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

Check out the full feature here: https://xlr8r.com/features/music-submissions-roundup-march/

XLR8R+ Submissions Roundup: March

Debuts

Order: 
digital https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/maara-goddess-within
physical https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1645096604/Maara-Goddess-Within

@maara

There is a culturally and perhaps spiritually bonded link between electronic dance music and what could be called most generally ‘the feminine divine’. In subgenres more oriented to trance and EDM, the vocal sample or progression is almost always uttered by a woman, unlike the variously-sexed divas of house; if divinity is invoked, it is less often a biblical God than some Gaia-derivative. Radiant Love’s fifth release, Goddess Within by the Montreal-based producer Maara, steps into this lineage stretching from Magna Mater to disco queen – Maara’s articulation of the feminine divine, however, is often off-hand, ringing at once sincere and deeply cheeky.
 
The double-side is summed up by the first track’s title, 'Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy)', which starts right off with a pumping bassline, carbonated synths, and a repeating sample speaking ‘goddess’ – what trance dreams are made of. What places these tracks especially in the realm of dream are Maara’s washes of delay, reverb and pan, drawing out melodies and textures into trails, clouds, blurs. The sonic fields are decentered, but driving and floor-ready regardless. 'Mommy’s In Trouble' follows up with a set of cleverly phased hi-hats and a swung kick drum. It’s a buildup we’re hearing, although one wouldn’t know until a sample asks us matter of factly, ‘Notice what you’re feeling. Are you calm?’ and the bass swings back in.
 
The B-side begins softer, with the wide pads of 'Plum Plum Paradise' eventually dropping into a downtempo break. The percussion is muted, and what gives the track its body is a shifting terrain of sample (‘Allow yourself inside, the time and space right now’), gurgling synth note, windchime and whisper. Goddess Within’s final track, 'Lezzies In A Jacuzzi' picks up the pace again, with a porny bass-throb, insistent hi-hats and a vocal fragment looping the word ‘amor’. This is exactly the kind of sound that would have me thinking on the dancefloor, Is she actually saying ‘amor’? Quickly I would reach the decision that it didn’t matter – the whole terrain of the actual, the explicit and undreamed is best left to masculinity anyways.

MAARA
Title: GODDESS WITHIN
Cat: RADIANTLOVE004
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed by: Priori
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

MAARA - GODDESS WITHIN

Delighted to premiere a track from one of our favourite labels to emerge from the last few years: ec2a. Headed by Dr Duplate, the label has been. behind some of the best contemporary UK garage records, and the latest comes from Russian producer FTRRLT as he joins the labels OPM vinyl series with five bubbling cuts of 2-step.

We've copped the remix from OG Swamp81 don Benton - a wicked blend of breaks, bass and screw-face energy. Play this one loud.

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FTRRLT IG: [at]ftrrlt
FTRRLT SC: https://soundcloud.com/future_reality

ec2a SC: https://soundcloud.com/ec2a

FTRRLT - The Going Is Rough (Benton Remix) [ec2a] - Plain Sailing Debuts

Artists: MOY & Zodiac Childs
Title: MOY x Zodiac Childs
Label: Dynamics Of Acid Records
Catalogue No: DO303 002
Format: Vinyl / Digital Download 
General Presale: 14.02.22
BANDCAMP Exclusive Green Presale: 01.04.22
Released: 24.04.22
Distro: Bandcamp / Under The Radar

Track Listing:
A1. MOY - Ratufa
A2. MOY - Ratufa (Zodiac Childs Remix)
B1. Zodiac Childs - Overstep
B2. Zodiac Childs - Overstep (MOY Remix)

On the second EP for his Dynamics Of Acid label, acid aficionado MOY — fresh from releases on Nocta Numerica and Batrachian —  teams up with the mysterious Zodiac Childs for a feast of shredded breaks, electro melodies and moody atmospheres.

On the A-side, MOY’s ‘Ratufa’ mixes euphoric pianos, hardcore drums and glowering bass with a side order of 303, while Zodiac Childs ups the intensity with a remix that adds ascending arpeggios and gigantic rave stabs to light up the dance.

On the B-side, Zodiac Childs offers up the smouldering break chops and cavernous bass bleeps of ‘Overstep’, before flipping into acid madness halfway through. Finally, MOY’s version threads serpentine sulphuric tones through an intricate melodic arrangement and a dusty hip-hop drum loop. 

It all adds up to a jaw-dropping release from two of the hottest names in the electronic underground.

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Our most emotive record to date... 3 years in the making, our 15th release on the label comprises five evocative, glossy cuts produced by an incredibly talented artist and very good friend of ours; Wyatt (@jwyatt). His ‘Netherwood’ EP is a time capsule back to his hometown Norwich, turning memories into alchemical moments, a sensory voyage of stripped-back breakbeat, travel intercom samples and ear-worm melodies. 

This record is an indefinable sculpture of synth melodies nestled between weightless ambient, a shadow-cast realm of melancholy and introversion, joining the hands of broken beat and synth lines into a melodic collaboration, drunk on its private thoughts. 

Sometimes, existential introspection happens through external movement. ‘Netherwood’ is a catalyst for those epiphanies. 

Release date: 01.04.22

Distributed by Subwax.
Artwork by Finn Cleverly.
PR text by Emily Rose Howard.
Mastering by Curved London.
Pressings by R.A.N.D.

Wyatt - 'Netherwood' [HAWS015]

Title: Two Bruised Egos EP 
Label: trUst recordings
Cat No: TRST002
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital 

Tracklist:
A1. Gentle Romance
A2. Can't we just have fun
B1. Chubby

Launching in 2021, London-based artist Saoirse returns to her trUst label with her second EP ‘Two Bruised Egos’. The record was teased last December with the pumping single ‘Gentle Romance’, which is now to be followed up with a full EP release on the 30th April. 

The release comes hot on the heels of the debut edition of Body Movements Festival - a celebration of queer bodies in electronic music where Saoirse is the co-founder and musical director -, the month-long Phonox residency, which was a sell-out success and featured guest appearances from Peach and Andrew James Gustav, and her debut BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.

There’s a sense of fun and playfulness to Saoirse’s productions, always primed and ready for those big dancefloor moments. ‘Two Bruised Egos’ is full of energy from the euphoria of ‘Gentle Romance’, the vibrancy of ‘Can’t We Just Have Fun’ to the bouncy, mind-melting anthem ‘Chubby’, the EP gradually builds in tension and captures that dancefloor release we have all been waiting for. It’s another marker of a huge upcoming year for the Irish tastemaker. 

Trust is one of the key foundations of safety, within yourself and with others. Vital for good health and happiness. The inception of trUst Recordings was finally being able to trust in one's own ability. Trust in music made for dancefloors. Trust in its simplicity yet importance. This label founded by Saoirse will be asking those who she trusts, herself, her friends and her most loved producers to join the label as collaborators and solo artists.

Pre-orders: https://saoirsemusic.bandcamp.com/album/two-bruised-egos-ep

Two Bruised Egos

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Saoirse - Two Bruised Egos EP [trUst 002 previews]

Moody and dark, primal and driving hypnotic sci-fi acid polyrhythms. 

Purchase: 
https://mstrblstr.bandcamp.com/album/dna
https://www.beatport.com/release/dna/3702165

Follow:
https://bit.ly/follow-mstrblstr on Spotify 
https://illacid.com
https://mstrblstr.rocks

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MSTRBLSTR - DNA

Itaca

Fresh off the back of a debut Boiler Room performance at the world renowned AVA Festival, releases on Extended Play, Nocturne & Rudimentary Records and captivating live set performances at Celtronic, Derry’s very own Cartin delivers a two track EP spanning lairy UK electro-breaks and glitch-driven techno that shines a deserved spotlight on exactly why the emerald isle is so excited about him.

Today we premiere ‘Endz’ - an in-your-face bass heavy banger that blends grimey vocal samples and gun-finger energy  in a mutation of electro, breakbeat, grime and punk - a wonderful example of Cartin’s ability to seamlessly blend genre, yet remain so distinctive.

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/cartincaolan/
SoundCloud: @cartinaf

Cartin - Endz - Plain Sailing Debuts

Qena

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Melbourne-based artist Interface Palm presents “Curated Space” on Broken District, his first mini-LP, with 6 tracks skirting the line between broken beat, house, cosmic jazz and hip-hop, including collaboration with fellow Melbourne producer and bass player Horatio Luna.Interface Palm is the project from Australian artist Jordan Hankins. Having established himself as a producer and DJ in Brisbane, he journeyed south seeking a change of scene. A right move for him, as relocating to Melbourne led him signing an EP with local label +Romantics, quickly followed with another release on Beats Of No Nation.

Jordan opens the release with 3 tracks mixed together and served as one continuous production. First track is “Check In”, a cosmic, multi-layered jazz-infused piece, serving as an introduction for the whole release, but also paving the way to the first single of the record: “Readymade”.

More than a track, this is a true journey breaking barriers between styles, mixing elements of disco, G-funk, jazz and broken beat. Kicking-off slowly with a moody piano, Jordan then brings-in a catchy bassline, blending it with uplifting keys and strong broken beat elements, turning it into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece!

Curated Space

PREMIERE: Interface Palm - Readymade

It's no secret that we're massive Rory Sweeney fans. The producer has carved out a distinct lane for himself within a sea of the same, consistently bringing something new, fun and innovative to the table.

ULTRAPOLLEN has come through with a wicked remix of Rory & Kayleigh Noble's 'Needy' and it blends two of our favourite things - the best parts of the Sweeney-verse and a cloudcore, dreamy percussive aesthetic. The result is a tears-in-the-club bass banger that will have you crying front-left. 

Buy-link: https://ultrapollen.bandcamp.com/track/needy-rory-sweeney-feat-kayleigh-noble-ultrapollen-remix

ULTRAPOLLEN IG: https://www.instagram.com/ultrapollen/

Rory Sweeney - Needy (feat. Kayleigh Noble) ULTRAPOLLEN Remix - Plain Sailing Debuts

The latest VA from Holly Lester's Duality Trax imprint focuses on six emerging and established artists that are all making their mark within their respective cities and beyond, with 100 percent of profits going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Belfast producer Body Clinic rounds off the VA, fusing DnB and prog in ‘159 Revolutions Per Minute.' Here, the young artist perfectly demonstrates the interwoven themes and concepts that the label seeks to platform.

@dualitytrax
@bodyclinic

Body Clinic - 159 Revolutions Per Minute [Duality Trax] - Plain Sailing Debuts

Dublin based avant-garde electronic music party and platform come through with a killer VA spanning the genre-defying, experimental and futuristic. 

Headed by Irish DJ and producer darkmavis; the boundless possibilities of electronic music are what make up the Aerga projects. Your listening experienced is enriched with everything from dreamy ambient, to pulsating hardcore, heavy bass and hard-drum, hyper maximalist takes on jungle, pure experimentalism and of course euphoric progressive and hard cuts of trance.

'Use Me' by Dublin and Give Us The Night mainstay R.Kitt is a cut of tranced-out, dreamy club designed for those 5am moments when the sun starts to make it's way through the warehouse windows and hangs in the air.

To date the platform has hosted some incredible artists such as Evian Christ, TDJ, Snow Strippers, Taahliah, Varg2tm, Amor Satyr, Rory Sweeney and Dark0. Quite a forward thinking roster, and one we can certainly get behind. Support grass roots and independent labels. That's where the most interesting stuff is happening.

Full release out April 11th. Head to the Ethereal Skies Bandcamp page here: https://etherealxxskies.bandcamp.com

R.Kitt - Use Me [Ethereal Skies] - Plain Sailing Debuts

Heavier vibes. Big thanks to Thinnen for remixing this!
Grab it for free download :) share & enjoy!

Make sure to Thinnen out here:
http://soundcloud.com/thinnen
http://www.facebook.com/Thinn.music

My stuff:
https://twitter.com/#!/TwoThirdsDnB
http://www.facebook.com/TwoThirdsDnB
http://www.youtube.com/user/dranner123

Check the original (also free):
http://soundcloud.com/lewismd/twothirds-pieces-free-download

Vocal sample: William Fitzsimmons

TwoThirds - Pieces (Thinnen Remix) [FREE]

quick remix, free download

the original track is one of my favourite tunes at the minute so make sure you check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSHGitWon1c

hope you enjoy it!

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Rosi Golan - Can't Go Back (TwoThirds Bootleg) [FREE]

FREE DOWNLOAD

DEADONARRIVAL

Official ‘Fade Black’ launch day! Most of you have probably figured out by now what we are up to from all the faffing about with Facebook page names. Long story short, we just enjoy making tunes together, and feel we do it better with a couple beers and a bit of banter in the studio, so after much talk, we decided we wanna do this music thing together.

But this doesn’t mean compromise in any way, we’re working smarter and faster than ever before and are going to be bringing you the best blend of both our styles in this new project, more future and forward thinking than we’ve ever been. We’re currently working on our wrapping up our first ‘Fade Black’ EP for a summer release, a few singles with some of our incredibly talented friends, as well as our much awaited Blej remix as part of a single with our good pal Halogenix.

To celebrate the launch of our new project we’ve made a modest little roller for ya called ‘Unknown’, which is free to download via the buy link in return for some support on our socials. This is so we can keep you up to date with the project and share this new journey with you all.

[We’re still currently trying to merge the other page to this one, Facebook is making it really easy and smooth experience for us (said no one ever), so if you see any more name changes, you know why]

Hope you enjoy the freebie!

Peace out,

Andy & Nick

Fade Black - Unknown [Free download]

Released January 31st on 99CHANTS

David August’s Reminiscence Of A Jewel marks a bold move beyond the introspective sonics of his previous works, and further evolves his own definition of complex, challenging dance music.
Standing out with its rich sound design and intricate production style, August creates a dense interplay between dramatic and uplifting spaces, with distinct movements and minute details that a careful ear could miss, but an attentive one is rewarded by. 
Progressive in all senses, Reminiscence Of A Jewel further opens the stylistic scope of 99CHANTS, while maintaining the personal feelings that imbue each release, and marks yet another evolution for August.

Bandcamp:
https://davidaugust.bandcamp.com/album/reminiscence-of-a-jewel
Boomkat:
https://boomkat.com/products/reminiscence-of-a-jewel

www.99chants.com

David August - Reminiscence Of A Jewel

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