PREMIERE: Mode Moderne - Real Goths
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It's easy to imagine how Canada could be a breeding ground for a dark, swirling synth revival, and Vancouver's Mode Moderne has taken the reigns. Refashioning goth with an ambient touch, the five-piece makes light of its roots with a nod in the track title "Real Goths". Industrial-inspired vocals wind their way through a gentle slope of synth and drum machines, coming together for a more melodic take on the minimalism of yore. Grab the 7-inch August 9 on Light Organ.
PREMIERE: Princeton - To The Alps (Drugg Remix)
The Drugg remix of “To The Alps” is milky electronic noise for a full two minutes before it resembles anything close to Princeton’s original. But when it does, it’s a properly bleary spin for the prep set. Soft and pale, minimal and aerated, this track is meant for tiptoeing down a winter beach. Find the original on the To The Alps 7-inch on Hit City USA, right now.
Princeton - To The Alps (Drugg Remix)
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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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STREAM: Jabberjaw - The Connie Shake
We thought 2009 was the year of Audion for Matthew Dear, what with all those singles and the live A/V extravaganza that is currently blowing through the States. But here's this release as Jabberjaw, an alias he's only used once before, for a 2003 EP on German techno powerhouse Perlon. We'll give you that the resuscitation seems a little random, but who can be mad at more floor-focused Dear material? People we don't want to hang out with anyway? Stream "The Connie Shake" below and cop the record from our buds at Ghostly.
STREAM: Audion - It's Full Of Blinding Light
Because we are EDM junkies who froth at the utterance of the words "white label", we picked up Audion's "It's Full Of Blinding Light" EP when an initial pressing of fifty copies went up on the Ghostly store a month ago. And we played it infinitely, so we can attest to its greatness. So can Richie Hawtin. The proper release just came out through Spectral, third in a line of new Audion records that have surrounded his Hecatomb tour, which is currently roving around Europe. Stream the title track off the EP below, and head to Audion's new website for Hecatomb visuals and tour dates.
Audion - It's Full Of Blinding Light
Previously:
Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit? (Audion Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Kotchy - A Superstar (The Silent Jeff Remix)
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As a quick glance towards the end of this post will reveal, we're a big fan of Kotchy here at RCRD LBL. This latest cut, remixed by Hot Chip and studio magi Tom Hopkins, creeps more insidiously than previous efforts, prowling for loose skirt, high on something, but still dazzles quietly with its impressive take on the minimal techno blueprint. May Kotchy's archives clamber forever upon this site like a inexorable, skyward vine.
Sounds Like: Faithless's "Insomnia" without the epic break, The Field with a primal lust
Kotchy - A Superstar (The Silent Jeff Remix)
Previously:
Kotchy - Sing What You Want (Ruskos Skwee Remix)
Kotchy - She Made It Easy (Drums Of Death Remix)
STREAM: Audion - Look At The Moon
After releasing "I Am The Car" for free download via his website, Matthew Dear keeps the Audion hit parade coming with "Look At The Moon," his new single for Spectral Sound (buy it on Beatport here.) Over the course of almost nine minutes, the track's lumbering rumble/clap pairing picks up some wormlike synths and pieces of minced vocal, slowly rolling itself into a gurgling minimal monster. Dear will be hopping around Europe this summer, playing new Audion material with special audio/visual accompaniment from Eno Henze, Andreas Fischer, and Audion art director Will Calcutt. Before that, though, he'll make an appearance at this weekend's Movement Festival in Detroit. Full list of dates–including a special performance at Ghostly's 10th Anniversary Berlin bash–after the jump.
Previously:
Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit? (Audion Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Matias Aguayo feat. Lady Bumbox - Bo Jack (Radio Edit)
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Last time we heard from Matias at RCRD LBL the man was a hell of a lot smoother, his Latin croon gliding over chintzy disco-house and taunting minimal techno for its complete lack of sex. Well, the sex may still be here, but "Bo Jack" is a lot harsher on the ears, dominated by drums that flog at scared, burbling synths and a vocal that sounds recorded in the final conscious hours of drunken stupor. It's also the debut A-side from new label Comeme, a venture spearheaded by Aguayo and a host of other Mexican, South American and African musicians. In the interests of starting as you mean to go on, it's definitely a good job "Bo Jack" bangs so very hard.
Sounds Like: Bonde Do Role, Depeche Mode, that song "I Want Candy"
Matias Aguayo - Bo Jack (Radio Edit)
Previously:
Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze Radio Edit)
