Seekae Shares New Single

Australian electronic trio Seekae has today shared “Turbine Blue”, the first new release from the group since 2014. The track premiered overnight via Triple J, and can be heard below.

In a striking step beyond last album The Worry, the band explores new sonic territory with “Turbine Blue.” The song was composed and recorded in Berlin’s Funkhaus Studio; the vocal was delivered after eating a pizza microwaved at a petrol station, carried back to the studio through the rain.

“Turbine Blue” is out now on Future Classic.

Cabasa ‘Collapse’

Belgian artist and Convex Records head Cabasa takes the helm for the second installment in Artifice‘s free EP series. Cabasa was brought up on a healthy diet of drum & bass by his producer father, DJ LIUM—Cabasa also runs Convex with his father—and this shines through on his latest release, Kidjo.

Kidjo features four originals from Cabasa and a remix from Circular Jaw boss Nuvaman, who evidently supplied the last release on Artifice. With its warped sound design, booming bass, and rolling grooves, Kidjo is an EP built for the club, as you’ll hear below on EP cut “Collapse.” Cabasa has a knack for weaving dense atmospheres into his tracks and this is on display across “Collapse” and the rest of the EP.

You can download “Collapse” via WeTransfer below, with the rest of the EP available over at Artifice’s Bandcamp.

Collapse

Mandar Mandar

As acts like Apollonia or Premiesku have proven, sometimes three really is the magic number. The latest trio of house artists looking to combine their individual sounds into an amplified whole is Mandar, a group of DJ-producers with a significant underground following.

Most famous is the Parisian Lazare Hoche (real name Charlie Naffah), who has gained a reputation for dancefloor geared, deeper-than-deep-house records and reissues of classic, underappreciated French house 12″s through his eponymous label.
Though his tunes are aimed squarely at clubs, they’re detailed, hypnotic and atmospheric too, a rare blend that allies him with a long line of Gallic dance producers.

He also co-runs the Oscillat Music label with his two partners in Mandar, Amsterdam’s Malin Genie (Nick Putman), and Copenhagen’s S.A.M (Samuel Andre Madsen), who’ve each built reputations of their own with respected releases and labels Vigenère and Delaphine.

Together, they synthesise their skills and tastes into a beguiling blend that’s more suitable for headphone listening than you might expect. Opening cut “Canary” is all hopeful, enveloping pads and deep resonant bass tones, a snapping breakbeat and twinkling bleeps eventually giving way to a heavy house kick. When everything clicks into a place, it’s an exciting, irresistible combination.

More surprising is “Ascend,” a stop-start, tumbling ambient breakbeat piece that sounds closer to a downtempo Detroit tune from the early ’90s, or an early Warp record. It’s sublime. “Sequence 25,” too, departs from type, a synth experiment wherein they’ve taken delight in programming their presumably analog gear into a wiggy, squiggling sequence like something from a 1980s public information film.

For those craving some 4/4, don’t worry: Mandar has plenty of that too. “FFF3” is an uptempo techno cut, of looping, trippy organ and swung hats ‘n’ snares, gorgeous pads opening out the groove as it progresses. “Else” is a stripped bare, skeletal rhythm track with deep sub-bass, those encroaching pads providing a sense of musicality while your motor brain concentrates on the rhythm. “Another Joint,” meanwhile, is a heavy deep house cut of the sort Lazare Hoche fans might be expecting, its funk bass reminiscent of an early Alex Gopher or Chateau Flight number, before acid squelches and offbeat drum hits add interest.

There’s a significant portion of ambient music on Mandar, too, with “Dawn’” a celestial exercise in synth manipulation you might expect in a Mixmaster Morris DJ set, and “Balls and Dices” reminiscent again of early ’90s IDM.

The overall sense is of a group cementing their unified identity, with an urge to create an album for listening rather than simply a parade of club tracks. It’s an album as albums should be: an engrossing listen rather than a succession of ‘bangers.’ Still, the group are mindful of their club roots and vinyl DJs are well catered for: the album is available as a five-record box set, or as three EPs with alternate club mixes, as well as in the typical CD and download formats. All in all, Mandar is a considered, deeply impressive listen that any house music aficionado would go head over heels for.

Vinyl tracklisting:

A. “Canary”
B. “Another Joint”
C. “Ascend”
D. “Lawed Mack”
E. “Delon”
F. “La Bocca”
G1. “FFF3”
G2. “Balls ’N’ Dices”
H. “Nellio”
I1. “Deep Fried Shrim”
I2. “Sequence 25”
J. “Else”

Mandar is due out on September 30.

Jay Daniel Announces Debut Album, Shares Track

Ninja Tune will release Jay Daniel’s debut album via their Technicolour imprint on November 25.

At just 25 years of age and with standout releases on Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature and Kyle Hall’s Wild Oats, as well as the launch of his own record label Watusi High, Daniel has fast risen to be one of the leading artists in the next generation of Detroit producers.

Across Broken Knows‘ nine tracks, Daniel utilizes his signature keyboard runs and live percussion—recorded through a multitrack mixer in his mother’s basement—to give it a more human quality, resulting in a refreshingly raw, standout debut.

Broken Knows is the third full-length on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint, joining suberb albums from Levantis and Hieroglyphic Being, as well as EPs from Florian Kupfer, Legowelt, Nathan Melja, NY*AK, and U.

You can hear a track from the album below.

Max Cooper Lines Up New Album; Stream Cut Here

Max Cooper has a new album on the way this November.

Emergence is set to be the London-based techno producer’s second full-length, following on from his 2014 release, Human. The 11 track record, which is described as “an epic, operatic, ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, art installation and IDM record,” is set to be the debut on Cooper’s Mesh imprint.

Cooper’s concept was to produce a soundtrack to 11 pieces of video art—one track per video, each exploring the concept of “emergence” and the development of the universe. It features a few collaborations with film-composer Tom Hodge, and vocalist Kathrin deBoer appears on three of the album’s tracks.

With the release date of the album approaching quickly, Cooper is going on tour from September 23 onwards. As well as numerous DJ sets, he will be taking a Live A/V show to Fribourg, Paris, Mutek Japan, London, Amsterdam, before finishing up in Dublin in January 2017.

Emergence will hit stores November 25. Pre-order it here, and stream “Waves” below.

Tracklisting:

1. Symmetry (with Tom Hodge)
2. Seed (feat. Kathrin deBoer)
3. Waves
4. Distant Light
5. Myth (with Tom Hodge)
6. Order From Chaos
7. Cyclic
8. Impermanence (feat. Kathrin deBoer)
9. Trust (with Tom Hodge feat. Kathrin DeBoer)
10. Organa
11.Unbounded

Zenxienz ‘The Great Beyond’ (feat. Swinky)

LA-based musician Cameron Williamson (a.k.a. Zenxienz) has been involved with music in one or another his whole life. Williamson grew up on the island of Kaui and it was here that he formed his first band, Paradox Lockdown. The band would go on to record three albums on Kaui, before relocating to Southern California where it would record its fourth and final album. After the break-up of the band, Williamson battled serious depression. He found release in his passion for making music, and it was in these times that Zenxienz was birthed.

Williamson’s latest single as Zenxienz is a frenetic, genre-bending piece that feels like a sonic pouring of thoughts. Titled “The Great Beyond,” the track is a collaboration with Swinky, a Kenyan singer and songwriter currently living Japan. The pair recorded the cut over two weeks as a commentary on the idea “that minds are impressionable, and we are the sum of the thoughts that find their way into our minds.” To relay this, the pair utilizes Swinky’s soaring voice as the driving force, underneath which Williamson lays out beats reminiscent of Flying Lotus’ mind-warping style. It’s an intense combination, but one that draws you in with an underlying warmth.

You can download “The Great Beyond” (feat. Swinky) below.

The Great Beyond (feat. Swinky)

Abstraxion Drops a Mind-Bending Video for ‘Spazieren’

French producer Abstraxion is set to follow up his 2013 debut LP, Break of Lights, with his second long-player, She Thought She Would Last Forever, on October 10.

Preceding the album was the release of its lead track, “Spazieren,” which arrived on September 12 with a set of remixes from Ripperton, Mattheis, Conforce and INIT on Abstraxion’s own Biologic Records—which is also where the album will land. The track is a poignant 10-minute ride through Abstraxion’s expansive sound, complete with meticulous sound design and half-spoken vocals.

To accompany the track, Abstraxion enlisted The Bow to create its visuals. The video relates back to the album artwork with a ten-minute journey through a desolate land. The protagonist walks the land as hallucinations engulf him, warping his thoughts and the space in front of him with “Spazieren” as the dystopic soundtrack.

You can watch the video in full via the player below.

Stream New Sets from Rrose, Robert Hood, and More

Following the success of this year’s event, Dekmantel Festival has shared some of the recordings from the UFO Stage, the area reserved for experimental and techno-related artists.

Recordings from Robert Hood, Matrixxman, Randomer, Rrose and Sandrien are all streamable to stream below.

Premiere: Stream John Daly’s New LP as The Smoke Clears

John Daly

The Smoke Clears will be the sophomore album for John Daly‘s ambient-tinged project of the same name.

As a producer, Daly has released on some of house music’s most renowned imprints with an almost unparalleled work rate and quality. He first appeared on the scene back in 2007 with his first EP and the launch of Feel Music, the label he co-founded with One Eye. Since then, Daly has released four albums and over 30 EPs on label such as, among others, Running Back, Drumpoet Community, secretsundaze, and Mule Musiq.

Daly’s latest release is a self-titled album under his The Smoke Clears moniker—a project formed back in 2013 with the Listen LP, which was released via Further Records. Like the first LP, The Smoke Clears steers away from the dancefloor—although there are a handful of cuts that will surely find their way into a club. The sound is still noticeably Daly, but it leans much more towards Boards Of Canada-esque warped electronica than the house sound he is most known. It’s an album for post-club wind downs, a collection of tracks to drift away to.

The Smoke Clears will be released today via All City, and to celebrate, XLR8R has been gifted the full stream of the LP, which is available via the player below—along with a video for “Heaven Sent.”

Watch a Warped New Video from Gazatech

Tomorrow, J. Albert will reignite his old Gazatech alias to inaugurate fresh Russian label Private Persons.

The vinyl-only I’m Okay will follow on from J. Albert‘s releases on 1080p, Black Opal, and his own Exotic Dance with two dreamy and hypnotic cuts. The title track—which was debuted by Boiler Room—is the release’s trippiest, its lo-fi drums and frayed synths roll around faint vocals for a hazy nine-minute ride. B-side cut, “Mercury Cocktail,” although still murky, is a little more straightforward and completes a standout release.

You can pick up I’m Okay via Private Persons’ Bandcamp tomorrow, with “Mercury Cocktail” streaming via the player above.

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