DELS recently recorded a live session for Focusrite and Novation - check out his performance of GOB track "Moonshining" below.

GOB is available now on 2LP, CD and download at the Ninjashop and iTunes.

To celebrate the release of Black Sands Remixed, Ninja Tune and Bonobo art directors Oscar & Ewan have put together a collection of prints exhibiting artwork from the Black Sands campaign.

The three Black Sands photographs form a triptych around Derwentwater in the Lake District in Northern England. The photographs were taken at each point on the displayed map. Each view captures the place of the next photograph - the first of the second, the second of the third and the third of the first.

As if taken simultaneously, the subject of each being the distant site of the (practically) invisible camera taking a shot of the third site, and so each picture is bound in sequence to the next and thence back to itself.

The exhibition runs from tonight until 27 February, all info here. Black Sands Remixed is released 13 Feb, and as available to pre-order now on 3LP, CD + bonus 5" vinyl and download at the Ninjashop.

Raffertie's second EP for Ninja Tune, Mass Appeal, is out now.

Contextually, the Mass Appeal EP fits neatly as a natural successor to Raffertie’s debut Ninja Tune release, the critically-acclaimed Visual Acuity. This time it’s more about the subtlety of groove and patchworks of sonic colour, rather than out-and-out dancefloor madness. The dexterity of its musical content, like that of VA, reveals itself in the elastic manipulation of its rhythms and timbres.

Above all this music exercises a desire not to be tied down to any musical direction, style or genre. As Raffertie himself explains, “I want my music to be judged on its own merits, not in comparison to any genre or style. In any genre the very word results in preconceptions, often inaccurate, of what to expect.”

Mass Appeal is out now on 12" vinyl and download at the Ninjashop and iTunes. Check Raffertie's upcoming shows here, and listen to a new mix for Colette Paris here.

Stuart Howard aka Lapalux has come up with something special for his first release with Cali’s finest, Brainfeeder. Having made his name with his cassette and digital-only Many Faces Out Of Focus EP and acclaimed bootlegs and remixes he returns with a seven track EP of such poise and beauty, one listen is enough to know you’re onto something special. 

Lapalux bathes your brain in lush textures, surprising and explosive atmospheres set in unencountered, unearthly spaces, all somehow perfectly set against catchy rolling choruses informed by pop and commercial R&B. On the When You’re Gone EP he channels and refines his sound and shapes it into hazy, woozy emotion. Whether working with a singer like Py (on “Moments”), or deconstructing found samples and his own voice, Howard stretches, bends and warps sound to make soul – not plastic posturing but real emotion made of synthetic sound. 

When You're Gone is out now as a digital download at the Ninjashop and iTunes. A 12" vinyl version will be released 21 Feb in NA and 27 Feb in UK/EU/RoW.