One of Ireland’s finest and DFA mainstay Shit Robot returns to James Murphy’s legendary label, seven years after his last release for the New York heavy hitters.

Four classic cuts from the twisted machine mind that is Shit Robot. Distinctively punk, daringly futuristic, with a driving heart that’s as warped as it is welcoming. Entrancing body music for basements and big rooms alike, featuring Suzi Horn (Prinzhorn Dance School) and Mutado Pintado (Warmduscher, Paranoid London) on vocals. Recorded in London with Al Doyle (Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem) and mixed by James Murphy for the DFA.

DJ support: Optimo, Ivan Smagghe, Justin Strauss, Heidi Lawden, and Horse Meat Disco More

For Me Me Me 14, I’m proud to announce the return of Shit Robot to the label for his first full length EP, following up from his previous contribution to our We We We Charity compilation, and last year’s remix for Forriner. Joining him is fellow label mainstay Edmondson (of Lissoms fame), as well as Vin Sol (Nonplus / Clone) making his label debut, after me wanting to snare him forever due to my status as a Vin Sol super fan! Shit Robot provides us with 2 RAW house cuts. On the A side we have the deep and bumping “Cubed”. For the B he gives us “Rotation” which is equal parts Analogue-Jack to Rave-Synth. Edmondson turns in a typically unique remix, yet again hinting at his background in non 4/4 sounds, and showcasing his unbelievable deftness for sound design. Vin Sol’s remix of Rotation expertly captures the spirit of late 80s house in a way that only the original early pioneers, Vin Sol himself, and a perhaps a handful others seem to pull off legitimately. Also included as a digital exclusive is the bonus track “Shit Robot - The Life To Come”, for that added low slung jazz-house fix. More

Shit Robot returns with his first new material since the release of his debut long-player, 'From The Cradle To The Rave'. After spending much of 2010 and 2011 touring the globe with his live show – including a string of dates opening/performing with LCD Soundsystem during their final shows in NYC - the rebooted Robot is back with 'The Green Machine'. The first result of his Stuttgart/New York studio adventures is a double-header of dancefloor jams, 'Teenage Bass' b/w 'Space Race', which is released on vinyl and digital on DFA on May 21 2012. It's the first in a series of releases called 'The Green Machine', which will culminate in an album early next year. Lead cut 'Teenage Bass' rides a rude EBM bassline and rave alert sirens, before expanding further with key changing chords and a defining arpeggiator. The hypnotic 'Space Race' is a distant relative of 2007's 'Chasm' – a meandering, melodic, star-gazing Robo-techno workout
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From the very outset, the M.C.D. E. remix of Shit Robot’s “Answering Machine” picks up in a completely different realm from Marcus’ Lambkin’s original, which appears on his 2010 debut, From the Cradle to the Rave. The Stuttgart-based producer has replaced Janine “Planningtorock” Rostron’s slowly rising vocal opener with outerspace emanations that fade as they drift into a constellation of wide house grooves and deep bass. Rostron’s own Pizzo remix is up next, and in (a)typical fashion, she takes the song and shifts its mood by clearing away the dancier elements of its predecessor in favor of a foundation of strings in every form: plucked pizzicato notes, low cellos tones, and high pitched violins that flit through. Last up is another Rostron creation, the Whisper remix, which actually outpaces Lambkin’s version in bpm, but is lighter all the same. Here, she uses synths almost as a wash of white noise – a whisper, if you will – and only drops heavier vocals here and there along the song’s rustling path. More

Hot Chip’s new take on the single mystifies the original with deeply cut grooves, squelching bass and Taylor’s heartbreaking, trilling vocals, pushed to lonesome front and center. The whole procession builds to a climax of chiming keys, striking percussion and synth melodies that corkscrew firmly into your head. The UK’s Unabombers – the DJ duo of Luke Cowdrey and Justin Crawford – take a cosmic approach, laying down synths that stretch toward infinity and holding off on vocals till near the song’s midpoint. The dub remix gains traction and energy in its latter stages, with a heady mix of piercing synth squeals and Taylor’s vocalizations set on repeat, like a mantra urging party goers to the dancefloor. More

Head-turning singles "Tuff Enough" and "Take Em Up" from Marcus "Shit Robot" Lambkin's fantastic debut, From the Cradle to the Rave, get reinvented by two of the most talented DJ/producers working in electronic music. Only 400 copies of this limited special release, to be produced on white vinyl, will be pressed. On the A-side is Germany’s Michael Mayer’s epically inventive take on “Tuff Enuff." Less muscular than Lambkin's original, the remix softens things up by placing supple keys under the hardened exterior. The climax is an otherworldly listening experience that literally builds to take off. On the flip, John Talabot’s remix of "Take Em Up" starts like a laidback house party that builds just enough energy when it's relocated under disco lights. The haunting opening -- a swirling, ghostly blend of elliptical vocals and handclaps -- leads to a sonic journey that is as smooth as it is wholly entrancing.
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One of Ireland’s finest and DFA mainstay Shit Robot returns to James Murphy’s legendary label, seven years after his last release for the New York heavy hitters.

Four classic cuts from the twisted machine mind that is Shit Robot. Distinctively punk, daringly futuristic, with a driving heart that’s as warped as it is welcoming. Entrancing body music for basements and big rooms alike, featuring Suzi Horn (Prinzhorn Dance School) and Mutado Pintado (Warmduscher, Paranoid London) on vocals. Recorded in London with Al Doyle (Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem) and mixed by James Murphy for the DFA.

DJ support: Optimo, Ivan Smagghe, Justin Strauss, Heidi Lawden, and Horse Meat Disco More

Holy Ghost! release their second twelve this month, more fantastic work from A/JUS/TED - the pairing of fellow DJ & Producer Justin Strauss also part of Whatever Whatever and Teddy Stuart/Eddie Mars (UNONYC). The remixers take on 2 consecutive singles from the Holy Ghost! LP "Dynamics" - both "Okay" and "Bridge & Tunnel" get stripped tweaked and reworked into 4/4 floor fillers, songs rebuilt from the ground up. Their current remix of the Blood Orange single "Uncle Ace" really has proved that this duo are on an official winning streak, and this 12" is a fantastic document of what they are capable of. A/JUS/TED have had steady single releases on Plant Music, Southern Fried and Under the Shade, and now back to back break through remixes. The 2 had this to say about Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! has been an integral part of the New York music scene for so long now it seems - it was a pleasure to remix them. We both share an affinity for old analog gear -it seemed like a very natural collaboration. With "Okay" the idea was to build up to a re-imagined vocal and base a track around it. For "Bridge & Tunnel" we thought a more stripped down and chunky club jam would be a nice compliment to the original." More

The Crystal Ark return with a double pack 12” containing some wildly engaging stripped down mixes of 4 tracks off their debut album on DFA. Contains new versions of the songs Rain, Paradise, Ascension & We Came To. More

Limited vinyl edition of two previously digital-only singles by Berlin singer, songwriter, and producer. Dan Bodan, hailed by Pitchfork as "an expression of the storied NYC dance label's more oddball tastes." First up is "Anonymous", a poignant portrait of yearning for the post-Facebook generation. The A side is rounded out with a remix by DJ Richard (1/2 White Material with Young Male) that manages to drag the track to even deeper depths of anxiety. The flip features 2013 single "Hunger Games", a widescreen epic of a track that will be stripped down to the bare minimum on Dan's forthcoming LP. It features production by left-field dance geniuses Physical Therapy and Ville Haimala of Renaissance Man. Comes in a custom spineless picture sleeve featuring an illustration by Julien Ceccaldi. More

i did the "this beat is talking to you" (club mix) at my parents house in my old kinderzimmer. i forgot to take my blood pressure pills back then so maybe thats the reason it sounds like that. jacques renault is a old friend of mine who is one of the best djs. he told me he was working with mark verbos in the studio so i had to ask both for a remix. mark has already released awesome acid in 1994 on labels like DJAX-UP-BEATS and he is responsible for the best live performance i've seen in a hotel room in miami! secret circuit is eddie ruscha who doesnt need an introduction. but i heard his release on "beats in space" records and i fell in love with his 707 madness. furthermore looking at his sweaters was trippy enough for me to ask for a remix More

‘How You Say’ is the new single from Factory Floor. This is the third of three 12” singles and contains part of a wide and wonderful selection of remixes. This third 12" contains new versions, both from Bookworms, who turned in 2 new versions that were so good, we had no choice but to put them both out. Bookworms aka Nik Dawson, had recorded many striking singles for both L.I.E.S. & Confused House, collaborating with Steve Summers. This is his second remix for DFA (the first was for Larry Gus) and we are thrilled to have him back in the mix. More

This first 12 contains new versions from Daniel Avery (Phantasy), who released a striking debut album last year, as well as a string of much-played 12” singles. The 12" also contains a remix from Invisible Conga People (DFA), which marks the return of this elusive act, who recorded a fan-fave 12” for DFA in 2011, and have not been heard from since. More

‘How You Say’ is the new single from Factory Floor. This is the second of three 12” singles and contains part of a wide and wonderful selection of remixes. This second 12" contains new versions from Gunnar Haslam, who released a striking debut album last year on L.I.E.S., as well as a lean percussive house 12” single on Chicago’s Argot Records. The 12" also contains a remix from Helena Hauff (Werk/PAN),who made a distinctive mark in the dance community with a brilliant debut 12” on Werk as well as single on PAN under the alias Black Sites. More

Dedication is an ongoing collaboration of Japanese musicians and Western singers brought together by producer and DJ Felix Dickinson and Japanese artist Mikey Yamada. Felix Dickinson aka Foolish Felix has been releasing and remixing stellar disco for years, as L.H.A.S., Foolish & Sly and several releases under the name Dedication via his label, Cynic Music. Felix was part of the legendary Tonka Sound System with DJ Harvey, a pioneer of the early UK House music scene. He also co-hosts the Bring It parties alongside Idjut Boys. "I Aint Gonna Tell You" is Dedication's DFA debut. The single features the vocals of UK soul singer Brendan Reilly and a remix from DFA alumni DJ Kaos. More

The Juan Maclean returns with “Get Down (With My Love)” - part 3 in an alleged dance-floor trilogy that also includes the 2 singles released in 2013. “You Are My Destiny” & “Feel Like Movin’ were both instant classics and both were awarded Best New Track from Pitchfork. Both are still in heavy rotation. But part 3 in this 4/4 Odyssey is here now, and it cannot be ignored, so make room for all of them in your playlists and record bags. A full length album by The Juan Maclean is being mixed now for a Summer 2014 release. More

DFA is pleased to announce a split 12" single featuring remixes of Shit Robot by Paul Woolford and Juan Maclean by Leon Vynehall. Extremely limited, so move quickly. The creative partnership of Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot & Reggie Watts yielded "We Got A Love" one of the wonkiest house singles DFA has released. When we asked DFA remixing alumni Paul Woolford to have a crack at the tune, we had no idea Paul & his Special Delivery project would take off in such a major way. Either way, he strips and flips the rubbery soul of it into something leaner - and does very nuanced work to a special track. Feel Like Movin' was named Best New Track by Pitchfork. This officially makes it relevant and "critically acclaimed" so we won't spend any more time except to say it is the best song made by anyone ever and includes Nancy Whang on vocals. The remixing duties of this went to the capable and English hands of "overnight sensation" Leon Vynehall who turned in a sensational remix virtually overnight. As many have already brought to our attention, the remixing "rules". It does. More

The Hi-NRG history of Luke Jenner's hometown San Francisco is freshly revived for Shit Robot's cheekily-titled "Feels Real," on which Jenner plays the slinky Sylvester to Marcus Lambkin's Patrick Cowley wizardry. Meaty and a bit menacing, Jenner asserts "I think you'll always want my love" over washes of organ. It all builds to an ecstatic, shouted peak before the whirligig synths implode under the weight of Jenner's pure falsetto. For the remix, Luke Solomon scrapes off some gloss and opens synthetic space around the ghosts of a guitar lick, while extending the blissful vocal peak over analog bombast and tasteful strands of acid. More

The Juan Maclean has clearly reserved some crackling energy for "You Are My Destiny," his 19th release on DFA. Refracting frequent vocalist and former LCD Soundsystem band member Nancy Whang's vocals into glossolalic whirls before crashing into a full-on progressive peak-time tool, "You Are My Destiny" manages to make you believe the endearment of the title. Saved Records head Nic Fanciulli takes the reins for the b-side with a stripped remix that subverts the soaring vocal and numerous crescendos into a claustrophobic thump, while a crunchy bass line plays hide-and-seek with shy pads More

Following Daphni's exhilarating treatment of "Runnin," the dusty squawk-box psychedelia of Sinkane is again prepared for dance floor omnipresence with a new pair of remixes from Germany's Tuff City Kids and Barker & Baumecker. Running Back label boss Gerd Janson teams with Philip Lauer as Tuff City Kids to create an anxious burble out of "Making Time," squeezing dry Ahmed Gallab's processed guitar histrionics and letting staccato bass get tangled in a maze of refracted synths. For "Warm Spell," Ostgut Ton pillars Barker & Baumecker turn abrupt twitches into a big-room tool, teasing out soft chords over crusty percussion, with Sinkane's weary vocal chasing after itself until exhausted. Both remixes further reveal Sinkane's emotional range, as comfortable on a sweaty dance floor as a sunny beach.
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Lace Curtain is James, David & Mikey from Total Control, Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox, Eddy Current Suppression Ring et al, exploring an electronic world of pleasure, frustration and sadness. Bedroom dancers, synthetic singers, basement kicks in a romantic void. Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise, sound and vision. 4-track EP with picture sleeve and digital download card. More

"Fall Back" is the first single from the forthcoming debut LP on DFA Records. The track is 8 minutes 30 seconds long. If you like Factory Floor, you will like this song. If you don't like Factory Floor, you will now. The B-sides are exclusive to vinyl and feature 3 separate loops taken from the single, created each by Dom, Gabe & Nik. The LP is due for release May, 2013. More

Holy Ghost! step out of the studio with a new track, "It Gets Dark". Recorded during the sessions for their next LP (coming in 2013), this dark dancer comes as a limited edition of 600 on single-sided vinyl, featuring the original and an instrumental. Comes with a free digital download card. More

"We Came To" is the 4th single by The Crystal Ark, the developing collaboration between Gavin Russom & Viva Ruiz. The song is a dance music rally cry - profound in its bare bones and raw production, and equally for the spanish/english lyrics - which praise ancestors and call out for liberation. The "House" and "Dub" versions featured on the single were mixed alongside the album version, which will be released later this year as part of the self titled debut LP by The Crystal Ark on DFA Records.
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Repress!

The follow up of the acclaimed first volume of this compilation, a real discovery for many DJs and music lovers worldwide, exposing the Zouk or DIY electronic music of the french west indies.

The selectors Julien Achard and Nicolas Skliris continue the excavation of French Antillas vinyl from the 80’s and the 90’s and for this second volume, they found some really exciting new references which should be soon classics on the dancefloors. More

On June 29th 20203, Jeremiah Chiu walked into the Vintage Synthesizer Museum (VSM) in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with no plan more specific than "let's fire this stuff up and see what happens." Exploring the VSM's vast collection of classic, rare and staple synthesizers, he would sequence, trigger, and layer the machines together with help from VSM founder/curator Lance Hill.

The resulting album - In Electric Time - was recorded in just two days, and edited to completion in the two days following. It was captured fully analog by engineer Ben Lumsdaine, who contributes performances on a few tracks himself. Cooper Crain (of Bitchin Bajas) makes an appearance as well; but ultimately the collection is an intuitive expression of organic electronic conceptualized and created in-context by Chiu alone, as he calls on a lifetime of work in sound synthesis to pain a fulgent, refreshingly undercut sequence of cinematic sketches and in-process themes. In some ways, In Electric Time reflects the directness of Raymond Scott's electronic studio recordings - with sharp cuts and room chatter - and, in others, it conjures the in-the moment- magic of Harmonia.

Tracklist
1.1ElectroComp 101
1.2Seawater Swell
1.3For Voices
1.4Rococco Rondo
1.5A Cloud Song
1.6Rhythm Bell
1.7Brush with Thin Air
1.8Rhythm Serge
1.9Static Stone Railway
1.10Transparent Spheres
1.11Echo Arp Hold
1.12In Electric Time More

It’s 6am on Sunday the 24th of January and I’m driving vaguely towards the beach.

Suitcase in the water is a tapestry of musical vignettes, field recordings and fragmented anecdotes that blur diary and fiction. On Monday 23rd of March 2020, police in England dyed the ‘Buxton Blue Lagoon’ black to deter visitors from swimming in the former limestone quarry. Things now float in that water.

Created during the pandemic by Jacob Dwyer and Sam Purcell, Suitcase in the water is a personal snapshot in time, and an insight into the private worlds of two remote collaborators. More

Pretty Sneaky slips deep down the dub-hole for the sweet 4 tracker on Private Stress (Brussels). Refined stuff. TIP!
The sneaky one is slowly carving out quite a reputation with a super-solid back catalogue of releases next to some ultra dope radio shows and DJ appearances. More

One of Ireland’s finest and DFA mainstay Shit Robot returns to James Murphy’s legendary label, seven years after his last release for the New York heavy hitters.

Four classic cuts from the twisted machine mind that is Shit Robot. Distinctively punk, daringly futuristic, with a driving heart that’s as warped as it is welcoming. Entrancing body music for basements and big rooms alike, featuring Suzi Horn (Prinzhorn Dance School) and Mutado Pintado (Warmduscher, Paranoid London) on vocals. Recorded in London with Al Doyle (Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem) and mixed by James Murphy for the DFA.

DJ support: Optimo, Ivan Smagghe, Justin Strauss, Heidi Lawden, and Horse Meat Disco More

Cloud Management and Gavsborg (Equiknoxx) on a split 7" release for Hamburg's dispari. Artwork by TEOTH.

"Counting down to an event that is scheduled to occur, while dubbing variably, like Perry, dispari is back: number 003, another time, so disparate and yet so close. A double faced 7-inch, embracing dub in its manifold ways of arguing.

One side features the enigmatic phenomenon Cloud Management, a loose Hamburg-based group that likes to dub the time away. They unfold the epic tune Tempentary Dance – a sharp wafting trip hop racket, intensely psyched with an innovative dub echo consciousness and tribal jungle discipline. The other side brings Gavsborg, member of the cutting-edge Jamaican music collective Equiknoxx, delivering Did not make this for Jah_9, a slick conceptual slow-motion dancehall stomper, tripped out with cumbia drum nuances, jinxed synthlines, and a spoken counting sequence featuring the voice of Equiknoxx member Shanique Marie. Three piercing minutes of new galaxy dub, concurrently bouncing and standing still." More

Kreidlers siebte Langspielplatte für Bureau B ist eine Affaire elektronischer Popmusik genährt in Jetztzeit-Clubs und wurzelnd in rheinischem Kraut, britischem Post-Punk (mit einem Hauch NYC und Brüssel) und internationaler Polyrhythmik. Im dreißigsten Jahr der Bandgeschichte hat "Düsseldorfs zweitberühmteste Band" (Boomkat) auf Twists (a visitor arrives) auf vier von neun Stücken mit den Gästen Khan Of Finland, Maxim Bosch, Natalie Beridze und Timuçin Dündar zusammengearbeitet; die Covergestaltung legten sie in die Hände von Fette Sans. More