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- Los Angeles collective Soulection brings its Sound of Tomorrow on first European tour
- Report shows 26% of 18-24 year old in UK buy physical music products to own not play
- Lakker’s Eomac to release debut album Spectre via Killekill, stream the blistering slo-mo ‘Rainmaker’
- Space frogs, samurais, beats and lullabies: Kidkanevil’s guide to 10 Japanese artists and anime you should know
- Watch a short film of studio sessions for Brian Eno and Karl Hyde’s Someday World album
- The Week’s Best Vinyl Releases
- Toto’s Dune soundtrack to get vinyl re-issue
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Posted: 03 May 2014 09:23 AM PDT
 Next generation of LA beat kids hit the road this spring. Based out of Los Angeles, where co-founder Joe Kay resides, Soulection is a collective of young producers and DJs who in the past few years have used the internet to spread their wings globally, in the process setting themselves up as direct descendants of Low End Theory’s beatmaking progeny. The label has released music from artists based in America, Europe, Australia and Japan including the likes of Taku, Sango and Mr Carmack. Originally they made the most of Bandcamp and Soundcloud as platforms to not only discover talent but also promote it. After a couple years things started coming together and today the label has a sizeable worldwide online following and an increasing presence in L.A and beyond with physical releases, parties and a regular radio show. Following from a recent Japan tour the collective is now headed to Europe for a tour taking in nine countries, including a Boiler Room date in London. The tour features founder Joe Kay, The Whooligan and two of their most popular artists, Mr Carmack and ESTA. Each date will also feature local talents affiliated with the label including Germany’s IAMNOBODI, Holland’s jarreau vandal, London’s Faith and Manchester’s Sivey. Soulection ‘Sound of Tomorrow’ European tour dates 05/23 – Berlin @ St. Georg 05/24 – Vienna @ Cafe Leopold 05/28 – Paris @ La Bellevilloise 05/29 – Boiler Room London @ Tipsy 05/30 – London @ The Nest 05/31 – Brussels @ Bazaar Basement 06/01 – Amsterdam @ Canvas on 7th 06/03 – Stockholm @ Lydmar 06/06 – Budapest @ Larm 06/07 – Warsaw @ Palace of Culture & Science         |
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Posted: 03 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT
 Statistics reveal collecting accounts for over a quarter of sales among youth in the UK in the past three months. A report released by research firm ICM prior to Record Store Day includes statistics that seem to confirm the long-held belief that collecting has been partly responsible for increases in the purchase of physical formats. The report’s statistics show that in the UK in the past three months 15% of people (or one in six) who bought music in a physical format did so with no intention to listen to it using that format. Among these 53% bought vinyl, 48% CDs and 23% cassettes. However the most revealing bit of data is that this particular behaviour seems highest among 18 to 24 year old, with 26% buying music in a format that they won’t be using to listen to it. While the report doesn’t dig very deep into the reasons as to why people might do this, ICM’s Maurice Fyles has opined the following: There's definitely a novelty value with cassettes at the moment – particularly as we suspect a high proportion of them are collectibles sitting on a shelf and never played.While ICM’s own speculations are still just that, the data definitely reinforces the idea that the desire to collect and own, rather than listen, has been driving part of the rise in physical sales in recent years. All of which makes a lot of sense in light of efforts by the likes of Record Store Day and similar events to bring new generations to stores and produce limited edition physical products. And if you fancy delving into the world of cassettes, to own or even bump in that boombox you’ve not touched in decades, be sure to check our regular new column Caught On Tape which highlights some of the best new releases on the format. [via Hypebot]         |
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Posted: 03 May 2014 07:56 AM PDT
 Dublin producer twists techno around for debut album. Best known as one half of the duo Lakker, Ian McDonnell has been making a name for himself in the techno scene over the past few years with releases on R&S and support from the likes of Aphex Twin and Thom Yorke. McDonell’s solo project, Eomac, takes full flight this May with a debut album on Berlin-based Killekill. Across its 12 tracks the album takes techno’s club aesthetic and twists it into new shapes, keeping some of the music’s brutal dancefloor appeal while also drawing for a level of detail that gets more intense with each listen. Ahead of the album’s vinyl release on May 12 (digital will drop May 19) you can listen to ‘Rainmaker’ exclusively below, an album cut inspired by the likes of Andy Stott. Here’s what McDonnell had to say regarding the track: There’s something about a slower 100bpm-ish tempo that can make a beat sound heavier and with a deeper groove. This track and the likes of ‘Spectre’ and ‘Squink’ are trying to play with that idea. Album tracklist: A1 // SU RIDDIM A2 // RAINMAKER A3 // FOREST B1 // SPECTRE B2 // SHELL OF DARK C1 // DEEVA C2 // RISING 3 C3 // YOU HUN YE GUI D1 // CRACKTS D2 // MIKA RIDDIM D3 // SQUINK SUN OBELISK (digital bonus track only included in the limited vinyl edition)         |
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Posted: 03 May 2014 07:19 AM PDT
 UK producer guides us through his favourite Japanese sounds and images. London-based, Yorkshire-born Kidkanevil has never shied from his love of Japan. From the beginning the producer declared himself from ‘Tokyorkshire’ and after a string of albums on London’s First Word Records he teamed up with fellow RBMA alumnus Daisuke Tanabe in 2012 for the self-titled Kidsuke album, which saw the pair conjure up a vivid picture of east meets west. On May 12 he will release his fourth solo album, My Little Ghost, via Germany’s Project Mooncircle. The album is his most direct ode to Japan yet, featuring songs inspired by a summer spent in the country in 2013. The album also features two Japan-related collaborators: singer and songwriter Cuushe and UK producer Submerse who relocated from Tokyo back to Europe at the end of last year. Ahead of the release we asked Kidkanevil to give us a personal guide to the country. Currently in Japan for a short tour in support of the album, he obliged by providing us a list of five artists and five anime that currently rank as his favourites. From surrealist comedy featuring an incompetent space frog hooked on Gundam to delicate lullabies and hip hop beats, Kidkanevil shows us some of the amazing art from Japan that often goes unnoticed due to distance and language barriers. In addition to the list, we also have the premiere of album track ‘Butterfly Sattelite’ featuring Cuushe and Submerse. For more on Japan’s rising talents be sure to check last summer’s Japonism 2.0 feature, which highlighted many of the country’s rising talent. Kidkanevil’s list acts a perfect extension of this. And lastly don’t forget that Kidkanevil and long-time friend Blue Daisy recently took the FACT TV Against The Clock challenge.
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Posted: 03 May 2014 05:58 AM PDT
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The footage shows Eno, Hyde and their band “exploring the potential of Someday World songs in the live setting.” The film includes excerpts of album single ‘Daddy’s Car’ as well as album track ‘When I Built This World’.
The album is the pair’s first full length together, following from a 2011 collaboration on Underworld’s ‘Beepop Hurry’.
Posted: 03 May 2014 05:25 AM PDT
Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.
After years spent discovering gems in Phonica's end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday morning, Phonica staff will pick out the five vinyl records you should grab this week.
WILLIAM BASINSKI
Melancholia
(Temporary Residence)
After The Disintegration Loops came Melancholia, created in a similar method as the NYC composer revisited short tape loops he’d recorded in the early '80s and found that their deterioration resulted in unique and otherworldly sounds. Pressed on vinyl for the first time, this LP may not be cheap, but it’s damn near essential.
Audio / Buy here
FARBEN & JAMES DIN A4
Farben presents James DIN A4
(Faitiche)
Jan Jelinek dons his Farben hat for a platter of screwy, off-kilter house grooves created by remixing his way through the oeuvre of sample and collage artist Dennish Busch’s James DIN A4 project. Warm as eiderdown and deliciously trippy, the 10 tracks should work for home listening and on smaller ‘floors.
Audio / Buy here
ASAN
Call Girl Machine LP
(Lampuka)
Analogue house that’s as loopy as the way it was made – in a darkened room with daisy-chained circuits “looping the mother of all loops”, according to London producer Asan. This four-track of noodle-jams arrives on fledgling label Lampuka in a limited run.
Audio / Buy here
NUMMER
Beyond Time/Interpretations EP
(Peur Bleue Records)
London-based duo Nummer give their rugged, Detroit-inspired rhythms a pleasingly organic twist, with jazzy upright bass rumbling through opener ‘The Predestination Paradox’ and raw drums powering dancefloor burner ‘Krypte’, before ‘Ethereality’ closes the show with gloomy ambient meditation. Great artwork and only 300 copies, so snap it up.
Audio / Buy here
TRACKHEADZ/MICROPHUNK & HOUSERIDERS
‘Our Music/Edge of Infinity’ 12″
(Sharivari Records)
And finally, two slabs of classic house from the Sharivari vaults, reissued on covetable marbled vinyl. On the A-side is ‘Our Music’, a symphonic, proto-’New 4 U’ groove by Trackheadz, AKA Toronto veteran Nick Holder. The flip sees Estonian producer Microphunk and Canadian duo Houseriders collaborate on a similarly smooth, yet blissfully dubbed out cut. Record bag staples for the discerning deep house DJ, we reckon.
Audio / Buy here
Posted: 03 May 2014 05:20 AM PDT
Sci-fi epic OST gets first reissue 30 years after release.
According to the website Modern Vinyl, the Dune soundtrack is to see a reissue later this month on 180-gram vinyl, its first repressing onto vinyl since the original release 30 years ago.
The instrumental soundtrack was recorded by Toto, minus their vocalist Bobby Kimball, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Volksoper Choir. Brian Eno also contributed the track ‘Prophecy Theme’ and the release includes two segments of movie dialogue.
You can find stores that will stock the release via Music On Vinyl. The current release date is May 19. [via Exclaim.ca]
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