XLR8R News and Features: Doc Daneeka Shares New Mix

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1. Doc Daneeka Shares New Mix
2. Stream Jerome LOL's 'Deleted/Fool' EP
3. Boonlorm "Terrarium II"
4. MikeQ and Sinjin Hawke Share Video for New Collaborative Track
5. Download a New Mix from Four Tet
6. Check Out a New Mix from Kode9
7. WhoMadeWho "Hiding In Darkness (Kyson Remix)"
8. Cashmere Cat Readies EP for LuckyMe; Preview It Now
9. Ghettoville
10. Todd Terje Announces Debut Album
11. The Best (and the Weirdest) of NAMM 2014
12. Silkersoft "Sleep"
13. Catz 'n Dogz, Justin Martin, and More to Appear on Forthcoming Dirtybird Comp
14. Pop Ambient 2014
15. AT/NU "Shift"

Doc Daneeka Shares New Mix Posted: 27 Jan 2014 11:43 AM PST Doc Daneeka, the Welshman behind last year's "Walk On In" (a big tune which came in as one of our top tracks of 2013), has delivered a new mix entitled Music to… Warm Up Your Week. read more

Stream Jerome LOL's 'Deleted/Fool' EP Posted: 27 Jan 2014 11:20 AM PST Jerome LOL's first solo EP, Deleted/Fool, is set to drop next week via the Friends of Friends label, but before then, the four-track record is now available to stream in full. read more

Boonlorm "Terrarium II" Posted: 27 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Brooklyn-based producer Skooby Laposky has been DJing under the Pocketknife moniker for years, remixing the likes of Lykke Li and Adele while also running his own fledgling label, Wilde Calm. For his recent Boonlorm project, Laposky built a skeletal house record by inserting objects into a grand piano à la John Cage and capturing the results. read more

MikeQ and Sinjin Hawke Share Video for New Collaborative Track Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:52 AM PST Having turned in tunes alongside Morri$, Just Blaze, and—most recently—L-Vis 1990, Sinjin Hawke continues his collaborative run with a new production and video made with New Jersey ballroom mainstay MikeQ. read more

Download a New Mix from Four Tet Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:26 AM PST British artist Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet) has been keeping an especially high profile this winter, sampling Thriller to make a beat in 10 minutes, sharing his Live in Tokyo mix, and giving away 15 unreleased tunes to celebrate reaching 100K Twitter followers. Now, the influential producer has offered up another free mix of eccentric house cuts. read more

Check Out a New Mix from Kode9 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:23 AM PST Founder of the venerable Hyperdub label, Steve Goodman (a.k.a. Kode9) has unleashed a brand-new mix to stream and download. read more

WhoMadeWho "Hiding In Darkness (Kyson Remix)" Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Two years after its last album, Copenhagen band WhoMadeWho will self-release its Dreams LP on March 4, but before then, we're treated to this elegant interpretation of album cut "Hiding In Darkness" from Friends of Friends affiliate Kyson. The producer's dream-like rendition ruminates on the insecurities and anxiety of the softly chanted lyrics, which he scatters throughout the production. read more

Cashmere Cat Readies EP for LuckyMe; Preview It Now Posted: 27 Jan 2014 08:47 AM PST Rising Norwegian producer Magnus August Hoiberg (a.k.a. Cashmere Cat) made a name for himself with his starry-eyed, cinematic hip-hop remixes and 2012's Mirror Maru EP, all leading up to his first vinyl release, the Wedding Bells EP. read more

Ghettoville Posted: 27 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST To his credit, Darren Cunningham has remained a truly uncompromising and incomparable artist since introducing the world to his Actress moniker in 2004. His vision of what dance music can (or, perhaps, should) be consistently toes the fringe of genre expectations, setting trends in the world of house and techno as much as it bucks them entirely. So it's no surprise that Ghettoville, Cunningham's fourth full-length album, hardly sounds like anything previously released by Actress. His project has always been one of exploration and experimentation, but with its gaze locked on the dancefloor more often than not, helping to lend the music an air of levity despite being so cerebral. However, levity is a characteristic that Ghettoville conspicuously lacks. And in the absence of those hedonist inclinations, Actress colors in his dense, hour-plus-long LP with opaque smears of rhythm, sooty atmospheres, and decaying memories of pop music. read more

Todd Terje Announces Debut Album Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:52 AM PST The reigning Norwegian king of cosmic disco, DJ/producer Todd Terje has been consistently wowing us over the years with his untouchable collection of singles, landing loads of critical accolades and high-ranking slots in just about every year-end list with each infectious dancefloor production he drops. And now, following a considerable streak that dates back as far as 2004, he has finally announced that he'll release his debut full-length album this spring. read more

The Best (and the Weirdest) of NAMM 2014 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST NAMM is to music gear what CES is to consumer electronics, E3 is to video games, and the '80s were to personal finance: spectacularly overwrought excess, as companies large and small blow huge chunks of their marketing budgets to flaunt new gear. Each year, the event takes place over the course of four days in Anaheim, California, under the big-eared shadow of Disneyland. It's generally overrun by suited sales folk and aging rockers whose hairlines have receded into their bellies, along with gearheads who fly in from around the world to get face-to-face (and hand-to-knob) time with the people that make their musical tools. As part of the latter contingent, we picked through the roughly six million mandolins and generic DJ controllers—and came across some oddly memorable happenings in the process—but ultimately honed in on the most exciting gear NAMM 2014 had to offer. read more

Silkersoft "Sleep" Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST Labelled as an "enigmatic mood creator hailing from Germany," Silkersoft lives up to that self-description throughout his forthcoming Ghost Sceptre EP. And "Sleep" is no exception, serving as a hazy journey through minimal beats, whispered vocals, and carefully executed layers of piano. The track softly weaves in and out of quiet interludes, which pair with samples of gentle streams to create a graceful-yet-haunting ambience. read more

Catz 'n Dogz, Justin Martin, and More to Appear on Forthcoming Dirtybird Comp Posted: 27 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST After drawing too many house heads to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park every year, Claude VonStroke and the Dirtybird crew's legendary annual BBQ dance party was shut down a few years back. Now, news has come that the label will issue a new comp in its honor before reinstating the BBQ dance party as an international tour later this year. read more

Pop Ambient 2014 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST For more than a decade, Kompakt has only slightly tinkered with the formula which yields its annual Pop Ambient collection. Now on its 14th edition, the compilation continues to be curated by label co-founder Wolfgang Voigt and still largely depends on a revolving cast of producers, with regular contributors such as Mikkel Metal, Marsen Jules, and Thomas Fehlmann (along with Voigt himself, both under his own name and as Gas) appearing on Pop Ambient's latest incarnation. While the label's steadfast dedication to the original aims of the series is admirable, it may also explain why, in a rapidly changing musical environment, Pop Ambient can't help but seem less and less vital with each new arrival. read more

AT/NU "Shift" Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST Igor Ivanov's and Sami Blanco's AT/NU project is based in a hyperreal and transcendent space, taking cues from trance and techno to create glossy, high-definition tunes. Ahead of their Psi Grove release for the 1080p label (out on February 11), the two producers have shared album track "Shift." Floating pads and effervescent FX whirl around casually before a striking percussion pattern drops in to fill out the track's low-end. read more