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- Mouse on Mars Auctions Off Unreleased, Single-Edition Record; Preview It Now
- Download Clams Casino's Third and Final Instrumental Mixtape
- Dave Smith Introduces Prophet 12 Module
- Check Out Larry Heard's Remix of Disclosure
- Club to Club Shares Kode9-Curated Sound Design Project, Launches Remix Contest
- Check Out New Mixes from Patten and Ital
- Download a New EP from Machinedrum
- Simian Mobile Disco Readies New 12" with Trevino Remixes
- Headaches "Snacks"
- Martyn Teases Upcoming Album with New Single
- Check Out Who Made Bleep's Top 100 Tracks of 2013
- XLR8R's Best of 2013: Disappointing Releases
- Pále "Let Them Talk (feat. Joshua Idehen)"
- Dance Classics Vol. III
- Daniel Klauser "Perc"
- Eleven EP
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 12:38 PM PST
 Ahead of the release of its Spezmodia EP via Monkeytown on January 10, veteran German electronic duo Mouse on Mars has announced that it is auctioning off a single-edition release exclusively on eBay. read more   |
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Download Clams Casino's Third and Final Instrumental Mixtape
Posted: 18 Dec 2013 11:51 AM PST
 Breakout East Coast beatmaker Clams Casino has just posted a link to download his third and "final" instrumental mixtape. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 11:34 AM PST
 After releasing its Prophet 12 keyboard earlier this year (a unit that narrowly missed our Best Gear of 2013 list), Dave Smith Instruments has introduced the Prophet 12 Module, which fits the powerful synth into a much more compact package. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:53 AM PST
 After UK pop-house duo Disclosure released a remix-heavy special edition of its Settle LP yesterday, Chicago-based house veteran Larry Heard (a.k.a. Mr. Fingers) has shared his "Chillout Mix" of Settle's closing cut "Help Me Lose My Mind." read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:20 AM PST
 As part of last month's Club to Club festival (our full review of which can be read here), the week-long event's organizers teamed up with the British Council and Hyperdub label head Kode9 to curate an audio tribute to the festival's home city of Torino, Italy. The six electro-acoustic works that make up the resulting A Great Symphony for Torino can now be streamed in full, and furthermore, are also available to be remixed. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:06 AM PST
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:54 AM PST
 After appearing on our site just yesterday, messing around in the studio with Ableton's Push controller, and delivering two of our favorite tracks of the year, Machinedrum has popped up with a surprise EP for download. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:21 AM PST
 Returning to their own Delicacies label after the dropping the Tong Zi Dan EP back in October, the UK synth connoisseurs of Simian Mobile Disco (pictured above) have announced a four-track 12", which will feature remixes from Manchester producer Trevino (a.k.a. Marcus Kaye). read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST
 This year has seen a swelling of producers trafficing in raw, noisy, hardware-centric tracks, but "Snacks," a new tune from Brooklyn-based artist Headaches (a.k.a. Landon Speers), is an intriguing study in the soothing power of crystalline sonics. Ethereal waves of melodies weave in and out of clean kicks and bright, snappy percussion layers while a reversed synth pad congregates with a rumbling bass. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST
 Washington, DC-based 3024 label boss Martyn has spent most of 2013 spreading the experience of his new live audio/visual performance and focusing on his imprint. Out of the spotlight, he also seems to have been working on new productions for the follow-up album to 2011's outstanding Ghost People. We currently have no concrete details about that release, but the longstanding DJ/producer did just share the first taste of its tracklist. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 07:30 AM PST
Just before we all turn the calendar to 2014, electronic-minded online music shop Bleep will release its annunal Top 100 Tracks compilation, pulling together what the Bleep staff has deemed the best 100 tracks to surface this year. (That full compilation, along with a vinyl copy of Oneohtrix Point Never's spellbinding R Plus Seven LP, is up for grabs in this week's contest.) But before Bleep's comprehensive end-of-the-year collection officially lands on Christmas day, we are pleased to announce which artists have made the grade.
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST
 For the past few weeks, XLR8R has devoted itself to highlighting the Best of 2013, and although we're not done yet—our favorite releases of the year will be posted on Thursday and Friday, with the results of our Readers Poll to follow on Monday—all of our year-end listmaking has also reminded us that not everything which landed on our desks in 2013 was as good as we hoped it would be. While it's obvious that many, if not most, of the releases sent our way weren't going to be particularly memorable, let alone good, a handful of records fell notably short of our expectations. The reasons were many; sometimes, it was a matter of an established artist taking an ill-advised stylistic detour; other times, we were disenchanted when a budding talent fell flat in the album format or someone simply didn't bring their A-game to the table. Regardless of why, these 10 releases all stuck with us; more importantly, they left us thinking that they could have, and should have, been better. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST
 Signed to the young GetMe! label, Manchester-based producer Pále is a budding talent whose Playing Truant EP from earlier this year saw him collaborate with vocalist Joshua Idehen (possibly best known for his work on LV's Routes LP for Hyperdub). read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST
 Osaka-born artist Kouhei Matsunaga has been releasing experimental electronic music for nearly two decades under various aliases, many of them using some variant of the initials for Japan's public broadcasting organization, NHK. As NHK'Koyxen, he seeks to deconstruct techno with his own perverse logic. Following a similar mission statement as its previous volumes, Dance Classics Vol. III rarely sits still, instead shifting through as many permutations of techno as Matsunaga sees fit. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST
 In collaboration with music blog Neo Violence, Prague-based electronic label Beef is releasing the Neo Violence compilation on December 23, featuring 10 globe-spanning cuts from the likes of New York's Policy, Serbia's Reblok, Italy's Kid Mark, and others. "Perc"—a stripped-down house offering from Chilean producer Daniel Klauser—marries a processed, swirling synth with an unabashedly cheesy bassline, as crisp percussion drives the skeletal production forward. Ahead of Neo Violence's official release, a sampling of the compilation's other tracks can be heard after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST
 Techno veteran Robert Hood has had something of a banner year, releasing two singles from his Motor: Nighttime World 3 album, dropping several ace remixes, and, most notably, issuing the acclaimed Paradise LP and follow-up Phobia EP under his more soulful, house-oriented Floorplan moniker. Even after all of this activity, Hood has managed to slip in one final 2013 release via his own M-Plant imprint. The Eleven EP is almost diametrically opposed to his two most recent, aforementioned full-lengths; where Paradise was geared towards the dancefloor and indebted to the sonic tics of classic house and techno and Motor: Nighttime World 3 was thick with rich, neo-noir atmosphere, Hood's new EP serves up two tracks committed to austere, bare-bones functionality. read more   |
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