30drop Announces New Album

30drop will release a new album later this year.

Barcelona-based techno specialist 30drop emerged back in 2014 and has since released on the likes of End Of Dayz and Detroit Underground, as well as the artist’s own self-titled imprint. 30drop’s sophomore album will arrive this March, featuring 12 original cuts plus four remixes by some of the genre’s heaviest hitters: Substance (a.k.a. DJ Pete), Architectural, Rivet and Zero Mass (30drop’s new collaborative project with Geistform).

The Time of Cruel Miracles is described as combining “stripped-down rhythms, sweeping pads and hypnotic bleeping sequences,” taking inspiration from the likes of Robert Hood, Jeff Mills and Terrence Dixon.

The Time of Cruel Miracles is due out March 17. Stream the first single from the album below, “Captured Rotation.”

Tracklisting:

A1. Our Understanding
A2. NGC1277
A3. Captured Rotation
B1. Approaching Lights
B2. Gravity Zone
B3. Goldene Spirale
C1. Beyond Language
C2. Standard Model
C3. Future Teller
D1. Superstring Theory
D2. Stadt des Orion
D3. The Mirror
E1. Goldene Spirale (Substance Remix)
E2. NGC1277 (Architectural Remix)
F1. Stadt des Orion (Rivet Remix)
F2. Superstring Theory (Zero Mass Remix)

Rob Shields ‘Water’

UK producer Rob Shields is set to release his debut album, Green, on January 27 via Needwant‘s new sister label, YEN.

The album finds Shields breaking away from the typical dancefloor template; it’s introspective music that aims to take the listener to a world of emotions and memories, real or otherwise. Shields favors warm, analog sounds on Green, sounds derived from guitars, various percussion instruments, field recordings—sources ranging from the exotic rivers and jungles in South America to the mundane objects found in Shields’ flat—and worn bits of hardware that all contribute to noticable warmth.

In support of the album, Shields has offered up “Water,” the album’s second cut, as today’s XLR8R download. With its feel-good nature and flowing instrumentation, the track is a perfect appetizer to Green—a pre-order is available via Shields’ Bandcamp page.

Shields will also be performing live at The Waiting Room in London on February 2 with details here.

Water

Boxwork Preps Debut LP

South London’s Shades Recordings will soon release Dive Left, the first full-length offering from James Wilson (a.k.a Boxwork).

Boxwork is a producer that’s hard to pin down, and he likes it that way. Left alone in the corner with his toys, he has created an “intensely personal” record which is “at once dark and vivid, melodic, and hardbitten.”

Boxwork:

“This record is my mind represented in music. My hopes and fears, my ups and downs, committed to wax. Any part of it that I originally wrote with others in mind—be they artists, DJs or even clubgoers—got scrapped along the way, and I think that kept the record honest. That’s probably the only reason I still like it: because it feels honest.”

Dive Left is scheduled for February 24 release.

Premiere: Stream a New Aera Track on Hivern Discs

Aera (a.k.a Ralf Schmidt)—who recently offered up a track to the XLR8R download series—is soon set to release an EP on John Talabot‘s Hivern Discs. It will be his first release since his 12″ on Dixon and Âme‘s Innervisions.

And Schmidt’s first instalment for Hivern might be his most diverse work to date. Four tracks are included with traces of techno, house, electro, and even trance—at a point.

The 12” comes wrapped in a sleeve by Barcelona-based designer Xavier Marín.

Tracklisting:

A1. Bibimbap
A2. Thai Park
B1. Rotunde
B2. Lumen
*Digital only: Lumen (La Gomera Dub)

In advance of the unnamed EP’s January 20 release, “Rotunde” can be exclusively streamed in full below.

azul-revolto ‘Casting Shadows’

Lisbon-based Portuguese producer azul–revolto (Hugo Barão)’s third EP LIVID will be released on London-based Algebra digitally and as a limited-edition, hand-stamped white-label clear vinyl 12”.

LIVID arrives after 2016’s SOMA EP and with its eyes on the dancefloor. It kicks things off with “Pact From Below,” before “Casting Shadows,” lo-fi industrial-edged cut that is downloadable in full below in advance of the EP’s February 17 release. On the flip are the record are “Substance,” acollaboration between azul-revolto and Algebra label head Casually Here, and “Out Of Phase.”

“Casting Shadows” is available to download now via the WeTransfer button below.

Tracklisting

01. Pact From Below
02. Casting Shadows
03. Substance w/ Casually Here
04. Out Of Phase

Casting Shadows

Prins Thomas Remixes Hatchets

Prins Thomas is set to release a new remix for a for São Paulo’s Gop Tun disco collective as part of the label’s third installment.

The chosen track is “Hey Benji” by Hatchets, a local band with “full instrumental feel” and “house, hip-hop, techno, disco, and funk” influences.

Tracklisting

A. Hey Benji
B.R Hey Benji (Prins Thomas remix)

In advance of the EPs’ January 27 release, clips are available to stream below.

The Black Madonna Releases New Single

The Black Madonna has released a new single.

Available now via her new label, We Still Believe, “He Is the Voice I Hear” is The Black Madonna’s first new original production since 2013’s Lady Of Sorrows EP. The release was made in collaboration with her studio partner Rupert Murray, and features musicians Davide Rossi and Christoforo LaBarbera on strings and keyboard.

Of the track, The Black Madonna stated; “I have always felt, where making records was concerned, that it was better to say nothing than to rush and put out a lot of music that didn’t say much at all. But now it’s time to share something with you that has been the most exciting project I’ve ever worked on. “He Is The Voice I Hear” is my first all new work since “Lady Of Sorrows.” It’s been a long journey from there to here. I’m so thrilled to continue the story and finally realize my dream of bringing together an ensemble of live musicians.”

“He Is the Voice I Hear” is available now here, and streable in full below.

Solar One Music Turns 10 with The Exaltics EP

Solar One Music will celebrate its 10 year anniversary with an EP from The Exaltics.

Robert Witschakowski (a.k.a. The Exaltics) is head of Solar One Music, alongside co-owner Nico Jagiela. In celebration of the imprint reaching its 10 year anniversary, the pair will release a 2×10″ EP from The Exaltics, entitled 10 Million Light Years. 

The EP was originally released back in 2007 (the year of the label’s conception) on USB, featuring a remix from Kan3da. In the years following, music from The Exaltics has appeared on the likes of Bunker Records and Clone too.

10 Million Light Years is due out February 11. Pre-order it at Bandcamp and stream snippets below.

Tracklisting:

01. 10 Million Light Years
02. What’s Wrong
03. High Voltage Accelerator
04. 10 Million Light Years (Kan3da Remix)

Mood Hut Announces RAMZi EP

RAMZi has an EP on the way with Mood Hut.

Canadian artist Phoebé Guillemot (a.k.a. RAMZi) will make her debut on the imprint later this month, entitled Phobiza “Noite” Vol. 2. Guillemot has previously released on other Canadian imprints 1080p and Total Stasis (the latter of which she released the first chapter of the Phobiza series through last year). According to Mood Hut, listeners can look forward to some “sounds to speed across the Noite skies or sink into the soil.”

Phobiza “Noite” Vol. 2 is due out January 27. Stream snippets below.

Tracklisting:

A1. For Vanda
A2. Fuma
B1. Messiah
B2. Male Heya

Ludodowwn ‘Polar’

Mirror/Bleach will be the debut EP from Perth-based artist Ludodowwn. The EP was produced between long night shifts as a hospital orderly, resulting in a collection of explorative music birthed from a wandering mind.

The first taste of the EP arrives in “Polar,” a cut being offered as today’s XLR8R download—one that perfectly encapsulates the young producer’s aesthetic. In the track, twisting atmospheres and maze-like synths snake around underneath Ludodowwn’s half-sung vocals, which act as a somewhat guide in the track’s complex sonic world. It’s an inspired debut from an artist that we are sure you will be hearing much more of in the near future.

You can download “Polar” via WeTransfer below ahead of the release of Mirror/Bleach.

Polar

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