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Vol. 3

Proper Monday Number - Deep clean your house EP

“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

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)

Before DFA was really a thing, James asked Marcus Shit Robot to record some of his favorite techno tracks for Juan MacLean, who was still finding his way out of the nineties indie morass. In lieu of a compilation or traditional mix tape, Marcus woke up one morning, turned on the MiniDisc (!) recorder, and just started mixing records in his Ludlow St. living room. What was meant to be a casual and ruff mix for friends of course became a formative early DFA text for those that had it.

“Cold Skool 4 Juan” was burned to two CD-Rs from the original MiniDisc. Juan’s was lost some time later, but we managed to find the other hiding in plain sight in a Case Logic booklet amongst a bunch of other important things. (It was a time.)

On the eve of another special James and Marcus B2B set at Good Room, what better time than now to run this back.

Shit Robot - Cold Skool For Juan

The first single from JJULIUS' Vol 3., out March 7 on DFA / Mamma's Mysteriska Jukebox.

Brinna ut

Verkligheten och jag

Köpa saker

Coral bass strings

Letar efter nya plågor

Etiopisk hallucination

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

Silent Morning

House Of Jealous Lovers

House Of Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist Version)

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

Babytalk - Keep On Move (Original Mix)

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.

Buy CCFX EP here:
https://ccfx.bandcamp.com
http://smarturl.it/CCFX-EP

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

BUY the new LTD 2xLP & Digital now:

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The Crystal Ark - Rhodes

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

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Surahn - Watching The World (Prins Thomas Remix)

Larry Gus - Taxonomies

Holy Ghost - Do It Again

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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