News: Clark Announces New Album On Warp + Free Download

To announce it's forthcoming release date of Clark's new album 'Iraldelphic' Warp have released this track 'Com Touch' to set the hype machine in motion. It's already been three years since 'Growls Garden' and from the sounds of it Clark's made a big effort to move his sound forward into more instrument driven and organic sonic territory: 

To me 'Iradelphic' is looming, ambiguous, radiant. Glowing, whole, invincible, complete. 

I've been hunting down that elusive paradox. To create something that didn't sound like what I've done before. But was also unmistakably me. It's quite a maddening task.

I don't think I've ever recorded in so many diverse locations; there was a lot of field recording going on in Snape, Sussex, harpsichords and orchestral drums. All recorded with a variety of tools. From £8k Cold War microphones, bling studio set ups, to laptop microphones, crumbling cassettes, Dictaphones. It all got used. - Clark

To get your free download head to Warp's website here.

Download: Pain Struck Stanley Dumb - Sure Acid

It's been pretty quiet on the Pain Struck Stanely Dumb front since their EP We Guard You While You Sleep for Wide Records in 2009, they also did a podcast for us that year you can listen to again here. They've been working on some tracks slowly but surely in the interim and here's the first evidence of what they've created been given away as free download via their Soundcloud account. It's an electro boombastic acid bleep fest to be sure, check it out in the player below.

Mix: David Hooper's Disgusting Electronica Xmas 2011

I almost missed this annual treat from David Hooper stepping in on Christmas Day on Radio 1 with some Morris-esque comedy moments and choice electronic music tracks. Thanks must be credited to Mixcloud for picking him out as one of their favourite Cloudcasters of the year for reminding me. 

David Hooper's Disgusting Electronica - 25 Dec 11 by David Hooper on Mixcloud

Mix: Neil Landstrumm Killekill Podcast

Not even a month on from our Lakker podcast we find ourselves back in Killekill's hood as they gear up for the label's next release coming this time from bass mutator Neil Landstrumm.

Check out the tracks and his podcast for Killekill in the player below. The record will be out on 30th January and the launch party is on the 16th at Suicide Circus in Berlin.

Exclusive Download: Anodyne Empire of Glass - Fausten Null und Nichtig Remix

Combat Recordings are a label with the vision to cherish and pay homage to the tracks they release, exploring them indepth with extensive ranges of remixes from their roster and circle of artists. Look back last year to Point B's Suicide Beaty spot remixes which went between Dead Fader's thrilling soundscape to Cursor Miner's rinse out and Scorn's Gravel Bed Remixes by Wee DJs and King Cannibal all interesting and engaging, killer riffs and bad beats basically a job done well in the experimental realm of electronic beat music. Remixing is something this label takes seriously and thrives in doing.  

Last year's Empire of Glass EP from Anodyne was a four track collection of broken beat techno oozing with dreamscape synth lines impinging an etherial warmth and depth to any dancefloor they hit, often courtesy of Rob Hall. In the case of this first of the two remix EPs planned for release - Dead Fader, Anstam (AQF), Roel Funcken and Fausten provide the remixes engaging in the highest level of sound engineering to employ their own shifts of beats and those glorious synth lines. 

To mark the occasion, Fausten has created something very special for our blog, their 'Null und Nichtig Remix' of 'Empire of Glass' - an abstract machine shimmering moment of dark beauty in high quality MP3 (it will be available to purchase in wav type files at a later date for those of you who prefer that), download from the Soundcloud player below.

The EP will be released digitally tomorrow, you can preview and purchase the release from their Bandcamp page here. 

Download: Anodyne - Empire of Glass - Fausten Null und Nichtig Remix (320 MP3)