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DOWNLOAD: Model 500 - Huesca
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.
PREMIERE: Groove Armada - History (feat. Will Young) (Still Going Remix)
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.
Groove Armada - History (feat. Will Young) (Still Going Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Restless People - Don't Back Down
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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?
Restless People - Don't Back Down
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DOWNLOAD: Mux Mool - Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit) + Hog Knuckles (Alex B Remix)
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.
Mux Mool - Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit)
Mux Mool - Hog Knuckles (Alex B Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Roska - Play Gamez
It's pretty simple: if you like drums, you will like Roska. The London-based, Rinse-affiliated funky kingpin has a thing for wet, smacking snares and bullish tempos, and his songs (tracks, really) rarely contain much in the way of melody (in "Play Gamez," that stuff is relegated to some spooky synths and samples that sound like the background music from Unsolved Mysteries). But seriously, those drums! They are snapping our synapses in half! Roska's playing Rinse's 16th birthday bash at Fabric in London this Friday (September 10), alongside Skream and a bunch of other guys with short names.
DOWNLOAD: Dungen - Marken Låg Stilla
Evidently Skit I Allt, the title of Dungen's new and seventh LP, translates roughly to "fuck all," or something similarly cavalier (our old buddy Google Translate gave us "fuck everything.") That's pretty unsurprising, really, given that the Swedish foursome—always noodling psychedelia, jazz, folk, and pop with nimble fingers and a complete lack of concern for anything current or trendy—have in many ways already said that musically. "Marken Låg Stilla" closes the record and could maybe be compared to Pink Floyd (it has a weighty, piano ballad feel to it), but Pink Floyd never really messed around with oboes and clarinets. Skit It Allt is out September 14 through Mexican Summer.
DOWNLOAD: Steve Bug - A Night Like This (An Edit Like That)
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If, for some reason, you like techno and have no idea who Steve Bug is, please read this fantastic interview with him over at Resident Advisor. Or we can just summarize it for you: dude is a do-gooding German techno lifer. "A Night Like This" originally came out in 2001, but Bug's Poker Flat imprint is circulating this new edit to help promote the eighth edition of Shaping Elements, their yearly label compilation series. It sounds like it has scalpels for hi-hats and gremlins for kick drums, and is essentially an easy window into where dance music was roughly a decade ago. Also, PSA, New Yorkers: you can catch an all-too-rare-in-these-parts Steve Bug set at Electric Zoo this weekend.
Steve Bug - A Night Like This (An Edit Like That)
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DOWNLOAD: Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Dub Y Guaguanco
Guaguanco is a rhythmic variation of rumba, and by extension a dance, but the term doesn't really have an agreed upon definition, other than that its use means the song in question must contain a certain conga pattern. For "Dub Y Guaguanco," Colombian musician Quantic has—with the piano assistance of Salsa legend Alfredito Linares—integrated it into his dub- and reggae-infused Flowering Inferno project, though that dubbiness isn't exactly obvious. It's more of a guaguanco tune as played by some guys who have probably spent a lot of time hanging out listening to reggae—with a blithe, sweat-through-your-shirt casualness. Grab it below; the album it's from, Dog With A Rope, is out now through Tru Thoughts.
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Dub Y Guaguanco
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