XLR8R News and Features: Disclosure, SBTRKT, Moderat, Julio Bashmore, Jamie xx, and More to Play Primavera Sound 2014 |  |
- Disclosure, SBTRKT, Moderat, Julio Bashmore, Jamie xx, and More to Play Primavera Sound 2014
- Jeff Mills Soundtracks and Stars in Upcoming Film
- Walrus Ghost "Seventwentyone"
- Digital Mystikz, Moodymann, Special Request, Onra, Floating Points, and More Slated for Outlook 2014
- Watch Two New Videos from Actress
- She's Drunk "MashMash"
- Legowelt Details 'Crystal Cult 2080' LP
- Divine Ecstasy
- Jerome LOL
- Watch the Bizarre New Video from Thug Entrancer
- Kindimmer "Choice"
- DIVA Reveals Identity, Announces New Label
- Michigan Dream
- Aleqs Notal "Cyborg1"
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:13 PM PST
 Set to begin on May 29, Barcelona's eclectic Primavera Sound festival unveiled the full list of artists scheduled to perform during this year's events, including a large number of XLR8R favorites. read more   |
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Jeff Mills Soundtracks and Stars in Upcoming Film
Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST
 Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills and French director Jacqueline Caux have collaborated on a new film which will have screenings in select European and North American cities next month. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST
 Brooklyn artist Walrus Ghost has just sent over "Seventwentyone," an atmospheric song taken from his debut LP for Project: Mooncircle, Uplifting Themes for the Naysayer. Walrus Ghost embodies the Berlin-based label's search to find "the conjunction between electronic and organic music" on his new production, on which wispy guitar and crescendos of natural field recordings slowly build around layers of delicate percussion and warm, spring-like ambiance. The subtle jazziness and freeform flow of "Seventwentyone" bring to mind post-rock greats like Tortoise, and bode well for the rest of Walrus Ghost's upcoming album when it drops on February 14. Before then, its artwork and tracklist can be found after the jump. read more   |
Digital Mystikz, Moodymann, Special Request, Onra, Floating Points, and More Slated for Outlook 2014
Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:08 AM PST
 Croatia's well-regarded Outlook Festival has announced the intitial wave of artists slated to perform at this year's gathering in September. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:26 AM PST
 It's a big week for Actress, as the DJ/producer/Werkdiscs label boss born Darren Cunningham has just released his fourth LP, Ghettoville. And though the inimitable UK artist made a big splash on XLR8R last week with his exclusive podcast, he's got plenty more new material to share, including fresh videos for industrial-tinged album cut "Street Corp." and astral highlight "Our." read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST
 Berlin-based producer She's Drunk creates an astonishingly animated tone on his latest exclusive track. As its title suggests, "MashMash" features an eclectic collection of elements ranging from onomatopoeic vocal chants to the indecipherable and abstract sound snippets covering the dancefloor-ready beat. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:27 AM PST
 Though he already announced the impending release of his Crystal Cult 2080 LP back in October and followed it up with an EP-length album sampler, Dutch synth specialist Legowelt has only just unveiled the full details of his next album. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST
 When Supreme Cuts released its debut album Whispers in the Dark in 2012, the Chicago production duo explored a slightly derivative take on cosmic, maximalist R&B and other percussion-rich styles, with flashes of brilliance hinting at the possibility of a looser, more experimental approach on the pair's next record. However, the arrival of sophomore LP Divine Ecstasy seems to indicate that the producers ultimately elected to take a different path, as they've dialed up the color contrast of their instrumentation and have fully indulged their pop sensibilities, resulting in a thoroughly conflicted sound. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST
 While the electronic spectrum is full of producers that could be described as unique, Jerome LOL is someone who truly marches to the beat of his own drum. It's been more than a year since his shape-shifting former outfit, LOL Boys, went on what has seemingly become a permanent hiatus, and in that time, the LA-based artist and co-founder of the ascendant Body High label has maintained his undeniably meta sense of humor and continued to build an identity based around various web tropes and an affinity for the aesthetics of the internet's early days. However, he's also established himself as a skilled producer of washy, emotive, and slow-grooving house, albeit a variant that also includes plenty of nods to (and outright appropriation of) contemporary Top 40. Following a series of self-released singles—which were later compiled and mixed on a limited-edition cassette—Jerome LOL will finally be issuing his first official EP, Deleted/Fool, next week via the Friends of Friends label. The four-track effort is currently streaming online, but we were curious to hear more, which is why we asked Jerome LOL to put together this week's XLR8R podcast. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST
 Before his upcoming LP Death After Life drops on February 11 via Oneohtrix Point Never's Software imprint, Chicago-based hardware specialist Ryan McRyhew (a.k.a. Thug Entrancer) has shared a surreal, unsettling 3D video for the album's opening cut. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST
 The once-stark borders between house and techno have become increasingly blurred over recent years, with an ever-growing number of producers finding an abundance of possibilities nestled finely between the two staples of dance music fare. One such producer is Kindimmer, a Berlin resident whose "Choice" cut comes laced with a techno pulse, but uses a more house-minded bounce to swing its gaseous chords and shuffled hats and snares. More important than where exactly "Choice" lands on the house/techno spectrum though is the fact that this bonus cut serves as a companion piece to Kindimmer's Machine Visions EP (artwork above)—out this week via Germany's fledgling Telefonplan label with four more pieces of swinging club music from Kindimmer. Limited to 200 vinyl copies, that new record can be previewed in the player included after the jump. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST
 Journey back with us for a moment to just over one year ago, when XLR8R included a little-known anonymous producer named DIVA in our list of new artists to watch, a decision we made more or less based on one exciting EP released at the end of 2012 via the solid New Kanada label. Call us overeager or call us too forward-thinking, DIVA unfortunately remained quiet throughout 2013, but that silence is now over. The producer has unveiled himself as Matt Didemus, half of Canadian synth-pop duo Junior Boys, and announced that he'll soon inaugurate his own label with a compilation featuring the first new music from DIVA since 2012. read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST
 Detroit-based Ghostly/Spectral Sound affiliate Todd Osborn is one of contemporary electronic music's true characters and renaissance men. Equally at home building hovercrafts or flying airplanes as he is at making jungle as Soundmurderer, house as Osborne, arena metal as Musk, or acid with Tadd Mullinix as TNT, Osborn's restless, eccentric character makes him a truly fascinating personality. The idea for this EP, on the nascent Brooklyn label Blueberry Records, came about during a visit that label boss Drew Lustman (a.k.a. FaltyDL) made to Detroit in 2012. During Lustman's stay, his friend Osborn, in typically flamboyant style, picked him up in "his converted Police Cruiser with spot light" and took him to his house "to listen to unreleased joints by him and his heroes." read more   |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST
 After having just released his debut EP A.E.T. earlier this month through the French Fries-helmed ClekClekBoom label, Aleqs Notal has given us his exclusive "Cyborg1" track to share as a free download. The Parisian producer's song is an expedition through submarine sonar blips, tense rhythmic constructions, and faint synth melodies. read more   |
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