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Photo by Andreas Gursky [ MMM ] After over a decade spent operating at a near whisper, MMM seem to be hitting something of a stride recently. Fiedel has started unleashing some very good solo records and continues to play a strong role on Berghain's residents roster, while Errorsmith has been reissuing some of his influential and much-loved DJ tools, which carry [...]

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Photo by Chris Clough Photography Hey, we're 'HeavyHeads' from Hood Town (Nottingham, UK). We just love playing music and experiencing things that help us write it really... Me and Joe have been best friends for the last 5 or 6 years, and he's like a brother to me. We recently went busking our way around Europe which was incredible. We got to experience so much and met so many cool people along the way whilst living free on the road. Our travels helped influence some of our tracks such as "Thrones" and "Lights", and [...]

Painting by Gustav Klimt [ Fabric ] "Sandwell District is dead" - except when they're not. Since their watershed moment a couple years ago - which is tough to define, but probably around Feed-Forward - Sandwell District has come to embody much more than just a label. The notion of a collective à la Basic Channel seems particularly apropos, as the label's [...]

[ Modern Love ] If you had to ascribe one specific audio format to techno, it would undoubtedly be the vinyl 123. Techno has a special relationship with the 123; the traditional notion of an "album" just doesn't cut it when an artist wants to make a big statement. Enter the series - a related set of 123s where the typical techno aesthetic is maintained, but where an artist can explore an idea or a vibe over the course of [...]

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Something new from Chris and Chin Chilla. In this dope collabo they ponder: what's next? The post Chris Mille f/ Chin Chilla Meek - What's Next? appeared first on Fake Shore Drive .

[ Dolly Dubs ] Martyn on Dolly: the chameleonic Dutchman releasing on the resolutely house-focused label of a Dutchwoman. It's been more than a year since Martyn's last proper record (the wonderful Ghost People album), and the Newspeak EP largely continues down the 4/4 trail he's been traveling for awhile now. The exception to this is the record's massive A-side "Oceania," a shimmering slice [...]

Artwork by Geoff Nees [ Warp Records ] Exai is a monolith - a large, heavy, slate cardboard box that contains four thick-cut slabs of vinyl. It arrives as a bit of a dare, egging you on to drop what you're doing and sink deep into its two-hour runtime, and those of us [...]

LWE's Curator's Cuts podcast series features our staff mixing together recent favorites and providing explanations for their selections. LWE's associate editor, Chris Miller, compiled Curator's Cuts 29. We will post the tracklist later in the week, as the curator discloses and describes it as part of the podcast. Curator's Cuts 29: Chris Miller (131:54)

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Something new from Mr Mille. He'd like it if you started being honest. The truth will set you free. The post Chris Mille - Lyin' appeared first on Fake Shore Drive .

[ Preserved Instincts ] Dispatches from Myrtle Avenue: Dope Jams is gone and a stroller store is taking its place. While this development won't surprise many New Yorkers, there's still something altogether perverse, triumphant, and sinister about prospective parents shopping for baby gear in a store that housed books on Satanism and some truly subversive music. Though the physical store may be gone, the webshop has remained open and all of the Slow To Speak exclusives, reissues, and oddities seem [...]

[ Raster-Noton ] Who were the first electronic music pop stars? Electronics slowly crept into pop music throughout the 70s and exploded in the 80s, but Kraftwerk revolutionized both genres by combining them effortlessly, in ways that seem both obvious to modern audiences as well as ways completely absent from the millennial pop landscape. Today, electronic pop music is everywhere, whether it's identified as such (your Skrillexes and Deadmic3) or not. Kraftwerk's [...]

[ The Corner ] Anthony Parasole is from Brooklyn: that his new label, The Corner, is the most evocative of Kings County in some time should come as little surprise. This isn't the "new" Brooklyn filled with artisanal mayonnaise and pickle shops, budding musicians, and bad mustaches, but rather Brooklyn as the dance-music powerhouse of the past 20 years. Parasole's major precursor is Adam X, a man who looked at the house and disco coming from the Paradise Garage and [...]

[ Confused House ] If the idea of hardware-oriented jam sessions doesn't strike you as particularly novel in 2013, you're not alone. With more Roland-led tracks and "organic" compositions than you can shake a stick at, the current house landscape would seem in danger of eating itself, sooner or later, after every possible 707 pattern had been plugged in by nerdy gear fetishists. However, much like Jeff Mills' "wonderful hindrance" of a 4/4 pulse, this ineludible genre of analog jam-session [...]

[ Ostgut Ton ] Perhaps unbelievably, Incubation is Function's debut album. Dave Sumner has been making techno for over 16 years, and over the course of that extended career his star has steadily shone brighter and brighter. As many are no doubt aware, it's the past five years and his role as one third of the Sandwell District collective that have propelled [...]

Illustration by Sam Weber [ Werkdiscs ] It's hard to know exactly how to describe Actress' music nowadays. Whereas Hazyville mined a kind of singular take on smudged-out, gray-scale techno, he's been loath to stay complacent with any sound for very long. Since then, between the zonked out études and pastoral oddities of R.I.P , the chopped up electro funk of [...]

[ Hessle Audio ] From dub to jungle, Bristol remains a city with a much larger impact on music than its rather small stature might suggest. Back in 2007 it was at the vanguard of dubstep - a sound that, in the hands of Bristolians like Pinch and Appleblim, presented a more techno-focused visage with the help of Berliners from T++ to Ricardo Villalobos. Labels like Skull Disco and Tempa pushed the [...]

Damn, Mille snapped with this one. We all have to make a living - whether you install cable, write blogs or clean stalls, someone has to make the donuts. Find out how Mille makes his over this sinister track. The post Chris Mille - For A Livin' appeared first on Fake Shore Drive .

[ Rabid Records ] Yes, it's been a long six years since Silent Shout collectively stole our hearts with its metallic dance music timbres and ever-present gloom, but the siblings Dreijer have been anything but silent in the intervening years. They collaborated on the strange, Darwin-themed opera Tomorrow, In A Year and Karin's solo project, Fever Ray, sounded like the logical follow-up to Silent Shout . Meanwhile, Olaf let his freak flag fly in semi-anonymity [...]

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Produced by DJ L. If it don't make dollars, then it don't make sense - just ask Mille and Lon Don. It's all about that profit for their latest drop.

Chris Mille recently announced his linking with Young Chop's 8TMG imprint, but he's also pushing his own OMG collective. Which means he and Lon Don will continue to drop joints. This one is called "Swerv Off"