Weekly Selections: Prins Thomas in LA, Magda & Ryan Elliott at Prototype, Petre Inspirescu & Clovis at Cyclone

This Friday will kick off with a special 6 hour DJ set from the vanguard of ‘cosmic disco’ and recent XLR8R podcast contributor Prins Thomas. The highly regarded Norwegian selector has been locked in to celebrate the 4 year anniversary of Far Away, an underground event series that has quickly risen to the top ranks of LA promoters by hosting artists from the likes of Project Pablo, Floating Points, Four Tet, Avalon Emerson, and more. To sweeten the deal even more, Far Away organizers have announced that a portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to Gray Area Art + Technology’s Fire Relief Fund for the victims of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. For details, click here.

On Saturday, Detroit techno will touch down at Lot 613 for a special Prototype/Making Shapes collaboration featuring the American DJ/producer Magda. The now Berlin-based artist and former member of Richie Hawtin’s M-nus crew will headline the party, but she’ll be joined by Ostgut Ton contributor and Berghain/Panorama Bar resident Ryan Elliott, making this an unmissable night of eclectic house and techno. Support will be provided by Kompakt member SONNS and Making Shapes’ own Jeniluv. For more information and tickets, head to the event’s Facebook page. 

Also on Saturday night, Cyclone returns with yet another stellar booking for LA’s underground community, bringing Romanian minimal master and [a :rpia:r] mainstay Petre Inspirescu to a proper warehouse setting. Although he’ll play an extended set, Pedro (as he’s affectionately called) will be joined by Lessizmore’s Clovis, as well as Gegov of the Cyclone crew. Tickets to the event are still available via XLR8R–pick up yours here.

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 9

Nightmares on Wax (DJ Set)

1015 Folsom – San Francisco, CA, US

December 9 @ 10:00 am – December 10 @ 2:00 am

FOCUS Detroit to DC: Ryan Elliott & Derek Plaslaiko/ Norm Talley & Daniel Andres

Flash – Washington, DC, US

December 9 @ 8:00 pm – December 10 @ 4:00 am

Terry Mullan, Reggie Hotmix & Eric Hinchman

Red Door Night Club – Ferndale, MI, US

December 9 @ 9:00 pm – December 10 @ 2:00 am

Darius

Good Room – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 4:00 am

Omen Recordings and Ascetic Limited presents: Orphx

Location TBA – Los Angeles, CA, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 5:00 am

Stefano Noferini

Verso – San Francisco, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 2:00 am

Diplo at Output

Output – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 6:00 am

Minimal Sessions w/ Steve Mulder at Outspoken

Couture – Hollywood, CA, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 3:00 am

Do Not Sleep Ibiza Comes to Brooklyn: Kenny Dope, Darius Syrossian, Jozif, Shahar B2B Motum, Remove Hyphen

Secret Location – Brooklyn, NE, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 6:00 am

SEQUENCE.882_UVB (Mord, Body Theory)

NE DC Location TBA. RSVP for address. – Washington DC, DC, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 7:00 am

MK, Omar S

Analog BKNY – Brooklyn, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 4:00 am

Throwback Friday: 80s/90s Dance Party

House of Yes – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 9 @ 10:00 pm – December 10 @ 4:00 am

SATURDAY DECEMBER 10

Our House Yoga

House of Yes – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Andy C in Dreamland

Dreamland – Margate, , Kent,, United Kingdom

December 10 @ 9:00 pm – December 11 @ 2:00 am

Time Flies

The Graham – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 10 @ 9:00 pm – December 11 @ 4:00 am

G House XIX ICE HOUSE

Lot45 Bushwick – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 10 @ 9:00 pm – December 11 @ 4:00 am

The Shakedown : Holiday Bash!

The Barbary – Philadelphia, PA, US

December 10 @ 10:00 pm – December 11 @ 2:00 am

The Night Institute presents: Moxie

Foundry – Belfast, Belfast, Ireland

December 10 @ 10:00 pm – December 11 @ 3:00 am

Patterns with Zero (DJ Set)

Patterns – Brighton, United Kingdom

December 10 @ 11:00 pm – December 11 @ 4:00 am

The 2016 Official Anjunadeep Label Tour

Flash Factory – New York, NY, US

December 10 @ 11:00 pm – December 11 @ 4:00 am

Cyclone: Petre Inspirescu, Clovis, Gegov.

TBA DTLA – Los angeles, US

December 10 @ 11:00 pm – December 11 @ 9:00 am

GTD Presents ‘Collapse’: DJ NJ Drone, Jx Cannon, Tazar Yoot, Gravelhands

Sunnyvale – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 10 @ 11:55 pm – December 11 @ 4:00 am

SUNDAY DECEMBER 11

WERD. | Mike Gushansky

Monarch – San Francisco, CA, US

December 11 @ 9:00 pm – December 12 @ 2:00 am

Joel Mull/ Audio KoDe/ Gino Vargas at Output

Output – Brooklyn, NY, US

December 11 @ 10:00 pm – December 12 @ 4:00 am

The Shakedown Holiday Bash

The Barbary – Philadelphia, PA, US

December 11 @ 10:00 pm – December 12 @ 2:00 am

Bonobo Shares Drone-Captured Video For ‘Break Apart’

Simon Green (a.k.a. Bonobo) has shared a new drone-captured video for “‘Break Apart,” the second cut taken from his upcoming album, Migration.

Produced by Neil Krug (Boards of Canada, Tame Impala and Lana Del Rey), the video was premiered by The Creative Review in the lead up to the new LP. Krug also designed all of the artwork for the album.

The visual features overhead footage from some of the places that inspired the new album’’s imagery. “All the desert locations use for the album “are close to where I now live,”” Green explains. “”Part of the writing process was to drive up to these places and live with the tracks as I was making them. This was a new part of the world to me, where the landscape is quite alien and Martian.””

The track is “”Break Apart”” featuring Rhye, the second track taken from Migration, which premiered earlier this week. It’’s a song which shows how deftly broad Bonobo’’s dynamics are as a composer.

Rhye, who provides vocals on he song, said the following: ““I’’m so happy Simon asked me to work on this song with him. From the moment I heard the instrumental track it spoke to me more than I can express in words. Being able to work with an artist that continuously makes me envious, like Simon, is where I always want to be.””

Tracklisting: 

01. Migration
02. Break Apart (feat. Rhye)
03. Outlier
04. Grains
05. Second Sun
06. Surface (feat. Nicole Miglis)
07. Bambro Koyo Ganda (feat. Innov Gnawa)
08. Kerala
09. Ontario
10. No Reason (feat. Nick Murphy)
11. 7th Sevens
12. Figures

Migration is scheduled for January 13 release via Ninja Tune, with preorder available here.

Premiere: Stream a Mesmeric New Cut from Aparde

Paul Schroeder (a.k.a. Aparde)—a subject of our Bubblin Up series—is soon set to release a three-track Maerk EP on the Lenient Tales imprint.

The release follows on from last year’s Dialogue full-length on Keller.

Tracklisting:

01. Elias
02. Vast
03. Maerk

Ahead of the Maerk EP’s December 16 release, “Vast”—a more playful track than the others—is streamable in full below.

Power Vacuum Presents Vectors 3

Bintus/Kruton’s Power Vacuum imprint is set to release the Vectors 3 compilation.

This latest release features tracks from Pan Daijing, Beau Wanzer, Duran Duran Duran, Bleaching Agent, Inca Pax, Dr. Skime, Martyn Hare, as well as a Bintus remix of Pan Daijing.

Every two weeks up until the week before the release, the label will be sharing a video teaser for two tracks from the compilation, offering one video for each side of vinyl.

The first teaser available for sharing is from Side A, Dr. Skime and Pan Daijing, streamable below.

Tracklisting:

A1. Dr. Skime “RX7 Jams 8, 9 & 7”
A2. Pan Daijing “Very Uncomfortable, Please”
B1. Beau Wanzer “Up Chuck’s”
B2. Duran Duran Duran “Drap Jam”
C1. Pan Daijing “Druid” (Bintus Rmx)
C2. Inca Pax “Transfer Function”
D1. Martyn Hare “Time Terminated”
D2. Bleaching Agent “Operai”

Vectors 3 will be out January 24 on 2×12” and digital formats.

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Premiere: Stream Knowsum’s Latest LP in Full

Max Graef, Glenn Astro, and Delfonic’s Money $ex Records will release the latest LP from Knowsum.

Although he may be quite unknown to some, when it comes to quirky, unclassifiable, and just downright mind-warping music, few do it better than Knowsum. If you had to describe his music to someone, it would be a tiresome task—that is, other than stating how great it is. His tunes sit somewhere in the realm of beat-driven pop, but it’s pop that sounds like it has taken an intergalactic trip around the sun.

On his latest LP, Play God And Shit Happens,Knowsum continues his spaced-out explorations across 14 funk-filled cuts. Comparisons could be drawn to modern-day funk and soul flagbearers like Mndsgn and the Stones Throw crew, but Knowsum has managed to craft a singular style within that realm.

You can pre-order Play God And Shit Happenshere ahead of the December 15 release date, with the album streaming in full exclusively via the player below.

AFFKT ‘Ikigai’ (Brunetto Remix)

Spanish producer and Sincopat label head AFFKT released his sophomore album, Son Of A Thousand Sounds, back in September. The album features 12 varied cuts that touch on techno, house, pop, electronica, and beat-driven instrumentals all the while staying true to AFFKT’s emotional sound.

Now, Sincopat has announced a remix LP, titled SOATS Remixed, which will feature interpretations from a range of producers including Dubspeeka, Smash TV, Dave Seaman, Dosem, Kruse & Nuernberg, Pezzner, Fernando Lagreca, and Brunetto. In support of the remix album, Barcelona-based Brunetto has passed on his remix of AFFKT’s poignant album cut “Ikigai” as today’s XLR8R download.

On the remix, the multi-faceted Brunetto stays true to the pensive core of the original, but fits it to a more club-based framework complete with warm atmospheres and sun-tinged melodies.

SOATS Remixed will be out later this month, and in the meantime, you can download Brunetto’s remix via WeTransfer below.

Ikigai (Brunetto remix)

DJ DeClerk ‘No Sleep At All’

For two years now, Hilltop imprint has continued to grow in the Parisian music scene, with more gigs and a monthly show at Rinse France. Led by Jonathan Keita (Pawn Heart, now a.k.a DJ DeClerk) and Benoît Legrain, the label is on the verge to release its third record, titled the Madliberty EP.

It’s a split EP, as the two previous releases; although this time, rather than sharing the two faces with tracks of their own, the two shills are now making tracks together under the Program10 alias.

While keeping the idea of a simple, raw and true sound, they finally worked together to reach what they were wishing for: “a solid based house music, connected with and representing the urban universe they grew up in, northern areas of the city and Banlieue, including the specific landscape, the melting pot, the very present hip-hop culture.”

In advance of the Madliberty EP’s release tomorrow, DJ DeClerk’s “No Sleep At All” is downloadable below.

Tracklisting:

A1. Program10 – Madliberty
A2. Program10 – LAX
B1. DJ DeClerk – No Sleep At All

No Sleep At All

Matthew Dear and Ewan Pearson Remix Satori

Matthew Dear and Ewan Pearson have remixed Satori on his Imani’s Dress EP, the first snippet of his forthcoming album due for release this Spring on Crosstown Rebels.

Imani’s Dress was the spark for the creation of Satori’s debut album after Damian Lazarus heard it and requested to hear more. Satori then locked himself in a secluded studio and finished the album, and soon after it was signed to Crosstown Rebels. “”Imani’s Dress” is the track that put this collaboration into motion,’ explains Satori. ‘This track is special and the logical first single.”

Tracklisting: 

01. Imani’s Dress
02. Imani’s Dress (Matthew Dear Remix)
03. Imani’s Dress (Ewan Pearson Remix)
04. Imani’s Dress (Ewan Pearson Instrumental Remix)

Imani’s Dress is scheduled for January 20 release.

DJ Hell Announces New Single

DJ Hell is set to release his first new material for three years.

“I Want U” is the first single to be taken from the German techno icon’s forthcoming album, Zukunftsmusik. The track is a collaboration with the Tom of Finland Foundation, an organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of erotic art. The EP features remixes from The Hacker and Martin Matiske.

Hell has stated that the song “centers on love between men,” and that the new LP will be a tribute to the “very early underground club scene in Chicago and New York City” which brought club and gay cultures together.

The single will be released digitally via International Deejay Gigolo Records later this month, on December 24. Watch the official video below, which feature artwork by Tom of Finland.

Carl Craig Presents ‘Versus’

Carl Craig will present an album adaptation of his widely acclaimed “Versus” live performance.

“Versus” originally premiered in 2008, with a live debut at La Cité de La Musique, Paris, where Carl Craig was joined by Les Siècles orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth, Moritz von Oswald, and Francesco Tristano, who arranged and orchestrated all the tracks. The performance, one of the first of its kind to combine electronic and classical composition, received five standing ovations and had over one million views online of the original filmed recording.

Of the live performance, Gilles Peterson said: “I’m in awe of Carl’s determination to stretch the boundaries of techno… and prove that electronic beats are as much “music” as violins or cellos.”

Now, Detroit imprint Planet E joins forces with InFiné to bring “Versus” for an official album release in 2017. Produced by Carl Craig, the Versus album mixes both orchestral and electronically enhanced versions of Carl Craig’s music in a techno collection of eight tracks adapted for orchestra.

The Versus Synthesizer Ensemble live show is also planned, where Carl Craig will be joined on stage by five musicians, together interpreting the music from the album on to a synthesizer wall. The first dates will be announced in January 2017.

In advance of the album’s March 2017 release, two of the album tracks—namely “Sandstorms” and “Desire”—can be streamed here.

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