Aphex Twin’s guerrilla marketing team are up to their old tricks again, trippy signs featuring his immediately recognisable logo blending in with the surrounding environment have popped up in the London underground, Turin in northern Italy, on the side of Amoeba Music in Hollywood and on a billboard in New York City. Fans might remember his last album Syro was first alluded to via a blimp floating over London, emblazoned with his classic logo back in 2014 – arguably one of the greatest marketing campaigns in the history of modern music. Whether this campaign is for a new album is anyone’s guess. It could possibly be for a world tour, as he has been announced as headliner for Club To Club Festival in Turin. Time will tell.
More details have been released about Frankston label Butter Sessions’ first LP from long-time friend to the label Cale Sexton. The result of a relatively low-key 12 months spent writing music rather than out playing, the album will be called Melondrama and the first taste ‘Speak Into It’ is online now. The slow-burner track’s probably a lot different to what most would expect from Sexton, funk-laden bass lines have given way to delay-drenched guitars noodling around the odd dub synth-stab. In fact, if the percussion wasn’t drum-machine based, it could easily be a ‘70s psych jam. The nine-track album will be available on vinyl and digitally on Friday August 24.
On Sunday August 12, Melbourne beat-maker collectives Hazy Sundays and Uncomfortable Beats are throwing down for the launch of Turtle Jones’ remix EP Turtle Recall. Jones reached out to studio alchemists both local and abroad for the remix EP, featuring Hooves, Dusty Ohms (UK), RaptorHandz, Saltfeend (USA) and NonEntity, as well as a bonus new track from himself. For the launch party, Jones will be rocking a live set alongside a huge lineup of selectors and producers exploring experimental hip hop, half-time drum’n’bass, and dub including RaptorHandz b2b with Nonentity, Melody Myla, Hooves, Aoi, Third Culture, Arbee, Baddums and Jordan b2b with Gezfire. Kicks off at 5pm at 303 in Northcote.
