Is that name a taunt? I wonder how many blog write-ups this track and its numerous remix versions have had that haven't made reference to that decade-defining Danny Boyle film (no, not The Beach). This latest refix, courtesy of AmpLive, has a pretty cinematic scope itself; its narrative arc beginning with anticipatory synths and the sort of slippery vocal gabbling Karl Hyde made his name with, before the electro-throbbing thing peters out into tender piano chimes. Are we supposed to take these as denoting a victory of some kind? I dunno, suh, for now this is just the trailer for a full, new Underworld album called Barking, out September 14 through Cooking Vinyl.
It's a wonder Russell Lissack and Milena Mepris are letting you and I hear this track with our own ears and see their faces with our own eyes, given that Pin Me Downseem intent on turning themselves into the most autocratic band of all time. "Curious" is taken from the duo's eponymous debut album, which came out through their own Animalized label in April. Here, it's remixed by Co-Pilots - whose members include Jamie Ellis and, er, Russell Lissack. That curious split down the centre of their photo leads me to think they even took those shots themselves - thankfully the track here (out October 11) is far more sociable, its synths sure to trigger mass, Pavlovian euphoria, Mepris' vocal yearning for company.
Model 500 inhabit the upper reaches of the techno pantheon. Once a pseudonym of genre pioneer Juan Atkins, the name now stands for a full-on Detroit supergroup, currently composed of Atkins, Underground Resistance's "Mad" Mike Banks, Mark Taylor, and DJ Skurge. The new incarnation has been performing live since 2007, but on Monday they'll finally release (with the help of another rejuvenated techno institution, R&S) the first original Model 500 material since 1999—a three-track single led by a-side "OFI". "Huesca" is on the flip, five minutes of liquid bass splatter and soaring string pads that sound simultaneously of-the-moment and aware of their own heritage. As if we expected anything else.
Miike Snow frontman and occasional solo producerAndrew Wyatt has partnered with international fashion label Theory to launch Theory Fashion Insider, a multi-media event premiering this Friday, September 10, at their flagship New York store as part of Fashion's Night Out. While Wyatt wrote original music—all of it electronic and predominately instrumental, hitting a lot of the same melancholic mood points as Miike Snow—artist Philip Ashle createdy an accompanying "lookbook video installation" that will be projected onto the storefront window and a 60-foot wall inside. The evening will be replicated at ensuing Fashion's Nights Out in Los Angeles, London and Tokyo, but if the music is all you're after, look no further than the playlist above, which also contains a cornucopia of Wyatt-related jams.
Digital metrics selected "History" as the next Groove Armada single—it was the most downloaded song from March's Black Light album, and Om have naturally put together an adjoining remix release with passes from Grum, Tom Budden, and the all too infrequently heard from DFA duo Still Going. Their version is disco—glammy, slowly-crescendoing-until-your-eyes-roll-into-the-back-of-your-head disco. The others are available for purchase right here.
So, you’re Detroit love-child Jimmy Edgar and you’re in need of some hot, raw sex. Do you spend the day moping, or do you get your fly self on the floor and get some with a Purple Rain-style funksplosion illustrating just how hot and raw it would be? For the man dropping a record named XXX, the choice is clear. Below, get greased with two versions starring Theophilus London and Machinedrum. Need the real thing? Hit the NYC release party tonight, or peep the rest of the Perfexxxion tour dates here.
There should be more bands like Restless People. Not exactly like them—they've got the hyper-positive, melodi-rave market cornered—but there should be more bands that inspire you to run five miles even though you haven't run in years and are probably so out of shape that doing so would be nearly impossible. They are, in essence, a wind-at-your-back, can-do-anything kind of band, and their self-titled debut is out September 14 through IAMSOUND. Who needs gym memberships when you have an album full of songs like this?
Ghostly's seemingly endless stream of Mux Mool material continues with the new Wax Rose Saturday EP, an eight-track, remix-heavy epilogue to this summer's Skulltaste album. Below are its bookends—a predictably spongy, stilt-footed "remux" of the title track that opens, and Alex B's shuffling, waterlogged digi-funk version of "Hog Knuckles" that closes it out. You can fill in the space between right over here.
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