Vera Plays Decatur Launch in NYC on Saturday

Berlin-based DJ and producer Vera is set to play two US gigs this week.

Tonight, Vera will touch down in San Fransisco for the Housepitality crew, playing alongside SF artists Lilly Ackerman and Birds of Rhythm at F8 1192 Folsom.

Following that, on March 4, Decatur will be hosting their first party in Brooklyn, NYC, focusing on “excellent sound, great music, good vibes, and long sets.” Vera will be supported on the night by Willie Graff and Velasco, two veteran DJs from the Decatur Agency.

Decatur is a new endeavor that will primarily be an agency for NYC resident artists, as well as hosting events featuring agency acts and artists that inspire the crew. The concept behind the platform is to present their take on “the future New York Sound, which has been collectively shaped by all the members of the crew and their different experiences and backgrounds.”

You can find more information on Decatur’s launch party here.

Pantha Du Prince Lines Up Ambient LP and Remixes EP

Hendrik Weber (a.k.a. Pantha Du Prince) will soon release a totally reworked ambient re-envisioning of last year’s The Triad LP, his first studio album in six years.

The Ambient LP sees Weber leave behind “the pulsating beats and most of the vocals of the original,” according to the label, to create “something new, delicate, dreamy, and unutterably gorgeous.”

In addition to Weber’s ambient recreations, a number of artists have contributed remixes of The Triad’s songs to an EP of remixes, which will be released alongside the Ambient Versions LP. The Remixes EP features Solomun, Recondite, Efdemin, Shinedoe, Alva Noto, and more.

Weber describes the concept behind The Triad Ambient Versions:

“The Triad Ambient Versions bring the listener into a free space, as music consists of strictly folded sonic spaces that can be structured for the dance, for body-movement: the heart beat synchronizes the movement. The ambient versions have no beats and the listener gets a more transparent musical picture, an image full of light-atmosphere non-defined and free, for the human spirit to unfold its own way of receiving space folded into time. The straight columns of rhythm were taken away for a light wind of silence and non-structured fluid movements.”

Rough Trade will release both The Triad – Ambient Versions and the Remixes EP on June 9. Both releases will be available via all streaming and digital providers, with a limited pressing of the Ambient Versions LP also available. A future 12” series of the Remixes tracks will be available down the line.

In advance of the release, “Islands In The Sky” (Ambient Version) is streamable in full below.

Into the Valley and Into the Factory Add Further Names

Into the Valley and Into the Factory have both announced a number of new names for their upcoming editions.

Into the Factory, which will take place from August 10 to 12 in the abandoned cement factory Stora Vika, outside Nynashamn has added the following names to the lineup: Harvey Sutherland (live), Jessie Granqvist, Molly, Optimo, Paula Temple,Robert Hood, and Spacetravel.

June 29 toJuly 1 is the weekend of Into the Valley at Rummu, Estonia , an event that features a more eclectic lineup. The eight acts announced for Into the Valley today are Dasha Redkina, DJ Stingray, Katerina, Maayan Nidam, Margaret Dygas, Momo Trosman, and Nina Kraviz.

In addition to the eight acts per festival released today, these are the artists released so far:

Into the Factory

Abdulla Rashim, Adam Beyer, Andrew Weatherall, Ata, Barac, Bicep (live), Cari Lekebusch B2B Joel Mull, DVS1, Daniel Avery, Dax J, Dasha Rush, Fabio Scali & Stef Gregory, The Field (live), Gander / Örnell Genius of Time, Headless Horseman (live), Ion Ludwig (live), Johanna Schneider, Juan Atkins, Julia Govor, Karenn (live), La Fleur, Magda, Marcel Dettmann, Mathew Jonson (live), Moodymann, Mr. Fingers aka Larry Heard (live), Nastia, Roman Flügel, Rødhåd, Sebastian Mullaert (live), Shanti Celeste, SHXCXCHCXSH (live), Skate Bard, Sonja Moonear, Sonja, Studio Orphanage, Tini, Tijana T, Veronica Vasicka, and Vril.

A total of 75 acts will be part of the lineup.

Into the Valley

Andrey Zots, Anna Hanna, Answer Code Request, Anthea, Axel Boman, Bella Sarris, The Black Madonna, Cassy, Cobblestone Jazz (Live), Craig Richards, Dixon, Dyed Soundorom, Ellen Vene, Fernando Costantini, Function, Helena Hauff, Honey Dijon, Hunee, Janina, Jeff Mills, Jennifer Cardini, Kask, Kerri Chandler, Kim Ann Foxman, Kink (Live) featuring Rachel Row, Marcel Dettmann, Midland, Nastia, Olga Korol, Praslesh, Rebolledo, Recondite (live), Regis, Rhadoo, Renaat R & S, Ricardo Villalobos, Sassy J, Stockholm Murder Girls, and Vlada.

A total of 60 acts will be part of the lineup.

Early Bird tickets for the third Music Goes Further festival, Into the Castle, went on sale just a few days ago. This event will be held at the Castle of Good Hope, one of the most interesting and oldest buildings in Cape Town, South Africa next January 2018.

For more information on tickets and other festival information, see the website here.

LANDR Announces New Mastering Engine

LANDR Audio has announced the release of its new mastering engine, Lydian.

LANDR is the world’s first automated audio mastering service and is the only music content platform built for the way artists create today—realtime, across a variety of DAWs, devices, and studios.

Having recently surpassed the milestone of four million tracks mastered, LANDR has now applied the learnings from those mastered tracks to this recent engine update.

The new engine, Lydian, is said to offer “major improvements” in the following areas, among others:

  • Expanded 3D stereo imaging giving tracks massive presence, punch, and definition;
  • Precise processing that stays true to the original mix;
  • An overall fuller sound that preserves detail while giving depth and space;
  • Exceptional handling of softer, acoustic tracks;
  • Updated signal path clarity;
  • An overall pure sound that gives tracks the energy to stand out.

All LANDR users have automatically been upgraded to the newest version of the software at no cost.

For more information, and to get two free WAVs to test the new engine, click here.

For our review of LANDR, please release here.

Harvey Sutherland and Bermuda Ready Six-Track EP

Harvey Sutherland will release a new six-track EP with his band, Bermuda.

Sutherland is a studio producer and disco minimalist from Melbourne. He has worked steadily since 2013, releasing a handful of coveted records for People’s Potential Unlimited, MCDE, and Voyage Recordings.

Sharing the name of his breakout 12”, Bermuda is Sutherland’s live band—a futurist outfit comprising Melbourne musicians Graeme Pogson (drums) and Tamil Rogeon (electric strings). The trio interprets Sutherland’s productions with flair and consistency, bringing a unique energy to the club space.

Expecations is an extended player from the outfit and the second release for Sutherland’s own Clarity Recordings, following last year’s label debut single Priestess/Bravado. It features six tracks spanning Harvey’s influences from the West Coast to West End Records.

The EP includes a long-awaited studio version of live favorite “Clarity,” uptempo burner “Coast 2 Coast” and a moment of spiritual introspection with “Spiders.”

Expectations 12” and digital will be released worldwide 24 March 2017, via Clarity Recordings, with clips streamable below.

Sciahri Launches Sublunar Records

Sublunar is the new label founded by Dagdrom and Sciahri, the Florence-based DJ-producer producer who has just released his second EP on Ilian Tape.

According to the label, the focus is on “deep and hypnotic textural techno,” and it will “represent the owners’ specific taste for both club effective techno as well as more experimental excursions. “Each release is limited and hand-numbered.

Their first output is a three 12″ EP trilogy called “Devotion” by Sciahri. The first chapter of this trilogy Devotion – part 1 represents the “start of the journey,” says the label,” entering a dimension that is abstract yet solid and physical, full of vividly distinguishable details.” Devotion – Part 2 is the continuum of the journey into Sciahri’s dimension; and the third part is the final stage of this journey.

Tracklisting: 

Devotion Part 1
A1. / 1. Anxiety
B1. / 2. Illusion
B2. / 3. Falter

Devotion Part 2
A1. / 1. Shelter
B1. / 2. Contortion
B2. / 3. Lineage

Devotion Part 3
A1. / 1. Anathema
B1. / 2. Prostration
B2. / 3. Critical Devotion

Part 1 vinyl: 10/03/2017
Part 2 vinyl: 31/03/2017
Part 3 vinyl: 14/04/2017

Parts 1, 2, 3 digital: 26/04/2017

Iron Curtis and Johannes Albert Team Up for Moon LP

Iron Curtis and Johannes Albert will release an album together as Moon.

The pair of Berlin-based artists first put out their collaborative work as Moon back in 2015, with an EP on Albert’s Frank Music. Now with two releases under the belt, the duo have teamed up for a full-length release, Industrie & Zärtlichkeit, which will drop this May. The 11-tracker is made up of nine original works, plus remixes by Irish producer Lerosa and Phillip Lauer (of Tuff City Kids) under his Black Spuma guise.

Industrie & Zärtlichkeit will be released this May.

Tracklisting:

01. The Great Attractor
02. Industrie & Zärtlichkeit
03. Proto
04. Fjordig
05. Cafe Del Landwehrkanal
06. Light Of Virtue
07. MFB Nights (You Needed Someone)
08. Machine Rhythm Tomorrow
09. The Bitter End
10. Industrie & Zärtlichkeit (Black Spuma Remix)
11. Appeal (Lerosa Remix)

трип Announces New PTU EP

PTU will release their first solo EP this April.

Alina Izolenta and Kamil Ea have been working together as PTU for a number of years already, joining forces under the name back in the mid-noughties. Their first solo EP will arrive on Nina Kraviz‘s трип next month, made up of eight tracks recorded between ’14 – ’16 in Kazan and Moscow, that were created with only two eight-track samplers. Keen listeners will recognize its title track, “A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day,” from the label head’s fabric mix.

Speaking about the Russian pair, the label stated: “They spent their childhood in Siberia and Volga, and their salad days in music schools and early clubs of their respective home cities. Back then accessing the internet was only possible via pre-paid cards that came in envelopes. Music–via pirate CDs and endlessly slow mp3 downloads. Friendships would stem from copying music from hard drive to hard drive.”

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day will be released April 7.

Tracklisting:

A1. Intact Alef
A2. A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day
A3. Yes
B1. Between Us
B2. April Theme
B3. Lizard
B4. Armlet

Premiere: Hear a New Track from Jack Roland

Amsterdam-based artist Jack Roland‘s latest EP, Dream Technology, will be released by Italian imprint UN.T.O. on March 10.

Following an Italian-artists-only policy in 2016 that included releases from Raw Ambassador, Marcello Napoletano, Antonio, and Sseige, UN.T.O. Records third release of 2017—its sixth in total—will also be its first international offering.

Dream Technology precedes a full-length album from Roland later in the year and presents four deep and gritty cuts aimed squarely at the floor. Although sitting loosely in the realm of techno, Roland’s sound is one that touches on breaks, acid, and electro in a twisted mix of club sounds.

You can pre-order Dream Technology via UN.T.O.’s Bandcamp page, with EP cut “Tech Palms” streaming in full below.

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