With the proliferation of companies like Arduino and Adafruit, the advent of standards is a good sign indeed.

Read more on CNET or checkout the first draft of the actual standard.

If you use Cycling 74's Max or Jitter for real-time video production or to create video effects, you'll be happy to know that the AU-VI Jitter suite is now being offered for free!

The AU-VI objects are a collection of 85+ modular real-time video processing programs created by Kurt Ralske and up till recently were sold for $200. For more information, go straight to the proverbial horse's mouth.

We are proud to present a new 12" EP by Los Angeles based artists dubLoner (AKA [a]pendics.shuffle) and Isaac Haile Selassie, featuring remixes by a cast of San Francisco Bay area producers. The record entitled The Fight, The Spirit is out in finer record stores this week, distributed by Crosstalk International (Chicago) and available directly from the label.

For sounds & more information on the record, check out the release page and our soundcloud widget below.

The release is also available on all your favourite online outlets:

• Beatport
  
• Emusic
  
• iTunes
  
• Juno
  
• Zero Inch
  
• Dancetracks Digital
  

Release blurb:

“The Fight, The Spirit” is the first record in a series of 3 records, that mark a new collaborative chapter between the Echo Park, Los Angeles artists: Isaac Haile Selassie and dubLoner (AKA [a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, Kenneth J. Gibson).

After the critical success of Isaac Haile Selassie meets ... (de'fchild 009), Issac & Ken were back in the studio in 2009 conjuring up a modern yet rootsy sound that would prove to be some of the most forward reaching electronic dub of 2010.

On the remix front, Djunya & Kush Arora reversion the title track towards floor-filling contemporary dubstep & bassed-up dancehall styles respectively, while Ruoho Ruotsi goes ultra deep and effervescent on his version of Back Off!.

“The Fight, The Spirit” is available as limited edition wax with individually hand spray-screened sleeves from May 25th, 2010. Also available digitally at finer web shops.

*Clicky* below for hi-rez photos of the artwork on flickr:

Last December, Ruoho Ruotsi did a remix for Switzerland's Julien Aubert new EP, Still Life With Skull, which was just released on this week on Creaked Records.

The EP is digital-only and can be picked up at select digital outlets. You can check out a preview of the track on our soundcloud page. Embedded below. Enjoy!

Julien Aubert - Frame (Ruoho Ruotsi Reshape)

In memoriam of Steve Reid, the master jazz drummer who died last week, it was bittersweet to revisit this interview from 2007 and watch this short documentary which covered the making of Daxaar, a collaboaration with various Senegalese musicans and Four Tet, filmed in Dakar.

R.I.P. Steve

Meet the Makers: Walter Kitundu

Four years ago or so, when I first encountered Walter Kitundu, I wrote a glowing piece on his work. So I was very tickled the other day when I found this hi-rez video from the Learning Studio with the man himself. Check their blurb:

Exploratorium multimedia artist, instrument builder, and birder extraordinaire Walter Kitundu talks about his work: he shares the staggering breadth of his work, ranging from a multitude of turntable-based instruments to shadow paintings, and to finish gives a premiere performance on his brand new instruments, a digital kora.

Out this week on Adjunct Digital, the Los Angeles based label run by dubLoner aka [a]pendics.shuffle aka Kenneth James Gibson, has released the first in a series of remixes of the classic dubLoner catalogue.

The EP, simply titled dubLoner - Remixes Part One, is available now on Boomkat and features a remix by Ruoho Ruotsi. Check out a preview on the soundcloud player below!

Enjoy!

dubLoner - Clear Murk (Ruoho Ruotsi Reshape) by defchild

Resident Advisor recently ran a very informative and insightful article on the current state of the vinyl trade in 2010. It surveys how wax collectors and connoisseurs are getting their fixes and what online tactics the remaining physical record shops are resorting to, to find customers.

Check out the article and support your local independent purveyor of fine vinyl!!

Over the last couple of months, lots of changes happening here at HQ. Most notably, we've moved into a new, much bigger & inspiring space in the Presidio.

On the musical end, we've planned a busy release schedule for 2010, including new music by Isaac Haile Selassie, dubLoner, Djunya, Kush Arora, Aschka, Dirk Leyers & Ruoho Ruotsi as well as a series of music-video collaborations with Sue-C. Stay tuned!

New snail mail address is:

de’fchild productions, inc.
548 Market St #21116
San Francisco, CA 94104
U.S.A.

The label is featured in the current edition of Big Shot Magazine. Its a short and sweet tribute to our rewarding work putting out vinyl in a small, ever-dwindling yet still viable marketplace. Thanks to Sean Yoder @ Vinyl Junkies for the interview!!