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A selection of our favorite music submitted by XLR8R+ members last month.

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One would indeed be hard pressed to pin down the French-born, Copenhagen-based producer to a single genre or aesthetic, so much his craft defies the conventions of floor-calibrated music while opening the scope onto further meditation-friendly rhythms and abstract atmospherics.

Eliott Litrowski [DMX Krew Special] [Not Accurate w. Eliott Litrowski]

Crystals on My Dash

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Matriarch

The Berlin-based selector delivers an intense and mutative mix.

More info here: crackm.ag/2OAIwf2

Crack Magazine 

Crack Mix 235 – Kate Miller

2xLP pressed on black vinyl at Archer Records, Detroit -

https://ithq.bandcamp.com/album/stalker-it-42

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Ectomorph occupy a unique and strange place within Detroit Techno history. Founded in 1994 as an inspired reaction to DBX, Basic Channel, Rob Hood, Sähkö, and Drexciya, they released their first 12" singles in 1995 as an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroit itself, rather than exclusively for export.

The mystique of their early singles led to mythic status and a strong underground cult following, which they have continued to develop through releases on their own Interdimensional Transmissions label. Their live shows are legendary for their ability to fluidly incorporate improvisational techniques into synthesized music (and for the sheer amount of hardware that they bring to the stage). The Ectomorph show is all analog, no computers or samplers or even drum machines: all sounds come from the modulars and the mountains of Moogs.

Ectomorph (now officially comprised of BMG & Erika) reconvened in 2016 to write new music, which led to a series of live shows where the new material was tested via performance and allowed to evolve in form. To capture the energy of these performances, the new material was recorded in the studio totally live, multitracked for further engineering, but with no editing whatsoever. This music, to borrow a phrase from Derrick May, is what it is. The entire album was recorded live in one or two takes in the Interdimensional Laboratories in Detroit. This is the sound of the idea that is Ectomorph, presented in its natural and organic format, live and improvisational.

Interdimensional Transmissions (or IT) is a Detroit-based label founded by BMG (Brendan M Gillen) in 1995, with its first release the debut record by Ectomorph. The label has come to represent the left-hand path within Detroit Techno, Electro, post-disco, etc. IT often takes a wide musical lens and incorporates history as a way to find something both pure and new. IT is collaborative in nature, and functions as a dialogue between label partners BMG, Erika, & Amber. IT parties have also gained a cult status internationally, with their recurring No Way Back events becoming the focal point of a sort of post-rave cultural phenomenon and the annual after party highlight of Detroit's Memorial Day weekend.

Written and Performed by Ectomorph
Produced by BMG

Recorded live in the Interdimensional Laboratories, Detroit.

Mastered By Neel At Enisslab Studio In Rome
Cover photo by Baboophotography
Sleeve Designed By Brendan M Gillen
Vinyl Mastered By Carl At Trutone
Pressed At Archer Records In Detroit
Distributed by Fit

IT 42 © 2018 Interdimensional Transmissions. 
Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

Stalker

Ectomorph - The Alarm

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Taken from the 21st edition of XLR8R+, a special edition curated by Answer Code Request and featuring tracks by Adlas, Ryan James Ford, and a sample pack and track from the man himself.

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Shine Grooves - After All

OADING..Floating towards Pluto, Beyond the Clones uses retro space toy sounds which lands near dark intelligent breaks, experimental Analogue, 8Bit house and Minimal Glitch, a big believer in old recording formats and using them to promote the soul of the toy/80s hardware sound, so over coming some crazy tactics to get there, orbiting that with computer coded madness.

Soviet space mission inspired game app out soon.

Beyond the Clones's Album

FRÉDÉRIQUE BRUYAS - La création ( Beyond the clones remix)

The consequences of drawing conclusions too quickly are underestimated. You’ll end up in strange places that you can’t escape from. Only good thing is that you won’t be alone there.

Music: Bastian Benjamin
Mastering: Shawn Hatfield
Photography: Sander Coers

Concrete

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In these dark times of Covid we still have our music.  We have the sounds to soothe us, distract and take our minds away from the chaos and uncertainty.   
We can't dance like we used to but we can hear and feel. Our release must be found in another way, we must look within. We find solace and grant ourselves space and time in the music. 
   
Sam McQueen (Indio co-producer with John Beltran, Indigo Aera, Delsin Records, Furthur Electronix) presents his debut album Dreams In Sepia for Mojuba sub label a.r.t.less and hits us with a real time soundscape of the moment, an epic-like document of these times. The rhythms are subtle, sometimes broken, the time structures often complex, this is not primarily dance floor orientated music. These sounds are way more cerebral, for the heads. They reflect perfectly the complexities of life we are experiencing in 2020. 

The edges are rounded with occasional strolling bass lines and comfy chords. Slabs of keys and spaced out female vocals like a psychedelic journey that scares you at first yet comforts you soon after. Sam McQueen’s mediatory sounds give an overwhelming sense of the moment. The music makes you take time out and listen. Its purposeful manner suggests there are more hours in the day, like time slowing down a pause, like the sun slithering slowly behind the horizon. These are sunset sounds for dark back-rooms. 

Daytime or night, it works. This is the soundtrack for the other room, the deeper sounds not designed to make you dance. This music doesn’t get in your face, it creeps up and smacks you on the ass. There are elements of early nineties UK Techno, a warmth and delicateness that pervades a distinct lack of four four dance floor in the beat structures, a softer tone throughout than the harder Detroit techno sounds of the same era but still nods and acknowledgements to the D in the layout and way the sounds present themselves. Think John Beltran, Symbols and Instruments, Black Dog or Kirk DeGiorgio, mid 90s Berlin sounds from Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound, but in lockdown. Music for today's modern lacking landscape. The sounds often familiar, analogue, the drums, hi hats and snares, shimmer,  jazz style. They accentuate and push the rest of the elements around them.  
 In a bygone era this would be crudely classed as Chill Out music. In 2020 Covid era its about how it makes you feel as you relax and really listen to it. It is about emotion and empathy, a oneness, a new unknown and a deeper train of thought for the listener. Much like 2020, Sam McQueen lays the pieces round the edge of the jigsaw and lets you fill in the rest. 

Written & produced by Sam McQueen 
Illustration by Kilian Eng 
Mastered by Tob Jona 

cat#: A.R.T.LESS LP 2

Dreams In Sepia

Sam McQueen - Dreams In Sepia [A.R.T.LESS LP 2] (Preview)

Melina Blanco - Sora

Tagir & Indigo Minds - Amuu

The second track from @alllone's debut drop on Zenarchy. Complete with a wavy vocal segment from @forrestlloyd the tune represents the multi-tempo, genre defying sound that alllone bring to the table each and every time.

4 days left to cop the release on limited hand-numbered vinyl here: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/229440/alllone-shifting-frames 

Digi pre-order here: https://fanlink.to/zenarchy001

alllone - Inside Out (Feat. Forrest Lloyd) [Zenarchy Music] XLR8R Preview

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Marco Bruno | Bookmarks Of Consciousness LP
Inc. Answer Code Request Remix| EVIGHET002
Release Date: February 2021

A1. Early Shift
A2. Maverick
A3. Nectar
A4. Awareness
B1. Devil's Heaven
B2. Devil's Heaven (Answer Code Request Remix)
B3. No Regrets (Feat. Velvet May)
B4. I Wish I Could Believe

[Limited Press 180g Black Vinyl]

Tracks by Marco Bruno, Answer Code Request
No Regrets lyrics by Velvet May - Mastering by Paul Mac
Vinyl Cut by Simon Davey at The Exchange
Artwork by Alex Palmieri - Cat. No. EVIGHET002
℗ & © Evighet Records 2020

Reinventing yourself everyday is the proof of being yourself forever [...]
Evighet, for those who still have a soul.

More info: www.marcobruno.net/evighet

Bookmarks Of Consciousness LP [EVIGHET002]

Maverick

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