XLR8R News and Features: The Lowdown - This Week's XLR8R Top 10 with Actress, Sampha, Feadz, and More |  |
- The Lowdown - This Week's XLR8R Top 10 with Actress, Sampha, Feadz, and More
- Dog Bite "Lady Queen (Botany Remix)"
- Magic Touch Readies Debut LP for 100% Silk, Shares New Track
- Download an EP of Classic Bmore Club Tracks from Blaqstarr
- Cotton Claw "Crooked (Julien Mier Remix)"
- Young Turks to Launch Club-Focused Imprint with 12" from Terron
- Stream Actress' 'Ghettoville' LP Now
- Listen to a New Track from L-Vis 1990 & Sinjin Hawke
- Pearson Sound Announces New 7" Single; Preview It Now
- This Week in Music Tech: NAMM Updates from Moog, Elektron, Korg, Arturia, Nord, Bitwig, and More
- "Danger" b/w "King Brute (feat. Shanghai Den)"
- Beaka "Entry Unknown"
- Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller
- Press Play: Stream the Latest Audio and Video from Mount Kimbie, Paul Woolford, Kingdom, Jimmy Edgar, and More
- Hatti Vatti "Treasure"
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 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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Dog Bite "Lady Queen (Botany Remix)"
Posted: 24 Jan 2014 11:34 AM PST
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:57 AM PST
 Since 2011, DJ/producer Damon Palermo has been making sun-kissed, disco-referencing house jams as Magic Touch, but has only just finished his debut LP, an eight-track record set to appear next month via 100% Silk. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:08 AM PST
 Released via Mad Decent's Jeffries label, Blaqstarr's new The Blaq-Files EP collects four unreleased productions from the Bmore underground veteran and offers them up for free download. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:53 AM PST
 French label Cascade is set to release Cotton Claw's debut EP Dusted on February 24, featuring six original productions and remixes from the likes of Slugabed, Kelpe, and Julien Mier, whose take on "Crooked" is featured here. The fast-paced and choppy remix is rife with bubbly synths and echoes a notably different aesthetic from Cotton Claw's version of the song. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:44 AM PST
 The Young Turks label has always had its toe dipped in the pool of club music with releases from garage-referencing artists like Jamie xx and SBTRKT, but now, with the launching of its Whities imprint, the label seems to be diving in to dancefloor-ready sounds headfirst. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:33 AM PST
Set to drop on Tuesday via Ninja Tune, Ghettoville—the fourth full-length record from uncompromising UK producer and Werkdiscs label boss Actress—is now availaible to hear in full.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:02 AM PST
 Last week, XLR8R announced that Parisian label Sound Pellegrino was readying the release of SND.PE Vol. 02: Crossover Series, a compilation of collaborations by artists like Ikonikia and Crystal, Helix and Hrdvsion, Feadz and Orgasmic, and Matthias Zimmermann and SCNTST, among others. Now, ahead of the record's release next week, a joint production from Night Slugs boss L-Vis 1990 (pictured above) and Barcelona-based producer Sinjin Hawke is available to stream in full. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:17 AM PST
 Hessle Audio cohort Pearson Sound will once again leave the confines of the label he runs with Ben UFO and Pangaea for his next release, a two-track 7" which will be issued by the DJ/producer's own eponymous imprint. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST
 The annual NAMM conference is officially underway, and as expected, a host of new synthesizers, drum machines, controllers, programs, and more have been officially (and some still unofficially) introduced to the world. The latest This Week in Music Tech checks in on the most important developments that have so far gone down in the gear world's busiest weekend. read more   |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST
The sound of New York producer FaltyDL (a.k.a. Andrew Lustman) has always been difficult to pin down. Over the course of the past few years, his sonic choices have come from a place of free-wheeling and good-natured appropriation; though his initial output was colored by IDM and he's often lumped in with the increasingly hard-to-define world of bass music, he uses his background as a filter to explore the far-flung and disparate corners of the dance music spectrum. Yet through it all, his personality has always come through in his melodic leanings. Lustman's music is often connected by his preference for enveloping, sometimes noodling, synthesizer playing. Last year, he released Hardcourage
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST
The forthcoming EP from Beaka is described in its press release as "an exercise in coaxing out the multilateral efficacy of UK bass," and though it does not come packaged in the artist's upcoming self-titled record, "Entry Unknown" still has no problem fitting in with that description. The five-plus-minute bonus tune revolves around a set of tough sonic elements—an industrial-sized bassline and machine-shop percussion hits among them—while blue-streaked chords and dusty textures are occasionally allowed to float to the top.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST
There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST
The array of sights and sounds available in the latest installment of Press Play is kind of overwhelming. Seriously, a whole lot of great tunes from top-notch artists appeared on the internet this week—including remixes, exclusive premieres, videos, record streams, and more from the likes of Kingdom, Jimmy Edgar, Mount Kimbie, Max Cooper, Africa Hitech, Paul Woolford, Graze, Morri$, Salva, Appleblim, and plenty of others. There's a whole lot to take in here, so we suggest that everyone gets to clicking those play buttons after the jump.
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Posted: 24 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST
On February 3, Polish producer Hatti Vatti (a.k.a Piotr Kaliński) will release his sophomore LP Worship Nothing via New Moon, and has sent over one of the album's 12 tracks in the meantime. With a notable penchant for '80s-influenced sounds, "Treasure" is an atmospheric production which weaves together a mixture of intricate rhythms and waves of fading synths—the perfect soundtrack for a leisurely ride through industrial ruins. In addition to "Treasure," another track from Kaliński's Worship Nothing album can be streamed after the jump.
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