Off The Record

chDetroit selector Andrés, AKA DJ Dez, will play at Goodgod Small Club next month as part of the monthly Red Bull Music Academy series (as we hinted two weeks ago). Andrés has been in the game for 25 years now, bringing his house and hip hop tastes to audiences worldwide. A regular on Moodymann’s seminal labels KDJ and Mahogani Music, he released arguably the most ubiquitous track of 2012 with his ‘New For U’ on La Vida. Andrés headlines RBMA at Goodgod Small Club on Friday August 8. Entry is free, but you need to RSVP at dashtickets.com.au/tour/63.

There are dickhead DJs (looking at you David Guetta), and there are dickhead DJs. Anklepants falls into the latter category. Armed with an ‘animatronic dick-face’ (his words) Anklepants, real name Reecard Farché, creates explosions of distorted mutant bass with a semen-like pop glazing, if that makes sense. He began to rise to global notoriety following his ubiquitous performance on Boiler Room, and now he’s coming (ahem) to Sydney. Basically, it’s going to be fucked up – in the best way possible. He’s playing at Chinese Laundry on Saturday August 16. Batten down the hatches.

On Monday night it was announced that Melbourne would be receiving an Australian exclusive concert of Light From the Outside World, which sees Detroit techno titan Jeff Mills join forces with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. While no Sydney dates have been announced thus far, sources tell us that Mills will be performing DJ shows around Australia to coincide with his visit. Keep an ear out at thebrag.com and expect to see him visit mid-October.

You can pretty much lock-in Pantha du Prince as a headliner for OutsideIn this year. The news comes via the festival’s Facebook page that posted ‘clues’ towards the 2014 line up and featured some not-so-subtle hints that the German producer would be performance. The full line up will drop in two weeks – other acts who are more or less confirmed via these clues are Giraffage and Client Liaison. OutsideIn will take place on Saturday November 29, venue TBA.

Other tour rumours on the grapevine this week are a late-August visit from Italian cosmic legend Beppe Loda alongside tours from Swedish house export HNNY and English UK garage legend Wookie later in the year.

Coober Pedy University Band have finally released what I suspect will be one of the biggest tracks to come out of Australia this year in ‘Kookaburra’. The project is a collaboration between Tornado Wallace and Tom Moore from DJ duo Otologic who debuted the track earlier this year in their Boiler Room set. If you ever want to hear kookaburras and didgeridoos in a club, this is your jam – it’s out now on Animals Dancing Records. Other killer releases this week include Shackleton’s Deliverance Series No. 1 (on Woe To The Septic Heart) and Aybee and Afrikan Sciences’ Sketches Of Space (on Deepblak Recordings).