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ith the dust only just settling following the last Pulse Radio AGWA Boat Party with Damian Lazarus and Art Department, news has just surfaced regarding the final maritime fiesta of the summer, on Saturday March 19. Headlining the event is UK duo Audiofly, who are gearing up to release their debut album on Get Physical in the near future, and American pair Wolf + Lamb. Comprised of Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi, the latter will be making their eagerly anticipated Aussie debut on the top deck under the final searing rays of summer. Wolf + Lamb’s tour will tie in with the forthcoming release of the DJ Kicks mix they’ve compiled with Soul Clap. The compilation incorporates 27 tracks – 9 of which are exclusive – including cuts by prodigious producer Nicolas Jaar, Crosstown Rebels’ Deniz Kurtel and fast-rising duo Benoit & Sergio, along with all the Wolf + Lamb ‘big guns’, including No Regular Play. A strong local support cast will support Wolf + Lamb and Audiofly, headed by a couple of lads celebrating their respective returns from abroad: Jimmy Posters and Emerson Todd. Tickets are now on sale. German house and techno figureheads Stephan Bodzin and Marc Romboy are about to release a triple CD packed with their own cuts, a myriad of remixes and an 80-minute bonus mix, which will be available on our shores through Melburnian distributor I Like the Noise It Makes in early March. The bulging 3 x CD / 6 x 12” box set is titled Luna, which is the name of Marc’s daughter, and coincidentally that of Stephan’s wife as well. Stephan and Marc have been churning out consistently solid tech-house releases for a number of years now on labels such as Spiel-Zeug, Superstition and Ovum, as well as through their own Systematic and Herzblut labels. Luna compiles 16 tracks plus two new productions, ‘Triton’ and ‘Oberon’, along with a truckload of remixes from more than 20 different producers, including Joris Voorn, Speedy J, Chris Liebing and Gui Boratto. Now: before moodier, self-proclaimed ‘edgier’ types begin writing in, slamming this column for being too ‘obvious’ (or populist if you prefer), here’s one for the chinstrokers. On the first of March, Rough Trade will release XI Versions of Black Noise, a collection of new remixes of tracks from German techno romantic Pantha Du Prince’s last album. Pantha, known to his mother as Hendrik Weber, toured our shores recently for Future Classic, so any recent converts ought to rouse themselves from their summer stupor and take note of this release. A formidable roll-call of artists has been assembled to rework tracks from the original Black Noise, which was released last year and generally lauded as one of
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the better albums of 2010 alongside the LPs from Four Tet, John Roberts and Caribou; let’s leave it to those bearded, bespectacled ‘muzo’ types to animatedly debate precisely which was supreme over glasses of grapefruit juice in assorted Enmore cafes. The likes of lo-fi Chicago house maestro Hieroglyphic Being and Pantha’s former Dial labelmates Lawrence, Carsten Jost and Efdemin all feature on XI Versions of Black Noise, while Animal Collective also contribute a remix, continuing their close ties with Pantha after Du Prince remixed Collective’s ‘Peacebone’ back in 2008. Discerning listeners will dig deeper still and tell you that the band’s Panda Bear also contributed vocals to ‘Stick To My Side’, which is remixed on this upcoming release by Four Tet. Back to that grapefruit juice, pal. Martin Stimming, commonly referred to simply as Stimming, has announced the release of his new album Liquorice in late March on Diynamic Music. And the early word cautions listeners to prepare for something completely different. Stimming has been crafting brooding tech-house and minimal cuts over the past few years, but this new album is said to be more experimental, relying on field recordings instead of mere beats and rhythms. Personal issues have purportedly had a huge effect on the LP, which explains why Liquorice is much darker and moodier than some of the man’s earlier work. “I had to sleep on the couch in my 16-square-metre studio, certain circumstances didn’t allow me to sleep at home,” Stimming revealed. Yeech. But I speak for most clubbers when I say I’m glad Martin channeled his angst in the studio, as opposed to wasting it on the psychiatrist’s couch!
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