Anthony Parasole LP Up Next on Dekmantel

Dekmantel will release the debut album of Anthony Parasole on their UFO series.

‘‘When I started to conceptualize my album I had a few end goals,” explains Parasole. ‘‘I wanted to string my own style through Infrared Vision, so it would be familiar to the people who like my music. I also grabbed ideas outside of techno and house, because I didn’t want to be influenced by anything new. I was listening to a lot of jazz, hip-hop, Nine Inch Nails and Prince for example.’’

According to the label, Parasole took his time to write, produce and record Infrared Vision, dividing the process into three steps: ‘‘I wrote the album in words, pinning down ideas and track concepts on a notepad. Subsequently, I transferred my ideas to my gear. Due to a heavy tour schedule. I sometimes brought gear with me on the road, to continue my sketch process on the hardware. I then recorded it at home and at the Butcha Sound Studios in New York. When the music was fully finished the album morphed into its final version.’’

Tracklisting

A1. Cold Steel
A2. Murky Waters
B1. Explode
B2. Momentum
C1. Infrared Vision
C2. Bizarre Part 2
D1. Spell On Me
D2. The Chant
D3. Zenith
00. So Alive (Digital Only)

Infrared Vision is scheduled for April 3 release, with snippets streamable below.

Seekers Label Readies New LP

The Seekers label will release a new six-track LP this March.

Flirting With Melancholy lands following a double LP, and consists of six melancholic tracks spread over a 12″ paired with a special 7″.

Tracklisting:

A1. Sounds of a Winter Night
A2. Slowly Sinking
B1. The Happiness of Being Sad
B2. Pursuit of Pleasure
C. Love Intensified by Absence
D. Everything Seems Simple Until You Think About It

The artist behind the release remains undisclosed.

Flirting With Melancholy is scheduled for March 3 release, with snippets streamable below.

Nicolas Jaar Compiles New Book

Other People and Printed Matter will put out a book by Nicolas Jaar.

Network was inspired by Jaar’s recent online radio project: an “online, semi-fictitious network of interlocking radio stations built around chance operations.” The stations were built around 20 hours of mixes by Jaar, as well as music from his recent LP Sirens, though the remaining content is “constructed “fakes”, conceptual audio works created with the help of voice actors.”

The forthcoming book is made up of three key threads—visual essays (by iconic musician Lydia Lunch, designer Linda van Deursen and Jaar himself), poster artwork for each of the 111 stations, and “loose transcriptions” from each radio program. The thrust of the work in its entirety is to give “theoretical consideration to the inherent political possibilities of radio broadcast.”

Network will be available to purchase at the LA Art Book Fair, taking place February 23 – 26. Alternatively, you can pre-order it at Printed Matter, with an expected shipping date of March 23.

Ostgut Ton Announces New Nick Höppner EP

Nick Höppner is next up on Ostgut Ton.

Three-tracker Box Drop will be the Panorama Bar resident’s eighth EP on the Berghain-affiliated label, the most recent being his 2016 collaboration with Japanese artist Gonno. The forthcoming release is described as putting “full focus on club music,” with a mixture of dub techno, house and bleep-influenced selections.

The label has also hinted at the release of Höppner’s sophomore album this summer (following on from his 2015 debut, Folk), which promises to be “stylistically and atmospherically more diverse” than the upcoming EP.

Box Drop will be released March 17. Stream snippets below.

Tracklisting:
A. Box Drop
B1. Still
B2. Out Of Sight

Premiere: Hear a Track from Real J’s New Release on Waxtefacts

The next release on Waxtefacts will arrive late this month from French producer Real J.

Following a sold-out fourth release—a swinging house EP from label head Librarian—the popular vinyl-only label returns with a scorching EP from the French producer, featuring four cuts of pure disco-infused house. Real J’s drum programming shines through on the EP, it’s a groove-led outing that will set dancefloors alight.

As is usual, Stuck In The Realness will drop as a limited edition 12″ later this month. Ahead of the release, you can stream A1 cut, “One Love,” via the player below.

Alongside the release of the EP, Waxtefacts will be celebrating its one-year anniversary at Loftus Hall, Berlin, on March 17 with sets from label artists Librarian, Strip Steve, Real J, Interstate, and DJ Storch. You can find more information for the event here.

Studio Essentials: Jeroen Search

Longevity in the techno world isn’t the easiest feat to pull off. Having the essential understanding of the sound, as well as the additional flare, is one thing, but holding onto it is something else. Dutch musician Jeroen Schrijvershof (a.k.a. Jeroen Search) is one such producer who has done just that. Breaking onto the scene back in the mid-90s, he emphatically launched himself into the popular sphere with quick-fire releases on his own self-titled imprint, Search.

Since those early days, he’s barely paused for breath. Riding a steady roll since day one, he’s stayed true to his sound throughout the journey—crisp, precise techno designed for dark dancefloors. His enduring style, rich with subtleties and nuances, has landed him on some of the genre’s key imprints, including M_REC LTD and Len Faki’s Figure SPC (a release series that he both launched, back in 2009, and closed with the SPC Z EP in June last year).

It’s with such a steadfast background in electronic music that it seemed an obvious choice to invite Jeroen Search to reveal his studio secrets and to discuss the machines that have serviced him over two decades of production.

Roland JX-3P

I’ve bought and sold a lot of the classic Roland synths over the years, but this Roland JX-3P is one of the machines that has been with me in the studio the longest. It is a real workhorse and I guess it’s safe to say it is incorporated on at least 85% of my tracks. It truly is the backbone of my collection—I literally couldn’t do what I do without it. Whether it’s just a couple of simple pads, nice bass sounds or weird funky lead stabs, this thing does it all. Plus, with the PG-200 programmer it’s really super easy to edit, and the with the polyphonic step-sequencer linked to a trigger input, you can get real freaky with it too.

Roland TR-909

There’s not much left to say about the TR-909 that hasn’t been said before. I just know for sure that I couldn’t work without it. Like the JX-3P, this one has been with me for ages and it really helped me define my sound over the years. It is one of those machines you form a really strong bond with over time and to me it never loses its magic.

Korg Minilogue

Apart from a couple of real essential devices like the 909 or the JX-3P that I’ll always keep, I always try to swap out a couple machines each year. Partially because I’m just a sucker for new things like the next guy, but also because I think the challenge of mastering a new synth keeps you sharp, and thus my sound interesting (at least to me).

Since I started making music before all the DAWs (like Ableton) were common, I sort of developed a ‘thing’ for synthesizers that either have a built-in (step-)sequencer or some sort of trigger input. That’s also why I was drawn directly to the Korg Minilogue when it came out. It is the latest additions to my studio, but I already really like it a lot. There are some really cool and complex sounds lurking in the depths of this machine, and for such a low price too, amazing work from Korg.

Roland SH-32

I have developed something of a soft spot for these weird, not really well known digital “do-it-all” machines from the early ’00s, like this SH-32. Maybe because it’s not a ‘real’ analog synth, the SH-32 is often overlooked by people; however, it truly is a great little machine for adding textures and small sounds to you tracks. It also has a mean arpeggiator! You can buy them dirt cheap and once you dive in they are easy to work with.

Mackie VLZ 2404 Pro & Roland MX-1

This mixing desk is truly the centerpiece of the studio and is essential to my workflow. I prefer to start of all my tracks as jams, which I then record as a single live take. Apart from some trimming at the beginning or end of the track, I never do any post-editing, EQing or compression to my music. So, having a mixing desk in the heart of the studio is really important to me, since it provides the sole source of control I have over the sound and the arrangement.

You could say that to me the Mackie is more like an instrument rather than being just a mixer. Yet, paradoxically, I’m not really attached to a specific brand or model when it comes to mixers; I’ve had a couple of different ones over the years and this Mackie probably will be replaced by something else too in a couple of years. I like to change them up every once in a while—each one has it’s own sweet spots and it’s fun to change that every now and then.

The main problem with these mixers, however, is that they are very big and heavy. Before, when I was touring with my live set, the promoter always needed to rent one for me. Especially when you are playing in some of the smaller events or clubs, it proved hard to find the right mixer sometimes. So, I’m very pleased that Roland hooked me up with this MX-1 to take the Mackie’s place while touring. It has some cool effects and features built in, but probably the biggest plus of this device is that it fits in my bag. Being fully “self-supported” as a live act means that I just need two square meters of space and a connection to the sound system, and I’m good to go. There’s no need to worry about anything other than playing my set.

Felix K Lines Up New Ambient Album

Felix K will release a new ambient album later this month.

The electronic artist’s forthcoming full-length, Die Kunst zu verschwinden (or “the art of disappearing”), will drop on Hidden Hawaii, the Berlin-based imprint that he co-owns. The LP is a four-tracker, spread across four sides of transparent vinyl, focussing on ambient and drone soundscapes (made with both field recordings and synths). It follows hot on the heels of his collaborative album with DB1 as Elemnt, which hit stores earlier this year.

Die Kunst zu verschwinden will be available to purchase from Hard Wax at some point in March.

Tracklisting:

A. Das Leben
B. Die Illusion
C. Das Geheimnis
D. Der Traum

Alignment ‘Rubble’

Since its inception in 2014, voxnox records has released a steady stream of highly focused techno weapons from artists such as, among many others, Sept, Verschwender, Brothers Black, Curses, I/Y, Michal Jablonski and many more.

The latest release to land on the label is a dark four-track EP from Alignment. Titled Spectral, the EP is already causing major waves in the techno scene, picking up support from some of the genre’s biggest names, including Ben Klock, Chris Liebing, Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin, Joseph Capriati, SLAM, Cleric, and Abstract Division. As you can most likely infer from those names, the EP is filled with deep, dark, driving techno, rolling grooves fit for the shadowy recesses of the dancefloor.

Spectral drops on February 14 and can be pre-ordered here, and in the meantime, you can grab bonus cut “Rubble” via WeTransfer below.

Rubble

Hear a New Funk-Filled Cut from Australian Five-Piece The Possé

The Possé are an Australian five-piece run by Andrew Elston and Ross Ferraro that has expanded and retracted with different combinations of musicians including Jarrol Renaud, Michael Di Francesco (Touch Sensitive / Van She), NZ jazz-keys prodigy Andrew Bruce, and Harry Sutherland.

After a year of relentless studio time and a string of sold-out shows, the five-piece have refined their sound and influences into an incredible, funked-out live show and production team with their own modern take on boogie, Philly soul, and NY disco.

In March, The Possé will release Our Thing, a smooth-as-silk four-tracker on Plastic World. To get you in the mood ahead of the release, the band have offered up a full stream of “No Burrito,” a track with deep disco ties, as the band explains:

“The track began life as more of a spaced-out, italo Rhodes number, but after Mike DiFrancesco came over and smashed a bassline out we knew where we had to take it!
I guess you could say it’s a bit of an homage to the sound and style of Gino Soccio and Cerrone (and many others)—late 70’s disco is a definite inspiration here.”

You can stream “No Burrito” in full via the player below, with Our Thing available for pre-order over at Plastic World.

Houghton Festival Expands Lineup

Houghton Festival has added a second wave of artists to its lineup.

The British three-dayer is a joint project by the team behind Gottwood and fabric resident Craig Richards, who has curated the event and personally invited each of the scheduled artists. The festival’s bill has now been substantially expanded, this time with a focus on live performance: legendary afrobeat drummer Tony Allen will put on a special tribute to the renowned jazz drummer Art Blakey, alongside the likes of Hercules & Love Affair, Yussef Kamaal, Radioactive Man, and Cobblestone Jazz.

Also confirmed are Romanian minimal selectors Raresh and Rhadoo, as well as Margaret Dygas, Ben UFO, Cassy, Gerd Janson, and Joy Orbison amongst others, who join the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Seth Troxler and Nicolas Lutz. Check out the flyer below for full details of the new announcement.

Houghton Festival will take place at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, on August 11 – 13. For more information and tickets, head to the festival’s site.

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