At the beginning of last month, we got the strange news that bassist and electronic music mastermind Tom Jenkinson (a.k.a. Squarepusher) would be releasing an EP with Parisian label Ed Banger under a new name, Shobaleader One. That 12" dropped a coup... more info

A couple new releases coming down the pipeline hit our radar today. To be released via Phonica, a 12" of remixes of Bob Holroyd's "African Drug" track by Four Tet and Local Action compatriot T. Williams will drop on September 27. read more more info

About three years after the release of his Walls album, Berlin's Apparat will take the reins as mixmaster on the forthcoming installment of !K7's DJ-KiCKS series. The DJ/producer will drop his contribution, a 24-track mix album that feature... more info

Though it's been available for months through the label's mailorder, the Solid Gold compilation from Mike Simonetti's (pictured above) Italians Do it Better label just recently made its way onto retailers' shelves. The 10-track re... more info

Who: The Blessings Where: Glasgow, Scotland While Mike Slott and Hudson Mohawke are the biggest names to come out of Glasgow's LuckyMe collective, Dominic Flannigan (a.k.a. Dom Sum) and Martyn Flyn (a.k.a. Fine Art) are the guys who quietly buil... more info

For the fourth volume of RVNG's FRKWYS series, the New York label corralled a group of seemingly disparate musicians and producers to pay homage to Brooklyn experimentalists Psychic Ills. read more more info

Berlin-based house and techno label Ostgut Ton is nearly half a decade old. In that time, the imprint has dropped releases for the likes of Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Shed, and Scuba, among many others. Those well-regarded releases helped solidify i... more info

Austrian music, art, and politics get-together Elevate Festival is all set to go down in the town of Schlossberg this fall. The festival will host not only innovative and established musicians and artists, but politically and socially active speakers... more info

UK dubstep producers Peverelist and Hyetal (pictured above) are bringing together their unique styles of percussion-heavy, low-end-laden electronic music for a collaborative 12" to be released on Punch Drunk. The two-song release features the joint p... more info

The term has been floating around XLR8R HQ for a good while now, but maybe the forthcoming Future Bass compilation will solidify the genre title across the board. On September 27, the UK's Soul Jazz label will drop a 13-track release that invest... more info