In preparation for tonight's party featuring Madteo and Anthony "Shake" Shakir, TURRBOTAX® resident Rem Koolhaus has premiered an exclusive mix for Dummy

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Detroit veteran Omar-S will debut an all-analog live set at an afterparty for this year's Movement Festival.

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Gutterfunk is a new imprint started by drum & bass veteran DJ Die that seeks to link a wide variety of genres through the rubric of swing and rhythm. Its upcoming second release is a split 12" showcasing the label's kaleidoscope of styles, with Die and Mensah collaborating on one side while Interface and Minus come together on the flip. "Emotion" is an unreleased track from the trio of Interface, Minus & J Wilcox, and hammers this hybrid-genre approach home through dreamy Rhodes chords, snaking polyrhythms, and jungle-infused hip-hop. Chirping vocals intermingle with their more soulful sisters, wailing in the distance like sirens over a sunset colored by crimson synthesizers. We're wrapped up in so many twists, turns, and chords that it's only natural when the trio sweeps it all away and launches into an extended hardcore workout in the track's second half. The second Gutterfunk EP is out this month on digital formats and 12" vinyl; peep a few previews of the aforementioned tunes by clicking through the jump.

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Bristol-based house producer Julio Bashmore is launching his own label, Broadwalk, with two of his own productions this summer.

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In the wake of the unfortunate passing of disco legend Donna Summer, Altered Natives has posted up a remix of her classic "I Feel Love."

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Glasgow native and fluorescent visual artist Konx-om-Pax (a.k.a. Tom Scholefield) is set to drop a new LP via Planet Mu, entitled Regional Surrealism.

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MSRP: $310, Korg

Korg's Monotribe unit is the big brother to the company's succesful Monotron series, beefing up the pocket-sized analog synthesizer with a few extra features, a sequencer, and some actual knobs.

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Thudding, intricately designed kicks are often the centerpiece of an artist's work, carving out a suitably weighty core for the other elements of the track to orbit. But what if these other elements were of the same hefty material, and demanded the same amount of gravitational pull as that all-important bass drum? Answering that question is Myakkah, a new producer with a forthcoming EP on Diskotopia, Warehouse Soul, that focuses on the tension and grittiness of classic New York house without sacrificing an oft-forgotten aspect of that era: balance. "I Want To Feel" strikes an equilibrium by pitching kicks, subs, and higher-register percussion into new shapes that seem to enter and exit knowingly, anticipating their brethren on the frequency range to create a breathing effect. The synths certainly add to this inhale/exhale headspace, but the role of the percussion in inducing a push and pull is what Myakkah really seems to be keyed in on. Warehouse Soul is out on May 21; click through to the jump for a video of "I Want To Feel," a new DJ mix from Myakkah, and a preview stream of the four-track EP.

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At some point toward the beginning of her musical career, Björk was quoted in an interview saying, "I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has not got soul, and they blame the computers... It's like, you couldn't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there." Her point was an excellent defense of a once grossly misunderstood kind of songwriting, and it certainly bears revisiting in an era where creating music electronically is the easiest and most widespread method available. Instead of using the sentiment to justify computer-made music, however, use it to consider the fact that a potential lack of human soul looms over every synth preset, drum sample, and effects patch that Ableton Live, Reason, Logic, or some such DAW offers hopeful producers. Maybe now more than ever before, it would seem that, in addition to creating compelling song structures and unique sounds, it is the job of electronic artists to infuse a bit of themselves into their musical work in order to help combat the soullessness that computer programs can foster. Someone should've reminded Teen Daze of this before he made his first "proper" album, All of Us, Together.

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Spiraling, speculative synths are the primary driving force on this heaving remix of The Phantom's "Ceremony" by Belgian producer Ultravid. Pretty, luminescent, and punctuated with Night Slugs-style drops that transport the tune into hi-hat laden mayhem, Ultravid has clearly set his sights on unsuspecting dancefloors. Complete with cowbells and slurred vocals, the remix seduces a dancer into a lull before diving into grimey bass stabs and riding a syncopated house beat. Out in late May/early June, The Phantom's EP2 Remixes will also feature Mike Q & Divoli S'vere, BD1982, and Optimum on remix duties. You can stream a preview of the EP, after the jump.

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South London Ordnance, a young producer from, well, South London, is celebrating his 1000th Facebook like with a free track, the deep "Shutter Island." The track flitters about on the fuzzy line between UK garage and more straightforward deep house, serving up seven enjoyable minutes of distant organ stabs, 808 claps and rimshots, and reverb-laden samples. The producer just dropped his debut 12" via 2nd Drop and has several more releases in store for the rest of the calendar year, including records on the Audio Culture and Well Rounded Housing Project imprints. You can check out a preview of his 2nd Drop debut, after the jump.

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Arriving next week, Dillatroit is a 12-track record of 100% previously unreleased productions by the late great James Dewitt Yancey (a.k.a. J Dilla).

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It was announced today that singer LaDonna Adrian Gaines (known to most as Donna Summer) has passed away at the age of 63.

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It's been in the works for quite some time, but the debut full-length from Cooly G is finally ready to see the light of day.

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"Teklife or No Life" is the title track from DJ Earl's first EP (artwork above) for the ghetto-leaning Moveltraxx imprint out of France, a hub which is already home to releases by Traxman, DJ Rashad, DJ Clent, and more. The label is pushing Earl as the latest chapter in the ongoing Chicago juke/footwork explosion, and this track certainly keeps up with the finest of the Windy City's producers. The young Chicago native propels "Teklife" with ghetto-house-influenced percussion, all clicking about a noodling, seductive synth whine. The complete tracklist and a preview of the Teklife or No Life EP can be found after the jump.

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With the release of new album Diver just a few weeks away, Brooklyn trio Lemonade has unveiled the effort's first video, a provocative clip for the song "Neptune."

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Only a couple of weeks after we hear that R&S will release Pariah's third record, we discover that it will be called the Rift EP, that it will arrive on June 11, and that at least one of its songs is pretty excellent.

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Hot off the release of the brilliant Unpatterns LP that garnered an XLR8R Pick earlier this week, Simian Mobile Disco has shared a music video for that album's "Pareidolia."

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Here come the remixes for Slugabed's XLR8R Pick-worthy Time Team LP, which came out just this week. Lapalux (pictured above), the English mind behind XLR8R Podcast 245, just shared this take on Time Team's "Mountains Come Out of the Sky," and it's a "saturated" cut for sure.

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Giraffage and XXYYXX are two young guns whose names seem to be rising in parallel from the current crop of Stateside bedroom producers. "Even Though" finds them working together for the first time, combining cross-sections of modern hip-hop and R&B along with the more neon side of UK bass music. As it turns out, the resulting collaborative effort is surely the best thing to come from either of their growing catalogs.

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