
Sun Glitters ‘Together’
Since he first debuted on XLR8R back in 2011, Victor Ferreira (a.k.a. Sun Glitters) has been a regular fixture in our downloads section. As his production moniker suggests, Ferreira makes sun-kissed tunes that shimmer.
His new single, “Together,” pulled from his forthcoming album, It Will Be Forever, continues that trend, with a groove-led beat thrown in for good measure. With its sample of Charlie Chaplin’s moving speech from The Great Dictator, the single couldn’t be more timely, driving home a message of unity and togetherness.
The forthcoming album “reflects the cautious anticipation many of us feel today in the digital age: a sense of something bigger looming.” Across its 11 tracks, the album “depicts a version of the ‘7 stages of grief,’ with the conclusion being the most poignant as it closes with a wonder and zest for life that the author hopes to impart on us.”
You can pre-order It Will Be Forever ahead of its May 26 release, with “Together” available as a free download via WeTransfer below, along with the single’s video.
The single also drops with a b-side, which can be grabbed from here.
AudioThing Has Created an Affordable Emulation of Roland’s RE 201 Space Echo
AudioThing has just released an affordable emulation of the Roland RE 201 Space Echo, an iconic tape echo introduced in 1974.
In its latest video, Point Blank tasks resident plugin test-dummy JC Concato to put it through its paces, making it the Plugin of the Week for this week. Just like the original unit, Outer Space features an echo section with three playback heads and a spring reverb tank. AudioThing has modeled three different tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analog imperfections of tape recording and playback. The plugin has also modeled the ballistic response of the delay rate which can create eerie pitch shifts, one of the classic tape echo-based sound effects.
You can watch the video in full via the player below, with more on Point Blank and its course here.
Borderland, Terrence Dixon, and Claudia Anderson Next on Tresor
Berlin’s Tresor label is set to release three new EPs from Terrence Dixon, Claudia Anderson, and Borderland, the collaborative project of Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald.
First up is Dixon’s Like A Thief In The Night EP, scheduled for May 19 release, before Anderson’s on June 30. The Borderland EP, Angles, comes with a Carl Craig remix and will hit the shelves on July 14th.
Terrence Dixon Like A Thief In The Night EP (Tresor.294)
Release: May 19
A1. Frequencies Different
A2. Confusion Of Another Kind
B1. Like A Thief In The Night
B2. The Test Of Time
Claudia Anderson Air (Tresor.296)
Release: June 30
A1. Construct 1
A2. Construct 2
B1. Construct 3
B2. Construct 4
Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland Angles (Tresor.298)
Release: July 14.
A1. Concave 1
A2. Concave 2
B. Transport (Carl Craig Remix)
LA-4A Returns to Delft
Kevin McHugh is set to return on his own Delft imprint for his first LA-4A release on the label since last year’s Phonautograph LP.
According to the label, the EP comprises of “beatdown acid house jams” “Panic” and “Ecstasy,” with “two versions of raucous electro cut” “Snake Eyes” on the flip.
Tracklist:
A1. Panic
A2. Ecstasy
B1. Snake Eyes (Acid Return)
B2. Snake Eyes (Beaten Mix)
Panic EP is scheduled for May 26 release.
