Marcel Dettmann Drops New EP

Marcel Dettmann has a new 12″ out on his label MDR.

As is the custom for the DJ and producer’s label, the EP dropped today without announcement. The four-track is Dettmann’s first proper release since 2013 though in the meantime he has put out tracks and remixes for 50Weapons and The Corner, as well as a collaboration with Emika on Ostgut Ton. MDR 019 succeeds a number of releases MDR put out last year, which included Answer Code Request and Sa Pa as well as an eight-track compilation.

Stream clips of MDR 019 at Hard Wax.

Tracklist
A1 Onto (2010 Edit)
A2 Escape
B1 Nautilus
B2 Foundry

Answer Code Request Announces New EP

On 24th June, Answer Code Request will release Neume, a three track EP, via Ostgut Ton.

The record is the producer’s first release for the label since 2014 when he dropped his highly-praised debut LP Code and an EP titled Breathe before that. Last year Answer Code Request put out Calm Down, an EP for MDR as well as contributing tracks to Ostgut Ton’s Zehn compilation.

Neume is described as “meandering between restrained club contexts and brittle break beats, machinery and futurist soulfulness.”

Stream clips of Neume via the SoundCloud player below.

Tracklist
A Neume
B1 Meta
B2 Vis

 

Ostgut Ton to Release Virginia LP

On 27th May, Ostgut Ton will drop Fierce For The Night, Virginia’s debut album.

Virginia has been strongly affiliated with the label for several years, having released a few EPs for Ostgut Ton as well as being a longstanding resident at Berghain/Panorama Bar, Ostgut Ton’s sister clubs. Fierce For The Night, her first full-length with the label, was co-produced by Dutch artists Martyn, Dexter and Steffi (whom Virginia worked with on her LP Yours & Mine), and features her vocals on all 11 tracks.

According to the label, the songs are centred around themes of love, lust and life. Virginia explains, “Love, longing and lightness are the superior motifs of my album. They’re universal human emotions, but also part of the classic house music narrative.” Taking influence from funk, disco, UK garage, drum & bass and house, it is “first and foremost an album about relationships” whose message is to “go out, enjoy yourself, loosen up and take what’s good for you.”

Set for release digitally and on vinyl, clips of album cuts Funkert and Raverd can be streamed below where the full tracklist is detailed.

Tracklist

A1. Bally Linny
A2. 1977
B1. Obstacle
B2. Lies
B3. Believe In Time
C1. Funkert
C2. Fierce For The Night
C3. Subdued Colors
D1. Raverd
D2. Follow Me
D3. Han

Cassegrain Launch Label, Prepare EP

Cassegrain have established their own label, Arcing Seas, and a new EP from the duo will serve as its inaugural release.

Sine 2010 Alex Tsiridis and Hüseyin Evirgren have been making music together as Cassegrain, releasing 12″s for labels such as Prologue and M_Rec LTD. In 2013 the duo launched, via Our Circula Sound, an initially anonymous project called Arcing Seas, an anagram of Cassegrain, and it’s what they’ve now christened their new label as. The duo say the label is intended to present “three new and different directions, pushing Cassegrain’s sound forward and showcasing versatility.”

The first release, titled ARCS01, drops on 13th May and features a screen-printed sleeve designed by Tsiridis. The tracklist for the three-track EP is laid out below.

Stream clips of Cassegrain’s 2014 LP Centres Of Distraction via the SoundCloud player.

Tracklist
A1 Cruel Intentions
A2 Skull Gun
B Trappist

Peder Mannerfelt Releases New LP

Today, Peder Mannerfelt dropped his latest LP, Controlling Body via his eponymous label.

The nine-track album succeeeds several EPs and his debut LP Lines Describing Circles from 2014. Featuring vocal contributions from Glasser, it is described as focusing “on the communicative power of the human voice, even in its barest form.”

Available on 12″ and digitally, Controlling Body can be streamed below via SoundCloud.

Tracklist

A1 Building of the Mountain

A2 Her Move

A3 BZ Reaction

A4 Coast to Coast

A5 Limits to Growth

B1 Abysmal

B2 Perspectives

B3 The Confidence of Ignorance

B4 I Love You

 

Andy Stott Unveils New LP, Too Many Voices

On 22nd April, Andy Stott will release his latest album. Titled Too Many Voices, it will drop via Modern Love.

Too Many Voices is the Manchester producer’s fourth LP, succeeding the acclaimed Faith In Strangers from 2014. Like that album and 2012’s Luxury Problems, Stott will be accompanied by vocalist Alison Skidmore on a number of tracks. The label says the nine-track album is influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra (and member Ryuichi Sakamoto) and modern grime as well as referencing classic 4AD material like This Mortal Coil. According to Modern Love, “It’s a vision of the future as was once imagined: artificial, strange and immaculate. Full of possibilities.”

Watch the video for LP cut Butterflies below where the tracklist for Too Many Voices is laid out.

 

Tracklist
01. Waiting For You
02. Butterflies
03. New Romantic
04. First Night
05. Forgotten
06. Selfish
07. On My Mind
08. Over
09. Too Many Voices

20 Years of Blueprint Compilation Announced

Blueprint will release a compilation titled 20 Years Of Blueprint in May.

Founded in 1996, Blueprint is among the UK’s most influential techno labels, emerging during a fertile period for UK techno when imprints such as Downwards, Peacefrog and Dynamic Tension were also established.

20 Years Of Blueprint collects 17 previously unreleased cuts from a UK-orientated pool of artists such as Regis, Tessela, Truss, Planetary Assault Systems, Blawan and Oliver Ho, along with contributions from founder James Ruskin (under his own name and alongside Mark Broom as The Fear Ratio). The package is composed of a four-disc vinyl set, pressed onto clear wax, and a poster with a batch of stickers.

Tracklist
01. O/V/R – Metal Slipper
02. Lakker – Chain of Combs
03. James Ruskin & DVS1 – Page 1
04. Makaton – Slur
05. Planetary Assault Systems – Pull
06. Steve Bicknell – Disguise of Beings
07. Regis – Party Spoiler Too
08. Randomer – Sheen
09. Truss – Wonastow
10. Rumah Progression – Speak Spell
11. James Ruskin – 6teenth
12. Tessela – Rub
13. Rommek – Off The Radar
14. Blawan – Passer By
15. Oliver Ho – The Serpent Devours Itself
16. The Fear Ratio – Lonor
17. Lakker – Orange

Henning Baer Launches MANHIGH With 12″

 

Henning Baer has announced the establishment of a new record label MANHIGH Recordings with a 12″ titled Fighting The Dogs serving as its inaugural release.

MANHIGH Recordings is Baer’s second label – he also manages K209 with fellow Berlin-based producer Milton Bradley. While K209 only releases records by its founders, MANHIGH will put out work from a number of artists. Henning Baer supplies its first release, Fighting The Dogs, which includes a remix from acclaimed producer Blawan, and a second 12″ from the founder will follow shortly after with the third coming from Matrixxman. Details of those second and third releases are yet to be made available.

Fighting The Dogs lands digitally and on vinyl on 18th April.

Stream Henning Baer’s In Pursuit Of Myself EP via the Soundloud player below.

Tracklist
A1 System Test (NSDXTT)
A2 Fighting The Dogs
A3 PAN2945 (Blawan Remix)
B1 Moving Ground
B2 The Last Quarter
B3 Copper Skin

Recondite Drops Hotflush 12″

Scuba’s Hotflush will release the next EP by German producer Recondite (Lorenz Brunner) later this month, a two-track 12″ entitled Phalanx / Warg.

Since his last release via Hotflush in 2014 (the Caldera EP), Recondite has dropped two LPs on Innervisions and Absurd Recordings as well as several EPs for labels such as Life & Death and Dystopian. Hotflush describes Phalanx / Warg as “deep, sinewy techno set with a genuine sense of intrigue, both cuts flood the dance floor with an unsettling warmth.”

Stream clips of Phalanx / Warg via the SoundCloud player below.

 

 

Pär Grindvik to Release Debut LP

Swedish techno artist Pär Grindvik has announced the release of Isle Of Real, his first full-length, which drops in the Spring via his own imprint, Stockholm LTD.

Isle Of Real was drawn up over several months then fellow producer Peder Mannerfelt was enlisted by Grindvik to act as recording assistant in the studio while the tracks took shape. The label describes the ten-track LP as being inspired by, “spaces once inhabited, long since abandoned and reclaimed by the creep of nature.” Isle Of Real is said to traverse between “scenes of delicate electronica…through into uptempo techno” and “dark pools of ambience [while building] upon timeless techno blueprints…that demonstrates Grindvik’s talent for melody, bearing hooks which thread through the LP, from its plains to its peaks, and which betray the producer’s mythical influences.”

Stream album cut Shine via the SoundCloud player below.

Tracklist

01. Never Give In
02. Headland
03. The Marlton
04. Shine
05. Isle Of Real
06. Limits Of Real
07. Holy Nothing
08. Shelter
09. Tide Us Part
10. Changes