Party like the sun’s shining at Shoreditch’s Village Underground on June 22.

Influential French label Kitsuné are bringing their hugely successful Club Night back to London this summer, and line-up is making us think there might even be some sunshine to go along side it (we should be so lucky). Headed up by acclaimed Norwegian nu-disco pioneer Lindstrøm, the list goes from strength to strength with appearances from Kitsuné veterans Gildas & Jerry Bouthier, LA disco rockers Classixx, fidgety Kitsuné faves Punks Jump Up and fresh Gallic talent Pyramid.

Phew, it might be a pretty long list of names, but knowing Kitsuné they’ll make sure it’s a blissful affair, and promising to bring the sun, sea and sounds to grey old Shoreditch you’ve got to hand it to ‘em – they’re doing the Lord’s work.

For more information and tickets head here.

Krautrock figurehead Conrad Schnitzler might have passed away in 2011, but his influence continues to percolate. 

Training under Joseph Beuys, Schnitzler dipped in and out of some of the most iconic German outfits of the 1970s, working with Kluster, Tangerine Dream and his own Eruption outfit. His thrumming electronic music is often fingered as a crucial part in the DNA of techno and synth wave, and celebrated electronic artists have correspondingly paid tribute; he was “reconfigured” in a 2011 remix set from Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer. Those seeking to scrub up on his life and times were given a lifeline last year in the form of Vinyl On Demand’s ConTainer T1-12: 1971-1983 – an eight disc vinyl box set surveying his 1970/1980s purple patch.

Productive archivists Bureau B are just about to reissue two hard-to-find Schnitzler albums dating back to 1981. Contempora is an expansive compendium of short sketches and half formed pieces, composed on EMS Synthi A and Korg MS10 synthesisers. Conrad And Sohn, meanwhile, is a cosy split LP with his son Gregor; the father handles Side A, the son is represented on the flip.

Both records have been expanded for the occasion. The vinyl edition of Contempora now features eight new tracks, with the CD edition boasting one extra track. The CD edition of Conrad And Sohn, meanwhile, now boasts five bonus tracks, although the 12″ will keep the same tracklist as the original.Both record will come with liner notes from fellow Krautrock traveller Asmus Tietchens.

Both records are due tomorrow on vinyl, CD and digital formats. A selection of Contempora snippets are available to sample below.

Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys return with new material.

It’s been a while since we heard from the Arctic Monkeys, but they appeared for the first time in over a year in California last night, and quite surprisingly debuted a brand new track. Entitled ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ we would assume that it’s been plucked from their heavily rumoured but as-yet-unconfirmed 2013 album.

The track is a ragged, druggy slow-burner, hardly an obvious choice to lead into a new phase, but definitely an interesting one from a band that don’t appear to have much interest in being swept in by the regular musical tide. We could even say it almost sounds stylistically linked to previous collaborator Josh Homme’s Queens of the Stone Age, so make of that what you will. [via NME]

Halfway into their maiden year, Fabric’s label venture Houndstooth have announced details of HTH009.

Co-ordinated by Rob Booth of Electronic Explorations, Houndstooth has thrown its lot behind artists experimenting with darker strains of house, techno and drum’n'bass. Thus far, we’ve been furnished with an opening salvo from Objekt cohort and FACT mixer Call Super; King Cannibal side project House Of Black Lanterns released the varied Kill The Lights full-length; Dave Clarke’s went covert with the brooding _Unsubscribe_ project;  and new material has also dropped from ∆kkord. We’ve got a hunch the best is yet to come: excellent beatmaker and A Future Without boss Throwing Snow has signed to the label.

The next Houndstooth release will arrive courtesy of Alec ‘Al Tourettes’ Story, trading under the sort-of-eponymous alias Second Storey. Under his more famous moniker, Story has put out electro-leaning releases on Baselogic, Sneaker Social Club and Appleblim’s Apple Pips label. The ‘Blim connection runs deep, with the pair also collaborating on Aus Music back in 2010. The Margosa Heights EP will bundle four new tracks, and show Story on grander, more cinematic form than seasoned listeners might be used to.

Margosa Heights will arrive on 12″  on June 24, with a digital edition to follow on July 1. [via Juno Plus]

Tracklist:
A1. Arpy Garbles
A2. Still Seas / Just Mortal
B1. Margosa Heights
B2. Hebridean Mind Tours

May 31 will see baritone techno head Matthew Dear touching down for his sole UK show of 2013.

In order to celebrate their 1st birthday, promoters Peculiar will bring the Texan to an as-yet-unannounced London venue for an headline set. These days, Dear’s main gig is turning out romantic electro-pop under his own name, but he’s long earned his stripes as a techno producer. Whether working as False, Jabberjaw or, most notably, Audion, he’s proved a dab hand at switching between hard-edged 4×4 and softer fare. Backing up the Ghostly boss? Holic and Womb Tokyo selector Tomoki Tamura and Peculiar regular Ibellini.

Tickets and further information are available here. [via Resident Advisor]

If FACT TV has taught us one thing, its that our readers (or, erm, viewers) like to see how musicians make things.

Egyptian Lover playing his Roland TR-808 live through a hotel alarm clock is the most popular episode we’ve uploaded since our relaunch, while MPC demonstrations from AraabMUZIK and FunkinEven and a remix tutorial with MK aren’t far behind. This prompted us to launch a new series, Against the Clock. The rules are very simple: in each episode, we’ll take one of our favourite artists, and get them to make something there and then. They have 10 minutes to do so.

Against the Clock’s third episode, following sessions with xxxy and Thefft, features KiNK. The Bulgarian producer has been breathing new life into classic dance music forms – piano house, acid, loop techno – for several years now, both in the studio and with his live set-up, and with him scheduled to play secretsundaze’s Bank Holiday event this weekend, we asked him about taking on the challenge. Of course, KiNK being KiNK, he did things a little differently: he sent us a video, filmed by Boris Katzounov, of him using vinyl acapellas and his armoury of studio gear to show off what he does live in five minutes – because why bother with 10 when you’re this smooth, right?

Kink plays secretsundaze’s Bank Holiday event with Nick Hoppner and more this weekend. Tickets are available here.

New London grime night Boxed returns this Friday, May 24, at Brixton’s Plan B.

Focused on the current wave of promising grime producers – and there are a lot of them, check Boxed resident Slackk’s monthly mixes for proof – and firmly repping South London despite a recent excursion to Shoreditch’s Plastic People, this edition of Boxed will feature residents Slackk, Mr. Mitch, Logos and Oil Gang – recently picked as one of our labels to watch in 2013 – alongside Flex FM DJ Grandmixxer.

You can check out full details of the night, plus win a competition to blag guestlist, vinyl and more, here.

Some tidbits from Nile Rodgers‘ talk at the International Music Summit in Ibiza have come trickling in through Twitter this morning. 

The most interesting of them refer to Rodgers’ future collaborations. Following his work on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, including the #1 single ‘Get Lucky’, Rodgers – who in the past has worked with the likes of David Bowie, Diana Ross and Peter Gabriel – has been in the studio with EDM poster boy Avicii, Rodgers describing him as “one of my favorite songwriting partners I’ve had in a long time. I have so much respect for him.”

Avicii has clearly been taking inspiration from the collaborators on Random Access Memories – it emerged earlier this week that he’s also been working with Giorgio Moroder. Also in the pipeline for Nile: a session with fast-rising UK duo Disclosure, and work with Chase & Status, Etienne Daho and David Guetta. Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Rodgers revealed that earlier this week he was “with David Guetta writing a song [they've also been having lunch meetings together]. It was unbelievable, we went until 2 in the morning, and Arthur Baker and Taylor Dayne popped by – it felt like it was if we were back in the ’80s. And we laughed and said, ‘If this was the old days, we would take this rough mix and rush down to Paradise Garage and play it, see how it worked on the crowd before we finished the record.”

Rodgers also, of course, has that collection of lost Chic material on the way. You can read our recent feature on his more overlooked collaborations here.

Here’s some intriguing news regarding this summer’s biggest “musical by a pair of middle-aged men” that seems to have slipped under the radar in the last week. 

As evidenced by everything from those fawning Collaborators clips through to its atavistic lyric sheet, Random Access Memories is an instrumental record through-and-through; out with computers, in with analogue kit and good honest fretwork. As MTV note, however, Messrs Bangalter and de Homem-Christo haven’t completely given up on the club producer model.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1′s Pete Tong at the start of the week, the pair revealed that they’ll be producing their own remixes of RAM tracks in the coming months. According to Bangalter, this will mark the pair’s first proper excursion into the selfie remix:

“We’re working on some mixes ourselves. So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk. Usually, we never mix ourselves, that’s something we feel we’re interested in doing this time.”

The first track the pair will tackle is ‘Get Lucky’; according to Bangalter, the remix will be “out by the end of June”. Listen to the full interview here.

‘Horizon’, the lush bonus track on the Japanese edition of Random Access Memories, is now available to stream. For those among you that like a flutter, Paddy Power recently put out odds of 7/1 on Random Access Memories becoming the bestselling album of all time in the UK by 2015.