Audion Returns With Alpha LP

Matthew Dear will release a new LP titled Alpha under his Audion alias via !K7 on 10th June.

Audion, the alter-ego of Matthew Dear, last put out an LP in 2005, the celebrated Suckfish. The LP gained further attention when Richie Hawtin included album cut Mouth to Mouth in his closing set at the 2006 Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

Few details about Alpha are available but Destroyer, a cut from the album can be streamed below where the full tracklist is detailed.

 

Tracklist
01. Dem
02. There Was A Button
03. Gut Man Commeth
04. Traanc
05. Celestial Antibody
06. Destroyer
07. Suppa
08. Napkin
09. Bob The Builder
10. Sucker
11. Timewarp
12. Zunk Synth
13. Sicko

Actress To Mix Next DJ-Kicks

Actress has mixed the 49th installment of !K7’s DJ-Kicks series, which is set to land on 4th May.

The hour long mix from the acclaimed DJ and producer includes cuts from artists such as John Beltran, Mark Fell, experimental techno heavyweights Autechre, STL and Shxcxchcxsh as well as an exclusive track from Actress himself. The full tracklist is detailed below.

After releasing four highly acclaimed albums (Hazyville, Splazsh, R.I.P. and Ghettoville), DJ-Kicks 49 will be Actress’ (Darren Cunningham) first commercial mix and in the press release he explains his process, “When I’m selecting music I’m not always thinking about the music alone, I’m thinking about the names of the artists, tracks, and labels, and what they mean to me. I often base my tracklisting purely on how well the track titles work together in a poetic sense. I’ve tried to keep space between tracks, allowing them to speak. I tried not to force BPM shifts and to let the programming remain choppy and quick.”  In keeping with the DJ-Kicks series tradition, Actress has also included an exclusive track in the mix (Bird Matrix). He says, “My studio was going through a transition, so I was testing all the equipment, and that was one of the first tunes that came out of those experiments.”

The Werkdiscs label, that Actress runs, recently announced a new EP from Helena Hauff – more about that here.

Stream Let’s Fly, a cut from Splazsh via Youtube below

DJ-Kicks 49 will be available digitally and on CD while a selection of nine tracks will be pressed onto vinyl.

Tracklist
CD mix:
01. Breaker 1 2 – 2
02. Lorenzo Senni – Elegant, And Never Tiring
03. Reel By Real – Look At Me
04. Autechre – Pen Expers
05. Chameleon – Thought 2
06. Beneath – Stress 1
07. Simbiosi – Impari
08. Zennor – Tin
09. John Beltran – Anticipation
10. Moon B – Those Moments
11. STL – Psychelicious
12. Snakepiss – Toil
13. Shit And Shine – Pearl Drop
14. Chez N Trent – Windy City Club
15. Mark Fell – Section 1-7
16. GNESIS – Pear
17. Shxcxchcxsh – LDWGWTT
18. Hank Jackson – Track 3
19. Actress – Bird Matrix (DJ-Kicks)
20. Gherkin Jerks – Red Planet

Vinyl:
A1 Lorenzo Senni – Elegant, And Never Tiring
A2 Reel By Real – Look At Me
A3 Simbiosi – Impari
B1 John Beltran – Anticipation
B2 Shit And Shine – Pearl Drop
C1 Chez N Trent – Windy City Club
C2 Mark Fell – Section 1-7
D1 Actress – Bird Matrix (DJ-Kicks)
D2 Gherkin Jerks – Red Planet