Lee Coombs today announced that his long awaited album Light and Dark (Lot49) will be released October 12, 2009. Lee is a taste maker, a hit maker, and a true industry icon. We got to preview the whole album; we know DJs and electronic dance music fans alike are going to love it. Its smashing!

Light and Dark is the culmination of Lee’s nearly 20 years on the forefront of electronic music and takes listeners through a history of electronic music, whether they know it or not. The album carries the raw essence and edginess of 1991’s burgeoning musical birth without seeming contrived. Lee has managed to warp time it seems by creating a masterpiece of a record that seamlessly blends his musical experience and genius from both the past and the present. Grimy old school analog sounds fused with bold techy drum progressions and the BIG tech funk sound that Lee is known for. The innovative use of vocal cuts and Lee’s innate ability to infect all his music with that little touch of dirty sonic mayhem really take this record to the next level.

Light and Dark has classic written all over it. The first two singles from the album are already out. Control was released (with remixes from Rogue Element and 10 Rapid) in November 2008 with big bouncy basslines, trademark percussion and Katherine Ellis’s unmistakable vocals. Right Now is what rave music should be all about; big stabbing key riffs that explode into monster basslines! Its hot on the DMC and Beatport charts. The club mix and a dopamine remix arm DJs with a dance floor anthem to keep fans jumpin’.

Fusing all the elements of the genres he favors is a definitive mark of Lee Coombs’ music. By integrating elements of tech-funk (a genre that didn’t exist before Lee and a few other industry vets like Elite Force, Meat Katie, and Dylan Rhymes coined the phrase), breaks, house, electro and techno, Coombs has once again has broken the boundaries of music and how we perceive it. Light and Dark pushes all the right buttons by somehow fusing essential elements of everything we love about electronic music, those intangible parts that can never be explained, just experienced.

The Light and Dark tour is set for October and November 2009 taking Lee to the Far East, the United States, Australia and Europe. Expect full previews of Light and Dark when Lee takes to the decks this September at Black Rock City, NV at Burning Man.

More info at leecoombs.com, MySpace, and Facebook

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Vandal is on Lot49 and has recently been leaning towards tech-funk and electro/evil breakbeat tracks. This mix spans that and hints at some indie dance and early millennium UK progressive. His recent releases like Capital Magic continue his build towards his full debut album, tentatively titled Tonight We Ride!, later this year.

1. Tiga What You Need (Proxy Remix) [Turbo]
2. Disco Trash Music Neon Disco (Alex Gopher Remix)
3. Autodidakt Shit Your Rack (Proxy Remix) [Traktor]
4. A-Trak Say Woah (Boys Noize Remix) [Kitsune]
5. Housemeister Who’s That Boys [Boys Noize Records]
6. Vandal Big Dog [Unreleased]
7. Circuit Freq ZonderZug (Randolph & Mortimer RMX) [Circuit Freq Rec]
8. Hyper Vs Vandal Fugazi (Vandal Remix) [Kilowatt]
9. Felix Cartel Salty Lake [Dim Mak]
10. Filth & Spendour Shadow & Shape (James Harourt Remix) [Itch]
11. McLloyd Tembisa Funk (Jokers Of The Scene Remix) [Positiva]
12. Bloc Party Mercury (Herve Remix) [Witchita]
13. Pheonix Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix) [CDR]

More Vandal at SoundCloud.