Summer may be rapidly coming to a close, but the global onslaught of high-quality electronic-music festivals continues without respite. This week, attentions are turning toward Vancouver, which is playing host to the annual New Forms Festival, four-day art and music event with a lineup featuring XLR8R favorites such as Actress, Kode9, Canblaster, Kuedo, Teebs, Pilooski, Kevin McPhee, and others too numerous to list. We asked the New Forms organizers if one of the festival artists would like to put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series, and we have to admit that we were pretty excited when we were told that Detroit veteran DJ Stingray was up to the task. A master of hard, stripped-down electro and techno, the masked artist—an affiliate of Urban Tribe and Underground Resistance—stays true to form here, blazing through more than 20 tracks of gritty electro breakbeats and drum-machine-driven sounds. With his rapid-fire rhythms and lightning-quick mixes, Stingray has built a podcast that offers an unrelenting, even uncompromising listen, not to mention a tracklist that will undoubtedly work Discogs regulars into a tizzy. It’s dark, minimal, fast, and nearly devoid of melody, but it manages to be completely compelling all the same.

01 The Advent “Dark (Fader) Side” (Kombination Research)
02 Hell & Jonzon “Lifeform” (Disko B)
03 Delinquent Dialect “Minimal Electronic” (Temple Dog)
04 Ultradyne “Fantasy Era” (SCSI AV)
05 Shadow People “Firestarter” (Southern Outpost)
06 Autechre “Dial” (Warp)
07 Dead Silence Syndicate “Edge City Express” (Control Tower UK)
08 Galaxian “Repent” (Trajectory 2020X)
09 E8 “Micropacer 1” (Marguerita)
10 Addison Groove “Work It” (Swamp 81)
11 Tactical Systems “Graviton Force” (Roulette Rekordz)
12 Silicon “Electron Push” (NSC)
13 Transllusion “Cerebral Cortex Malfunction” (Supremat)
14 The Sentinel “Wrong Time” (Southern Outpost)
15 Alden Tyrell “Digger” (Clone)
16 Silicon “0%” (Frustrated Funk)
17 The Advent “Wasper” (Kombination Research)
18 Cosmic Force “Optical Rape” (Clone)
19 Delinquent Dialect “Fear LED” (Temple Dog)
20 Galaxian “Repent” (Trajectory 2020X)
21 Drexciya “Positron Island” (Underground Resistance)

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