GABI - "Love Song" (Video)

Back in spring, New York art pop musician GABI put out her debut album Sympathy on Software. Today she shared a desert-set video for cut "Love Song" and a handful of West Coast tour dates, which you can find above and below, respectively. Enjoy!

Co La - "Suffering (Tuesday)"

Baltimore wonky producer Co La has a new album called No No out October 9 via Software. Hear the debut single "Suffering (Tuesday)" above - it's not as downcast as its title leads on.

Huerco S. - "Prinzif"

Check out a new track from experimental electronic musician Brian Leeds, a.k.a. Huerco S. "Prinzif" is taken from his upcoming LP Colonial Patterns and is an intriguing piece of EDM, with its multi-phased composition coming across as quite grand, even exquisite, despite its fading and crackling analog esthetic.

Colonial Patterns will be released on September 24 via Software Recording Co. It's now available to stream in full here: https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/sets/huerco-s-colonial-patterns

Slava - "Girl Like Me"

Moscow-by-way-of-Brooklyn producer Slava lets go of this video for the track "Girl Like Me" off of his recent LP Raw Solutions, which was released by Software. The track itself is built from a refrain "no you never had a girl quite like me" repeated ala DJ Rashad, while the drums eschew usual juke structure for a more intricate pattern that includes tuned woodblocks. The video itself portrays one of the greatest taboos in Western Culture, and really should be watched without spoilers. Just know that the track's juxtaposition of cold synths and a romantic vocal sample is portrayed well by the director, Eugene Kotlyarenko.

Pete Swanson - "Life Ends At 30"

I first heard of Pete Swanson a few years ago when he blended the worlds of techno, noise, and drone together on the album Man With Potential. While the end product didn't really move me, I did find the dude's concept to be pretty interesting.

Swanson is now back with a new release on the way via Mexican Summer / Software, and he's back at the same ol' grind; distorting dance beats until they become an eye-widening and mind-numbing wall of hip-shaking pain. That's a lotta hypens, eh?

The track streaming above comes from the soon-to-be-released Punk Authority. Look for it in March.

Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin- "Uptown Psychedelia"

Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never) have come together in what may be the most promising electronic collaboration of the latter year. Their forthcoming LP titled Instrumental Tourist is to be expected on November 20th as a part of Software record’s SSTUDIO series. An intriguing venture aimed at expanding the catalogue of a new label, Software invites the collaboration of electronic artists in search of works of quality and unique vision.

The recent release "Uptown Psychedelia" does just that in its avant-garde approach to a modern formula and sound palette that seamlessly blends organic 'Instruments of the World' with synthetic conceptions of otherworldly resonances. The use of drones and trance inducing stereo panning creates a very sublime and captivating aesthetic. Recorded through improvisation and with little preparation in advance, Hecker and Lopatin’s work can be fantasized as free-jazz predecessors of the electronic age.

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