The Fade to Mind boss remixes one of the club world’s favorite singers.

After a few years of countless remixes, edits, and bootlegs of Ms. Ventura, we had just about sworn off new takes on Cassie — but if anyone could get us to reconsider, it would be Kingdom.

In this free edit, Kingdom blends RockaByeBaby highlight ‘All My Love’ with his Night Slugs-released ‘Fogs’. The tracks pair nicely, and the edit is up there with Kingdom’s superb Ciara and Floetry remixes.

The song was released “to celebrate saying bye to the pre-Vertical XL-era.” Vertical XL is due out on May 28 via Fade to Mind.

The Brooklyn-based producer leaks another track from her forthcoming Hyperdub EP.

Laurel Halo‘s brand new EP Beyond the Green Door is only days away, and NPR have today premiered the record’s closing track ‘Sex Mission’. Possibly the most unashamedly jackin’ track in Halo’s catalogue to date, the producer allows bubbling synthesizer sounds and gaseous noise to cushion her pounding 4/4s which gradually build into a ghostly climax that might suggest that the mission has indeed been accomplished.

To listen to the track head over here. You can hear another track, ‘Throw’, from the EP below.

Beyond the Green Door is out on May 20 via Hyperdub.

Some line-up changes to the newly-reformed industrial rock titans.

Yesterday, former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery pulled out of Trent Reznor’s latest incarnation of Nine Inch Nails, citing a desire to focus on his own music and film work rather than on a “growing” tour schedule. The split appears to be amicable, but Reznor wasted no time in finding a replacement: once-and-future NIN guitarist Robin Finck.

“I am proud to announce that the tour lineup now includes the incredible Robin Finck. The addition of Robin to the mix of players I’ve assembled makes this band incredibly powerful and versatile,” Reznor says on Facebook. “We are deep in the rehearsal process and it feels exciting and great to be back at this. Lots of information, surprises and sweat headed your way. Stay tuned!”

Finck will join Reznor, King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew, Telefon Tel Aviv’s Josh Eustis, and former NIN touring partners Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin in the band. The guitarist replaced original guitarist Richard Patrick and toured with the band at various points in the ’90s and ’00s. Nine Inch Nails have announced a handful of festival dates, and a new song is rumored to be released in June.

VICE has former-Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo review videos by M.I.A., Azealia Banks, Angel Haze, Brooke Candy, and more; here are some highlights.

“It’s like a flood of these little white bitches. That’s what’s up though. I think Kitty Pryde is dope. She’s got that TV-friendly face.” – on Kitty Pryde, with whom she has recorded an unreleased track

“I don’t consider myself a “bad bitch.” I’m over that… I don’t want my daughter calling herself a “bad bitch.” What does that even mean? I don’t have kids, but if my daughter said something like that, it better be because she is in school making good grades. Not because she has red bottoms. Being a bad bitch is fine, I’m just kinda over the materialistic aspect of it.” – on Pink Dollaz’s ‘Bad Bitch’

“Basic bitches shaking their ass.” – on Lady’s ‘Twerk’

“This bitch is one of my favorite bitches of all time… Her videos are empowering.” – on M.I.A.’s ‘Bad Girls’

Gangsta Boo’s It’s Game Involved is due out Monday and features Big K.R.I.T., 8Ball, and Raider Klan members Ethel Wulf and Amber London.

With each passing week, listening to the deluge of mixtapes, radio shows, and live sets from electronic producers and hip-hop artists alike becomes an even more insurmountable task. Quality offerings can fly under the radar, either added to our ever-growing “to listen” list or — more often than not – disregarded all together.

This week’s Mixtape Round-up finds a wealth of hip-hop mixtapes and club-ready DJ mixes, due in large part to an eagerly-anticipated album/tape from Chicago soul-trap pioneer Tree, a surprise offering from ‘Ima Read’ rapper Zebra Katz, and DJ sets from the always reliable Brenmar and Girl Unit.

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Le1f cleans up his act in this brand new video.

One of New York’s most unique contemporary rappers, Le1f can always be counted on for a good video, and ‘Spa Day’ does not disappoint. The track was already the clear stand-out of January’s Fly Zone mixtape, with its blend of Le1f’s signature vocal theatrics and a tough, neon-drenched beat from HarryB, and now it feels like it’s had the pampering it always deserved.

Set unsurprisingly in a spa, Leif and a number of his associates make sure they do it right as they get the wax and wash treatment and end up in a jacuzzi just for kicks. It could easily look cheesy, but director Jesse Miller-Gordon’s careful treatment means it comes off more Wes Anderson than Hype Williams, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all.

Update: Le1f just announced a summer tour that will take him through Europe and Australia; down under, he’ll be joined by Brooke Candy and House of Ladosha. Check out the tour flyer below.

The must-discussed singer-songwriter mines familiar territory on this latest leak.

After hearing her covers by forebears Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra, we’ve been treated to more new original material from the Born To Die songstress.

While Great Gatsby cut ‘Young & Beautiful’ saw Del Rey finding her inner-Chromatics, ‘Queen of Disaster’ is more like her early girl group-and-Everly Brothers ballads, with familiar lyrical jags about bad boys and beauty queens.

Stream ‘Queen of Disaster’ below. Earlier this year, LDR returned to the studio to work on her follow-up to Born to Die.

Professionally recorded and mastered live material to be delivered directly to your phone.

If you’ve been to a live show in the last few years you’ll be familiar with the problem, the humble cellphone has now replaced the lighter as the ‘in the air’ device of choice. It’s not simply used as illumination however, anyone who’s browsed these pages looking for advance listens of Kanye West (and plenty of others) will be used to hearing the crunchy distorted sound that results from a very loud source being recorded on a device that simply isn’t geared up for that kind of use. Sidelining the fact that the practice is illegal (imagine if two-thirds of the audience had been holding up tape recorders back in the 80s? You had to be discreet back then) and annoying for fans just trying to enjoy the show, it’s not the best look for the bands being recorded who would rather people were listening to their tracks at their properly-mastered best.

This is where Soundhalo comes in, and the app was debuted this week at an Alt-J performance at London’s Brixton Academy. The Android-only beta version is now downloadable from the Soundhalo site, and promises to allow users to “watch, download and share artist endorsed live music as it happens.”. Now that might sound a little vague, but the idea is that a production crew at the venue itself will combine soundboard recorded and quickly mastered audio with video footage shot at the venue and upload an MP4 file to the cloud immediately after the song has finished. Soundhalo users will then be able to purchase the tracks to listen to straight away.

It sounds a little like alchemy to us, but according to Alt-J it really worked with drummer Thom Green saying: ”I think it’s amazing that the whole show was streamed live on the internet. I’m glad they chose us to kick the whole thing off, it’s a real honour. It’s one of those things that you can’t really believe doesn’t already exist, it’s just so perfect. I can’t wait to see how far it goes and to watch it back myself and watch my own highlights on my phone.”.

We can’t imagine that the technology is going to benefit most of the acts featured in FACT any time soon, but it seems like a step in the right direction for larger shows that’s for certain, even if shelling out even more cash for live music probably isn’t on most people’s minds right now. [via The Guardian]

Return to the 36 Chambers.

Dug out from RZA‘s dusty vaults, ‘Execution In Autumn’ is exactly the kind of track Wu-Tang Clan fans have been waiting for, showing the hydra-like rap act firing on all cylinders over a typically crumbly Frank Dukes-produced beat. It might not be the new material we were all hoping for, but for now we’re content with this and it’s a timely reminder that when Wu-Tang are on form, they’re still just untouchable.

Let’s hope this is part of a long, Daft Punk-style campaign for A Better Tomorrow. [via Complex]

‘Execution in Autumn’ was released digitally today via Soul Temple Music, and can be pre-ordered on limited 7″ here.