Released by London’s Soul Motive label, this fine CD by Eleven Tigers, aka Lithuanian producer Jokubas Dargis, features huge sounds in the vein of Clubroot, Burial, Kontext and Mindset. Expansive and moving, the CD is sequenced like a mixtape, incorporating shoe-gaze elements with deep dubtech and idm-informed sounds. This may be my favorite release this year so far.

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Years ago when “glitch” was still called hiphop and still had deep roots in IDM, one of my favorite producers/artists/personalities in the microgenre was Travis Stewart, better known as Machine Drum. His “Urban Biology” album is one of my favorites of all times; it made me want to move to New York to record the sounds around me and implement a beat riddled sound scape. At that time, he was still living in swampy Orlando, Florida and made the trip down to play the first event I ever threw, which was also the first Pattern Awareness event, a small intracoastal-side party with a handful of fans, tent and Machine Drum headlining a laptop set. That had to have been 6 years ago.

More recently Mr. Stewart has moved to New York and, seemingly, been embraced by the diverse hipster culture that thrives up north. During this time his sound has evolved and his sets became more party oriented, which you can hear in the clip below.

He’s got an EP coming out via LuckyMe, which is a great website/crew that puts out some of the most eclectic mixtapes I’ve ever heard, with artwork portraying stunning female subjects, which is my favorite part secondary only to the actual music.

As a special added bonus I am embedding these sets straight from his blog! Listen and enjoy and cop the album when it comes out.

I’ve been subscribed to Resident Advisor’s podcasts for a while now and I’ve yet to be disappointed by any of them. When iTunes let me know that a new one under the name of Kuedo was available for download, I decided to choose it as the background music for the design work I was completing at that time. What was transmitted from my M-Audio monitors to my ears to my brain was most stimulating; neither dubstep, not grime, nor glitch, nor IDM, but a fusing of all of these styles and more permeated my mind like a psychedelic dye.

Upon doing some research to write this post, I have discovered that Kuedo is actually half of one of my all time favorite production outfits ever – it’s Jamie from Vex’d! They are the reason I got into dubstep, grime and even house and garage. So it makes perfect sense now that after probably 15 listens in the last 3 days that this mix has affected my mind in such a way that Vex’d did four years ago.

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Fact Magazine presents it’s 122nd mix, this one from IDM dudes Autechre. There is no track listing, but the mix is being desribed as “it’s just some tunes [they] like”. Enjoy.

Music for Our Future is an eclectic electronic music compilation featuring some of the top names in the game. Hudson Mowhawke, King Midas Sound, Untold and Richard Devine ft. Otto Von Schirach (Miami represent!) all grace the compilation with their sounds.