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- The Lowdown - This Week's XLR8R Top 10 with DJ Koze, Burial, Dam-Funk, and More
- Derek Piotr "Intersection of Rivers"
- Download a New Mix from How to Dress Well
- Hauschka Announces New LP
- This Week in Music Tech: Dauwd on Push, Willie Burns Makes a Track, the ScratchPad App, umidi Custom Controllers, and More
- Synkro Streams New EP in Full, Shares New Mix
- Mr. Beatnick "Waning Moon (Best Available Technology Remix)"
- XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (20 - 1)
- Tensnake Details Debut LP, Shares Another New Track
- Press Play: Daft Punk, Madlib, Com Truise, Fantastic Mr Fox, and More
- James K "Drunktrack (Florian Kupfer Remix)"
- Re-Engineering
- Toboggan "Neapolitan"
- All-Night People
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST
 Throughout the week, a whole lot of material gets posted here on XLR8R. And while we know—and love—that some hardcore readers will eagerly pour over every single news story, interview, podcast, video, and MP3 download that appears on the site, we also realize that for most people, it's impossible to see everything, which means that some quality XLR8R content is likely to get missed in the hustle and bustle of everyone's daily lives. In the interest of making it easier for everyone to catch up, every Friday we present The Lowdown, a weekly wrap-up of the top 10 tidbits from our site. read more   |
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Derek Piotr "Intersection of Rivers"
Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:09 AM PST
 It's been a while since we've heard from Derek Piotr, a Polish-born, New England-based prodcuer who is continually taking on new forms in his electronic compositions. "Intersection of Rivers," a tune pulled from Piotr's forthcoming Tempatempat LP (out early next year), introduces the latest evolution in the man's one-of-a-kind sound, which aims to "construct deeply layered and largely complex song-based tracks." Still, it's hard not to hear Piotr's past as an audio collagist in "Intersection of Rivers," as the production's lead bell melody is joined by thick layers of fuzzy rumbling and the increasing echoes of refracted vocal samples across its brief, but immersive, runtime. Before the Tempatempat LP sees a release next year, its artwork and tracklist are included after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:36 AM PST
 Clothing brand Safe House USA's series of smooth, late-night mixes, called Stay the Night, has been running for a while now, and its latest installment taps R&B experimentalist How to Dress Well (a.k.a. Tom Krell) to curate a unique playlist. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:26 AM PST
 Known for applying house/techno mechanisms to his prepared piano pieces, German pianist and composer Hauschka has announced that a follow up to last year's Salon Des Amateurs—a record which spawned a two-part remix series—will be released next year. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST
 As 2013 begins to come to a close, the latest This Week in Music Tech takes a peek into the studios of Ghostly affiliate Dauwd and prolific Brooklyn producer Willie Burns, sees how Ableton's Push can be used with hardware synths, and checks out Cakewalk's new iPad app and the umidi series of custom MIDI controllers. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:34 AM PST
 Released earlier this week, Synkro's new solo EP for Apollo is now available as a full stream. (Remember, he also dropped his XLR8R Pick'd debut self-titled LP as part of the Akkord project with Indigo earlier this week, as well). In addition, the busy Manchester producer has put together a new mix for free download. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:08 AM PST
 Under his Best Available Technology moniker, Kevin Palmer has carved a signature sound out of tumultuously looping and lumpy techno. Our review of Palmer's recent BASH004 12" commented on the archival and searching nature of his music, which is full of delay effects and crude samples. Featured here, "Waning Moon (Best Available Technology Remix)" sees Palmer construing London DJ/producer Mr. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST
 The first week of our Best of 2013 coverage wraps up today, and brings with it the 20 most popular downloads featured on XLR8R this year. Out of roughly 1,000 songs posted to this website in 2013, these productions—including music from artists like Andrew Weatherall, Synkro, Gold Panda, Moby, Maceo Plex, Goth-Trad, and Jon Hopkins, among others—garnered more attention than any others in our constantly updated Downloads section. We're pleased to feature the streams and downloads of each song in the top 20 after jump, and be sure to check the bottom of this post for the link to grab all of the Top 100 Downloads of 2013 as a single ZIP file for free. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:54 AM PST
 It's kind of hard to believe that breakout German house producer Tensnake (a.k.a. Marco Niemerski) has been releasing original music every year since 2006, and yet still doesn't have a full-length album to his name. Sure, he's issued plenty of stellar, party-starting singles during his lengthy career as a DJ/producer, but now, Niemerski is set to finally take his discography to a new level, as he's announced the details of his first full-length record, Glow. And with the news, Tensnake has also shared yet another brand-new track. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST
 With 2013 about to come to a close, it's kind of surprising how many great sights and sounds have popped up on our radar amidst the hustle and bustle of this week. Brand-new original tracks, remixes, music videos, record streams, and assorted premieres are featured in the latest edition of Press Play—including bits from the likes of Madlib, Matthew Dear, Com Truise, Daft Punk, Huxley, Recondite, Fantastic Mr Fox, Jerome LOL, and Demdike Stare, among others. It's all ready to stream on command, after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST
Back in November, New York-based sound collagist and singer James K self-released her four-track Rum EP, and now, a new remix of EP cut "Drunktrack" has come in from L.I.E.S. affiliate Florian Kupfer. Extending the vocal-led song into an eight-plus-minute voyage through airy house sounds, Kupfer proves unafraid to take his time with the rework, as he slowly builds a glowing procession of hypnotic looping patterns of keys and vocals around slightly overdriven drums.
Heatsick Re-Engineering |
Posted: 06 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST
 As one half of niche noise act Birds of Delay, Steven Warwick coaxed waves of psychedelic drone from a minimal, casio-and-pedal-based set-up. He's since moved onto greater recognition with his solo Heatsick project, turning heads with a series of inventive releases for Berlin-based label PAN over the last two years that traded Birds of Delay's dense textures for refreshingly off-the-cuff dance beats, once again made with his trusty casio. Warwick's latest, a second full-length release for PAN, is perhaps his most eloquently conceptualized record yet. Described in the press materials as a "cybernetic poem," Re-Engineering is a brittle and surprisingly lithe record that updates the now-historic sonic futurisms of post-punk, disco, and synth-pop to comment on our current, hyper-modern era. It is also incredibly wry; Re-Engineering's track titles are heavy on puns and wordplay, and include such gems as "E-scape" and "Clear Chanel," while the title track features an automaton-like voice reading a buzzword-heavy poem. Moreso than Warwick's previous, often lo-fi releases as Heatsick, many of Re-Engineering's 11 tracks are surprisingly lush and make clearer the dance-music influences that have always been latent in the project; however, despite these changes, textured, improvisational psychedelia continues to help define the work. read more   |
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST
Layers of sharply chopped, hiss-addled samples and the slow clatter of a half-time beat kick off "Neapolitan," the opening cut from Montreal producer Toboggan's forthcoming Matryoshka EP. Dropping for free on December 17 via The Villa (a collective which the producer helps run), the EP is set to bring four new works from the Canadian talent.
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Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST
 Morgan Geist may have just landed a UK number-one single, but Metro Area remains his most critically acclaimed project. Darshan Jesrani, his partner in that duo, has been relatively quiet since the pair first ceased operations some years ago—the two actually reunited for a run of live shows earlier this year—but his just-launched Startree label suggests that he is still investigating Metro Area's DNA. All-Night People, Jesrani's first single as Funn City, recalls the sort of material the duo dug out for its Fabric 43 mix—if not outright cheesy, it does capture a kind of exuberance that just doesn't exist anymore. read more   |
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