The Big Pink are the latest act to curate a compilation for !K7′s Tapes series.

The tracks for the disc, which is out October 18, have been selected by band’s Milo Cordell.

“Doing this mix was a complete pleasure because I grew up recording mixes for myself and friends,” he says. “My goal has always been the same: to make something that transports you somewhere completely different.”

The salient theme of the mix is the kind of haunting electronic music and shattered psychedelia that the US underground is throwing up almost ad nauseam right now – drag, witch-house, hypnagogic pop, call it what you will. Salem, who first rose to prominence partly on the back of a 7″ release on Cordell’s Merok label, set the tone with their immense ‘Dirt’. “Someone asked me to describe what Salem sounded like and I said, Its the sound of america slowly dying”.

Many rising stars are represented on the mix – GR†LLGR†LL, oOoOO, Balam Acab, etc – but there’s also space for more established names like The xx, These New Puritans and Gang Gang Dance, who contribute both the original track ‘Ego War’ and a remix of The Big Pink’s ‘Velvet’, not to mention two emissaries from the UK dance scene – Actress and Joker.

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There’s a DIY aspect to most of the 16 tracks,” continues Cordell. “Many are nothing more complicated than a person tinkering on a laptop…In the ‘70s, punk had a DIY ethos, but you still had to have a band, you had to go to rehearsal rooms and practice. Now people are making music six feet from their beds. That’s going to have a certain honesty. It’s almost easier than DIY. I imagine 90% of music on the compilation was made in someone’s bedroom. That’s always appealed to me and my label, Merok. We’ve always championed this generation of musicians that make music in their bedrooms. It’s where people feel most at home.”

Tracklist:
1. Slow Dancing
2. Love Distance – Move On The Rain
3. Gang Gang Dance – Ego War
4. Joker – Snake Eater
5. Active Child – Body Heat (So Far Away)
6. Henny Moan – Vreg Dreams (Little Slow Mix)
7. Sewn Leather – Smoke Ov The Pvnk
8. Balam Acab – See Birds
9. yusuf b – kiss the nite
10. ZVA – Nothing
11. No Bra – Minger (These New Puritans Remix)
12. jj – Let Go
13. Salem – Dirt
14. Light Asylum – Shallow Tears
15. The Big Pink – Velvet (BDG Remix By Gang Gang Dance)
16. Actress – Hubble
17. oOoOO – Mumbai
18. The xx – Fantasy
19. Horse Macgyver – Tetanus Wine

It’s far from a bold statement to claim that Snoop Dogg’s 1993 debut album, Doggystyle is one of the all-time great hip-hop albums. And it’s definitely not bold to claim that the California icon hasn’t made an album that’s touched it since.

Well, over fifteen years since the release of Doggystyle, Snoop’s announced that his next album will be a sequel – Doggystyle 2. He did this at the end of a video filmed in the studio with premier rap producer Swizz Beats (surprisingly productive for Snoop, whose Ustream sessions usually involve him rolling joints and watching television), who recently made waves with his remix of Kanye West’s ‘Power’ and will be working on Doggystyle 2.

According to Snoop, in said clip, “the album is Doggystyle 2: The Doggumentary … [Swizz] just laced my boots up for my new record. Motherfucker gave me some gangsta shit, some Crips shit, some r’n'b shit, some hip-hop shit, some hard shit, mean shit.” It’ll be eighteen tracks long, and you heard the man – features a lot of different types of shit.

So can Snoop break a decade-and-a-half plus bad streak and come out with another great record? Probably not. But God knows we’ll be among the first in line to see.

Olde English Spelling Bee this week releases new LPs from Autre Ne Veut and Big Troubles.

Both could be described as disjointed pop records, but there the similarities end. Autre Ne Veut’s self-titled album draws sincere and straight-faced upon plastic 80s soul and AM-friendly synth-pop, effervescent but deeply weird harmonies riding densely clustered neo-tribal drums that recall Forest Swords, LA Vampires, early Animal Collective et al.

Big Troubles’ Worry follows their recent single for OESB, and is a well-judged, C-86-derived hail of guitar jangle and distortion that will undoubtedly appeal to fans of Ariel Pink and Real Estate.

Digital editions of both albums are available now; the vinyl is available from tomorrow, Friday 3 September. For more information, videos and other details, click here.

You can stream the Big Troubles album in full via their Bandcamp page here. Videos for their ‘Modern Intimacy’ and Autre Ne Veut’s ‘Soldiers’ below.

Autre Ne Veut tracklist:
1. Tell Me
2. OMG
3. Wake Up
4. Two Days Of Rain
5. Drama Cum Drama
6. Emotional
7. New Depth
8. Soldier
9. Demoneyez
10. Loveline

Worry tracklist:
1. Video Rock
2. Modern Intimacy
3. Bite Yr Tongue
4. Slouch
5. Georgia
6. Freudian Slips
7. Drastic and Difficult
8. Creeper
9. Desire For A Certain Thing To Happen
10. Feel Nothing
11. Boomerang
12. Lord Composure
13. Opposites
14. Astrology Screen Savers

Neon Noise Project‘s latest party takes place new London venue XOYO on Saturday 2 October.

The night is headlined by punk-funk standard-bearers We Have Band, who will be performing material from their recently released debut album WHB. Also playing live are Stateside-hailing synth-wavers Human Life.

DJ duties are taken care of by Institubes mainman and all-round electro floor-filler Surkin, Ed Banger’s DJ Feadz and Kitsune’s Punks Jump Up. Over in Room 2 it’s all about The C-90s, Tronik Youth and JBAG (Jerry Bouthier & Andrea Gorgerino).

The night runs 9.30pm-5am; for more information and tickets click here (£10 early bird passes are available until September 5).

One of our favourite up-and-coming producers, Subeena‘s style in unfixed and ever-evolving.

Having begun her career making dubstep with a capital D, her recent work has been more exploratory, tending towards stripped 4/4 rhythms and generally less oppressive atmospherics.

This track, a remix of promising New York five-piece Apache Beat (pictured), is basically low-slung house, militaristic drums offset by an uncommonly deft arrangement and sensitive treatment of her source material. Rather than foregrounding the original track’s vocal or doing away with it completely, the Londoner uses it almost an instrumental texture, prompting you to focus on the pure sonic character of the words rather than their literal meaning.

Download: Apache Beat – Another Day (Subeena Remix)

As if it their deep-seated love of John Carpenter’s music wasn’t already obvious, French synth freaks Zombie Zombie have decided to release an album of cover versions: Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter.

John Carpenter, as most of you will know, is the visionary director of such classic and abundantly weird Hollywood chillers as The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13 and Prince of Darkness. He invariably created his own soundtracks for his films, using analogue synths to convey dread and suspense in a manner that has proved to be hugely influential not just on film scores but on electronic music at large.

Zombie Zombie – the duo of Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman – have long been vocal in their admiration for Carpenter’s work. For Plays John Carpenter, out October 11 on Versatile Records, they’ve hooked up with producer Joakim; according to a press release, the album “combines live, militaristic rhythm, minimal synth lines and intimated fear to push the legendary film-maker’s vision into something horrific and beautiful, dark yet beguiling.”

They gamely tackle the frankly unimprovable main themes from Assault On Precinct 13 and Halloween, and also two pieces from Carpenter and Alan Howarth‘s Escape From New York and Escape From LA scores. The album closes with a version of The Thing theme, originally composed by Carpenter and Ennio Morricone.

Tracklist:
1. The Bank Robbery (from Escape From New York)
2. Escape From LA (Main Theme)
3. Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Theme)
4. Halloween (Main Theme)
5. The Thing (Main Theme)

Manchester clubbing staple The Warehouse Project has announced its first ever London show.

Taking place on Friday October 29, it will be ran in conjunction with Delphic, who are performing and, we presume, have some role in booking. The venue is Ewer Street Warehouse, which is actually on Great Suffolk Street, SE1. Early bird tickets are available now, priced at £10 – the rest of the names are still to be announced.

In addition to this, a further Manchester date has been announced for December 15, headlined by Skream and Benga, and featuring Toddla T, Ms Dynamite and more.

For full details of this year’s Warehouse Project, click here.

The new England football strip features a design contribution from Peter Saville [via Creative Review].

According to manufacturers Umbro, the new shirt “takes its inspiration from the more formal classic shirts of England’s footballing past. Umbro has developed a new longer, more open neckline for the shirt, building on the square neckline that was designed for the away shirt but allowing additional movement across the chest, keeping its shape especially when a player is running.”

Esteemed graphics genius Saville, best known to music fans for creating the visual identity of Factory Records, has contributed a graphic of multicoloured crosses to the shoulders of the shirt, intended to evoke the basting stitches common to bespoke tailoring, and also to represent the diversity of English society. According to Creative Review, his brief was strictly limited by Umbro: he was asked simply to suggest ways in which colour could be incorporated into the design while keeping it predominantly white.

The new strip will be worn by the England team when they play their friendly against Bulgaria tomorrow. Look out for a forthcoming interview with Saville on the CR site.