Summer may be rapidly coming to a close, but the global onslaught of high-quality electronic-music festivals continues without respite. This week, attentions are turning toward Vancouver, which is playing host to the annual New Forms Festival, four-day art and music event with a lineup featuring XLR8R favorites such as Actress, Kode9, Canblaster, Kuedo, Teebs, Pilooski, Kevin McPhee, and others too numerous to list.
We asked the New Forms organizers if one of the festival artists would like to put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series, and we have to admit that we were pretty excited when we were told that Detroit veteran DJ Stingray was up to the task. A master of hard, stripped-down electro and techno, the masked artist—an affiliate of Urban Tribe and Underground Resistance—stays true to form here, blazing through more than 20 tracks of gritty electro breakbeats and drum-machine-driven sounds. With his rapid-fire rhythms and lightning-quick mixes, Stingray has built a podcast that offers an unrelenting, even uncompromising listen, not to mention a tracklist that will undoubtedly work Discogs regulars into a tizzy. It’s dark, minimal, fast, and nearly devoid of melody, but it manages to be completely compelling all the same.
TRACKLIST:
01 The Advent “Dark (Fader) Side” (Kombination Research)
02 Hell & Jonzon “Lifeform” (Disko B)
03 Delinquent Dialect “Minimal Electronic” (Temple Dog)
04 Ultradyne “Fantasy Era” (SCSI AV)
05 Shadow People “Firestarter” (Southern Outpost)
06 Autechre “Dial” (Warp)
07 Dead Silence Syndicate “Edge City Express” (Control Tower UK)
08 Galaxian “Repent” (Trajectory 2020X)
09 E8 “Micropacer 1” (Marguerita)
10 Addison Groove “Work It” (Swamp 81)
11 Tactical Systems “Graviton Force” (Roulette Rekordz)
12 Silicon “Electron Push” (NSC)
13 Transllusion “Cerebral Cortex Malfunction” (Supremat)
14 The Sentinel “Wrong Time” (Southern Outpost)
15 Alden Tyrell “Digger” (Clone)
16 Silicon “0%” (Frustrated Funk)
17 The Advent “Wasper” (Kombination Research)
18 Cosmic Force “Optical Rape” (Clone)
19 Delinquent Dialect “Fear LED” (Temple Dog)
20 Galaxian “Repent” (Trajectory 2020X)
21 Drexciya “Positron Island” (Underground Resistance)
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![Tenement Sound - Sauce Mixtape
There’s some super fresh talent coming out of the Queensland beat scene at the moment with labels like Ender, Dub Temple and Dank Morass releasing and promoting some absolutely killer futuristic bass and electro tinged ghetto anthems. Representing the off kilter patchwork end of the spectrum comes the amazingly talented Gold Coast soul star Sauce with a banging beat tape comprised entirely of his own exclusives and remixes! Creating a seamless fusion of old school boombap, spaghetti westerns, yardie slang and future proof FM wonk is no easy task, in the hands of a lesser man the mish mash of styles could come out looking somewhat like too many pints of lager followed by a seedy kebab. But fear not as Sauce has got the nightwatch workout on a lock with club ready synth jams to bend your mind and shake your soul. Make sure you check his releases on bandcamp for more bent bass goodness coming soon. [read the interview here]
TRACKLIST:
1. Sauce - Learn To Walk [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 2. Erykah Badu - Drama (Sauce remix) [Forthcoming Dub Temple Records] 3. Sauce - Unbeknownst To Me [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 4. Sauce - Always [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 5. Sauce - Been Workin’ [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 6. Sauce - Crumbs [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 7. Sauce - Munchero [Unreleased] 8. Sauce - Jumpship [Sauce self-titled EP, Dub Temple Records] 9. Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (Sauce remix) [Forthcoming Dub Temple Records] 10. Sauce - Time [Unreleased] 11. Sauce - Cream Bulb [Lee Scratch Perry beat tape, Dub Temple Records] 12. Sauce - Paper Moustache [Unreleased] 13. Outkast - Ms Jackson (Sauce remix) [Forthcoming Dub Temple Records] 14. Sauce - Speakeasy [Unreleased] 15. Sauce - Carpaccio [Sauce self-titled EP, Dub Temple Records] 16. Sauce - This Is [Unreleased] 17. Sauce - Empty [Unreleased] 18. Chupi - House Full OF Things (Sauce remix) [Forthcoming Ender Records] 19. ATLASt - Pack Up & Walk (Sauce remix) [ATLASt single, DubTemple Records] 20. Sauce - Handstand [Unreleased] 21. Sauce - Grimace (Feat. 8man) [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records] 22. Sauce - Chapter (Feat. Ed Ruben) [Giblets & Gravy, DubTemple Records]
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