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- Video Premiere: Vapauteen "Basilisk"
- DeFeKT "Skitzo"
- Watch Snoop Dogg and Dâm-Funk Talk Collaboration, Stones Throw, and Magic
- Halls Announces Sophomore Album, Shares Lead Single
- Lucy Readies New LP for Stroboscopic Artefacts
- Check Out a New Remix from Pariah
- Cropper "Sweet Talk"
- Numbers to Reissue First 12" with a New Ricardo Villalobos Remix; Preview It Now
- XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (40 - 21)
- Echologist "Stepping Out (Dub)"
- SUM/ONE
- Download a New Mix from Hackman
- No-Face "Monsoon Kiss"
- Light Moving
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:29 AM PST
Having dropped an eponymous six-track EP as Vapauteen via L.I.E.S. late last month, prolific NYC producer Shawn O'Sullivan now shares a video for record cut "Basilisk." read more   |
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DeFeKT "Skitzo"
Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:01 AM PST
 Set to drop this coming Monday, the Transmuter EP by Irish electro producer DeFeKT will serve as the second vinyl release from Electronic Explorations, the label wing of the long-running podcast series of the same name headed by Houndstooth label manager Rob Booth. Pulled from that forthcoming record is "Skitzo," a track which lunges forward with analog pulses and the steady strut of a drum machine. The five-plus-minute production concerns itself with little more than executing slow-and-steady filter tweaks and gradual enhancements to its undulating rhythms, and that—as it turns out—is a good thing, as DeFeKT's efficient tune still makes an impact without too many bells and whistles. Before the Dublin artist's Transmuter EP officially sees a release on December 9, a preview stream of the four-track effort can be heard after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 10:19 AM PST
 A day after we enlisted Snoop Dogg and Dâm-Funk to highlight their favorite tracks from each other's catalog for the latest Hi-Five feature, a new video interview has surfaced with the two West Coast G-funk experts discussing their upcoming 7 Days of Funk album for Stones Throw (out next week, streaming here), among other topics. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 09:01 AM PST
 Save for a quality mix he dropped over the summer and a track he gave away from his collaborative Karenn project with Blawan, London DJ/producer Pariah hasn't issued any music throughout 2013. And though there's still no word of any original solo material on the way from the artist born Arthur Cayzer, we've just been handed a brand-new remix he did for fellow London outfit Real Lies. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST
 Bristol-born artist Niall Cropper, who releases music simply as Cropper, toys cleverly with house tropes; what initially seems like a saccharine, vocal-heavy style is revealed to be a little darker and dubbier than imagined. On "Sweet Talk," Cropper establishes a mood with straight-ahead house percussion and spotless piano stabs, as female vocal melodies ring out in near-perpetual delay. Practically out of nowhere, grinding blasts of bass and even more echo are mixed in, and the crowd-pleasing cut becomes more insightful and complex. Additionally, a video for "Forever"—Cropper's one-sided 12" single which is out now via Blah Blah Blah—can be viewed after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 08:23 AM PST
 The excellent Glaswegian label Numbers has had one hell of a year, with remarkable releases from the likes of Doc Daneeka, Sophie, and Deadboy filling out its discography and a series of celebratory events going down for its tenth anniversary. Now, in keeping with that spirit, the imprint will reissue its very first 12", Sparky's Portland, along with two previously unheard tracks from Sparky and a new remix by minimal techno legend Ricardo Villalobos. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST
 Today brings the second to last installment of XLR8R's Top 100 Downloads of 2013 (the first three can be found here, here, and here, respectively), which takes us through track number 40 down to 21. It's all an intriguingly eclectic group of songs, and is made even more enticing by appearances from XLR8R regulars like Coki, Oneman, Jacques Renault, Mount Kimbie, Hackman, and Lapalux, among others. After the jump, all 20 tunes can be streamed and downloaded for absolutely free. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST
 A South African-raised, now NYC-based producer, Brendon Moeller is a veteran explorer of the dub-techno landscape, having released a number of genre-blurring records under his own name as well as aliases such as Beat Pharmacy and Echologist over the years. Later this month, Moeller will release a new collection of dubwise techno experiments under the latter pseudonym, with the 14-track Storming Heaven LP counting as the tenth full-length release of the man's accomplished career. But before that record sees a release, Moeller has offered up this exclusive dub version of ghostly album cut "Stepping Out," which takes its time to steadily brew a hazy concoction of grey-streaked pads, bubbling synths, and sluggishly brooding percussion. Storming Heaven drops via the Prologue label on December 16; in the meantime, a preview of the LP can be found by following the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST
 As a founding member of New York experimental troupe Gang Gang Dance, Brian DeGraw has made a career of incorporating disparate elements into a heaving whole, merging everything from grime to contemporary Chinese pop. Gang Gang Dance writes some fantastic hooks, but because it is a group, and because of its psychedelic m.o., those hooks are often loose and fleeting. The idea of the band adapting its sound to a more populist format, then, is tantalizing. With such a bewildering array of influences, one might suppose SUM/ONE, DeGraw's solo album would land somewhere near a globally focused experimenter like Timbaland. This is partly the case. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST
 We're basically at a point now where the debut LP that Hackman has been hinting at for a number of years is more or less a fantasy, but that pill is made quite a bit easier to swallow by the consistent stream of quality tunes he's been issuing piecemeal via labels like PTN, 2084, and Audio Culture. The UK DJ/producer's next EP will be a three-track record for Futureboogie called Change My Life, and before it drops early next week, Hackman has sent over an exclusive mix to give fans an idea of what to expect. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST
 "Monsoon Kiss," the debut track from anonymous producer No-Face, succeeds by seamlessly marrying together both futuristic- and retro-leaning sounds. It kicks off with a speaker drone that slowly morphs into a dusty, side-chained groove which captures a restlessness reminiscent of the likes of Flying Lotus. read more   |
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Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST
 There are two ways that the title of IVVVO's latest EP can be read, and both reflect his aesthetic. Light steals across the surface of these tracks like sunlight glints on a large body of water on an overcast day. If, on the other hand, we choose to read "light" as an adjective, the meaning still fits—these five tracks trip lightly across abandoned rave dancefloors, preoccupied with the past but not overly burdened by it. IVVVO garnered some attention over the summer with Future, an EP for Public Information that paired swollen drum rhythms and the occasional gorgeous, forestal melody. Despite that record's success, fall is a far more apt season for the time-stretched cloudiness of IVVVO's music, which looks back on early-'90s hardcore techno with the same opiated gaze as Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore video. That being said, Light Moving settles, at points, for reaffirming what we already know about the Portuguese producer rather than deepening his music's affect. Future's tremendous opening track, "Darkness in My Soul," suggested there's a lot more going on with IVVVO than riding the "death of rave" zeitgeist; Light Moving retains that promise, but doesn't do much more than the earlier EP did to show what his end game is. read more   |
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