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NEWS: Oneohtrix Point Never announces October album; hear the prelude suite
DANIEL LOPATIN, the boundary-pushing New York producer behind the Oneohtrix Point Never moniker, has announced a new album with Bridget Riley-style eye-dazzling cover art – and equally potent and bewitching sonics contained within. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never will be with us on October 30th on Warp, and keeps the conceptual flow going. 2018’s acclaimed Age …
SEE: The beautiful visuals for Ólafur Arnalds’ ‘Woven Song’
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS is preparing for his new album, some kind of peace, to hit turntables across the world on November 6th; and he’s followed the beautiful noir of previous single-track teasers “Back To The Sky” and “We Contain Multitudes” with another stunning audiovisual drop in “Woven Song”; let yourself be dazzled down at the end. …
SEE: Molly Millions – ‘Ketamine Jass’: conceptual future dixieland protests drug laws
COMING at us outta Berlin wrapped in an enigma, but toting a very clear message of the personal-political, Molly Millions, the Berlin-based electronic producer, has shared the video for “Ketamine Jass”, taken from her debut EP, MDLA, which is out now digitally on Pill Press Records in a joint venture with Mute. If you thought Jockstrap were appealing …
News: Live Skull Announce new album ‘Dangerous Visions’ – A collection of new and old recordings, including unreleased tracks from their 1989 Peel Session
NYC’s Live Skull have announced a new album, ‘Dangerous Visions’, to be released via Bronson Recordings on December 11th. Emerging in the early 80s at the end of New York’s legendary No Wave scene alongside Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull reshaped the aggression of burned-out post-punk into heavy, guitar-driven rock. This new release showcases their evolution, with Side 1 featuring …
News: Diamond Head Announce 40th Anniversary Re-Recording Of Lighting To The Nations And Unleash Single/Video For ‘It’s Electric’
When Diamond Head first released ‘Lightning To The Nations’ 40 years ago in 1980, few could have predicted the importance it would carry -and establish- with regards to heavy metal’s new wave and sound. Stacked and packed with riffs, ‘Lightning To The Nations’ would be one of the prime catalysts for a movement known as the New Wave …
NEWS: Short film celebrating ‘Smokers Delight’ quarter-century premieres at 4pm today
AN ABSOLUTE stone(d) classic when it was released, up there with Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, Tricky’s Maxinquaye and Portishead’s Dummy as providing the heady downbeatz for a generation, it’s something of a shock to yours truly that Nightmares on Wax’s Smokers Delight has reached its quarter-century; but in celebration, Warp Films are premiering a 12-minute …
NEWS: Leron Thomas to stream his new album live from Rough Trade – with a very Pop-ular guest
THE HOUSTON-born, NYC-resident jazz musician Leron Thomas, who’s dropped some superb, intelligent and eclectic funky tracks right across this year, is celebrating the release of his new album, More Elevator Music, on Lewis Recordings with a live-streamed showcase of the album from Rough Trade at 6pm tomorrow, October 2nd – and you can expect a …
NEWS: World of Echo launches label with Mutabor! 12″ repress – hear a track
LONDON’S excellent World of Echo record shop, out on Columbia Road in E2, has taken the step from not just stocking an excellently curated selection of records, but issuing them too. The shop is launching a label of the same name and is assigning 001 in its catalogue to a repressing of the only 12″ …
SEE: Quantic – ‘Theme From Selva’: vinyl to follow, Selva label comp announced
WILL HOLLAND, the Brooklyn-based, British-born musician who dazzles us with his absolute nous in a array of deeply danceable styles, has announced a twin celebration for the first anniversary of his imprint, Selva Records. He’s releasing a compilation looking back at the eclectic grooves he’s been producing in his long-dreamt of, handcrafted studio this year, …
News: DECAPITATED Re-Sign With NUCLEAR BLAST
After more than ten years of successfully working together, NUCLEAR BLAST is proud to announce that Polish Tech Death masters DECAPITATED have decided to refresh their bond and have re-signed their contract for another era of extreme metal for the Germany based metal label. The band also hints that new music will be coming in the near future. NUCLEAR BLAST USA GENERAL MANAGER Gerardo Martinez states:“Decapitated has been …