Later this month, Stroboscopic Artefacts will put out a two-track split 12″from Kangding Ray and Rrose.
Kangding Ray’s contribution on the A-side is titled Ardent, which is described as “a gripping and propulsive piece formed in the same spirit as the songs from his latest full-length, Cory Arcane.” Rrose contributes their intense and experimental track Swallows on the B-side.
Ardent / Swallows is set for release on 18th March. Stream clips of the 12″ via the SoundCloud player below.
The label run by Spanish producer Svreca has announced it will release ten EPs to celebrate 10 years of operation. The EPs will feature Donato Dozzy, Regis, Surgeon, Varg and many more.
Since its establishment in 2006, Semantica has put out records from the likes of Vladislav Delay, Vril and Cio D’Or. 2016 sees the release of ten new EPs which are a combination of highlights from Semantica’s catalogue and exclusive cuts from Abdulla Rashim, E.R.P., Acronym, Stanislav Tolkachev, SHXCXCHCXSH and Oscar Mulero as well as the artists mentioned above.
Beginning in March, the first EP in the series includes Rotary 3, a Donato Dozzy track that originally appeared on Svreca’s 2013 mix for Semantica. Mod21, Skirt and Stanislav Tolkachev, who returns to the label following last year’s 12″ Walk Along The Bottom, round out the first instalment.
Stream clips from the forthcoming EP, titled 10.I, below.
Tracklist
A1 Donato Dozzy – Rotary 3
A2 Mod21 – The Smell Of Sand
B1 Stanislav Tolkachev – Stockholm Syndrome
B2 Skirt – Angracia
On 7th March, Whities will drop Avalon Emerson’s latest EP The Frontier.
The three-track 12”, which is the first release of 2016 for Whities, looks back to Emerson’s roots in her native Arizona, though the producer and software developer now resides in Berlin. The London-based label states The Frontier has a “psychedelic desert motif” running through the record, with a cut titled 2000 Species Of Cacti. The title track is described as an alchemy “of emotional synths, rolling bassline arpeggios, and sturdy percussion” and the accompanying video features Emerson riding through a surreal desert landscape on a motorbike.
Watch the video for The Frontier below.
Tracklist
01. The Frontier
02. 2000 Species of Cacti
03. The Frontier (High Desert Synthapella)
On the 11th April, Delsin will drop A Made Up Sound’s latest EP Thin Air.
Delsin have only put out one 12″ by A Made Up Sound (Dave Huismans), 2010’s Rear Window. In the intervening six year, the producer, who also works under the bass music alias 2562, has dropped several EPs via his eponymous label.
The new 12″ is described by the Dutch label as “four cuts of heavyweight technosoul.”
Thin Air will come out digitally and on vinyl on 11th April. Stream clips of the 12″ via the SoundCloud player below.
Tracklist
A1 Thin Air
A2 I Repeat
B1 All Out
B2 Waybackmachine
In April, Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald will release a new LP as Borderland. Titled Transport it will come out on Tresor as part of the legendary Berlin club’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
The duo’s second LP together ties in with Tresor’s 25th anniversary celebrations, with the release scheduled for 24th April. The seven-track LP, which will also be available on CD, will be preceded by an EP on 11th March featuring the original mix and an alternative version of album cut Riod. The pair’s self-titled debut dropped in 2013 and they have since together at festivals such as Detroit’s Movement.
Tresor describes Transport as “a new set of studio-refined sequences aimed at colonizing some of the dark energy that pulsates through those areas that are thoroughly electrified”, it “flickers between a form of techno-charged ambience and a futuristic club-jazz which cannot be broken down into constitutive parts. Borderland remains caught in a state of enraptured stillness, invisibly moving between every
imagined future for electronic sound making. The result: a font from which springs serene and exhilarating musical ideas that vibrate with refined energy for sixty seconds in every minute.”
Stream clips of album cut Riod via the SoundCloud player below where the tracklists for the LP and EP are also detailed.
Tracklist
EP
01. Riod
02. Riod (Version)
Transport
01. Transport
02. Lightyears
03. Odyssey
04. Riod
05. Merkur
06. 2600
07. Zeolites
Rough Trade will release Pantha du Prince’s latest album The Triad on 20th May.
The German producer last put out solo material in 2010, his acclaimed Black Noise LP. In the meantime he released Elements Of Light with The Bell Laboratory in 2013 and formed The Triad, with Scott Mou (who releases as Queens on the Dial label) and Bendik Kjeldsberg, who is part of the aforementioned bell ensemble. Speaking about the LP, Pantha du Prince states, “Black Noise was very much about me being alone in a small room in Berlin and composing. The Triad opens the structure to more human ways of interacting, not digitized ways of interacting. It’s not about Facebook; it’s about meeting up and jamming. I wanted to cut through the digital dust that surrounds us.”
Before The Triad drops, a surprise 12” titled The Winter Hymn came out today. Stream the video for that track below where the tracklist for LP is also laid out.
Stream Behind The Stars, a track from Black Noise via the SoundCloud player.
Tracklist
01. The Winter Hymn feat. Queens
02. You What? Euphoria!
03. Frau im Mond, Sterne Laufen
04. In An Open Space feat. Queens
05. Chasing Vapour Trails feat. Joachim Schultz & Kassian von Troyer
06. Lichterschmaus
07. Dream Yourself Awake
08. Lions Love feat. Joachim
09. Islands In The Sky
10. Wallflower For Pale Saints
The venerated Detroit techno producer Robert Hood, who also works under the alias Floorplan, has announced the release of a new collaborative album with his daughter, Lyric. Titled Victorious, the LP will drop in June via Hood’s M-Plant label.
The album succeeds 2013’s acclaimed Paradise LP which also landed via M-Plant. Hood’s Floorplan work features more house, funk and gospel-influenced material than the minimal techno under his own name that he is most well-known for.
Now, weeks after announcing a new Robert Hood LP for Dekmantel, he has revealed that the Floorplan project will return for a second album. This time, however, Hood’s daughter has joined on production duties. Lyric has regularly stood beside her father during DJ sets and Hood has stated his pride in seeing his daughter grow as a DJ and producer. She has contributed production to a number of cuts on Victorious.
The press release explains the meaning of the album’s title: “We live in a world filled with adversity, the key to surviving and even thriving in this era of uncertainty is knowing how to walk in victory. The truth is we are more than conquerors. We are VICTORIOUS”
Victorious will be available on triple vinyl, CD and digital formats. Stream a preview via the SoundCloud player below where the LP’s tracklist is also laid out.
Tracklist
01. Spin
02. Music
03. The Heavens & The Earth
04. Good Thang
05. He Can Save You
06. Mm Hm Hm
07. Ha Ya
08. Tell You No Lie
09. Push On
10. They Can Tell
11. Sun In The Sky
Surgeon will release a new 12″ titled Search Deep Inside Yourself via Blueprint this month.
Blueprint founder James Ruskin states the record will kick-start his label’s 20th year in operation. In 2005 Surgeon remixed Ruskin’s Take Control cut. Search Deep Inside Yourself will be the British producer’s first release for Blueprint. rising four tracks and due out on February 22nd.
As reported by Juno, the upcoming 12″ is the first in a series of new EPs due to land on Blueprint. Search Deep Inside Yourself arrives shortly after Surgeon’s From Farthest Known Objects LP, which dropped on his own imprint, Dynamic Tension, in January.
No previews of Search Deep Inside Yourself are available yet so stream Surgeon’s Boiler Room mix below.
Tracklist
A1 Search
A2 Deep
B1 Inside
B2 Yourself
Following the announcement of their latest LP III, Moderat have unveiled the first single to be released from it. Set to drop on 19th February, Reminder will be accompanied by remixes from Special Request and Answer Code Request.
Coming out via Mute and Monkeytown Records on 1st April, III will be the third and final installment in Apparat and Modeselektor’s album trilogy. Reminder, the lead single will drop with an exlusive cut titled Fondle and the aforementioned remixes by Special Request and Answer Code Request.
Stream Reminder via the Spotify player below.
The Field’s fifth album, titled The Follower, will come out on 1st April on Kompakt.
The Swedish producer, celebrated for his gauzy loops and dream-like ambient techno, describes the six-track album coming together by “experimenting with a lot of new recording equipment and gear. The Follower is about old myths, finding utopia and how mankind repeatedly makes the same mistakes over and over.” He also says, “As always when starting a new album, I wanted to do something that sounds fresh, but doesn’t stray too far from what I have so far done as The Field, and that’s always the tricky part”.
No clips of The Follower have been shared yet but the album’s tracklist is laid out below.
Stream Over The Ice, a cut from The Field’s debut LP From Here We Go Sublime
Tracklist
01. The Follower
02. Pink Sun
03. Monte Veritá
04. Soft Streams
05. Raise The Dead
06. Reflecting Lights
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