Night Slugs work out, Unsound Festival bans photography, Joey Anderson talks about getting busy and Italians Do It Better give away free instrumentals.
Hot Natured debut LP streaming until 3rd September. Different Sides of the Sun, released on 2nd September on Hot Creations/Warner, is available to listen to here. If you like what you hear buy the album here.
Italians Do It Better give away After Dark 2 instrumentals. Mike Simonetti and Johnny Jewel’s dance imprint is offering the instrumental version of their compilation for free download “Due To Popular Demand From DJs, Designers, Directors, Dancers, & Debutantes…” Get it here.
Dubspot’s Michael Emenau breaks down Photek’s Modus Operandi. Emenau analyses the seminal drum and bass album, examining compositional themes and key production elements and discussing the merits of limitation as a technique in modern production. Read the article here, and check out Dubspot’s interview with Photek back at SXSW 2012 below.
Terrence Parker mix for XLR8R. “The Telephone Man” lays down a mix of old school classics, R&B, a good chunk of his own material and some acapella Beyonce. Listen here.
Trax Records retrospective Traxbox to be released. The 16-CD collection (accompanied by a 100-page booklet) will feature the first 75 12″s released by the legendary Chicago house imprint. Traxbox is forthcoming on Harmless Records.
Night Slugs launch workout programme. Dance System appears to be the brainchild of L-Vis 1990 who has provided a ghetto house soundtrack (with a tracklist sporting some Dance Mania dons) along with a rampant workout video. See it to believe it.
“Stuff that I play is stuff that I want to get busy to.” Joey Anderson speaks about his passion for dancing and his transition to becoming a DJ, then producer, through collaborating with the likes of DJ Qu and Davis S in New York, “mixing records together, just to hang out”. Watch the video here.
Listen to an archived original D60 mix by Dominic Stanton. The mix, recorded in 1999, is available for the first time online and features Domu’s trademark blend of hip hop, disco and drum and bass. Listen below and keep an eye out for more archived material here.
Domu “A D60 Mixtape (1999)” by Sonar’s Ghost on Mixcloud
Unsound Festival ban photography to reflect ‘Interference’ theme. The festival organisers are calling this decision (which will not be enforced, but encouraged), “an experiment in resisting contemporary habits as they pertain to instant documentation, ‘sharing’, and lived experience”.
The Warehouse Leeds announces Autumn / Winter lineup. The programme boasts names such as Steve Lawler, Miguel Campbell, Scuba, George Fitzgerald, Paul Woolford, Darius Syrossian, Redlight, B.Traits, Mele and Toddla T. £8 early bird tickets went on sale on yesterday, grab them here.
Listen to a preview of Special Request’s Soul Music LP. Have a peek at a hefty 23 tracks from Paul Woolford’s raw, vintage hardware-driven moniker here. The album is out on vinyl on 7th October, followed by CD and digital on 21st October, on Fabric sister label Houndstooth.
“Strange atmospheres… to balls-out orchestral electronic Armageddon”. Tim Exile is to perform with a 30-piece live orchestra, all rooted through an “all-in-one studio” custom instrument (with drum machine, synth, sampler and effects). He will mine live samples and rearrange and reprocess them live. The performance is part of experimental music night Blank Canvas at Village Underground on 5th September. Get tickets here.
Free iLok USB smart key from UVI. Purchase an iLok license holding key for $49 via this link and UVI will include a $78 voucher code in the package to cover the cost of the key and its shipping against any future UVI Store purchase.
Robot makes playlist. Grown man who enjoys dressing as a robot ‘curates’ Spotify playlist of super-obvious disco and music by his friends.