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

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XLR8R+ Submissions Roundup: January

technique

DJ Gear - Ode To M1 (Original Mix)

Limited Edition Digital + Vinyl Available at https://16faces.bandcamp.com/releases

These edits were born from the currently unreleased Into the Abyss (Original Mix) and designed to score the short fashion film "Circadian" directed by Petter Jensen and presented by Japanese fashion brand Beaugan, currently available on Youtube here 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rLwDxPHmwM

Into the Abyss weaves together distorted staccato synths fluidly with hauntingly
dissonant strings, dystopian textures and eerie simple melodic motifs. It builds
on the artist’s love for melancholic bass music, and contemporary jungle and
rave, albeit recontextualised into something more cinematic, vivid, and dramatic.
The finely crafted ambience breathes and pulsates around sparse ritual chants,
and fragmented tribal drum work that has been deeply informed by Haitian
Vodou styles.

16 Faces - Into The Abyss (Circadian Ambience Mix)

“Garagen EP” is a collaborative, electronic adventure & instrumental live set from two solo artists who had to kick each other awake and hold on to a project they cherished and worked hard on.

"Garagen" is made of four tracks, simply titled "I, II, III & IV". Each of these tracks reflects our very own ideas, but they share the same spirit and passion for making music away from the computer. Performed live and sometimes imperfect. That's the dawless idea.

Garagen

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I (with Atlas Castle)

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The Lone Flanger - Be Me

Lead single for new album And Find About Kind. Begins with a gorgeous tableau of instrumental Art Rock then deconstructed with a bridge of vibrant Spanish guitar and Latin inspired percussion. The track draws inspiration from the rhythms of Jazz to energy of Neoclassical Folk. 

And Find About Kind is informed by adulthood and the miracles and devastations of 2020. The album explores the trademarks and experimental boundaries of Folk, Jazz, Art Rock, and Neoclassical. Debut album Being Human, released in February 2019, has over 500,000 streams on Spotify since release, receiving high praise from influencers such as Indie Shuffle, Our Culture, and Soundsphere.

As Heron

New wave, dark electronic and electro are hold together by the twisted music interpretation of Acidgigi.
Bridging the world of breakbeats and the leftfield pop music.
The sky will flash a psychedelic light.

The track is named after the Lars Von Trier movie. 
It's about a star (Melancholia) which is getting closer and closer to the Earth. 
There are those who say that Melancholia will just fly over close to our Planet, and there are those who say that the star will actually crash into the latter.
The star at the end crashed and it's all taken up from the point of view of this family. 
Is this story about a star? Is the track about the star? Is the track about the movie? 

''The fact is this movie changed my life, we all have a melancholia in our life. Lars Von Trier's work was mine. We can't define for real the difference between the end of something and the beginning of something even greater, right?''

Enjoy it!

Produced by @acidgigi
Mixed and Mastered at AudioXL

Melancholia

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Acidgigi - Melancholia

Better Days

Above Waters

A Mind that Sinks

A journey through sound.

©Wittgenstein 2021

https://constantinwittgenstein.bandcamp.com/track/a-mind-that-sinks

A Mind That Sinks

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The mighty DJ Godfather delivers the first EP taken from his epic ‘Electro Beats For Freaks’ album on @databassrecords.

The album is a collection of 44 tracks across almost 2 hours, comprising Ghettotech, Electro, Juke, Techhouse and Bmore. On the album, the tracks transition into one another with a seamless flow, so they can either be heard individually or as a continuous playback. As Godfather explained in a recent interview, “I made the album a continuous mix on purpose. You can skip through the songs but the beginning and ends of the track mix into each other. I did that so it will be harder for other DJs to play the tracks at first. This album will be kind of like a sampler to DJs and a full album to non-DJs that just want to listen to the music. For me, it was another way to get all of the attention from the tracks on one project.”

Now, over the course of the next 6 months will be a series of EPs featuring full length and alternative versions of some of the album’s biggest tracks. ‘Show Some Respect EP’ is the first of these, to be released on vinyl (via Clone) and across all good digital download and streaming platforms from 29 January.

Follow DJ Godfather
SoundCloud: @dj-godfather
Facebook: www.facebook.com/djgodfatherdetroit
Twitter: www.twitter.com/dj_godfather


Follow 6AM Group
Website: www.6amgroup.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/6amgroup
Twitter: www.twitter.com/6amgroup
Instagram: www.instagram.com/6amgroup
SoundCloud: @6amgroup
YouTube: www.youtube.com/6amgroup

Show Some Respect EP

Premiere: DJ Godfather "Sunday Morning Spliff" - Databass

A window of serenity, frozen in time
Winds blow in the leaves of an enchanted forest
A stroll down within its mind
Footsteps lead to the vibrations of its heart

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astral forest

A cinematic acoustic-electronic album, where the young violinist and film score composer Ioana Selaru invites you to her world of remarkable sound storytelling.

Conveyed by thrilling violins layers, evanescent sounds, distorted fragments from speeches and her own untexted vocal improvisation, "A mind of your own" unfolds stories about self-discovery, courage to fight the social script and to rise above own fears and biases. Her journey as a female film composer trying to overcome an almost compact industry becomes an emotional spectacle of captivating yet unsettling contemplative experiences.

@selaruioana
www.ioanaselaru.com

A Mind Of Your Own

Seventy Times Seven

Ioana Selaru -  Seventy Times Seven

taken from Digiform EP

released January 22nd, 2020

RIYL: Barker, Lorenzo Senni, Tim Hecker

© & ℗ A Person Disguised As People, 2021
Catalogue No: AS021

Digiform EP

propulse - 'Digiform' (taken from Digiform EP)

Mutation represents Marco Guerra's return to editions and also the birth of the Maquiavel label. The producer, who has been directing the destinations of Fungo Label with Nuno Patrício, decided to create a new label that, in the short term, will serve exclusively as the mother house for some of his productions, although in the medium-long term it is possible that other projects are included.

At the debut of Maquiavel, CITIZEN:KANE presents us with four tracks in which various synthesizers, obstinate beats and sonic explorations coexist in dissonant communion. From the bouncy “Proceed”, that served as a sample of the EP and had its debut on XLR8R on February 18th, passing through the melodic experimentalism of “Mutation”, continuing through the idyllic landscapes of “Processing” and landing in the glitchy downtempo proposal of “ Isaac ”, Mutation EP will be a digital only release.

CITIZEN:KANE enters in 2021 with many new features: new EP, new label and also with his second album on the way, in an edition of Rave Tuga.

CITIZEN:KANE – Mutation EP
Tracklist:
1. Mutation
2. Proceed
3. Processing
4. Isaac

Maquiavel #01. 2021 . Digital only

::Release date:
03.03.2021 (Bandcamp)
12.03.2021 (other platforms and online stores)

Proceed

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After (Original Mix)

Taken from the Free Sequence Anthology I.
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written and produced by Balázs Zságer
(c) 2021 Zagarmusic / Free Sequence

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