XLR8R News and Features: Huerco S., Ital, Protect-U, Hound Scales and More Added to Sustain-Release Line-Up

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1. Huerco S., Ital, Protect-U, Hound Scales and More Added to Sustain-Release Line-Up
2. Check Out a "Sunny Afternoon" Mix from Fort Romeau
3. Circle Traps "What It Holds"
4. Ninja Tune Preps New EP from Evy Jane; Hear a Track Now
5. Stream the Upcoming LP from DJ Harvey's Wildest Dreams Project
6. Seb Wildblood "Hide the Pictures"
7. Jon Convex Preps New Single for Zone
8. LV and Josh Idehen Detail a New LP for Keysound
9. Record Store Week: Hard Wax
10. Download New Mixes from South London Ordnance, DJ Orgasmic and Teki Latex
11. Swoon "Do You Love"
12. Surgeon Preps Single for Token

Huerco S., Ital, Protect-U, Hound Scales and More Added to Sustain-Release Line-Up Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:42 AM PDT Last month, the first announcement of New York's forthcoming Sustain-Release festival (a collaboration between NYC producer, and organizer of Brooklyn's Mutual Dreaming parties, Aurora Halal and longtime music writer and promoter Zara Wladawsky) arrived with word that Xosar, Joey Anderson, Blondes, and MGUN were all billed for the summer camp-style festival. Now, Sustain-Release has unveiled the second wave of artists slated to perform at the inaugural edition of the East Coast event. read more

Check Out a "Sunny Afternoon" Mix from Fort Romeau Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:05 AM PDT Recorded live over the weekend at London's Lovebox Festival, a new mix of Balearic and disco-tinged tunes from Ghostly affiliate Fort Romeau is now available to hear in full. read more

Circle Traps "What It Holds" Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT Circle Traps is the combined effort of UK artists Jack Wyllie, Duncan Bellamy, and Will Ward. Together, the trio will release its third EP, Machine City, next month via the Lex label, from which the synth-led "What It Holds" comes to us. Appearing in the second half of the upcoming effort, the production is built around a driving drum machine and interweaving layers of thick arpeggio sequences, which are generously manipulated and bathed in FX as they twist throughout the tune's four-plus-minute run. read more

Ninja Tune Preps New EP from Evy Jane; Hear a Track Now Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:58 AM PDT Canadian duo Evy Jane will become the latest outfit to join the Ninja Tune roster when its four-track Closer EP drops via the UK outpost next month. read more

Stream the Upcoming LP from DJ Harvey's Wildest Dreams Project Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:10 AM PDT Billed as a "modern-day equivalent of the L.A. wrecking crew," the debut album from time-tested DJ and veteran sonic adventurer DJ Harvey's Wildest Dreams project can now be heard in full. read more

Seb Wildblood "Hide the Pictures" Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT This dusty slice of house arrives courtesy of Seb Wildblood, a London producer and co-founder of the city's Church label. A bonus cut to Wildblood's upcoming Come Into My House EP (out August 11 via Church), "Hide the Pictures" places a simple guitar melody atop thick filtered chords and muffled party chatter. read more

Jon Convex Preps New Single for Zone Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:49 AM PDT UK producer Damon Kirkham is perhaps best known for his innovative collaboration with Al Green (a.k.a. Boddika) as Instra:mental, which coupled drum & bass with classic Detroit techno and electro. His subsequent solo productions as Jon Convex have seen release on outlets such as Nonplus and his own Convex Industries imprint, and his first release of 2014 is due out via French label Zone later this summer. read more

LV and Josh Idehen Detail a New LP for Keysound Posted: 21 Jul 2014 07:39 AM PDT Three years after their debut collaborative album Routes was released via Keysound, London-based production duo LV and Benin City frontman Josh Idehen have come together for a new LP. read more

Record Store Week: Hard Wax Posted: 21 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT All week long, XLR8R will be taking a closer look at some of our favorite record shops from around the globe. Back in 1996, when Biba Kopf traveled to Berlin to profile Basic Channel for The Wire, Mark and Moritz—who back then refused to give their last names—took their interviewer to a record store. "[They] invite me the Hard Wax record shop in Kreuzberg. For three hours, I am blitzed with a brief history of Chicago house and Detroit techno: the early Chicago acid tracks of Phuture, Armando and Armani, then moving onto Detroit for Cybotron, Model 500, Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, and Juan Atkins." Nearly two decades on, making a cursory reference to Hard Wax without pausing to reflect on its importance would be unthinkable. read more

Download New Mixes from South London Ordnance, DJ Orgasmic and Teki Latex Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:16 AM PDT Techno and UK bass hybridist South London Ordnance (pictured above) has been tapped for the latest installment of Resident Advisor's podcast series. read more

Swoon "Do You Love" Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT Helmed by Alex Cowles (a.k.a. DFRNT), the Cut label/subscription service will soon add a new EP to its catalog from London newcomer Swoon. Serving as the lead cut to the forthcoming Beyond Human EP, "Do You Love" is a detail-oriented production that places subtle melodic phrases beneath a rich, hazy atmosphere and clever layers of evolving percussion. Swoon's Beyond Human EP will see its official release on July 28; in the meantime the rest of the upcoming effort can be previewed after the jump. read more

Surgeon Preps Single for Token Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:33 AM PDT First appearing on Token six years ago with a remix of Grovskopa's "Sex & Violins," Birmingham techno veteran Surgeon (a.k.a Anthony Child) is now set to release his first solo effort for the Belgian label at the end of the summer. read more