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Proper Monday Number - Deep clean your house EP

Buy vinyl/digital: https://lnk.to/cigar

“No Cigar” is a track that didn’t make it onto 2023’s 5 Songs, which was, technically, five songs, so there wasn’t room. It’s a pokey, plonky bit of dance music from Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), made with Joe Goddard and Al Doyle at their RAE Studios in London.

It sounded… dubby. Like “what if Adrian Sherwood got his hands on this?” dubby. So we asked. And he said yes!

The b-side is classic Sherwood at the controls—a version that’s not fully exploded, but submerged, warped, a little demented. We’re honored and still hearing crazy new sounds every time we play it.

The “No Cigar” 12-inch is out July 25. Pre-order it now before you can’t.

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Shit Robot - No Cigar

Buy vinyl + digital: https://lnk.to/stickydisc

Eric Broucek was the ur-engineer of the most fertile era of DFA Studios, from about 2003 to 2008 (no one knows anything precisely about that time, as it’s all lost in the fog of chaos). His hand was on all of the remixes, LPs, dance 12s. He was there in that over-designed gear dungeon almost every day, recording, mixing, struggling to not roll his eyes at Tim and me. And somewhere in that fog, he quietly dropped limited runs of three 12-inch delayed reaction bombs on his own label Stickydisc Recordings—two under the name Babytalk, and one as Watussi with another DFA regular, Morgan Wiley.

Back in the day, Eric did not want his music released on DFA. He wanted to forge his own identity, which he did, sending out music that wandered from the DFA path with its uniquely wonky, upended and understated power. His music is so unlike everything else of that era, so profoundly singular, that it still sounds completely out of time.

A few years back, I started DJing the tracks again, and saw how the world was still surprised by what Eric had made, and the idea of this compilation was born.

So, in the end, Eric, we totally got to release your records anyway. We heart you, man.

-James Murphy

Shaking Moving Dancing People

Buy vinyl + digital: https://lnk.to/lcdhome

It wasn’t really hiding, just sitting quietly online. But Tom Sharkett’s edit of “Home” was too good to ignore. Originally a bootleg we first heard played on Flo Dill’s Breakfast Show on NTS, it wormed its way into our hearts and never left. So we made it official. Sometimes the internet actually makes your life better.

Home (Tom Sharkett Edit)

Factory Floor

"How You Say" (Daniel Avery Remix)

listen to Daniel Avery - http://soundcloud.com/danielavery

Factory Floor Tour Dates
4/7: Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
4/8: Seattle, WA @ Barboza
4/9: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
4/13: Indio, CA @ Coachella
4/16: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
4/17: Los Angeles, CA @ Echo
4/20: Indio, CA @ Coachella
4/22: Montreal, QC @ Le Belmont
4/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
4/24: Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
4/26: Asheville, NC @ Moogfest
7/18-7/20: Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival

DFA / FF

Factory Floor - How You Say (Daniel Avery Remix)

Wait & See (Kris Menace's Vocal Re-Interpretation)

Coral bass strings

Deep clean your house EP

Hug a friend

Deep clean

Gluten Free (GF)

Plus one

Steaming and purchase options at lnk.to/hhedit

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High horse (DFA DJ Edit by Matt Cash and James Murphy)

The DFA DJ edit of “High horse” has been kicking around for a few weeks, but now we can officially say Proper Monday Number are a Brighton, UK-based electronic duo featuring Suzi Horn (alumnus of the Prinzhorn Dance School) and producer Christoph. Their Deep clean your house EP is out June 6. You can pre-order it now via the buy link. It has more drums, wobbly bits, and phrases that belong on the front of t-shirts.

High horse

House Of Jealous Lovers

House Of Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist Version)

“No Cigar” is a track that didn’t make it onto 2023’s 5 Songs, which was, technically, five songs, so there wasn’t room. It’s a pokey, plonky bit of dance music from Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), made with Joe Goddard and Al Doyle at their RAE Studios in London.

It sounded… dubby. Like “what if Adrian Sherwood got his hands on this?” dubby. So we asked. And he said yes!

The b-side is classic Sherwood at the controls—a version that’s not fully exploded, but submerged, warped, a little demented. We’re honored and still hearing crazy new sounds every time we play it.

The “No Cigar” 12-inch is out July 25. Pre-order it now before you can’t.

No Cigar

No Cigar (Adrian Sherwood Dub)

Originally curated for and published by Clash in 2014, an all-vinyl mix about which Marcus said, "some are classics, some not, but I think there is a thread running through it. Hope you enjoy.”


Tracklist:
Lidell Townsell – Nu Nu – Club House Records
Iz & Diz – Mouth (Brad peep’s Remix for friends) – Classic
Metro Area – Miura – Environ
Mountain People – Mountain 004 – Mountain
Mango Boy – Need A Fix (Dub) – Mango Boy Records
Paranoid London – Transmission 5 – Paranoid London Records
M.C.D.E. – Sun Sequence – Four Roses Recordings
Spectacle – Prism – Permanent Vacation
FNM – Verde – Save The Black Beauty
Shit Robot – Do It (Right) Ft. Lidell Townsell – DFA Records
DJ Disciple Meets David Tort & DJ Ruff – Crossroads – Innervisions
AFX – PWSteal.Ldpinch – Analord

Shit Robot - Clash DJ Mix (2014)

Shit Robot - Warm Up for LCD Soundsystem @ Brixton Academy - Friday 20 June 2025

Buy vinyl + digital: lnk.to/stickydisc

Eric Broucek was the ur-engineer of the most fertile era of DFA Studios, from about 2003 to 2008 (no one knows anything precisely about that time, as it’s all lost in the fog of chaos). His hand was on all of the remixes, LPs, dance 12s. He was there in that over-designed gear dungeon almost every day, recording, mixing, struggling to not roll his eyes at Tim and me. And somewhere in that fog, he quietly dropped limited runs of three 12-inch delayed reaction bombs on his own label Stickydisc Recordings—two under the name Babytalk, and one as Watussi with another DFA regular, Morgan Wiley.

Back in the day, Eric did not want his music released on DFA. He wanted to forge his own identity, which he did, sending out music that wandered from the DFA path with its uniquely wonky, upended and understated power. His music is so unlike everything else of that era, so profoundly singular, that it still sounds completely out of time.

A few years back, I started DJing the tracks again, and saw how the world was still surprised by what Eric had made, and the idea of this compilation was born.

So, in the end, Eric, we totally got to release your records anyway. We heart you, man.

-James Murphy

Babytalk - Chance (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)

Babytalk - Keep On Move (Original Mix)

Space Is The Bass - the LORD
Lost Bliss - Chris & Cosey
Region Of Fleeing Civilians - Craig Leon
Ratnemmok - Amor Fati edit
New Age - Chrome
Tease - Berserk In A Hayfield
Five Faces - Linear Movement
Deprimido - Grado 33
Nuclear Sí - Aviador Dro
À Qui Sont Ces Fleurs? - Galatée
Romantic Me - Polyrock
Hello/Goodbye - Modern Art
Ghost Trains - Chris Carter
Synapse - Linea Aspera

"This mix comes from my sets warming up for LCD Soundsystem. When on tour I might do four to eight shows in a run and I like to try to make each show different and not play the same set every night. Sometimes I play to the crowd, sometimes I play for myself but often times the band will have the audio piped into the dressing rooms and this set comes from specifically playing to them. I’ve played a few different versions of this set, but anytime I played a synth/coldwave set I always got a great response from the band so I wanted to record something to remember before I moved on." -Marcus

Robot Wave Mix

Buy vinyl + digital: lnk.to/lcdhome

It wasn’t really hiding, just sitting quietly online. But Tom Sharkett’s edit of “Home” was too good to ignore. Originally a bootleg we first heard played on Flo Dill’s Breakfast Show on NTS, it wormed its way into our hearts and never left. So we made it official. Sometimes the internet actually makes your life better.

Buy vinyl

Home (Tom Sharkett Edit) (instrumental)

Gobby 
The Dishwasher (Dean Blunt Remix)

"The Dishwasher" comes from Gobby's first DFA release "No Mercy Bad Poet", released April 1, 2016.

Available on Cassette and Digital.
BUY here: http://smarturl.it/NMBPBandcamp

Gobby - The Dishwasher (Dean Blunt Remix)

THE RAPTURE SAIL AWAY COSMIC KIDS REMIX REMIX

The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light (DJ Tennis Remix)

The Brighter The Light (DJ Tennis Remix) is taken from the forthcoming EP 'The Brighter The Light' - 
released by DFA worldwide on November 3, 2017.

Preorder here: http://smarturl.it/TheBrighterTheLight

The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light (DJ Tennis Remix)

The One To Wait is taken from the CCFX EP.

Released by DFA worldwide October 20, 2017.

CCFX Mastered

CCFX - The One To Wait

@perel-music

Perel - Die Dimension 
Debut single out now on DFA
LTD vinyl pressing feat. Jayda G & Massamiliano Pagliara

Buy digital/vinyl here: http://smarturl.it/DieDimensionSingle

Perel - Die Dimension

Burning Spear	Social Living
Lee "Scratch" Perry Caveman Skank
Scientist Vs Prince Jammy  The Crushing Of The Stormtroopers
Ernest Ranglin	Surfin
King Tubby Bionic Dub
Michigan and Smiley	Nice Up The Dance 12" Version
Junior Murvin Roots Train
Eek a Mouse Ganja Smuggler
Prince Far I The Conquest 
Augustus Pablo	Up Warrika Hill


Burning Spear - Social Living

King Tubby - Bionic Horn Dub

Michigan & Smiley - Nice Up the Dance (12" Version)

@perel-music

"Alles" is the second single from Perel's debut LP on DFA, Hermetica, releasing on all formats April 20, 2018.

Preorder here: smarturl.it/Hermetica

Perel - Alles (Radio Edit)

The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love

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@redaxes

The original version of "Alles" appears on Perel's debut LP for DFA, Hermetica, out now on all formats. Alles (Remixes), an EP consisting of Perel’s dub version and three remixes of "Alles”, will be available for purchase on Bandcamp on June 19, as well as available individually on all streaming and digital platforms.

Buy/stream the remix: smarturl.it/AllesRedAxes
Preorder the EP: perelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alles-remixes
Buy/stream the album: smarturl.it/Hermetica

Perel - Alles (Red Axes Remix)

The Crystal Ark

LP Sampler

01. Ascension
02. Rain
03. We Came To
04. Rhodes

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The Crystal Ark - Rhodes

Surahn
"Watching The World"

from the forthcoming self titled EP

DFA 2352

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SURAHN - Watching The World

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Surahn - Watching The World (Prins Thomas Remix)

There are few artists making seriously great music while not taking themselves too seriously; that difficult feat is one rarely attempted and even less often successfully carried out. Benoit & Sergio have seemingly effortlessly managed to pull off that contradictory trick, producing songs that sometimes seem like musical open letters: editorials narrated in the voices of unidentified, yet totally recognizable colorful characters, read aloud against a backdrop of beautifully lush, warm and sensuous electronic pop music. The unexpected juxtaposition of such pristine production and playful lyricism -- first exhibited on 2009's highly praised <i>What I've Lost</i> EP, which included the brilliantly sardonic single "Full Grown Man"  -- exemplifies why Benoit & Sergio are one of the most unique and interesting outfits in dance music. It's good news, then, that the Washington, D.C./Berlin-based outfit's eagerly expected DFA debut maintains both the charm and expert craftsmanship of its predecessors. 

Single "Boy Trouble" (the titular counterpoint to "Full Grown Man") launches the EP with all manner of reasons to take to the dancefloor: An exigent beat, a beckoning synthline, a bassline of understated funk. Sergio lethargically sings about girls, making note of both their ups and the downsides, without the hindrance of subtlety. "I love girls/With legs like a Ferrari" he states before noting (bemoaning?) the fact that "You need poetry to turn these girls on." It's a song for the best part of the night, full of compulsive rhythms and a climax that builds on sparkly synths. The accompanying remix from Visionquest -- the Detroit-bred, Berlin-based label led by producers Seth Troxler, Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss and Shaun Reeves -- amps things up, making the beat a more prominent, driving and club banging force. The flipside features "Full Grown Man" and "What I've Lost," which reveal themselves to be worth more than a few revisits. 

Benoit and Sergio Giorgini -- originally from Paris and Chicago, respectively -- have previously released music on producer Bruno Pronsato's thesongsays label and Ghostly International's Spectral Sound. Sergio also makes music as one half of both Birds & Souls and NDF.

- Kali Holloway


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