Post Scriptum Launches New Label

Post Scriptum is launching a new label with a solo EP, Year Zero.

Anonymous techno producer Post Scriptum has made a substantial impact since his 2015 debut on Function‘s Infrastructure imprint, featuring on the New Yorker’s Berghain mix CD as well as an Ostgut Ton EP. The artist is now set to launch his own self-titled imprint, with a four-track EP entitled Year Zero. According to a press release, the record explicitly avoids “targeting the current techno mainstream,” instead favouring “avant-garde electronics and industrial” influence.

Year Zero will be released April 17. Stream the EP’s title track in full below.

Tracklisting:

A1. Year Zero
A2. Nuestra Planeta
B1. Year Zero (9T9T Remix)
B2. Nuestra Planeta (9T9T Remix)

Deep Transportation Announces Mike Huckaby LP

Deep Transportation will release an album of remastered Mike Huckaby classics.

Detroit native Mike Huckaby is set to release his first ever full-length later this year. Too Many Classics To Be Left With Little Or No Attention pulls together a selection of previously released cuts for a six-track album on his own Deep Transportation imprint. The label promises that all tracks “are much louder now and are remastered.”

The album’s name is a reference to a run in that Huckaby had with an airport security agent, who left a note in his record bag instructing him to be more careful with his records.

Too Many Classics To Be Left With Little Or No Attention is expected to drop April 30. Pre-order it at Deejay.de.

Tracklisting:

A. The Jazz Republic
B1. Dance
B2. The Rowdy Swing
C. The Jazz Republic (Groove Box)
D1. The Jazz Republic (Mathematics From The Jazz Republic)
D2. Flashback 78

Abby Lee Tee & GC ‘Guten Quak’

Back in January, Austrian collective Shash Records dropped Compilation 04, a diverse selection of cuts from artists such as Monophobe, Abby Lee Tee, GC, DeeAit, Ylwfrnd, Mischmeister M, Dear-No, Dj Odd, Lowa, and Valabaluza. Across nine beat-driven cuts, the label charts a path through glitchy electronica, crackling dubstep, instrumental hip-hop, and soothing synth outings.

In support of the album, Shash have offered up opening cut, “Guten Quak,” by Abby Lee Tee & GC—long time readers of XLR8R might remember Abby Lee Tee from two features on the site around four years ago, while GC also goes by the artist name Lowa. On “Guten Quak,” the pair fuse warped samples with stylish beat work and shimmering synths, it’s a fitting opening cut for the engrossing compilation.

You can grab “Guten Quak” in full via WeTransfer below, with Compilation 04 available via Shash’s Bandcamp page.

Guten Quak

Abby Lee Tee & GC ‘Guten Quak’

Back in January, Austrian collective Shash Records dropped Compilation 04, a diverse selection of cuts from artists such as Monophobe, Abby Lee Tee, GC, DeeAit, Ylwfrnd, Mischmeister M, Dear-No, Dj Odd, Lowa, and Valabaluza. Across nine beat-driven cuts, the label charts a path through glitchy electronica, crackling dubstep, instrumental hip-hop, and soothing synth outings.

In support of the album, Shash have offered up opening cut, “Guten Quak,” by Abby Lee Tee & GC—long time readers of XLR8R might remember Abby Lee Tee from two features on the site around four years ago, while GC also goes by the artist name Lowa. On “Guten Quak,” the pair fuse warped samples with stylish beat work and shimmering synths, it’s a fitting opening cut for the engrossing compilation.

You can grab “Guten Quak” in full via WeTransfer below, with Compilation 04 available via Shash’s Bandcamp page.

Guten Quak

Premiere: Stream a Track from DJ W!LD’s New LP

Parisian Circoloco resident DJ W!LD is set to release his latest full-length, Techno City, via his own W label on April 3.

Techno City will be W!LD’s first album in over two years, and is a noticeably darker and more stripped back offering than the disco-infused production of his last LP, When You Feel Me. With a focus on sampling and the use of classic hardware—and touching on acid, New York beats, and Detroit techno—Techno City follows a Winter of extensive touring and creative outpouring, as W!LD explains:

“The album was inspired by a long winter spent playing dark and murky club rooms around the world. This album came about because I wanted to show a darker and more tech-orientated side of me. I wanted the tracks to give off this impression, and be evocative of the time I spent in these places and the type of music I was playing. I also wanted the album to give a feeling of movement, of a rising energy that builds exponentially from the outset to the finish, moving in the way that a mix or a DJ set does.”

Ahead of Apil’s release, you can stream LP cut “Love On The Beat” in full via the player below.

Pépé Bradock Announces New EP

Julien Auger (a.k.a. Pépé Bradock) will soon release a new EP on Atavisme, titled Baby Steps.

Pépé Bradock is a widely respected producer perhaps best known for his releases on French label Kif Recordings which are still sampled heavily to this day. His latest four-tracker actually arrives under the name Braccio D’Oco, and while there is no confirmation that this comes from the French producer, Bradock is featured on the artwork. In addition this, there is no other information associated with D’Oco, and Braddock’s latest EP, 2016’s Baby Craddock, launched a new alias and came with a note that read “Bradock is dead.”

Tracklisting:

A1. Willplayasong4u
B1. KM Zero
B2. @#&$* Square Tones
B3. Pepe XXX

Baby Steps EP is scheduled for April 10 release.

Edward Shares Trippy New Video

Gilles Aiken (a.k.a. Edward) has shared a trippy new video for “Shufflehead,” the title track taken from his upcoming EP on Oliver Hafenbauer‘s Die Orakel label.

The Shufflehead EP is the Giegling affiliate’s first release of 2017, and follows on from a busy 2016 during which dropped his first album as Desert Sky, Gaia. In addition to various other releases, he also contributed a hazy, tripped-out mix to the XLR8R podcast series.

Ahead of the Shufflehead EP’s March 10 release, the video for “Shufflehead” is streamable above, with snippets of the full EP streamable below.

Designer of Aphex Twin Logo Shares Unseen Sketches

The person behind the Aphex Twin logo, namely Paul Nicholson, recently shared some unseen sketches of the iconic design.

Nicholson recently posted blueprints of the logo but has now revealed some “preliminary and developmental” via Instagram along with accompanying notes. The images were posted to mark the 25th anniversary of the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works 85-92.

“All sketches have been taken from my workbook and span November 1991 to October 1993,” says Nicholson, who also confirmed he’ll be publishing more scans, “including the thought process behind the sleeve artwork” of another classic Aphex Twin LP, Selected Ambient Works Vol 2.

You can view these sketches on Instagram here, with example cuts embedded below.

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Spencer Kincy Reissue Series Launches on Anotherday

Anotherday is set to reissue five records by Spencer Kincy.

Legendary Chicago house producer Spencer Kincy (better known as Gemini) will have five of his early records repressed. The project is being orchestrated by Tom Kerridge’s Anotherday imprint, a label that has already repressed one of Kincy’s early LPs, Imagine-A-Nation. First up is Le Fusion, a three-tracker that was originally released by Cajual, with four more EPs to follow.

Le Fusion is due out April 7. Pre-order it at Bandcamp and stream it in full below.

Dopplereffekt Prep New Album

Dopplereffekt will release another album this April.

Cellular Automata is the next full-length by Detroit electro duo Gerald Donald and To-Nhan (better known as Dopplereffekt). The nine-tracker will be released on Berlin’s Leisure System, an imprint that the pair has already been involved with for a few years, most recently putting out a split EP with Objekt back in 2014.

Followers of Donald, the artist who was formerly one half of Drexciya alongside the late James Stinson, have already received several treats this year. As well as Warp‘s reissue of The Other People Place’s Lifestyles of The Laptop Cafe, Clone will repress Sunday Night Live At The Laptop Cafe and Drexciya’s Grava 4 LP.

Cellular Automata is due out April 7. Head to the Leisure System site for more information.

Tracklisting:

A1. Cellular Automata
A2. Von Neumann Probe
A3. Gestalt Intelligence
A4. Isotropy
A5. Pascal’s Recursion
B1. Ulams Spiral
B2. Mandelbrot Set
B3. Spirangle
B4. Exponential Decay

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