Second Storey & Appleblim Return to R&S

Second Storey & Appleblim will return to R&S for the Gimme 6 EP.

Since their initial forays in 2015 on the label in the form of a trio of EPs and a compilation, the duo have gone on to refine and distill their bass alchemy to reach new creative heights.

This new EP is the fruit of that hard work—opener, and title track “Gimme 6” sees swooping pads soon give way to slurping twisted bass and mechanistic hi hats. “Levying Rooks” injects a sense of frenetic levity—serrated bass and scudding percussion, while “Aperture” is drenched in swooning pads and fizzing, flanged out hats underpinned by relentless mutant kicks.

Too often modern electronic club music is all too content to sit heavily within genre boundaries, and ‘rules’—but SS&A’s gleeful disregard for categorisation and innate sense of melody, harmony and rhythm makes their offerings an antidote to the jaded veteran techno fans as well as the gleeful new jacks.

Tracklisting:

01. Gimme 6
02. Levying Rooks
03. Aperture

Gimme 6 EP will be released November 4 in vinyl and digital formats.

Danny Kotz & Avi Caspi ‘Reject’ (Myles Sergé’s In The Clouds Remix)

made of CONCRETE is an imprint run by Berlin-and-Dresden-based DJs fumée grise and Andreas Pionty. The label’s back catalogue features a range of stylistic releases from artists such as Alek S, Ashworth, Michael McLardy and Dudley Strangeways, and the label heads themselves. The 11th release will be Reject, a four-track EP from Danny Kotz & Avi Caspi, with a remix from Myles Sergé thrown in for good measure.

The release explores the deep and hypnotic end of the techno spectrum while keeping in line with the label’s gun-metal-grey pallet. It’s an EP you’ll no doubt be hearing more of in the coming months as it finds its way into the sets of house and techno jocks the world over.

Not on the release is a second remix from Myles Sergé, which has been passed over as today’s XLR8R download. It’s a subtly entrancing cut with a groove-filled low end—a satisfyingly deep combination. You can download Sergé’s In The Clouds remix via WeTransfer below.

Reject (Myles Sergé’s In The Clouds Remix)

Danny Kotz & Avi Caspi ‘Reject’ (Myles Sergé’s In The Clouds Remix)

made of CONCRETE is an imprint run by Berlin-and-Dresden-based DJs fumée grise and Andreas Pionty. The label’s back catalogue features a range of stylistic releases from artists such as Alek S, Ashworth, Michael McLardy and Dudley Strangeways, and the label heads themselves. The 11th release will be Reject, a four-track EP from Danny Kotz & Avi Caspi, with a remix from Myles Sergé thrown in for good measure.

The release explores the deep and hypnotic end of the techno spectrum while keeping in line with the label’s gun-metal-grey pallet. It’s an EP you’ll no doubt be hearing more of in the coming months as it finds its way into the sets of house and techno jocks the world over.

Not on the release is a second remix from Myles Sergé, which has been passed over as today’s XLR8R download. It’s a subtly entrancing cut with a groove-filled low end—a satisfyingly deep combination. You can download Sergé’s In The Clouds remix via WeTransfer below.

Reject (Myles Sergé’s In The Clouds Remix)

Stream a Tweaked New Remix from Rub n Tug

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ReviveHER sprang to life in 2010 as direct opposition to “the banal music and palpably stale sensation rife in clubland.” Since then, the collective has thrown some of the most innovative parties on the UK circuit. Artists such as Jackmaster, Prosumer, Young Marco, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Eddie C, Move D, and Mark E—the last four, interestingly, played together as a play on the MCDE accronym—have played the party, which has taken place in diverse locations like a Colombian restaurant, an old pier, and a former chocolate factory.

The next step for the collective was the launch of its label, also named ReviveHER. The first 12″ will arrive on October 10 courtesy of psychedelic band Sultan Shakes, with remixes from Rub n Tug, Young Marco, Matthew Herbert protégé Crewdson, and the in-house ReviveHER production team. In celebration of the release, the collective, naturally, threw a 16-hour, all-day-and-night party headed up by Sultan Shakes, Young Marco, and Rub n Tug who played a rare B2B2B session.

The 12″ vinyl drops October 10 and can be preordered over at Deejay, with the digital release arriving on October 21. To give you a taste, you can stream Rub n Tug’s twisted acid remix in full via the player below.

Branko & Batida ‘Eletrico 15’

As part of their Stay True Portugal project, Ballantine’s and Boiler Room brought together two of Lisbon’s most iconic producers, Branko (of Buraka Som Sistema) & Batida, to work on a unique collaboration. Despite the many years shaping and innovating the city’s distinctive sound on their own terms, this is the first time they’ve joined forces in the studio.

The end product is a homage to Lisbon: a collage of found-sounds and field recordings that the pair recorded over one day in their home city. It’s a soundtrack that captures the city in motion: classic Angolan drumming, the influence of which you can hear from every street corner; the whirring of the daily trams; passing voices; the jangling guitars that line the city’s squares. Taken all together, it’s a warm and colourful snapshot—and pops just as infectiously as anything you’ve heard from them before.

You can download “Eletrico 15” via the player below.

Branko & Batida ‘Eletrico 15’

As part of their Stay True Portugal project, Ballantine’s and Boiler Room brought together two of Lisbon’s most iconic producers, Branko (of Buraka Som Sistema) & Batida, to work on a unique collaboration. Despite the many years shaping and innovating the city’s distinctive sound on their own terms, this is the first time they’ve joined forces in the studio.

The end product is a homage to Lisbon: a collage of found-sounds and field recordings that the pair recorded over one day in their home city. It’s a soundtrack that captures the city in motion: classic Angolan drumming, the influence of which you can hear from every street corner; the whirring of the daily trams; passing voices; the jangling guitars that line the city’s squares. Taken all together, it’s a warm and colourful snapshot—and pops just as infectiously as anything you’ve heard from them before.

You can download “Eletrico 15” via the player below.

Livity Sound Unveils Simo Cell EP

Simo Cell is in charge of Livity Sound‘s final release of 2016.

Parisian producer Simon Aussel (a.k.a. Simo Cell) put out a two-tracker on the Bristolian imprint’s Dnuos Ytivil sub-label last year; one year on, the collective has now announced that he will release another EP, this time on the main Livity Sound platform (making him one of the first producers outside the immediate circle of Peverelist, Kowton and Asusu to do so). The diverse four-tracker is describe by the label as being packed with “razor edge productions,” covering dusty house, hypnotic techno and more ambient cuts.

Gliding is due out November 4. Stream snippets below.

Tracklisting:

A1. Gliding
A2. Obi 1
B1. Away From Keyboard
B2. As Long As We Have Those Things

Planetary Assault Systems Arc Angel

Widely regarded as a champion of pure and proper techno, Luke Slater has had his sights set on the future for 23 years now. In that time he has managed to bring it ever closer to us, through painstaking sound design and intergalactic ideologies that are unmistakably cinematic and cerebral. His latest album as Planetary Assault Systems—his longest running alias—is a third on Ostgut Ton, and is his most coherent vision yet.

Part of that is down to the fact that Slater set himself some limitations: the first was to focus more on melody, the second was that, “all gear [used to make the album] had to fit onto a small table.” The process has resulted in a full-length that, far from homogenized, feels like the perfect realization of a celestial techno aesthetic. Every bar is painstakingly arranged, expertly lit and masterfully colored like some sort of psychedelic musical bedfellow to a visually vivid Wes Anderson movie.

Style never outweighs substance though, because as well as Slater’s trademark knack for alien sounds and strong sci-fi imagery, there is a range of moods to go with the ever-supple grooves. He variously piles up kicks and frazzled rays into pressurized and paranoid pieces—these moments are hardly tracks, as rather than building in the usual predictable bars, they evolve in their own complex but effortless ways, more akin to a classical composition. At other points, he weaves together polyrhythmic patterns and manic bells into hypnotic aural fireworks, or holds back and makes spooky and eerie passages where far-off sounds take your attention and suck you right down the rabbit hole.

Arc Angel is serious mind music—stuff that glows and shimmers like bioluminescent bacteria. It is weightless and borderless, and makes for an experience as authentic and emotive as Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (if not far more intense). In a weird juxtaposition of old and new, though, this most interplanetary album starts with the nostalgic sound of a cassette being loaded into a tape deck. After that rare concession to the past, Slater wastes no further time looking back and goes on to redefine a very Millsian brand of techno. Elaborate, though never for the sake of it, the elegance and fluidity of it all is what makes it so seductive. 96 minutes is a long time to listen to techno away from the club, but in the hands of someone as accomplished in the form as this, it leaves you in nothing but wonderment.

Arc Angel will be released September 30. Pre-order it at the Ostgut Ton store. Stream snippets below.

Tracklisting [Digital]:

01. Cassette
02. Angel Of The East
03. Tri Fn Trp
04. Sonar Falls
05. Interlude 1
06. Message From The Drone Sector
07. Merry Go Round
08. Interlude 2
09. Behind The Eyes
10. Bawoo Bawoo
11. Interlude 3
12. Revolution One
13. Interlude 4
14. Blue Monk
15. Groucho
16. Interlude 5
17. The Rider
18. Max
19. Interlude 6
20. The Last Scene
21. Arc Angel (continuous mix)

Max Graef Joins FunkinEven’s Apron Records

Max Graef will release an EP on FunkinEven‘s Apron Records later this year.

After the release of his collaborative full-length with Glenn Astro earlier this year, Berlin-based musician Max Graef is back with more new music: a four track EP on FunkinEven’s Apron imprint. The record, which borrows its name from the label itself, is described as “the rawest you’ll ever hear Max.” It looks set to take a U-turn away from his usual woozy, often downtempo brand of electronic music, into something much tougher.

Apron will be released this fall. Stream “Purpurner Nürnwurz” below.

Tracklisting:

01. Purpurner Nürnwurz
02. Winkelrose
03. Cheap Fusion Intro
04. B.E

Andre Crom ‘The Existence’ (Oliver Deutschmann Edit)

2016 has been all about change for German DJ and producer Andre Crom: the OFF Recordings label head packed up his base in Berlin and moved to Barcelona; he devoted himself entirely to music production; and his sound shifted from tech-house to a darker shade of techno.

Crom’s latest EP, The Existence, is functional and effective techno built for the dancefloor—think warped and evolving acid lines, booming kicks, and train-like forward momentum. The Existence was released via OFF in August and featured a remix from fellow German producer Oliver Deutschmann, who ups the speed for a full-blown white-knuckle ride.

Recently, XLR8R was passed a second Deutschmann edit, this time, a deeper, groovier outing. You can download the edit via WeTransfer below, with the EP available over at Decks.

The Existence (Oliver Deutschmann Edit)

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