XLR8R — Manchester producer Winter Son (who also operates as one half of Ghosting Season and is pictured above) recently sent over his and Jozef K's take on Punch Drunk label boss Peverelist's "Livity." While the duo has decided to leave the origin... more info

XLR8R — Bristol's Rhythmic Theory makes tracks as focused as his name suggests. Like several other producers in his city—Kowton and Peverelist chief among them—he has a take on dance music that prizes dexterous drum programming. On prior 12"s for BR... more info

XLR8R — Livity Sound, the white-label imprint co-founded by Bristol vet Peverelist alongside Kowtown and Asusu, is preparing to break its one-year silence with a new single from Peverelist himself. read more more info

XLR8R — Although Bristol's Young Echo collective counts leftfield artists like Vessel and Kahn among its ranks, their counterpart Zhou has so far presented a more traditional approach. While the duo's peers have lately released everything from gloo... more info

XLR8R — For much of the 20th century, creating dance music required a band. But following the advent of consumer-grade sequencer technology in the 1980s, a fundamental shift has occurred. Developments like MIDI and digital-audio workstations have made it eas... more info

XLR8R — From the perspective of media outside the UK, Bristol's Peverelist and Kowton have been more closely associated with dubstep than certain peers—for instance, the Hessle Audio trifecta of Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, and Pangaea—who came up in the... more info

XLR8R — As you may already know, we're keeping an eye out on the new generation of Bristol producers this year; we profiled a handful of those burgeoning artists as part of our Bubblin' Up Week 2013 feature series this past Monday. One of those up-... more info

XLR8R — Coincidentally or not, the same day that XLR8R kicks off Bubblin' Up Week 2013 with a feature on Bristol's new generation of electronic producers, we also get word that one of those hotly tipped artists, Kowton, has a collaborative 12" with... more info

XLR8R — It's a widely perceived trend that many producers formerly in thrall to dubstep have gradually slowed their tracks' bpm. At one point (circa 2009-2010), this movement resulted in incredibly fresh mutations of UK garage, but lately, many of its practi... more info

XLR8R — An almost two-hour DJ set from Jacques Greene (pictured above) and a Peverelist jungle mix from the '90s found their way onto the World Wide Web today. read more more info