Later this month, Theo Parrish will be releasing all eight Ugly Edits as a 2CD package. There’s no official release date announced, but shipping dates suggest that Ugly Edits will be released towards the end of this month.

The original Ugly Edits, Parrish’s re-edits of Jill Scott, The Dells, Minnie Ripperton, Funkadelic, Etta James and others, were released in limited numbers, and hand spray painted by Parrish. Short runs meant a number of bootleg and pirate editions cropped up.

The 2CD set will also be released in limited numbers, and sites that will be stocking Ugly Edits are recommending pre-orders.

Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden), is streaming new single “Locked” via Soundcloud. The track is next on the release schedule for his Text label, arriving in September, and is included on the forthcoming Four Tet Fabriclive album released later this month (tracklisting here). Hebden has also promised another (as yet unnamed) release from Text around September. Listen to "Locked" below:

Locked (TEXT011) by Four Tet

To celebrate its 15th birthday, Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender’s Raster Noton label will be holding a trio of events across the globe, in Rome, Tokyo and Berlin. Full details are not confirmed, but preliminary line ups include alva noto, Atom™, Anne James Chaton, Byetone, and Vladislav Delay, plus screenings of Nicolai’s Future Past Perfect and more (note: line ups may change). For full details, stay tuned to the Raster Noton site.

Also on the way from Raster Noton are new releases from alva noto and Byetone in October, and Vladislav Delay in November. Dates for the 15th birthday shows are as follows: Rome Villa Massimo, 9 September. Tokyo Womb, 9 October, Berlin Berghain, 4 November.

To mark Mordant Music’s 50th release, The Baron has released a 41 track compilation, including excerpts from the Misinformation DVD and new and unreleased tracks by Shackleton, Ekoplekz, Mordant Music, Vindicatrix, Mr Maxted and others. ModernismuseuM is released as a digital download only (FLAC and MP3), and comes bundled with "MMegaplekz": a 75 minute mix by Ekoplekz.

Ekoplekz recorded the mix live, in four sections which were then stitched together digitally. He says: “I ignored any sense of chronology, just tried to make random neural connections wherever possible. I wanted it to start very abstract, so the listener felt disorientated at the start with nothing to cling on to, then gradually bring in a sense of order - and then shatter it again at every turn." More info and tracklisting here.

The German experimental rock festival Klangbad delves into opera this month. Director Thomas Birschoff re-interprets Heiner Müller's play Quartett (based on Dangerous Liaisons). Birschoff collaborates with Einstürzende Neubauten's FM Einheit, who will soundtrack the opera with live improvisation.

Also performing at the festival are Red Snapper, Felix Kubin and Trembling Bells. Full listing here, and listen to Klangbad's festival sampler below:
2011SamplerMixtape by Klangbad

Drag City will be reissuing two albums by Carlos Paredes, a Portuguese 12 string guitarist name-checked by Sir Richard Bishop, Will Oldham and Ben Chasny, and the man Six Organs Of Admittance dedicated their album School Of The Flower to.

Drag City will be releasing two albums on 7 November: Guitarra Portuguesa from 1967, and Movimento Perpétuo from 1971. Paredes passed away in 2004. For more details on Carlos Paredes's life and work, head here.

Machinedrum (aka Travis Stewart) is giving away a free EP to folks who’ve bought a copy of his recent Planet Mu album Room(s). The EP, titled Ecstasy Boom, is a collection of Jungle, Hardcore and rave tunes mixed by Machinedrum into Juke edits. Machinedrum says: “I’ve been playing these in my live/DJ sets for the past half year. [The EP] includes edits of Vibes & Wishdokta, Secret Squirrel, Roni Size and more.”

The offer is available strictly until 3 August (this coming Wednesday), and it's only available in AIF format. To get a copy, send a screenshot or scan of your receipt to ecstasyboom@machinedrum.net. More info/disclaimers here.

Jonny Mugwump has launched a YouTube channel documenting his Exotic Pylon nights at Dalston’s Vortex, plus footage from his Resonance FM show, and visuals from the Exotic Pylon Sinfonia.

Exotic Pylon at The Vortex started last August, with Position Normal, The Time Attendant, Cindytalk and Doug Shipton. Guests since then have included Shackleton, Black To Comm, Raime, Ekoplekz, Vindicatrix, Hong Kong In The 60s, Mordant Music, Hacker Farm, Dolphins Into The Future, and more. The next Exotic Pylon features Andy Stott, Ensemble Economique, and High Wolf, on 12 August. More info and future listings here. Watch Seahawks live at the Vortex below:

Joker’s debut album The Vision will be released on 4AD in early November. The album follows the release of 12” “The Vision (Breathe In)” back in mid May, and features input from Jessie Ware and Buggsy.

Ahead of the 7 November release date, 4AD will release “Here Come The Lights” and “My Trance Girl” on 12 September, as digital downloads and on 12”. More info and upcoming dates for Joker at the 4AD site.

The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago has an open call for papers for its Sound Art Theories Symposium, which will run 5–6 November this year. Five speakers are lined up so far: David Grubbs, Seth Kim-Cohen, Salomé Voegelin, Allen S Weiss, and Christopher Cox.

Along with the speakers, the symposium seeks papers to be presented, and has extended the deadline for submissions to 21 August. The event will also include exhibitions and performances, including works open to the public for free by Steve Peters, Olivia Block, Joseph Mills and Damon Locks of Experimental Sound Studio. For more info head here.