- We round up ten announcements from the last few days.
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Welcome to our weekly music round-up. Every Friday afternoon, we’ll share ten announcements from the last few days.
Albums / Compilations
VA – DJ Love presents BUDOTS WORLD: Bawal Umiwas sa Sayawan!
Label: Manila Community Radio
Release date: June 26th, 2023Curated by DJ Love, this 53-track compilation from Manila Community Radio spotlights Budots, the Filipino dance genre that combines house music with indigenous Badjao beats.
DJ Marky – The Time Is Right
Label: Shogun Audio
Release date: July 21st, 2023Brazilian drum and bass legend DJ Marky is back with a new album. The project’s first single, “Dance Again” featuring Javeon, is out today.
Speaker Music – Techxodus
Label: Planet Mu
Release date: August 8th, 2023Theorist, journalist and curator DeForrest Brown, Jr., AKA Speaker Music, returns to Planet Mu with a new album. An extension of the Drexciya Mythos, Techxodus researches and reimagines the artefacts and stories of the Detroit electro collective with new maps, ideas and music.
James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heave
Label: Polydor
Release date: September 8th, 2023James Blake is releasing his first album since 2021’s Friends That Break Your Heart. The first single from the project, “Big Hammer,” is out now.
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest – Evolution
Label: Axis Records
Release date: September 8th, 2023Tomorrow Comes The Harvest are releasing a new album. Evolution seeks to transcend the way of intersecting sounds and rhythm through an array of improvisational movements. Following the death of founding member Tony Allen in 2020, the group is now a trio consisting of Jeff Mills, Indian tabla player Prabhu Edouard and Guyanese keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary.
Singles / EPs
Olof Dreijer – Rosa Rugosa
Label: Hessle Audio
Release date: June 27th, 2023The Knife cofounder Olof Dreijer lands on Hessle Audio with his first solo material in 14 years.
L’Rain – New Year’s UnResolution (DJ Python Remix)
Label: Mexican Summer
Release date: June 28th, 2023DJ Python drops a wistful, IDM-informed remix of “New Year’s UnResolution,” the latest single from fellow New York artist L’Rain.
Angel Rider – when ur gone
Label: Færies Records
Release date: June 29th, 2023Marking 30 years in the game, Jennifer Cardini has started a new record label. Launched collaboratively with visual artist and filmmaker Lou Fauroux, Færies Records is a multidisciplinary platform that seeks to “challenge the scene’s established norms.” The first release, a single from Berlin-based Angel Rider, evokes 100 gecs and Charli XCX.
Larry Heard – Vault Sessions 2
Label: Alleviated Records
Release date: July 21st, 2023The second volume of Larry Heard‘s Vault Sessions series returns next month with four more selections from the Chicago house legend’s archives.
Listen to snippets over at Clone Distribution.
DJ Koze – Wespennest
Label: Pampa
Release date: July 28th, 2023DJ Koze has revealed his first new EP since 2018. The two-track Wespennest was inspired by a spiritual stay in a secluded Benedictine monastery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
