Thanks to The Vinyl Factory and Thump for including Lingua Franca in their end of year review with a look at the 50 best albums of 2015.
Given that Melbourne’s about 10,000 miles away from the Cafe Del Mar, Australian producer Len Leise might not seem like the most person to have recorded 2015’s undoubted Balearic masterpiece. But that, readers, is exactly what he’s done. His new album on International Feel “Lingua Franca” is one of the most loved albums of 2015.
Signed to Mark Barrott’s esteemed International Feel imprint — Leise’s Lingua Franca is the kind of special albums that comes around every so often that’s utterly, utterly timeless. This is music that’s removed from the inherent shitness of the quotidian experience, existing in a kind of otherworldly state of cave-dwelling beauty. It’s the sound of perfect sunrises in Cala Saladeta, sunsets in Punta Galera. It’s defiantly Balearic in both sound — there’s woozy, wheezing sax, windchimes, reverb-sodden 80s AM radio basslines — and spirt, without being the kind of throwback schmaltz its all too easy to churn out. You know the kind of thing: winsome spanish guitar, some bongos burbling away, and a terrible, breathy, “ethereal” vocal over the top. Anyone who’s heard his Music for Forests 12″ on International Feel, or the Aficionado Recordings released Landscape Language single knows that Leise has form, so it’s not surprising that Lingua Franca is such a stunner. Full album stream here below. Enjoy!
Once again, Jimmy Edgar shows he’s one of the most forward-thinking artists out. We’ve been blessed with this crafted, colorful In Session mix and it’s stocked full of exclusive material. Read the full feature here
There’s forthcoming Ultramajic music from Traxman, Keeno and Edgar himself. .
Tracklist/
01. Aphex Twin – Breathing Arp
02. Track ID* – Jump Up [unreleased]
03. Michael E – Teenage Hammer [Star Child LTD]
04. DJ Spookie – Reload (Jimmy Edgar edit) [Free Download]
05. Jimmy Edgar – Match Dos [unreleased]
06. Track ID* – Basic Number [unreleased]
07. DJ Jackmaster Charles – Down Low
08. Track ID* – Child Of God [unreleased]
09. King Cheetah – Wax On [Light Body Works]
10. Track ID* – Rhodayoh [unreleased]
11. Track ID* – Beat On Their Drums [unreleased]
12. Keeno – AJH [forthcoming Ultramajic]
13. POL Style – SQNTL TOM #1 [forthcoming Ultramajic]
14. Traxman – 1996 [forthcoming Ultramajic]
15. Faces Drums – Faces Drums 3
16. Crystal Bandito – Slick Brace [unreleased]
17. King Cheetah – Endurance [Light Body Works]
18. Track ID* – Zeus The Cat [unreleased]
19. Michael E – Race [Star Child LTD]
20. Track ID* – Cactus [unreleased]
21. Jimmy Edgar – Burn So Deep (Featuring D∆WN) [unreleased]
22. Track ID* – Garbage II [unreleased]
Truncate’s ‘Submission’ EP feat. Jimmy Edgar & Kris Wadsworth is scheduled for release on 18 December 2015 via Ultramajic.
Made a little private video for Terje and then he shared it on FB, so I’ll just make this public for anyone else trying to control the 3 oscillators separately on their Cwejman S1/S1Mk2 going into an Intellijel Linix. The tuning is funky because all DC outputs (or ES-3) should have been calibrated separately. I was lazy and used the same cal file for all 3 CV outputs for this test.
Dutch producer Daniël Jacques will launch a new label called Jadac Recordings in December.
Most people will know the Amsterdam artist for “End Of My World,” released last year on Mistress Recordings and labelled as one of RA’s top tracks of 2014. Jadac will only release Jacques’ music, starting with “Discovery Change (Part 3),” the first EP in a tetralogy vinyl series that will continue into 2016. All the tracks on the release were produced between 2005 and 2015. Listen to the A1, “Slaves Of Rhythm,” below, and if you like what you hear, download it for free.
JR-001 is scheduled for December 11 release, with JR-002, 003 and 004s scheduled for early next year.
Tracklisting/
A1. Slaves of Rhythm
B1. Mon Explication
B2. Lost Count
Spanish producer Juan Rico (a.k.a. Reeko) will follow up his 2015 release La Metamorfosis—released via Mental Disorder and inspired by Franz Kafka’s novel—with Amour, a new LP under his Architectural moniker.
Highly detailed and cinematic in its approach, Amour is a beautifully towering album that ebbs and flows from dense ambient excursions through to hard-hitting techno structures. Within its eight tracks, Rico has created a monolithic sonic realm filled with futuristic synth textures, thumping machine-driven rhythms, and soaring choral backdrops, all wound together with surgical precision.
To find out more, XLR8R fired a few questions to label head Darko Esser (a.k.a. Tripeo) and Rico, who also offered a full stream of the album. Full story.
The Spanish producer’s latest full length lands on Wolfskuil Records today.
Raving George no more, the Brussels based DJ has switched things up slightly, re-naming herself as Charlotte de Witte. Her first release under her name,Weltschmerz, will be released on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings. Without digging too deep into the inequalities of the music industry, Charlotte initially chose the name ‘Raving George’ at a younger age, when she wanted to play dark techno in clubs but was all too aware of the ever-dominant ‘boys club’. In her own words.
Regardless of alias, name or gender, Weltschmerz is a piece of interstellar techno that starts off with twinkling overtones, before dusting them off to delve deeper into its dark techno foundations. A chugger of a track, it’s no-time-to-breathe techno for all-night partying.
Weltschmerz is set for release on Turbo Recordings in December.
