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Ricardo Villalobos is set to play at the New Kids On Acid party next Saturday.

Taking over both floors at the riverside Watergate venue, the annual party is one of the highlights in the club's calendar, consistently packing out the club with a line-up of some of Europe's most respected house and techno acts. The general focus on acts from the Playhouse and Perlon labels continues this year, with Playhouse boss Ata bringing along Isolee for one of his critically acclaimed live performances, while Villalobos and Zip will both DJ. There are plenty of Brits along for the ride, though, with both Mark Broom and sometime Perlon artist Baby Ford set to muck in behind the decks. Last year's party ended with a raucous back-to-back session between Villalobos and Zip, so revellers looking to stay at the club until the early hours may very well be rewarded with something similar come sunrise.

  Jul 11  New Kids On Acid, Watergate, Berlin

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Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band are set to release a double disc set of remixes later this month.

The original material produced by the group is a modern take on the boogie, jazz-funk and disco sound of old, with house and disco stalwart Dave Lee at the controls under his Joey Negro guise. After the release of last year's Moving With The Shakers, the band's third full-length, Lee decided to collect the remixes from the trio of albums onto a single package. Simply titled The Remixes, the collection will see vinyl-only mixes from the likes of Dennis Ferrer, Henrik Schwarz, Yam Who?, Milton Jackson, Elektrons and the Idjut Boys appear for the first time on CD, with brand new remixes coming from rising disco-tinged house producer The Revenge, Recloose and Kaje from deep house duo Trackheadz.

Tracklist
CD1
01. Sitting On Top Of The World (DJ Meme Mix)
02. He Is (Joey Negro Club Mix)
03. Everyday (Cool Million Retr-o-matic Mix)
04. Our Lives Are Shaped (Grant Nelson Mix)
05. Journey To The Sun (Dennis Ferrer Mix)
06. Man Of War (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
07. Turn It Out (IG Culture Mix)
08. Everything's Gonna Be Ok (Yam Who Mix)
09. Free Bass (Joey Negro Extended Mix)
10. We Can Live Forever (Simon Grey Mix)
11. I Know U Care (Joey Negro Club Mix)
12. Twinkle (Idjut Boys Mix)
13. Moving With The Shakers (Joey Negro Extended Mix)

CD2
01. I'll Be There For U / Garden Of Love (Kaje Trackheadz Remix)
02. Journey To The Sun (Milton Jackson Mix)
03. For All Eternity (Joey Negro Club Mix)
04. Far Beyond (Recloose Mix)
05. Put A Lyric In It (The Revenge Mix)
06. U Make Me So Hot (Yam Who Mix)
07. Man Of War (Idjut Boys Mix)
08. He Is (Ian Friday Tea Party Mix)
09. Fly Away (Audiowhores Mix)
10. Survivin' (Joey Negro Boogietown Mix)
11. Fashion (Elektrons Mix)
12. After Dusk (Joey Negro Extended Mix)
13. Everydub (Joey Negro Mix)

Z Records will release Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band's The Remixes on July 13th, 2009.
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Brighton's Loop Festival will host its third annual event in the city next weekend.

The festival is dedicated to showcasing everything from the hottest electronic dance music through to relaxing folk and electronica, and will take place in various venues across the city from July 10-12. Things kick off fairly quietly on the Friday night with a set from Matthew Herbert and his Big Band at the Brighton Dome, but the real action is to be had over during the Saturday and Sunday. The hub of Loop will be the open-air stage in Victoria Gardens, which will host dance floor-friendly acts like bass-wielding electronic mastermind Squarepusher and electro-rockers Datarock on the Saturday, with a much more chilled line-up of múm and Tuung on the Sunday for those with weary heads after the previous night's proceedings.

On the Saturday night, Karin Dreijer-Andersson's Fever Ray project will bring some ice-cold electronic pop to the Corn Exchange alongside Kompakt favourite The Field, The Juan Maclean and Riton will jack things up at Digital, The Glimmers headline Komedia, and Mary Anne Hobbs will oversee a cherry-picked dubstep line-up of Brackles and the elusive Zomby at Concorde 2. People looking for something more upbeat on the Sunday should head to the Corn Exchange, where they'll be treated to live sets from quirky kraut-poppers Fujiya & Miyagi and electro-disco aficionado Joakim.

  Jul 10  Loop Festival 2009 - Day 1, Brighton Dome
  Jul 11  Loop Festival 2009 - Day 2, Victoria Gardens
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  Jul 12  Loop Festival 2009 - Day 3, Victoria Gardens

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Audision have announced details surrounding their debut LP Surface to Surface.

After a trickle of releases since the beginning of the decade through imprints such as Playmade, Mule Electronic and Curle, German duo Tobias Schmid and Niko Tzoukmanis will take the plunge into full-blown LP territory next month. The album will be released through their own &nd Records and features twelve original tracks with the exception of "Red Sky" which was put out during 2008 through Mule Electronic. (Incidentally, the Japanese imprint released a further Audision track "Avenger" late last month, which doesn't make the album's final cut.)

Tracklist
01. FFM By Night
02. Prelude
03. Beta Range
04. Aurora
05. Red Sky
06. Phase Flow
07. Interlude
08. Mind Journey
09. Industry Park
10. Outside My Window
11. Outro
12. Forty One Spalding

&nd will release Surface To Surface in August 2009.
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Beginning Wednesday 8th July, The Red Bull Music Academy will take over a number of key Berlin venues for a week long session of club gigs and workshops.

As the anticipation builds for next year’s RMBA in London, Berlin's musically inclined will be offered the chance to sample a taste of the event through a series of club nights and workshops. Regarding the former, the opening party is looking like the tastiest line-up of them all: Wighnomy Brothers, Dixon, Efdemin, Theo Parrish and Quarion have all been secured for an appearance at Watergate on Wednesday 8th July. The following evening, the fun will be decamped down the road to Maria where Moderat, Benga, Shackleton and Housemeister will set things on a more uneven keel.

Friday evening will see first of two workshops taking place at WMF, with Appleblim and Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee poring over their respective sounds, before Mouse On Mars and Deadbeat get down to the nitty gritty the next night. On the clubs front, Maria will host Mad Professor, Bomb Squad, Dub Pistols and Horsepower Productions on the Friday, while Mouse On Mars, T.Raumschmiere, Das Bierbeben and Raz Ohara will all appear Saturday. And, as if this weren't enough, Sunday's closing party will take on a smoky slant with BBQ and beats from Maurice Fulton both planned for an outdoor adventure back at WMF.

  Jul 08  Red Bull Music Academy Opening Party, Watergate
  Jul 09  Red Bull Music Academy pres. Bass Berlin, Maria am Ost..
  Jul 10  Red Bull Music Academy Workshop, WMF
  Jul 10  Red Bull Music Academy pres. Bass Berlin, Maria am Ost..
  Jul 11  Red Bull Music Academy pres. Bass Berlin, Maria am Ost..
  Jul 11  Red Bull Music Academy Workshop, WMF
  Jul 12  Red Bull Music Academy Open Air BBQ & Closing Party, WMF

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The Moritz von Oswald Trio are set to return to the live arena with a show in Paris on July 11th.

The group, who are comprised of von Oswald, Max Loderbauer and Sasu Ripatti (who you may know better as Luomo or Vladislav Delay), have taken a break from live performances since von Oswald's stroke last October. However, the performance of the Shape project alongside Carl Craig and Francesco Tristano, and also a few solo shows have got von Oswald back to match fitness levels, and the trio are ready to start performing together again. The show at Paris' Rex Club will be their first performance together in eight months, and fans making the trip will also be treated to a DJ set from Detroit deity Jeff Mills.

  Jul 11  Moritz Von Oswald Trio & Jeff Mills, Rex Club, Paris

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Gregor Tresher is set to release his fourth album in September.

In the early years of his musical career, Tresher was responsible for two full-lengths of electro and downtempo material under his Sniper Mode guise, but since 2004 he has favoured a darker electro-infused tech-house style under his own name, releasing on labels such as Datapunk, Great Stuff and Ovum. The Life Wire will be the second album to showcase this side of his production talents, but Tresher has almost come full circle, bringing in vocals and more elements from his early work on the album. Explaining his recent shift back to a vocal-peppered style, Tresher explains that, "It's the songwriting that I am interested in the most. Of course dance music has to be focused on the dancefloor, but it's the hybrid between functionality and creating a special magic in the music that I am looking for."

There'll still be plenty of tracks on The Life Wire that cater to fans of his A Thousand Nights release, with cuts like "Awaking Life Inside" exploring his trademark trance-tinged melodicism, whilst "Nothing for Granted" sees Tresher try his hand at house music, albeit with his own recognizable style imprinted firmly on the track. The album will also be the first to be released on Great Stuff's Break New Soil sub-label, which was created specifically for Tresher to curate for them. Eager listeners can take a sneaky listen to the album over at the Great Stuff site.

Tracklist
01. Ghosts
02. The Very End
03. Escape to Amsterdam
04. The Life Wire
05. Nothing For Granted
06. 1982
07. Fire on Fire
08. Awaking Life Inside
09. Plutonian Shores
10. Days for Minor Keys
11. Black Six Survival
12. For Years to Come
13. The Heartbeat Orchestra

Break New Soil Recordings will release The Life Wire on September 4th, 2009.
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Renaissance are set to launch their new Sidetracked mix series with a party in London later this month.

The headlining spot will be taken by Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler, who has mixed up a selection of classic house and disco tracks for the first Sidetracked installment. Fans should expect more of the same from his three hour set, and he'll be ably supported by respected DJ, journalist, author and DJHistory.com co-founder Bill Brewster. The Sidetracked series was devised to host styles of music that you wouldn't typically find on Renaissance, but if you're more into their usual sound, you'll be glad to hear that the second room will be occupied by tech-house stalwart Christian Smith, while Renaissance resident Marcus James will back him up with a marathon five hour set.

  Jul 18  Sidetracked Album Launch, The Driver, London

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Warp Records have today confirmed the tracklistings for their 20th anniversary box set.

As we reported previously, the compilation will be spread over five CDs and five 10-inch vinyls, with plenty of previously unreleased material. Three of the 10-inch plates will contain work that will only ever be found on this release, with eleven exclusive tracks from the likes of Boards of Canada, Plaid, Flying Lotus, Broadcast, Clark and Nightmares on Wax. The original plan for the other two pieces of wax was to have four sides of classic loops from Warp's back catalogue set into locked grooves, but Warp have now decided to package these as single-sided etched vinyl instead. Fans that would've rather had more loops than an etching shouldn't worry, as Warp have states that they will include the same number of loops as originally intended.

Things get really interesting when you take a glance at the tracklisting for the double CD remix collection, which contains twenty specially commissioned remixes and reinterpretations of Warp tracks by their current roster. We haven't had a chance to listen to any of them as this point, but with Luke Vibert taking on "LFO," Plaid reworking Plone's twee retro-futurism, and Rustie crunking up The Elektroids' "Midnight Drive," we're sure that it'll be bound to raise more than a few eyebrows when it sees the light of day.

Tracklist
Warp20 (Chosen)
Chosen 1 - selected by fans on Warp20.net
01. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
02. Boards Of Canada - Roygbiv
03. Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
04. Battles - Atlas
05. LFO - LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)
06. Plaid - Eyen
07. Luke Vibert - I Love Acid
08. Autechre - Gantz Graf
09. Jimmy Edgar - I Wanna Be Your STD
10. Clark - Herzog

Chosen 2 - selected by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett
01. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
02. Squarepusher - My Sound
03. Boards Of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
04. Battles - Race : Out
05. Flying Lotus - GNG BNG
06. Black Dog Productions - Xeper Carceres Ex Novum
07. Nightmares On Wax - I'm For Real
08. Mike Ink - Paroles (Original)
09. Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
10. Jamie Lidell - Daddy's Car
11. Squarepusher/AFX - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
12. Seefeel - Spangle
13. Autechre - Drane

Warp20 (Recreated)
Double CD. Presented in deluxe case-bound 10-inch folder, exclusively packaged for this box set.

Recreated 1
01. Born Ruffians - Milkman/To Cure A Weakling Child (Originals by Aphex Twin)
02. Jimi Tenor - Japanese Electronics (Original by Elecktroids)
03. Tim Exile - A Little Bit More (Original by Jamie Lidell)
04. Rustie - Midnight Drive (Original by Elecktroids)
05. Luke Vibert - LFO (Original by LFO)
06. Autechre - What Is House? (LFO Remix) (Original by LFO)
07. Russell Haswell - Cabasa Cabasa (Original by Wild Planet)
08. Clark - So Malleable (Original by Milanese)
09. Diamond Watch Wrists - Fool In Rain (Original by Pivot)
10. Hudson Mohawke ft. Wensday Night - Paint The Stars (Original by Jimi Tenor)

Recreated 2
01. Mark Pritchard - 3/4 Heart (Original by Balil - Black Dog Productions)
02. Mira Calix with Oliver Coates - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country' (Original by Boards Of Canada)
03. Pivot - Colorado (Original by Grizzly Bear)
04. Bibio - Kaini Industries (Original by Boards Of Canada)
05. Jamie Lidell - Little Brother (Original by Grizzly Bear)
06. Leila - Vordhosbn (Original by Aphex Twin)
07. John Callaghan - Phylactery (Based on Tilapia by Autechre)
08. Gravenhurst - I Found The F (Original by Broadcast)
09. Plaid - On My Bus (Original by Plone)
10. Seefeel - Acrobat (Original by Maximo Park)

Warp20 (Unheard)
Triple 10-inch Vinyl. Housed in uncoated card sleeves with debossed typography. (Unheard) will initially only be available in Warp20 (Box Set). Vinyl version will always remain exclusive to this edition.

Unheard 1
A1. Boards of Canada - Seven Forty Seven
B1. Autechre - Oval Moon (IBC mx)
B2. Clark - Rattlesnake

Unheard 2
C1. Plaid - Dett
C2. Elecktroids - Elecktroids Bonus Circuit
D1. Flying Lotus - Tronix
D2. Nightmares On Wax - Biofeedback Dub

Unheard 3
E1. Plaid - Sam Lac Run
E2. Nightmares On Wax - Mega Donutz Dub
F1. Broadcast - Sixty Forty
F2. Seefeel - As Link
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US producer Sean Palm has announced details of his forthcoming debut artist album Days On End.

Since its inception back in 2006, Sean Palm and Matt Xavier's Railyard Recordings imprint has garnered itself a solid reputation among those with a penchant for the murkier depths of the techno pond. Days On End-Palm's debut full-length-splits itself across two discs with the first serving as the traditional "artist" portion of the offering, and the second a DJ mix carrying the title "Continuous Poolside Atmosphere Mix." The LP disc comprises of nine original tracks spanning, "the 4/4 boundaries of house and techno," and even a spot of, "real deal trance." Palm has been active on the scene for over fifteen years, which helps explain his cited influences of UR, Warp, Harthouse and R&S.

Tracklist
CD1: Days On End
01. Silent Storm
02. Polyphonic
03. Seemless Dreams
04. Sightings
05. Lost In The Bronx
06. Days On End
07. Green Matrix
08. Drumatix
09. 10 Years Later

CD2: Continuous Poolside Atmosphere Mix by Sean Palm

Railyard Recordings will release Sean Palm's Days On End 13th July 2009.
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