Hear a Track from Kid Koala’s Forthcoming Ambient Album

Scratch DJ, producer, and composer Eric San (a.k.a. Kid Koala) has shared an exclusive track from his latest album, Music To Draw To: Satellite, to be released via Arts & Crafts on January 20.

The ambient album features the vocal stylings of Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini and is the inaugural volume in the ‘Music To Draw To’ series. Satellite is also the first non-sample-based body of work from San, who produced and performed all the instrumentation on an array of synthesizers, keys, guitars, basses, and strings. The eighteen atmospheric cuts on Satellite tell a “heartrending tale of discovery and loss through the lens of lovers separated by a one-way space mission to Mars”—a tale made all the more affecting with Torrini’s stunning vocal work.

Music To Draw To: Satellite will be released on 2xLP vinyl, CD, MP3, and Deluxe CD with sketchbook—all of which can be pre-ordered here. Ahead of the January 20 release date, you can stream album cut “Collapser (featuring Emilíana Torrini)” in full via the player below, alongside Kid Koala’s upcoming tour dates.

Tour Dates:

January 26 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
January 27 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
January 28 – Toronto ON – The Rivoli
February 2 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 3 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 4 – Montreal QC – Phi Centre
February 12 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge (2 Shows)
February 16 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage
February 17 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage
February 18 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage (matinée)
February 18 – Ottawa ON – National Arts Centre Fourth Stage

Baba Stiltz Back on Studio Barnhus

Baba Stiltz will release a new EP on Axel Boman and Kornél Kovács’Studio Barnhus, titled Is Everything.

The five-tracker follows a string of diverse releases—from red-eyed cloud rap with Yung Sherman and disco-tinged experimental house EP Keep It Lit on Will Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes. It will be his eighth original Studio Barnhus release.

According to the label, the release consists of “icy techno soul, actual R&B, and the real future funk.”

Tracklisting:

A1. Snowwhite
A2. Baby
A3. Freeeze
B1. XXX200003
B2. Are You Mad? Cause I’m Not Mad…

Is Everything is scheduled for January 27 release, with “Baby” streamable below.

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Galtier Returns to Files Rec.

Galtier will return to Files Rec. with the Forced System EP. The release arrives almost exactly three years after his first release on the label, namely 2013’s Shudder three-tracker—which included “Lock,” streamable below.

Over recent years, the Australia-born, Bristol-based DJ-producer has proven himself as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking upcoming names within the bass music community.

Included alongside two originals is a remix by Russian artist AN System.

Tracklisting:

01. Forced System
02. Balms
03. Forced System (AN System remix)

Forced System EP is scheduled for January 20 release.

Quarta330 Next Up on Hyperdub

Hyperdub has announced its first EP of 2017.

Toru Koda (a.k.a. Quarta330) is set to return to Kode9‘s London-based imprint with a new four-tracker. Pixelated is described by the label as a “set of detailed, energetic chiptunes,” and is “just a taste of the new batch” of the Japanese musician’s productions on the way. It is Koda’s first new release since his 2010 collaboration with LV on the imprint.

Pixelated is set to drop on January 27. Pre-order the EP at Bandcamp, where one of the EP’s cuts, “Yatagarasu,” is available to stream in full.

Tracklisting:

01. Resonate
02. The Fairies Homecoming
03. Yatagarasu
04. Digital Lotus Flower

Technics Unveils New Turntable

Panasonic has unveiled a new Technics turntable.

The SL-1200GR went on show at the annual CES 2017 at Las Vegas, billed as the standard version of the SL-1200G (which hit markets last year). What Hi-Fi? suggests that the new deck “inherits many of the technological highlights of the SL-1200G, but not the eye-watering price-tag,” though Panasonic is yet to confirm this. It is the third new turntable produced by the Japanese company since the SL-1200 was reborn in 2015.

So far, we know that it uses a similar coreless direct-drive motor to its predecessor, and will come with a 2.5 kilo platter (made of aluminium and rubber, designed to eliminate resistance). Its tonearm is also made from high-rigidity aluminium, sitting on a two-layer design with gold-plated phono- and grounding terminals. The total weight of the turntable is 11.3 kilos.

More information to follow.

Derrick Carter Announces New EP

Derrick Carter is set to release his first new solo material in 14 years.

“Squaredancing” is a new version of the title track of the Windy City house veteran’s last album—2002’s Squaredancing in a Roundhouse. The forthcoming EP, which will drop on Press Pot Recordings, also features remixes by fellow Chicago locals Stacy Kidd and Scrubfish (as well as one by Carter himself) and will be a vinyl only release, arriving as a limited edition 2×7″ package.

Check out a video of the EP’s test pressings here, via a Facebook post from Carter himself.

Tracklisting:

A. Squaredancing
B. Squaredancing (Stacy Kidd Remix)
C. Squaredancing (DC Nu-Vox Dub)
D. Squaredancing (Scrubfish No Gills Rub)

VISUALS ‘Waiting On A G’

Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Fox (a.k.a Visuals) crafted his latest EP, Constant Desire, in Berlin in the wake of last year’s State Of Things—released via Berlin label thesongsays in March.

With the continued help of Darkside’s Dave Harrington and Louis McGuire (Ballet School / The Waves and Us.), Fox yields yet another release that confirms his position as one of the most exciting new producers in the game. On the album, Fox says he’s “moving through various styles of electronic music, [where] the songs weave together a dream-like impression of an accelerating, hyper-consumable time, fueled by the desire for human connection through the machines.” It’s not an easy task crafting an EP of varied styles and genres whilst also staying coherent, but Fox pulls it off with grace and understated confidence.

Constant Desire is out now on VISUALSMUSIC—you can grab it here—with EP cut “Waiting On A G” available as a free download via WeTransfer below.

Waiting On A G

In the Studio: Livio & Roby

Robert Precup and Silviu Sandu should be no strangers to the XLR8R readers. Their widespread influence on the flourishing Romanian scene was detailed in our investigative feature this time last year; and they then submitted a splendid 60-minute mix to our podcast series just over a month later—comprised almost entirely of their own unreleased minimal productions.

And it is in the studio that the Bucharest-based duo have been most prolific. For over a decade they’ve been the production team behind a remarkable catalog of sophisticated house-focused releases—the majority of which have been shared between Cécile, Vakant, Drumma, and Loco Dice‘s Desolat. In addition to this, they continue to work alongside George G under the Premiesku alias.

Having shared their debut LP in 2008, they dropped the Phantom Circle album in late October 2016—the result of many years in the studio. The 11-tracker, a “conceptual project” that arrived on Desolat, featured some impressive names, including tINI, Enzo Siragusa, and Ryan Crosson; each cut was co-produced with one of these anonymous names from the duo’s close circle of friends, though no clear evidence of the collaborator behind each track was offered.

Both innovative and brave, Phantom Circle went a long way to affirming Livio & Roby as two of the leading producers in minimal house scene; and so we thought it was about time to visit Precup and Sandu in their Bucharest studio—located in Precup’s basement—to learn more about their production processes.

In addition to this, a gallery of their studio can be viewed below.

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In the Studio: Livio & Roby

Robert Precup and Silviu Sandu should be no strangers to the XLR8R readers. Their widespread influence on the flourishing Romanian scene was detailed in our investigative feature this time last year; and they then submitted a splendid 60-minute mix to our podcast series just over a month later—comprised almost entirely of their own unreleased minimal productions.

And it is in the studio that the Bucharest-based duo have been most prolific. For over a decade they’ve been the production team behind a remarkable catalog of sophisticated house-focused releases—the majority of which have been shared between Cécile, Vakant, Drumma, and Loco Dice‘s Desolat. In addition to this, they continue to work alongside George G under the Premiesku alias.

Having shared their debut LP in 2008, they dropped the Phantom Circle album in late October 2016—the result of many years in the studio. The 11-tracker, a “conceptual project” that arrived on Desolat, featured some impressive names, including tINI, Enzo Siragusa, and Ryan Crosson; each cut was co-produced with one of these anonymous names from the duo’s close circle of friends, though no clear evidence of the collaborator behind each track was offered.

Both innovative and brave, Phantom Circle went a long way to affirming Livio & Roby as two of the leading producers in minimal house scene; and so we thought it was about time to visit Precup and Sandu in their Bucharest studio—located in Precup’s basement—to learn more about their production processes.

In addition to this, a gallery of their studio can be viewed below.

CLICK A PHOTO TO ENTER GALLERY

Pick a Piper ‘Nikko’

On March 3, Ontario experimentalist Brad Weber (a.k.a. Pick A Piper) will release his latest album, Distance, via Tin Angel Records. The album is reportedly a “bewitching slow-rave travelogue of sounds and stories” that Weber picked up on his solo travels and while fulfilling his role in the live-band incarnation of Caribou.

The themes and stories behind the songs on the album follow in line with its unique sound content—sleep paralysis, a Japanese mountain town, and even an email sent to the wrong person all feature on the long-player. Bookended by Weber’s beautiful sound design work and intriguing found sound recordings, Distance is a gripping and adventurous collection of tracks to get lost in.

Ahead of the March 3 release, you can download shimmering album cut “Nikko” via WeTransfer below.

Nikko

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