This new deal means that Beatport can now sell music from EMI’s catalogue of dance and electronic music and mixies such as releases from EMI’s Positiva, one of the longest running and most successful imprints in dance music, now in its 18th year, labels such as DFA and a whole host of artists such as The Chemical Brothers, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Kraftwerk and many more. Read the announcement in full here.

The first release through the new partnership is the new Positiva-released single ‘Open Your Eyes’ from Alex Metric with Steve Angello (of Swedish House Mafia). The instrumental mix of the track is available now exclusively on Beatport ahead of the single’s full release in March. You can get it on Beatport here.

The song was recently Pete Tong’s Essential New Tunes on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. As the man himself says, the tune is so large it needs a festival named after it.

Check it out here:

The band has just released their highly anticipated debut album “Stuck On Nothing,” in digital form today.  The album was produced by James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), via DFA Records.

You can preview the record in full via stream here on Absolute Punk.

The album will also be out on CD and vinyl on May 4th.

Today you can get a free download from the band via RCRDLBL.  Check it here.

Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork U.S. Festival Dates Confirmed
UK/Euro Headline Dates Continue To Sell Out

LCD Soundsystem has confirmed May 17th (UK) and May 18 (U.S) as  release dates  of  its as yet untitled third album.  The record will be released  on  DFA/Virgin in the U.S. and will consist of the  following   songs:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk   Girls  *
One Touch
All I Want
Change   *
Hit  *
Pow Pow
Somebody’s Calling  Me  *
What You  Need

The above were recorded at The Manshun in Los Angeles and the DFA studios in New York and  mixed at DFA from  April 2009 through February 2010.   TBD was written and produced by James Murphy. Additional mixes were done   by Dave Sardy as indicated (*).

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy; photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya

The new album is LCD  Soundsystem’s  first full offering of new studio material since  2007’s Sound Of  Silver, which was  named best album of  the last decade by NPR, ranked #1 in the 2007 Village  Voice  Pazz & Jop critics poll, landed at #12 and #17 respectively in   Rolling Stone and Pitchfork’s best albums of the  decade, and  like its predecessor 2005’s  LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy  nomination for Best Electronic/Dance  Album.  Sound Of Silver also featured “All My Friends,” ranked #4 by Time in its Best Songs of 2007 and named single of the year by Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly #8 song of 2007 “Someone Great.” In 2008, LCD Soundsystem contributed the track “Big Ideas” to the soundtrack of the movie 21.  The band has since released the 45:33: The Remixes EP   and a cover of Alan Vega’s “Bye Bye Bayou,” issued to   commemorate Record Store Day 2009 and earning LCD its fifth NME  single of the week. The album  will be preceded by  the March 23  release of the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach’s   Greenberg, which  features both composition’s from James  Murphy’s  original score for the  film and the new LCD  Soundsystem song “Oh You  (Christmas  Blues).”

The  record’s release will be supported by a  world tour beginning  with an April 16 penultimate slot at the Coachella  festival in  Indio CA and continuing with a run  of  UK/Europe headline   dates (several of which have sold out well in  advance and  necessitated added  dates) and further worldwide festival   appearances. For a full itinerary check http://lcdsoundsystem.com/

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