XLR8R News and Features: M.E.S.H. Streams First Single from Upcoming EP for PAN

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1. M.E.S.H. Streams First Single from Upcoming EP for PAN
2. Unreleased Mix from Legendary Chicago DJ Ron Hardy Surfaces
3. Watch a New Interview with Motor City Drum Ensemble
4. Strategy "Tomorrow May Never Come"
5. Watch a New Documentary on the Rise of Jungle Music
6. Check Out Jimmy Edgar's Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1
7. Listen to Fatima's Debut LP for Eglo
8. Michael Red "Harpoon"
9. Watch Dauwd Build a Track in 10 Minutes
10. Bicep Details the Five Most Essential Pieces of Its Studio Set-Up
11. Curses "String Static"
12. Stream the New Collaborative Album from Grenier and Archie Pelago

M.E.S.H. Streams First Single from Upcoming EP for PAN Posted: 12 May 2014 12:34 PM PDT Back in January, Bill Kouligas' PAN label first revealed plans to drop an EP from Berlin-based producer M.E.S.H. later in the year. Now, with M.E.S.H.'s Scythians EP officially due out next month, the five-track effort's first single is available to stream in full. read more

FACT Magazine Garden Falls: Mokona introduces his Rapid-featuring debut single, ‘Untitled’ @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Garden Falls: Mokona introduces his Rapid-featuring debut single, ‘Untitled’
2. New study charts shifting drug references in rap music
3. Hear two tracks from M.E.S.H.’s PAN debut Scythians
4. Goon Club Allstars plan bank holiday party — win tickets and a test pressing of Mssingno EP
5. Video purporting to show Solange assaulting Jay Z surfaces
6. Download all the remixes of Nicki Minaj’s ‘Yasss Bish’ you’ll ever need
7. RZA and Raekwon call “truce,” schedule A Better Tomorrow sessions
8. Numbers producer SOPHIE is writing for J-pop superstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
9. MK remixes his 1992 single ‘Always’ for 2014: stream it inside
10. Hear Jamie Lidell’s narcotic rework of Cakes Da Killa’s ‘I Run This Club’
11. Morrissey reveals artwork for new single ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’
12. Venus X shuts down GHE2O GOTH1K, slams Rihanna for “collecting all the credit for my brand”
13. Watch a full-length documentary charting the rise and fall of jungle
14. Against the Clock: Dauwd
15. Enter FACT and Ableton’s Against the Clock competition and win Ableton software, production tuition and more
16. Hear Tyler, The Creator, Nick Cave, Katy Perry and more reinterpret the 1892 ditty ‘Daisy Bell’
17. Hear an unreleased 1987 live mix by Chicago firebrand Ron Hardy
18. Watch Mark Ronson’s TED talk on how sampling changed music
19. FACT mix 440: St. Vincent
20. Watch a behind-the-scenes clip from the Tupac musical Holler If Ya Hear Me
21. Watch Spike Lee’s first hip-hop music video since 1993, Eminem’s ‘Headlights’
22. “Like someone playing cat’s cradle with your axons”: Michael Jackson, Akkord, Usher and more reviewed in the FACT Singles Club

Garden Falls: Mokona introduces his Rapid-featuring debut single, ‘Untitled’ Posted: 12 May 2014 01:51 PM PDT Following a clutch of tracks, most notably ‘Stewardess Rush’, that found favour in the sets of Ben UFO, Bok Bok and others, Mokona this month steps out with his first 12″.  Simply titled ‘Untitled’, it features a vocal from Ruff Sqwad lynchpin Rapid and a remix from Youngstar, the man behind one of the genre’s greatest instrumentals in ‘Pulse X’, but as FACT found out, Mokona doesn’t see himself as a grime producer. In his first interview, he opens up about the importance of anime and video games to his sound, getting into basic production while spending time housebound as a child, and why his music’s too personal for him to want feedback. Stream the vocal and instrumental versions of ‘Untitled’ below, and order the 12″ here.