Track Listings
Side: 1 : Eyesdontlie
Side: 2 : Body Touch Featuring – Jamie Lidell

Born Travis Stewart on March 4th 1982, Machinedrum has produced and composed several albums under various aliases since his first independent release in 1999. Covering an astonishing variety of styles with ease, he has always been a trailblazer - bridging the gap between genres that would otherwise never have met before. The two track 'Eyesdontlie' 12" will be his first release on Ninja Tune and will lay the groundwork for his hotly anticipated new album due for release later in the year.

Track Listings
1 : No Camera
2 : Anxious Anthony (Feat. Anthony Ware)
3 : Ready to Ball
4 : Clock Ticking (Feat. Danny Brown & Wiki)
5 : Still Ain't Find Me (Feat. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King & Ian Fink)
6 : Make My Way Back Home (Feat. Nick Hakim & Theo Croker)
7 : The Lava Is Calm (Feat. Theo Croker)
8 : No It Ain't (Feat. Andrae Murchison)
9 : So Happy (Feat. Laura Mvula & Francis and the Lights)
10 : It's Animals
11 : Maybe We Can Stay (Feat. J. Hoard)
12 : The Score Was Made (Feat. Vijay Iyer)
13 : Going Up (Feat. Lil B, Shabazz Palaces & Francis and the Lights)

Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. On ANIMALS, his kaleidoscopic Warp Records debut, Kassa engages with themes of race and mental illness and pushes his subversive vision further with an all-star roster of collaborators including Danny Brown, Wiki, Lil B, Shabazz Palaces, Nick Hakim, Laura Mvula, Theo Croker and more

Track Listings
1 : Earth - Essaie Pas
2 : Corps Étranger - Essaie Pas
3 : Earth (Passarani HiNRG Remix) - Essaie Pas

The Montreal duo return to DFA with a 12-inch that picks up where their 2018 album, 'New Path' left off. 'Earth' is a blistering ride through the rave, an amalgamation of techno and trance. The galloping bassline is the backbone of the song, and Marie Davidson's vocals climb to new heights against synth stabs.

Madonna’s 14th studio album, Madame X is influenced creatively by living in Lisbon, Portugal over the past several years. Madame X is a collection of new songs that celebrate Madonna’s career-long affair with Latin music and culture as well as other global influences.

Track Listings
1 : The Start
2 : Second Run
3 : The Terminal
4 : Lambda
5 : Familial Machine
6 : Sea Circles
7 : Tempel 1
8 : The End

'Earth Loop', the debut album by BEAK> keyboardist William Young's Moon Gangs project, is set for release via Village Green Recordings. A classically-trained pianist, Young composed 'Earth Loop' "half and half in a classical sense", some played live on keyboards, with ideas notated traditionally, the other half created using analogue sequencers with random voltage sources. "Earth Loop mainly came out of jamming with synths. The mixer I use is an old Tascam 144 so if things are sounding good I just hit record and get it to tape. Everything started as big long rambles recorded live that are then trimmed down into something more concise. Inspiration-wise I'd been listening to more classical stuff, a lot of chamber music for strings, and I think that shows in the string section-y bits. Although they're all synths, not actual string. It was recorded all over the place over quite a long time which I guess is why there are a lot of different 'moods' on it, rather than it being a document of a specific period of time/place. I also started building a field recording library over the last couple of years so there's quite a bit of that in there, but they're generally processed and run through synths so they're not too recognisable". - William Young, Moon Gangs

Given Winston Tong's interest in art in general, not simply music in and of itself, it's little surprise that his 1983 solo release, his second overall, is more than just an album -- in original form, it was a combination cassette/book release. Like the Others was reissued as a strictly stand-alone effort in the future, but the literary focus of the release remained central, pitched somewhere between a spoken word/poetic recitation and a series of musical explorations. The core of the original release, the nearly half-hour long "In a White Room," features Tong's vivid, almost feverish (yet quietly delivered instead of ranted) portrayal of a mysterious romantic/artistic relationship over his own gently rhythmic piano playing. Weirdly compelling and made more effective by Tong's gift for drama -- the occasional overdubs of himself simultaneously speaking and singing constantly keeps the focus of listening unstable -- it's not the easiest of pieces to sit down and listen to, but rewards the attention. The opening title track is more of a conventional song, with the addition of percussion by Daniel Link, while "Going out of My Head/For Your Love" -- the latter part indeed being an interpretation of the Yardbirds' breakthrough pop hit -- features his then Tuxedomoon counterparts providing spare backing. An alternate version of the title track in French appeared as a separate single appended to later editions, while LTM's 2005 re-release added two unrelated but intriguing rarities. The first was a promotional interview done for Tong's Theoretically Chinese album a couple of years later, which Tong treats more as (intentionally?) hesitant performance piece than as a standard biography. "Wild Boys," meanwhile, is the soundtrack for a film of that name that Tong directed in 1978; though the lack of visuals makes it unclear, it seems to be a combination of random TV/movie broadcasts, Tong telling curious stories and, at the end, some brief, wordless singing. ~ Ned Raggett