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Jane Fitz, Dr Rubinstein, Evan Baggs, and DJ Nobu Announced as Oval Space/The Pickle Factory Residents
Oval Space and The Pickle Factory have unveiled their new residents for 2017.
Taking up residency at Oval Space will be DJ Nobu and Dr Rubinstein, while over at The Pickle Factory, Jane Fitz and Evan Baggs will join current resident Fred P. Each artist will play for Oval Space and The Pickle Factory exclusively in London next year.
DJ Nobu needs little introduction. An esteemed DJ with no fixed style, he has been at the forefront of Japan’s electronic music scene since the early 2000s. His renowned Future Terror parties have become something of a pilgrimage for techno, noise and experimental DJs the world over since they started in 2001. But it is as a DJ and record collector that Nobu is really special: while most DJs lean on old favourites and the tried and trusted, Nobu’s selections speak to the wealth of music that remain undiscovered, making him a true master at the craft.
Marina Rubinstein (a.k.a Dr. Rubinstein) is part of the new contingent of emerging techno DJs whose profile is continues to rise thanks to her intense, hypnotic acid sets at clubs including Berghain, About Blank, The Block and de School, to name a few. Together with DJ Nobu, Dr Rubinstein will play exclusively at Oval Space in London next year.
Jane Fitz is a DJ in the purest sense. She has held down a coveted residency at the legendary Freerotation festival alongside running the much-loved Night Moves party with co-founder Jade Seatle. Unique in having created her strong reputation from DJing alone, Fitz occasionally turns her hand at producing too, under the Invisible Menders alias alongside Dom Ahtuam.
Rounding off the new additions to the Residency Programme will be Evan Baggs. A born and bred New Yorker, Baggs is the latest in a tradition of vinyl-obsessed Berlin-oriented DJs who learned their craft at Club der Visionaire.
Setaoc Mass Reveals New EP
Setaoc Mass has a new EP on the way.
Berlin-based Brit Sam Coates’ (a.k.a. Setaoc Mass) next EP sees him return to his own SK_eleven imprint. Four-tracker Cycles will be his fourth release of the year, following one other EP on SK_eleven, and two on Len Faki‘s Figure imprint. Listeners can expect a blend of muscular techno and sci-fi sounds, as well as one downbeat cut.
Cycles will hit stores December 2. Stream snippets below.
Tracklisting:
A1. Cyber
A2. Kunfus
B1. Structured Deceit
B2. Escape From You
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Score French Film Thriller
A Winged Victory For The Sullen—the modern classical / ambient duo composed of Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie—will release a brand new original film score for the French thriller, “Iris,” directed by Jalil Lespert and starring Romain Duris and Charlotte Le Bon.
The story of the film revolves around the kidnapping of the wife of a wealthy banker in the middle of Paris. The main suspect is a down and out mechanic, but there is a deeper, darker and mysterious plot underway that goes beyond the initial assumptions from the police. The official trailer can be viewed below.
The “Iris” recording sessions began with their sound collaborator Francesco Donadelloin the form of some modular synth sessions in Berlin. Dustin and Adam began working from the script in their own studios, and after filming commenced they continued to create music that could be used for first edits of the film—each day getting new scenes that triggered ideas that would become the base of the film score. Over the course of the next few months, the two slowly crafted the music with weekly discussion from their studio to the editing room. The final sessions to what is now the score of “Iris” were recorded with a 40-piece string orchestra at Magyar Radio in Budapest.
Adam & Dustin had this to say of the making of their score for Iris,
“Despite A Winged Victory For The Sullen being associated with film score type music, trying to survive the process of creating the modern film score is not for people with fragile egos. It requires those who are the most responsive to change. The director and the film presented a new set of challenges, so we decided to stop thinking about cinema as an object, and moved closer to using the film’s images as triggers for experiences. The more we were able to let go, and see the music as something that happens, like a process—not a quality, the more we were able to reach a place that sounded like us. It was as if we were making our first record all over again, except being filtered through another language littered with dead metaphors.”
Tracklisting:
01. Prologue Iris
02. Retour Au Champs De Mars
03. Fantasme
04. Gare Du Nord Part One
05. L’embauche
06. Le Retour En Foret
07. Metro Part Three
08. Flashback Antoine
09. Galerie
10. Le Renversement
11. Normandie
12. Comme On A Dit
Iris OST is scheduled for January 17 release via Erased Tapes, with “Galerie” streamable in full below.
Nina Kraviz Mixes Fabric 91
Nina Kraviz is the latest contributor to the fabric mix series.
The Siberian DJ and producer’s contribution to the fabric mix series is made up of 41 tracks, including music by Aphex Twin (as AFX), Unit Moebius, Woody McBride, Leo Anibaldi, and New Composers & Pete Namlook. There is also a bunch of unreleased cuts (from the likes of Bjarki, Biogen and herself), as well as selections from her own imprint, трип. It brings together all variety of acid, techno and breakbeat cuts from the past two decades
On the mix, Kraviz stated: “This mix is of course where I am as a DJ and record collector, but it’s also where I am as a listener and it’s what makes me groove at the moment. People call this a brain dance … This mix is a trippy acidic dream with a lot of different emotions along on the way. And as it was recorded at different times and places, under different circumstances, it’s naturally absorbed all these very different emotions.. I’ve used only completely new unreleased music or rare old tracks, and nothing in between, no current releases. The mix is an invisible bridge between the past and a future that is actually now.”
The mix follows on from Scuba‘s recent contribution, as well as a 111-track compilation organized by fabric and affiliated imprint Houndstooth in support of the #savefabric campaign. In spite of the London club’s forced closure, the mix series shows no signs of stopping.
Kraviz also discussed her experiences at the venue itself: “It always feels special as an artist to play at fabric and it brings a lot of excitement. Playing in room one is a unique experience because of the unusual DJ booth, where you can hide like a magician and orchestrate the room from there. When the room is full, with the lights blazing, it feels as if you are wired in directly to the dancing crowd.”
fabric 91 will be released December 9.
Tracklisting:
01. Species of Fishes “Tak” [трип]
02. Bedouin Ascent “Ruthless Compassion” [Rising High]
03. Woody McBride “TV” [трип]
04. DJ Slip “Jill’s Meth” (Side A) [Missile]
05. Tim Taylor, Dan Zamani, Freddie Fresh, DJ Slip “Iceberg” [Missile]
06. Soren “19C” [Unreleased]
07. Leo Anibaldi “Aeon Fusion 1” [ACV 1038]
08. DJ RX-5 “Like A Boogie” [Schmer]
09. Nikita Zabelin “Confusion” [Unreleased]
10. Bjarki “Denise It Ain’t Easy 2” [Unreleased]
11. PTU “A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day” [Unreleased]
12. Orange Juice Man “Huckfuq 3” (Uxi Mix) [Unreleased]
13. Birk Brainwash “Deli At Night” [Unreleased]
14. Breaker 1 2 “Sueno Malo” [Unreleased]
15. Panasonic “Murtaja” [Sähkö]
16. Birk Brainwash “Goyfax” [Unreleased]
17. Beverly Hills 808303 “Acid Planet 4 – A2” [Acid Planet]
18. Kirlian “Porzellangasse Grooves – Groove 2” [Sähkö]
19. Species of Fishes “Crash Recovery” [трип]
20. Frak “First Snow In Harlem” [Börft]
21. Species of Fishes “Bfg9000 vs. Barons Of Hell” [трип]
22. Biogen “Irrelevant Information” [Unreleased]
23. Biogen “Lag 38” [Unreleased]
24. Species of Fishes “Sh” [трип]
25. New Composers & Pete Namlook “Tetra” [Fax]
26. Unit Moebius “Radar” [Frantic]
27. Nina Kraviz “You Are Wrong” [Unreleased]
28. Torul V “Denwer” [Tissju]
29. Nina Kraviz “Pochuvstvui” [Unreleased]
30. Mike Henk “Dox-003 Untitled B1” [Pulsar]
31. Woody McBride “The Power Hour” [трип]
32. Christian Bloch “Refuse” [Simple Muzik]
33. DJ Tuttle “Universe of Love” [Subsounds]
34. Woody McBride “Prolonged” [трип]
35. Drax LTD II “Amphetamine” (Air Liquide remix) [Trope]
36. Claude Young “Locked” [Djax]
37. Negative Return “First Light” [Global Ambition]
38. Air Liquide “Revelation” [Blue]
39. Automatic Sound Unlimited “Approaching” [Hot Trax]
40. The Detroit Escalator Co. “Fate (As A Chasm)” [Peacefrog]
41. AFX “fork rave” [Warp]
Mord Announces Stanislav Tolkachev Album
Stanislav Tolkachev‘s next album will drop on Mord.
Ukrainian techno producer Tolkachev’s forthcoming LP When You Are Not At Home will be his third full-length (but his first on vinyl, the other two being digital only releases). The three disc pack will drop on Bas Mooy‘s Mord imprint, capping off a year in which Tolkachev has put out music with Semantica, Weekend Circuit, Corridor Audio, and Raw Raw Records amongst others.
According to Resident Advisor, the LP is made up of music produced by Tolkachev over the course of the past five years. It also features his own photography in the artwork.
When You Are Not At Home is expected to drop on November 28. Stream closing track “Vot I Vse” in full below.
Tracklisting:
A1. Intro
A2. Misfire
A3. When You Are Not At Home
B1. Mostly Harmless
B2. Scar
C1. Apexcordis
C2. Disposable Killer
C3. Proof
D1. And Then She Fell
D2. Five Grams Will Be OK
E1. Bring
E2. The Story Of Someone
E3. See You Tomorrow
E4. A Small Fortune
F1. Idiom
F2. Vot I Vse
Arms and Sleepers ‘Time Will Tell’
Since forming in 2006, Arms and Sleepers—a duo made up of Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic—have dropped a staggering 22 releases, as well as writing music for film and TV, and have performed their music live in Asia, Europe, Central America, and North America.
The duo’s latest LP, Life Is Everywhere, is set to arrive on January 27 and is a deeply personal outing for Mirza, who escaped war as a child in Bosnia in the 90s with his single mother and found a new life in the arts in the US. In the midst of promo for Arms and Sleepers’ previous LP, Swim Team, Mirza took a break to do a fellowship in Chicago, a 3-month period of his life that would form the backbone of Life Is Everywhere, as he explains:
“I worked with underprivileged youth through a non-profit educational organization, many of them coming from the notoriously dangerous South Side. It was a life-changing experience, meeting young people with incredible passion, talent, and energy, but also facing incredible obstacles erected by years of systemic racial discrimination. In the midst of a city known to many visitors as a progressive, modern, and “cool” place—especially in the summer—I found myself feeling uneasy and often angry. There was a whole segment of the population lacking access and opportunities that their northern white neighbors enjoyed without much thought. Porsches in the north, empty fridges in the south. This was and is the true America, and Chicago continues to be in the midst of it all (along with acquiring the unfortunate nickname “Chi-raq”). Arms and Sleepers’ music was never intended to be political in any way, but perhaps all art is political anyway. ‘Life is Everywhere’ is certainly an inevitable reaction to the deeply fundamental socioeconomic problems facing the United States, as experienced in one point of time last summer, in one place that is Chicago, and by one guy that is me.”
Life Is Everywhere will also feature co-production, mixing, and mastering by Sun Glitters, as well as guest vocals on two tracks by Chicago MC Serengeti. The first single to drop from the album, “Time Will Tell,” is now being offered as today’s XLR8R download and can be grabbed via WeTransfer below. The single can also be purchased on clear lathe cut 7″ vinyl and comes packaged with b-side cut “Sooner or Later.”
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Hear a New Mix by Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack
Last month, Robot Koch returned to the fold with Particle Fields, a collaborative album alongside LA-based composer and violinist Savannah Jo Lack.
Particle Fields was written and recorded earlier this year in Los Angeles, an emotive collection of cuts built off of Koch’s intricate soundscapes and Jo Lack’s cinematic string arrangements. Focusing on the intersection between the classical and electronic music worlds, Koch and Jo Lack intertwine the rich elements from their respective fields into new sonic territory across the album’s eight tracks.
As a follow up to the album, Koch and Jo Lack have crafted a near-hour-long mix that explores the same intersections mentioned above. Titled Time Travel Tape, the mix fuses classical, neoclassical, and electronic music from the past, present, and future (it includes a handful of exclusive remixes that are not out yet).
You can stream Time Travel Tape in full via the player below, with the album available to purchase here.
Stream M.A.N.D.Y.’s Debut Album in Full
On Friday, Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung (a.k.a. M.A.N.D.Y.) will release their debut album, Double Fantasy, on Get Physical, the label they founded with DJ T. and Booka Shade.
Arriving 16 years into their storied career, Double Fantasy will feature 12 new original productions from the duo, a 2016 rework of their seminal track “Body Language,” and a continuous mix of the LP. The album also features a list of guest appearances including Stefan Eichinger (a.k.a. Lopazz), Bam from New York hip-hop crew Jungle Brothers, Nonku Phiri, Francesco Tristano, Bob Moses’ Jimmy Vallance, LD Nero, and Brett Johnson.
Drawing on their wide-ranging influences, Jung and Bodmer inject their love of early electronic music, hip-hop, and electro into the album’s DNA, resulting in an inspired body of work that breaks conventions and goes beyond the silky-smooth house the duo are most known for.
Ahead of the release on Friday, you can stream Double Fantasy in full via the player below for 48 hours, with the album available for pre-order here.
