XLR8R News and Features

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1. Video: Lee Bannon "Value 10"
2. Listen to a New Live Set from Four Tet
3. Download Two New Remixes of Dre Skull
4. Jensen Sportag "After Gardens (Obey City Remix)"
5. Watch Soul Clap, Magda, Kerri Chandler, Ellen Allien, and More Talk Berlin's Watergate Club
6. Com Truise Announces Upcoming EP for Ghostly, Streams Lead Single
7. Video: DJ Red "Eyes Are Blind"
8. Shackleton, Robert Hood, Doc Daneeka, and More to Feature on New 50Weapons Comp
9. Pompeya "Power (Jimmy Edgar Remix)"
10. XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (80 - 61)
11. DJ Koze
12. Clu "Jade"
13. A/B Til Infinity
14. Aeirs TV "Nails"
15. Heartbreaker

Video: Lee Bannon "Value 10" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:48 PM PST Following the announcement of Sacremento producer Lee Bannon's signing to Ninja Tune and readying his debut LP Alternate Endings (due out on January 13), Lee Bannon has unveiled another new track in the form of this impressionistic music video. read more

Listen to a New Live Set from Four Tet Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:40 AM PST Two days ago, unstoppable UK artist Four Tet performed a live set at the Hostess Club Weekender in Tokyo, and for those of us who happened to not be in that particular part of Japan on December 1, a recording of the music Kieran Hebden played that afternoon can now be streamed in full. read more

Download Two New Remixes of Dre Skull Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:36 AM PST Brooklyn-based label Mixpak has just shared two new remixes of "First Time," a collaborative track by DJ/producer/label boss Dre Skull (pictured above), Purity Ring singer Megan James, and dancehall MC Popcaan. read more

Jensen Sportag "After Gardens (Obey City Remix)" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:02 AM PST Shapeshifting Nashville duo Jensen Sportag (pictured above) dropped its debut LP, Stealth of Days, via Cascine late last month, and with the record's release still freshly in the rearview, Brooklyn producer and LuckyMe affiliate Obey City has been enlisted to take on the slippery, R&B-infused "After Gardens" track. read more

Watch Soul Clap, Magda, Kerri Chandler, Ellen Allien, and More Talk Berlin's Watergate Club Posted: 03 Dec 2013 10:43 AM PST Previously only available on the DVD included in a celebratory box set for the tenth anniversary of river-front Berlin club Watergate, Watergate X, a 42-minute documentary about the German nightlife insititution, is now available for all to view online. read more

Com Truise Announces Upcoming EP for Ghostly, Streams Lead Single Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:58 AM PST New Jersey synth masestro Com Truise will return to the Ghostly label early next year with the seven-track Wave 1 EP, the first proper release from Cruise since his debut LP, Galactic Melt, dropped back in 2011. read more

Video: DJ Red "Eyes Are Blind" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:46 AM PST The title track from Rome/Berlin-based artist DJ Red's recently released EP for Ellen Allien's BPitch Control label, "Eyes Are Blind" has been treated to a decidedly dark and sensual visual piece. read more

Shackleton, Robert Hood, Doc Daneeka, and More to Feature on New 50Weapons Comp Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:07 AM PST Before shifting its focus to album-oriented releases in 2014, Modeselektor's 50Weapons label has announced the details of an upcoming compilation entitled 50WEAPONSRMX01-09, which will gather the DJ-friendly remixes from the imprint's discography into a single release. read more

Pompeya "Power (Jimmy Edgar Remix)" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST It's times like these that one wonders when Jimmy Edgar finds time to actually, you know, sleep. Following the release of his Mercurio EP last week, the ceaseleslly prolific producer/DJ has deliverd yet another new remix—this time taking on "Power," a cut from Moscow-based indie/funk outfit Pompeya. read more

XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (80 - 61) Posted: 03 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST XLR8R's annual Best of the Year coverage got off to a solid start yesterday with the first batch of tunes lifted from the 100 most popular downloads we posted throughout 2013. We've already offered music from the likes of Holy Other, Hackman, Slugabed, Bibio, and Bodhi, among plenty of others, and our latest chunk of this year's Top Downloads list highlights productions from Clams Casino, xxxy, Nils Frahm, Jacques Renault, Bondax, Zebra Katz, and more. All of tunes that landed between numbers 80 and 61 can be streamed and freely downloaded after the jump. read more

DJ Koze Posted: 03 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST The calendar only flipped to December a few days ago, but it seems that much of the music world has already begun to set its sights on the end of the year. More specifically, everyone seems to be looking back at the last 11 months and evaluating what pieces of music were amongst the year's best. XLR8R is no different, and when our list of 2013's best releases surfaces during the next few weeks, there's little question that Amygadla, the long-awaited sophomore LP from DJ Koze, will make the cut. It's been a big year for the veteran German producer, which is why we thought he would be an excellent candidate to put together the final XLR8R podcast of 2013. read more

Clu "Jade" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST The Chemistry—a nascent French publication covering music, visual art, and fashion—is celebrating its second birthday with a curated compilation of bass-informed sounds, titled LITHIUM, which will drop on December 8. Dublin producer Clu's cameo, "Jade," pairs a highly melodic, arpeggiated synth squiggle with an evasive drum pattern that seems to operate in multiple, simultaneous time signatures. read more

A/B Til Infinity Posted: 03 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST The sole Canadian representative of the increasingly international Night Slugs contingent, Egyptrixx (a.k.a. David Psutka) has followed up his ambitious 2011 debut album, Bible Eyes, with the equally inventive A/B Til Infinity. Psutka's work as Egyptrixx has always operated with a slightly unconventional approach to club music, but the woozy synths and atmospheric tendencies of his debut album nonethless complemented Night Slugs' dystopian, experimental reconfigurations of dance-music tropes. A/B Til Infinity largely moves things further away from the dancefloor, with nine tracks and very few kick drums to be found on any of them. Egyptrixx's excellently weird recent mix for Night Slugs' ongoing podcast series signaled the producer's interest in exploring noise and texture as elements on an equal footing with the rawest, most stripped-back club beats, and that tendency has held firm with A/B Til Infinity's multi-dimensional, surface-oriented techno. read more

Aeirs TV "Nails" Posted: 03 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST British producer Aeirs TV (a.k.a. Joss Carter) obscures his techno collages in a thick feedback mist, culling inspiration from the same ineffable, cryptic source as producers like Actress or Vessel. On "Nails"—taken from a free three-song EP called Relife—Carter sets a percussive pulse underneath eerie drone loops that soak through the entire mix, gradually building to a discernable techno groove. read more

Heartbreaker Posted: 03 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST Although they haven't gotten as much attention as the records under his own name, Melbourne's Mic Newman has been releasing tracks under the Fantastic Man alias since 2010. Heartbreaker, his latest EP under that banner, is not too far removed from what one expects of Newman—its three originals offer deeper tracks with inflections from old-school house and '80s boogie, with dashes of vocals for good measure. It's not an especially daring EP, but even hardened house heads will find bits to latch onto. read more