Warung and D-Edge Boss Renato Ratier Preps New Album; Shares Track

Next month, Brazilian producer, DJ, and D-Edge club owner and label boss Renato Ratier will return with his sophomore album, Youniverse.

The album follows on from his latest single with Gui Boratto and a collaboration with Stimming with 10 varied cuts in his lush house style. Ratier offsets his more club-based cuts with ambient soundscapes and downtempo outings for an album as suited for the home as it is the club.

Alongside the album announcement, Ratier has confirmed that D-Edge Rio is close to completion and will announce its lineups in the near future.

You can hear a cut from the album below, along with Renato’s tour dates.

Shifted Announces European Tour

Shifted is going on a European tour.

The Avian boss will begin the tour next week, on Thursday September 22, at LUX in Lisbon; from there he will make pitstops in Berlin (for a label showcase at Berghain), Milan, Glasgow, Tbilisi, Barcelona, Bucharest, and many more cities across the continent. He is billed to perform live in Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona, while the rest of the gigs will be DJ sets.

For more information on the schedule, check out the flyer below.

Stream a New NDF Track

Bruno Pronsato and Benjamin Myers (of Benoit & Sergio) have just announced their next EP together.

The NDF moniker was first made public back in 2010, when the Berlin-based duo released their first and only EP to date, Since We Last Met—a two-tracker on DFA that also featured a Ricardo Villalobos remix. A few years later, Myers and Pronsato moved into a shared studio space, albeit they spent most of that time working on separate projects.

Cruel is the Color was spawned out of a lunch together—after the pair knocked out a track by the same name that afternoon, they resolved to finish an EP with one direction: “a more acoustic treatment” in their productions, “with elements of dance music still present.” The EP will be released on London’s Foom Music and features two more original tracks by NDF, plus remixes by Matthew Herbert and Ben Freeney.

Stream opening track “Another Year” in full below, via the label’s SoundCloud.

Cruel is the Color is due out October 21. Pre-order it at Bandcamp.

Tracklisting:

A1. Another Year
A2. Cruel Is The Color
A3. Certain Corners
B1. Another Year (Matthew Herbert ‘Reboot’ Version)
B2. Certain Corners (Ben Freeney ‘Spare Room’ Version)

Huntleys + Palmers Presents Lena Willikens Remixes

Glasgow’s Huntleys + Palmers label is set to release a pair of Lena Willikens remixes.

The Cologne selector has remixed a track from each of the label’s previous two chapters: rRoxymore from Chapter 1 and Oklo Gabon from Chapter 2.

Label Statement:

“We haven’t really gone for remixes much before with the label, as we feel strongly about the power of the original. In the right hands, a great remix can be equally as powerful though and Lena has succeeded in bringing her own weird and wonderful sounds to a track from each preceding chapter—rRoxymore from Chapter 1 and Oklo Gabon from Chapter 2—while still keeping true to the original work.”

Tracklisting:

01. Oklo Gabon “City Gym” (Lena Willikens Remix)
02. Roxymore “Ministry of Silly Talks” (Lena Willikens Remix)

Chapter 3: Lena Willikens Remixes is scheduled for October 7 release.

Studio Essentials: These Hidden Hands

Some partnerships were simply meant to be; with every release, it becomes clearer that the British-born, Berlin-based pairing of Tommy Four Seven and Alain Paul is just that. Their project These Hidden Hands was born in 2012, an outlet for the duo’s atmospheric, experimental productions. Individually, they have both been responsible for some more directly techno records—at this point, Tommy Four Seven needs little introduction for his private releases; as Shards, his counterpart Paul has also had a number of hotly-tipped releases around the genre (though he’s also famed for his expertise behind the mastering desk).

Earlier this year, These Hidden Hands reemerged with a new single, SZ31X71, closelyfollowed by their second full-length, Vicarious Memories, which arrived last month. The recent works built on the foundations laid in their debut album—a highly-complex ambient affair. Disregarding any genre boundaries, the LP is dark at times, mellow in others, and even somewhat uplifting on a few occasions. The most striking thing about Vicarious Memories however,has got to be the level of detail in its subtleties: the work of musicians who really understand their machines. It was with this in mind that we invited These Hidden Hands to run us through their studio essentials.

Shure SM57

Tommy: We generally tend to leave one mic plugged in and laying around ready to record when we’re writing. For the first album it was an AKG 414, but for this one it happened to be an SM57. The varying tonal characteristics between different choices of microphone are largely unimportant to us, as we very heavily process everything we record, to the point where the original recording is usually unrecognisable. Although mic selection isn’t important, a microphone itself as a means to capture real world sounds is actually the very core of our compositional process, without which the majority of the sounds on our album wouldn’t exist.

Roland JP08

Alain: This thing has its problems. You can get tons of interference noise over the USB cable and the converters have a measly amount of headroom, which means it crackles and clips horribly if you have the (digital) volume knob up too high. Despite that, it’s the coolest little polysynth just to jam with on your lap using the built-in speaker, like some kind of toy. Actually, it has a fantastic interface and a few cool hidden features like delay, and if you manage to record it well, despite its crappy converters, the sounds you can get out of it are actually outstanding. We ended up buying one each.

Arturia Minibrute

Tommy: The majority of the flamboyant synth sounds on this album came from the Minibrute. We have one each. It’s amazing how a modern, cheap bit of gear can sound so old and rich. There are a few large shortcomings: for example, if you want to use the LFO to modulate pitch for a vibrato effect (maybe if you want to use the mod wheel for the filter cut-off instead), you can’t, because the LFO modulates the pitch way too much, even on the very minimum amount. It feels like the panel controls are digital, so maybe some of the niggles could be ironed out in a firmware update. In the meantime, the thing still sounds massive.

Intellijel Shapeshifter

Alain: This is essentially the heart of my modular setup. This is all the wacky sounds on “Dendera Light” and “The Telepath,” and in various places as FX on many other tracks. My favourite modulation sources are Make Noise’s Maths and Wogglebug—most times there’s not even a filter or another audio processor after the Shapeshifter, because it can do so much independently.

Arturia Beatstep Pro

Tommy: This is an absolutely fantastic sequencer for jamming out ideas with other bits of hardware, especially modular stuff. You can take the drum gate outs and whack them into other modules to create crazy patches with the eight triggers. You can do similar things with a few high-end Eurorack sequencer modules, but where this thing is way bigger and can sit in front of the modular or on your lap, it’s extremely comfortable to jam with.

Banner photo by Frederik Altinell.

Ostgut Ton Details Upcoming Barker & Baumecker Album

Details of Barker & Baumecker‘s upcoming full-length on Ostgut Ton have been revealed.

Only a couple of weeks ago, we reported on the return of Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker (a.k.a. nd_baumecker) to the Berlin-based label, with the promise of a new 12″ and album. Information on their upcoming full-length, Turns (which will join a back-catalog of two EPs, an album and almost 20 remixes), has just been shared by the imprint.

As ever, Barker & Baumecker’s productions are anything but linear, ranging from techno to bass, breaks and experimental styles. The label have also emphasized that there is “nothing typical about any of these tracks,” which are “thoughtful, rich, and ever evolving—but always and completely committed to the club.”

Reflecting on the title of the album, Barker explained that the pair of them “have had quite a lot of ups and downs since the last record,” making the point that “when you’re in a collaboration where you only work together in real-time, in person, both people need to be in the right frame of mind.”

Turns will hit stores November 25 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Pre-order it at Bandcamp. Stream a teaser clip below.

Tracklisting (CD):

01. Senden
02. Encipher & Decipher
03. Club Entropicana
04. Technogate
05. Turnhalle
06. Nocturnal
07. Statik

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Ostgut Ton Details Upcoming Barker & Baumecker Album

Details of Barker & Baumecker‘s upcoming full-length on Ostgut Ton have been revealed.

Only a couple of weeks ago, we reported on the return of Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker (a.k.a. nd_baumecker) to the Berlin-based label, with the promise of a new 12″ and album. Information on their upcoming full-length, Turns (which will join a back-catalog of two EPs, an album and almost 20 remixes), has just been shared by the imprint.

As ever, Barker & Baumecker’s productions are anything but linear, ranging from techno to bass, breaks and experimental styles. The label have also emphasized that there is “nothing typical about any of these tracks,” which are “thoughtful, rich, and ever evolving—but always and completely committed to the club.”

Reflecting on the title of the album, Barker explained that the pair of them “have had quite a lot of ups and downs since the last record,” making the point that “when you’re in a collaboration where you only work together in real-time, in person, both people need to be in the right frame of mind.”

Turns will hit stores November 25 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Pre-order it at Bandcamp. Stream a teaser clip below.

Tracklisting (CD):

01. Senden
02. Encipher & Decipher
03. Club Entropicana
04. Technogate
05. Turnhalle
06. Nocturnal
07. Statik

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The Crave Festival Shares Aftermovie

The Crave Festival has shared an aftermovie for its 2016 edition, which took place at an industrial location called BINK36 on August 13 in The Hague. Since launching in 2014, the event has quickly become a mainstay of the European festival circuit with a quality level of production and top-notch bookings from across the electronic spectrum. Highlights from 2016 included blazing sets from DVS1 and Levon Vincent, as well as praiseworthy performances from local Dutch favorites Deniro and Interstellar Funk.

Along with the aftervideo, The Crave has announced plans for its next event, set to take place at Pip Den Haag on September 23. The intimate club night will feature performances from Hessle Audio’s Pearson Sound, Dr. Rubinstein of Odd Fantastic, and more. For more information and tickets to the event, click here.

Awful Records’ Dexter Dukarus Drops a Smoky New LP; Hear it Now

Awful Records‘ Dexter Dukarus has just dropped a 10-track instrumental LP titled Four Thousand.

Over the last couple of years, Dukarus has acted as Awful’s production wizard on a list of high-quality collaborations—with Slug Christ on Depersonalize, Stalin Majesty on Pitch Black, and a handful of artists on his own Display None—but he goes solo on his latest, paring things back and taking it back to his roots, as he explains:

“Four Thousand is an instrumental project that I started in the fall of 2015. I’m known best for my bass-heavy trap/hip-hop beats but I love making instrumental music for people to just chill and listen to. I want to show people the other side of my production, apart from the constant turn-up. I actually started making music like this first and got into making music for rappers/singers later into my career. A friend of mine introduced me to some really good music that made me think of the music that I used to make and that is what really inspired this album”

It’s a welcome return to more chilled beats for Dukarus, who has crafted an LP that perfectly soundtracks the end of summer and smokey afternoons. You can stream the album in full below and purchase it from iTunes.

Premiere: Hear Le Spectre’s Deep and Atmospheric New Track

You’d be forgiven to not know the name of Parisian producer Yann Levasseur. The last time electronic music enthusiasts had the pleasure of hearing his work was between 2000 and 2005 when he produced drum and bass under the alias Earsut, completing seven EPs across a range of labels. Following that period, Levasseur took a hiatus and founded a sound production studio dedicated to advertising.

His latest endeavor is the Le Spectre project, under which Levasseur will release his Analog Monolog EP via Leonizer on September 23. The sound of Le Spectre and Analog Monolog is buried in darkness, an atmospheric and dubby style of experimental beats.

Ahead of the release later this month, we’ve been given a taste of the EP with a full stream of its opening cut, “Spectre Contre Spectre.” As you’ll hear in the player above, Levasseur’s latest project is deep and somber with rolling grooves at its base.

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