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- Video Premiere: Mndsgn "Hiking / Fif Dim"
- Levon Vincent Announces Open Call for Artist Apprenticeship in Berlin
- Sigha Preps New EP; Preview It Now
- Graze "Skip/Crush (Glass House VIP Mix)"
- Jon Hopkins Readies Extended Edition of 'Immunity', Announces Remix EP, Shares New Video
- Skream, Levon Vincent, Matthew Dear, and More to Play Igloofest 2014
- Bondax Shares First Single from Upcoming Debut LP
- David Rodigan Helms Upcoming 'Masterpiece' Mix Album
- Nils Frahm "You (Teen Daze Remix)"
- Video Premiere: ALAK "Ilial Clone"
- Download a New Track from Tensnake
- XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (60 - 41)
- Cooly G to Release New EP via Hyperdub
- Hi-Five - Snoop Dogg Selects His Five Favorite Dam-Funk Tunes and Dam-Funk Selects His Five Favorite Snoop Tracks
- Moon Boots "Got Somebody (Free Magic Dub)"
- Fabric 73
- Check Out Robert Hood's Remix of Ø [Phase]
- Hmot "Tartu"
- "M" b/w "Secrets"
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:44 PM PST
Los Angeles beatsmith Mndsgn just dropped a limited cassette called Breatharian via Fresh Selects, and today the artist shares a video made in collaboration with the label and Portland design group The Pressure. read more   |
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Levon Vincent Announces Open Call for Artist Apprenticeship in Berlin
Posted: 04 Dec 2013 11:59 AM PST
 New York-bred house stalwart and consistent XLR8R favorite Levon Vincent has taken to Facebook to announce an open call for artists to submit their demos in hopes of landing a sponsored apprenticeship from the hard-working, experienced DJ/producer in Berlin. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 11:14 AM PST
 London DJ/producer Sigha is set to drop a new batch of material via Our Circula Sound, marking the artist's first release since his debut long-player, Living with Ghosts, appeared on Hotflush late last year. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 11:01 AM PST
 Up-and-coming production duo Graze dropped its debut LP, Edges, via New Kanada just this week, but Christian Andersen and Adam Marshall are already back at it, releasing this "Glass House VIP" version of percussive album opener "Skip/Crush" as a free download. The pair's reworking of its new track does away with a fair amount of the astral atmosphere, and instead focuses on the sterilized drum patterns and looming bass weight in addition to a few spritely keyboard chords. It all makes for an interestingly meditative counterpart that thankfully maintains Graze's trademarked dancefloor skip. Anyone interested in grabbing "Skip/Crush (Glass House VIP Mix)" as a WAV file can do so after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 10:44 AM PST
 Accalimed London producer Jon Hopkins has been keeping extra busy since releasing his XLR8R Pick'd Immunity LP, and has just today announced an extended edition of his new record, a remix 12", and shared a new video for album cut "Collider." read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 10:09 AM PST
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 10:09 AM PST
 The young UK upstarts and former XLR8R podcast contributors of Bondax have shared a full stream of "Fires," a warm, vocal-led cut said to come from the pair's forthcoming debut LP. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 09:51 AM PST
 Legendary British broadcaster and sound clash DJ David Rodigan will helm the next edition of Ministry of Sound's Masterpiece mix album series. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 09:05 AM PST
 Piano virtuoso Nils Frahm finished his year with a solid album of live "field recordings," Spaces, and today, Vancouver producer Teen Daze shows appreciation for Frahm favorite "You" with this minimal rework. Setting a plaintive piano refrain against organic, lilting percussion and ambience, Teen Daze doesn't overwhelm the source material with unnecessary bombast. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 08:53 AM PST
Recently signed Warp producer patten doesn't just create genre-skewing music, he also releases it for other artists through his Kaleidoscope label. That project's latest cassette (also available as a free download) arrived last month from young California artist ALAK, offering five cuts of hybridized, leftfield synth-pop. And now, a starkly minimalist video for the gauzy "Ilial Clone" song has found its way online. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 08:25 AM PST
 Breakout German house artist Tensnake has been leaking stray glimpses of his forthcoming artist album for Virgin over the past handful of months, though we're still no closer to uncovering any of that long-awaited LP's official details. Unfortunately, that still has yet to change, but thankfully, we now have another new tune from the DJ/producer born Marco Niemerski, which is currently available as a free download. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST
 As we continue our countdown through the 100 most popular downloads to hit XLR8R during 2013, the numbers keep getting smaller and the names keep getting bigger. The first two installments featured a handful of recognizable artists offering their work as a free download, but today's group of tracks includes music from the likes of James Blake, Robag Wruhme, Om Unit, Nightmares on Wax, Hackman, Lindstrøm, and Sophie, just to name a few. Track numbers 60 through 41 from this year's Top Downloads list can be streamed and downloaded at no cost after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 07:57 AM PST
 It wouldn't be fair to say that UK DJ/producer Cooly G has kept quiet since last year's release of her debut LP, Playin Me, but there certainly hasn't been much in the way of original material released by the artist born Merrisa Campbell—save for that track she produced with her mom, of course. So it's especially good news that she'll release a brand-new EP via the oft-reliable Hyperdub label next year. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST
 Although the coming together of G-funk mastermind Dam-Funk and legendary West Coast MC Snoop Dogg is the sort of collaboration that makes perfect sense, we never actually thought it would happen. Thankfully, Snoop and Dam felt otherwise, and next week, their joint 7 Days of Funk project will release its self-titled debut album via Stones Throw. Apparently, the pair's partnership was initially based on the artists' mutual admiration for each other's work, which prompted us to do a little bit of digging for some additional details. Specifically, we asked Dam-Funk to pick his five favorite Snoop Dogg tracks of all time, and incredibly found that Snoop was willing to return the favor. Their selections have been catalogued in this latest edition of our Hi-Five series, and as one might expect, the resulting feature just might be the most G-funk'd thing we've ever published on XLR8R. read more   |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST
NYC DJ/producer Free Magic, a man who co-heads the local Discovery party and label, has been enlisted to produce a dub version of "Got Somebody," a vocal-heavy cut by stateside producer Moon Boots that was originally released last year as a free download via French Express.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST
 There's something reassuringly upfront about Ben Sims. Refusing to raise his head above the parapet of underground techno for two decades or so, the Theory Recordings boss approaches the booth with principles based upon hip-hop turntablism and showmanship, only they've been read through a distinctly muscular club lens. Of course, the sledgehammer-solid, nigh-on banging, and occasionally manic end of techno has been receiving plenty of attention in the last year or so, with Blawan's rise to stardom (which has been fueled in part by his collaborative Karenn and Trade projects) and the music being turned out by key figures like Objekt. As such, Sims |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST
A week ago, we shared news of a forthcoming 12" which will feature a remix of Ø [Phase], the techno alias of London producer Ashley Burchett, by pioneering Detroit minimalist Robert Hood. Now, that rework can be previewed before the single drops later this month.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST
Russian producer Hmot's musical landscapes are largely made up of found sounds and lo-fi filters. His Oneirology mini-album (available here) is a collection of seven tracks that processes psychedelic ambience through deep-house mechanisms, binding the field recordings of animal calls and running water to rhythmic structures.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST
South London producer Louis Carnell (a.k.a. Visionist) has released a deluge of EPs and singles this year, and this latest effort marks his debut for the long-running RAMP imprint. "M" b/w "Secrets" continues his foreboding line of stripped-down bass sounds, but also finds the UK artist tightening up his production technique without deviating far from his established formula. In a brief nine minutes, Carnell's self-assured, minimal pair of cuts presents itself with little fanfare, but the release is still a worthy complement to September's I'm Fine EP.
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