Strictly for the weirdos! Blisspop’s Lost & Sound returns to 9:30 Club Backbar tomorrow night (5/12) to deliver a healthy dose of deep, sexy, weird house and techno for all the local miscreants.

This time around, Blisspop DJs Will Eastman and Chris Nitti will be joined by special guest Prab K.

Let’s get lost.

Details:
Blisspop’s Lost & Sound
Backbar – 815 V St NW
11 pm, $5, 21+
RSVP

Paris/Berlin-based production and DJ duo Terranova (Fetisch and &ME) recently released their Question Mark Remixes EP via Kompakt, featuring vocals from Scandanavian underground rock vocalist Tomas Høffding (of WhoMadeWho) and remixes from KiNK and Adam Port.

KinK’s remix evokes a dark, emotive storm with the addition of rain sticks, dark synths and a chalky bassline -

Tomas Høffding’s falsetto drips over Adam Port’s deep, thumping, percussive tribal remix -

Grab Question Mark Remixes over at Beatport.

Hear Kompakt’s best at U Street Music Hall on May 24th when label-head Michael Mayer spins open to close. More information here.

This just in…The Guardian is hosting an exclusive stream of Simian Mobile Disco’s new album, Unpatterns, due out May 14 on Wichita Recordings.

Unpatterns marks the third full-length from SMD. The Guardian describes the release as “straight up, play it on the banks of the Spree while necking some Augustiner Hells minimal techno.” Expect some vocals though – “Seraphim” being a great example. For that reason, Unpatterns is a slight departure from the group’s Delicacies series which was an education in driving, straightforward analogue techno.

Simian Mobile Disco – Seraphim

Stream the full album here and be sure to catch the duo’s DJ set at U Street Music Hall on May 23 with support from JDH and Dave P. Tickets and info can be found here.

Los Angeles’ Josh Legg, formerly one-third of synthpop trio NightWaves, is now rounding his first year as a solo producer under the alias Goldroom. Releasing both original productions as well as remixes of artists such as Penguin Prison and Niki & The Dove over the past year, he’s determined to bring “clean sounds and emotive melodies” within the electronic genre.

More recently, he collaborated with Melbourne artist Chela to form a dreamy track titled “Fifteen”. Josh takes advantage of his past synth experience to weave multiple layers throughout the track, placing them under hefty bass lines and between Chela’s gorgeous vocals to create a slow, nostalgic piece that takes you back to those bittersweet teenage days.

Goldroom – Fifteen (ft. Chela)

Ironbound, the new five-track EP from Chris Malinchak on French Express, is a pleasure-inducing tour of hi-hats, vocal chops, and 90′s dance sounds. This is slow house, but will leave sweat dripping down the walls of most clubs. That’s important, because he plays U Street Music Hall on May 26th.

The release opens with “There I Was (Again),” a reversion of his popular track released in January. The reversion is a welcome update, not least of all because it’s missing the sample/interpolation of Diplo’s “Look At Me Now” beat. Aren’t you glad these reviews come with such opinionated nerdery?

Instead, “There I Was (Again)” is full of phased and flanged and filtered vocals that would make Alan Braxe blush. And the breakdown we get? So satisfying. Starts with some really simple electric piano pads, but quickly gets interrupted by aggressive vocal chops that build into a nice sustained groove to finish out the track.

A quick tour through the other tracks:

“Brooklyn Bounce” does just that – the thin synthesized drum kit bounces and stutters across the track while the vocal samples yell out “Two-step!” Malinchak adds in some nice sub-bass and airy synths to round things out.

One of the standout tracks on Ironbound is “Fuego.” As a sucker for global group vocals, this track feels un-hateable, but if that doesn’t do it for you then the throw-back 90′s horn/organ stabs should.

“Razor 2.0” uses white noise to great effect in its synth lines, making the whole track feel much larger and more… epic. Combined with the vocals that sound like they were sampled through a walkie-talkie, the track risks taking things a turn for the lo-fi but Malinchak balances it out with exquisite engineering on the other synths and drum line. The production feels clean, strong.

The closer on the EP is “Kuzari.” The sonar whine and organ (which serves double duty as synth and bass) move the track through with purpose. The vocals are quite literally crying out with aspiration “I wanna be.” The only downside is the synth line at the end of the track gets so little play. Someone should really make use of it in a remix.

In the DC area? Check out Chris on May 26th with Oliver.