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2015 Tracks

Digitonal - Beautiful Broken | Release date: 4th May 2015
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/beautifulbroken
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The length of time that Beautiful Broken has taken has been its saving grace,” says Digitonal’s Andy Dobson. “I don’t feel any pressure to align myself to the zeitgeist any more and that’s very liberating. I have made mistakes in the past where I would contrive certain things to fit in with a cer-tain scene, but I feel happy with the new album, because it’s me through and through.”

Beautiful Broken is Digitonal’s fifth album since he first started recording and playing live under that name in 1997, and the first all-new release since 2008’s Save Your Light For Darker Days. Since then Dobson has released the retrospective, Be Still My Bleeping Heart, written and scrapped an entire album, and for Beautiful Broken has composed new material and finished off some incomplete compositions.

The typical Digitonal process sees the pieces transformed from largely improvised works-in-progress played live to more structured studio creations. This can take some time. ’We Three’ dates back to a live prototype from 2004.

With long-time collaborator, violinist Samy Bishai currently working on a number of other musical projects and less Digitonal live work in recent years, the compositions have taken longer to evolve, and so Beautiful Broken has become essentially a Dobson solo venture.

Dobson is a classically trained clarinettist and former chorister, and the clean lines of minimalism and Early Music in particular have informed his role as an Electronica producer. Following a concert at the Union Chapel, London, in 2014, Dobson was most excited about a particular section in which the musicians played acoustically and so he decided to try to recreate that feel.

Beautiful Broken evokes the subtlety and self-contained intimacy of chamber music, but as befits his recent reconnection with Ambient, these elements move slowly through a cool electronic space. But what defines Ambient for him is the literal meaning of the word more than a particular musical genre, specifically the expanse of sound that he experienced singing in a choir in a candlelit Durham Cathedral.

This combination of sonic influences make Beautiful Broken Digitonal’s most original album to date. Although it’s not a radical departure, Dobson has realigned his approach. He admits that he has also gone back to minimalism in a big way and ‘Eighteen’ is a buoyant mesh of clarinet, tuned percussion and drum patterns, and an overt homage to Steve Reich’s epochal minimalist work, Music For Eighteen Musicians.

Apart from Bishai’s violin and Dobson’s own clarinet and keyboards, the instrumentalists on Beauti-ful Broken are Kat Avery (harp), and Georgina Hall and Ivan Hussey (cello). In line with the prevail-ing chamber mood, Dobson has guarded against over orchestrating, with the emphasis more on pared down written parts: the composition ‘Luna’, for example, is completely scored. Similarly, breakbeats have largely been replaced by more intricate microbeats.

There’s a melancholy, a bitter-sweetness to Digitonal’s music, and whichever way Dobson’s par-ticular balance of acoustic and electronic sounds tips in the future, he is currently searching for the kind of emotional narrative and sense of connection that one gets from songs. He certainly goes a long way towards achieving that on the affecting compositions on Beautiful Broken.

“I’ve always wanted to make music that’s emotive for me and the audience,” he explains. “I think it’s quite difficult with electronic music, to get the right blend. But that’s what I’m always working towards.”


Beautiful Broken

Luna

Digitonal - Luna

Out March 3 on Apollo Records
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBlCM9gSqGg

Written and Produced by Eskmo
www.Eskmo.com

Dazed interview here: 
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/23779/1/hear-eskmos-cinematic-album-about-the-sun

Mind Of War

Mind of War

"Night Trek" by Wax Stag is available to buy on iTunes: 
https://itunes.apple.com/album/night-trek-single/id956874323

Stream on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6JGiqoDsLSRlCn66PGnyiK

Taken from the album II. Bag it: 
https://itunes.apple.com/album/ii/id937804568
https://open.spotify.com/album/31gaK9muqjFMWYV2phxETJ
https://oldhabitsrecords.bandcamp.com/releases
http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=41959

https://twitter.com/waxstag
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wax-Stag/25171759098

https://twitter.com/_oldhabits
https://www.facebook.com/oldhabitsrecords


Wax Stag - Night Trek (Bibio Remix)

Battlecat EP out Feb 23rd 2015 on Tape Club Records.

www.facebook.com/iamhairyhands
www.tapeclubrecords.com

Hairy Hands - Space

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2015/02/wax-stag-ascension/

https://soundcloud.com/waxstag
https://soundcloud.com/old-habits

Download

Wax Stag - Ascension

Download Inkke – Choong (Devil Mix)from FABRICLIVE 80: Mumdance: http://found.ee/FABRICLIVE80D (out 16th March 2015)

Follow: @Inkke | @Mumdance

Download FABRICLIVE 80

Inkke – Choong (Devil Mix) – taken from FABRICLIVE 80: Mumdance

Taken from ‘Flame Rave’ out 23 March – http://throttleclark.com

“I started making these ravey tunes to play out at gigs, but they gathered a momentum and gradually formed this E.P. I came back to it again and again – it seemed to work in clubs but also as a sneaky, immersive headphone listen. I love the feel of an almost overwhelming percussive violence being suddenly flooded with heartache and melody. I find that dynamic exhilarating.

I really wanted this E.P. to capture that. I hope you enjoy listening to it!”

https://www.facebook.com/throttleclark
https://twitter.com/throttleclark

Flame Rave EP

Flame Rave on Bleep

Silver Sun

Music Video Competition | £100 Prize - http://bit.ly/digitonalvideocomp

Digitonal - Beautiful Broken | Release date: 4th May 2015
Pre-order now: http://bit.ly/BeautifulBroken
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The length of time that Beautiful Broken has taken has been its saving grace,” says Digitonal’s Andy Dobson. “I don’t feel any pressure to align myself to the zeitgeist any more and that’s very liberating. I have made mistakes in the past where I would contrive certain things to fit in with a certain scene, but I feel happy with the new album, because it’s me through and through.”

Beautiful Broken is Digitonal’s fifth album since he first started recording and playing live under that name in 1997, and the first all-new release since 2008’s Save Your Light For Darker Days. Since then Dobson has released the retrospective, Be Still My Bleeping Heart, written and scrapped an entire album, and for Beautiful Broken has composed new material and finished off some incomplete compositions.

The typical Digitonal process sees the pieces transformed from largely improvised works-in-progress played live to more structured studio creations. This can take some time. ’We Three’ dates back to a live prototype from 2004.

With long-time collaborator, violinist Samy Bishai currently working on a number of other musical projects and less Digitonal live work in recent years, the compositions have taken longer to evolve, and so Beautiful Broken has become essentially a Dobson solo venture.

Dobson is a classically trained clarinettist and former chorister, and the clean lines of minimalism and Early Music in particular have informed his role as an Electronica producer. Following a concert at the Union Chapel, London, in 2014, Dobson was most excited about a particular section in which the musicians played acoustically and so he decided to try to recreate that feel.

Beautiful Broken evokes the subtlety and self-contained intimacy of chamber music, but as befits his recent reconnection with Ambient, these elements move slowly through a cool electronic space. But what defines Ambient for him is the literal meaning of the word more than a particular musical genre, specifically the expanse of sound that he experienced singing in a choir in a candlelit Durham Cathedral.

This combination of sonic influences make Beautiful Broken Digitonal’s most original album to date. Although it’s not a radical departure, Dobson has realigned his approach. He admits that he has also gone back to minimalism in a big way and ‘Eighteen’ is a buoyant mesh of clarinet, tuned percussion and drum patterns, and an overt homage to Steve Reich’s epochal minimalist work, Music For Eighteen Musicians.

Apart from Bishai’s violin and Dobson’s own clarinet and keyboards, the instrumentalists on Beautiful Broken are Kat Avery (harp), and Georgina Hoare and Ivan Hussey (cello). In line with the prevailing chamber mood, Dobson has guarded against over orchestrating, with the emphasis more on pared down written parts: the composition ‘Luna’, for example, is completely scored. Similarly, breakbeats have largely been replaced by more intricate microbeats.

There’s a melancholy, a bitter-sweetness to Digitonal’s music, and whichever way Dobson’s par-ticular balance of acoustic and electronic sounds tips in the future, he is currently searching for the kind of emotional narrative and sense of connection that one gets from songs. He certainly goes a long way towards achieving that on the affecting compositions on Beautiful Broken.

“I’ve always wanted to make music that’s emotive for me and the audience,” he explains. “I think it’s quite difficult with electronic music, to get the right blend. But that’s what I’m always working towards.”


Eighteen

Pre-Order Album

Digitonal - Eighteen

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Send Two Sunsets’ released 5th May
Pre-order from iTunes and get an instant download of ‘Bliss' - http://hyperurl.co/sendtwosunsets
Pre-order the transparent blue LP from Apollo - http://bit.ly/1Ad5oPX

Gacha ft Natalie Beridze Tba - Bliss

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive/download-wallwork-rzr

Last year, London duo Wallwork & RZR's released a fresh slice of bass-licked beauty, 'Mad Techno Invasion'.

It's the title track from their EP on Infinite Machine and preceded a shed load of support from Scratcha DVA on his Rinse FM show, banging out tracks like 'Don't Panic' and 'Massive Reactor', and slots on fairly new London radio station Radar.

The 'Don't Panic' EP's just been released on Nervous Horizon, featuring four ripping cuts, including a Deft remix of the title track

In light of that we've got a free download of separate cut 'Dead Mass' and it's guaranteed to destroy the dance wherever it's played. These boys only deal in bangers.

Download here

Download: Wallwork & RZR 'Dead Mass'

The third in a series of albums compiled and mixed by Bill, 'Late Night Tales Presents After Dark: Nocturne' is a glorious collection of disco-influenced cuts, including new tracks from Bill's own project: Hotel Motel. There's also exclusive bits from Emperor Machine and Hugh Mane, plus a remix of pop princess Charli XCX by Norwegian house don, Lindstrøm.

DJ Mag has nabbed an exclusive stream of Hotel Motel's new track 'The Fall' featuring Snax, ahead of the LP's release on 11th May via LNT. A project comprised of Brewster and Alex Tepper, Hotel Motel's 'The Fall' is sensational. A fusion of authentic, chugging basslines and groovy blended vocals, it's one of the best disco odes of the year thus far. We caught up with Bill to find out a little more about his 'After Dark' series and what makes him tick...


PREMIERE: Hotel Motel  -The Fall  feat. Snax

From debut album ‘Nozinja Lodge’ out 1 June on @warp-records – http://nozinja-lodge.com

Download the track with pre-orders of the album at,
Bleep – http://smarturl.it/nozinjalodge-bleep
iTunes – http://smarturl.it/nozinjalodge-itunes

http://www.nozinja-lodge.com
https://www.facebook.com/nozinjamusic
https://twitter.com/nozinjamusic

Nozinja Lodge

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Xihukwani

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2015/04/iglew-sleep-lighter/
@iglew92

Iglew - Sleep Lighter VIP

From Late Night Tales, for Record Store Day 2015. 

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Jon Hopkins - I Remember (Nils Frahm Dub Interrupt Remix)

We're hoping you don't need spelling out why this was great, but just in case you have missed an entire movement in electronic music:  Logos 's 2013 album  Cold Mission  on Keysound was one of the defining records of the new instrumental grime generation, and along with  Mr Mitch 's  Parallel Memories  is conclusive proof that this sound can and does work in the long-play format. We're naturally excited about a new release, and the new EP on Different Circles, complete with freaky ambient sections and a  Shapednoise  remix, doesn't disappoint in the slightest. It's  out on the 18th May .

Logos "Glass" - Boiler Room Debuts

From the album "Outside the line" out on "ICI" on the 15th of June.

Separated Together

http://www.mixmag.net/read/rudeboyz-premieres

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rudemenchess?_rdr​

Rudeboyz are the South African trio producing Gqom, the steel-cladded, drum-pounding music straight from the Durban townships. 

If you're after an idea of what music in the city sounds like, Massive Q, Andile-T and Menchess are the guys to give you a lesson. The music they make - smacking, stripped back, tribalist beats - sums up the movement and it's no surprise 'Gqom' translates to 'bang' or 'hit'.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Rudeboyz 'Get Down'

Iglew - "Cymatism"

The LHF collective have always in some ways been the shadowy soul of Dusk and Blackdown's Keysound label. Pirate radio obsessed, shrouded in smoke and London mythology, always chasing the essence of underground sound in the dark alleys between genres and historical realities, they encapsulate so much that links the other artists on the label. It's been a little while since their last release, but thankfully they're still as ghostly but imposingly present as ever. This album is almost entirely done by founding member Amen Ra, and this track is as crisp a bit of fever-dream 2-step as you could hope for.

LHF "Triumph" - Boiler Room Debuts

"LHF's members include Amen Ra, Double Helix, No Fixed Abode, Low Density Matter, Octaviour, Escobar Seasons, Solar Man, and Lumin Project. Their debut album 'Keepers of the Light' was an expansive collection of tracks drawing on various strains of music that evolved out of the British rave movement - jungle, 2-step, and grime included, but with a particular interest in dubstep. Their second album, 'For The Thrown' is an extension of these ideas, but it takes more of a step into the unknown. Take Amen Ra and Octaviour's new track (and album opener) Gateway for example: you can hear familiar snatches of sounds and rhythms from the UK underground, but the approach is more abstracted, turning it into a haunting, meditative, ambient piece of music."
- Dummy Mag http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/lhf-amen-ra-octaviour-gateway-track-stream-new-album-for-the-thrown

http://keysoundrecordings.co.uk

Amen Ra And Octaviour (LHF) "Gateway"

UK press + radio music publicity. Management for 
James Alexander Bright.

2015 Tracks

Echo Empire