The American DJ and performance artist is known to employ DJ tools, audio hardware, and her own body in live exhibitions and collaborations. Her intimate knowledge of techno (particularly the raw and uncompromising variety designed by the likes of Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, Joey Beltram and her collaborative partners Surgeon and Regis) has taken her to the studio, where she now provides Stroboscopic Artefacts with a 4-track contribution to this ongoing legacy of ecstasy.
Listen Unitled EP below, and check out RA feature here
Stroboscopic Artefacts will release Untitled EP on May 19th, 2017.
His mix ‘Farhana’, ‘She’s happy’ in Arabic contains quite some oestrogen. It was original made to promote Radio Martiko‘s Japan tour late November 2016. This all vinyl mix include tracks from Abdou El Omari, Alfredito Valdez, Ansel Wyatt Combo, Kecem Kafi, Silvestre Montez Y Sus Guantanameros and more.
Abdou El Omari Nuits-trilogy LP#1 is out now, with LP#2 and LP#3 on February 13th and April 14th, 2017, respectively
Welcome along to “The Outer Limits”, the first in a four part series where we’ll be exploring the back catalogue of Axis. Now in it’s 25th year, the label has proved itself as one of the most forward thinking Techno imprints, releasing music from artists such as Robert Hood, Hieroglyphic Being, Sub Space & more.
But for this episode we’re going to be focusing on tracks from the label’s founder Jeff Mills. Delving into releases on Axis as well as sub-label Purpose Maker. Plus un-released and rarely heard music from the archives. Techno is still largely heard by the public in edited form, mixed from one track into other and beat matched. But in this show we’ll be exploring all the tracks in their entirety start to finish. Curated by Mills hosted by Moxie.
1997. Howie B (Björk, Tricky, U2) discovers a rare gem in the archives of the library music series Chappel Music: on Volume 26 of ‘Chappell Mood Music’, a 1972 piece of music called ‘Scrabble’ shines like an oyster pearl.
The British musician/producer uses the break of the song as the foundation of ‘Switch’, the standout piece on his breakthrough album ‘Turn the Dark Off’ (1997). Shortly afterwards, ‘Scrabble’ is also discovered by Common (‘U, Black Maybe’), Fila Brazilia (‘DNA’) and J-Dilla (on the underground club hit ‘Fuck the Police’), and DJ’s start paying hard cash for the original album.
Expectancy: Collected Library Gems From The 70’s is a selection out of more than 400 tracks from René Costy, a versatile and insatiable artist. It’s hard to underestimate the importance of this compilation, which focuses on Costy’s library music production from the ’70s. Comes as 180 gram vinyl; Comes in a gatefold sleeve with liner notes; Includes a download code
Mark Barrott’s commitment to the Balearic ideal is absolute. Since 2012, the Sheffield born musician has lived in Ibiza, where he runs his International Feel label, makes music in his living room, and DJs ambient sets at Hostal La Torre, a secluded inn perched atop rocky cliffs with an enviable view of the sunset. The venue is a metaphorical world away from the White Isle’s teeming superclubs and so is Barrott’s own music, which draws inspiration from a drowsily eclectic style made famous in the ‘80s by DJs like Jose Padilla and Alfredo Fiorito. His wafting synthesizer pads and gently plucked guitar conjure a simpler era, when Manuel Göttsching and Talk Talk were staples on the island’s turntables.
“Schopenhauer’s Garden” is clearly of a piece with Barrott’s discography, but something has subtly changed; the focus is sharper, the calm more pervasive. Atop a soft bed of pulsing synthesizers, a clean-toned electric guitar traces lazy circles in the air, recalling traces of Michael Rother, Tangerine Dream, and other kosmische artists that helped define the Balearic sound. Then, in the song’s second half, something unexpected appears: a keening soprano saxophone, which, even more surprisingly, actually sounds wonderful as it swoops and climbs in contrapuntal motion. A tinny pitter-pat burbles away in the background, and the sense of stillness is total. We may not all be lucky enough to live on an island; “Schopenhauer’s Garden,” at least, gives us license to visit whenever we wish.
Mark Barrott is putting out a new EP called Music For Presence on March 3rd.
Luke Slater a.k.a. Planetary Assault Systems will soon release The Light Years Reworks, a remix album featuring reworks of P.A.S material from Slater’s closest friends and collaborators, such as Function, Marcel Fengler, Lucy, Psyk, KSP, Octave One, Steve Bicknell, and SLAM.
Having already unleashed a considerable amount of collaborative magic with the Planetary Funk: 22 Light Years series of remix EPs, Luke Slater now steps forward with six full sides’ worth of material, all of them injecting the spirit of classic P.A.S. into new sonic organisms.
Using motifs from past P.A.S. successes, Luke Slater and his cohorts join here to make something “radical and revitalizing,” according to the label, who describe the album as “too cohesive for a “compilation album and with too much autonomy granted to the guest remixers to be a simple “tribute.”
Ahead of the album’s March 10 release, Lucy’s rework of “Surface Noise” is exclusively streamable below.
Mote Evolver will release Planetary Assault Systems – The Light Years Reworks on March 10 via 3×12.
