dance music news: tuesday

-Wired reports that Thievery Corporation's forthcoming down-tempo album, Radio Retaliation, is due Sept. 23 and will take a swipe at mainstream radio. "Apart from a few independent bastions, there is no musical or informational freedom on the U.S. airwaves anymore," Thievery's Eric Hilton tells the mag's website. "They’ve been bought up, consolidated and homogenized. Radio Retaliation is about an exodus of conscious people who are willing to acknowledge something is wrong with the 'official version' in news and culture." (Pictured above: Hilton, left, with Thievery partner Rob Garza).

-Breakbeat duo turned Hollywood film scorer Hybrid has a new two-disc mix-CD, Soundsystem 01, coming at you sometime next month via Nettwerk (it's already out in the U.K.). The first disc features some of the pair's own ambient film-score work, which is woven with down-tempo beats. The second disc is on a club tip and will eschew the act's breakbeat past for more of a "techier, 4/4-driven groove." "We're on the opposite end of minimal - more maximal, really," says Hybrid's Mike Truman. "We've always wanted these expansive sounds behind everything, which makes our songs so cinematic."

-Stones Throw records today released a retrospective of '80s-era output from the Arabian Prince, an L.A. electro-rap DJ who helped found N.W.A. Innovative Life - The Anthology 1984-1989 is described as "a glimpse into an overlooked chapter in hip-hop's history."

-Roger Sanchez blogs at the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper about "how to write a killer dance tune."

-The Amsterdam Dance Event, which takes place Oct. 22-25, has announced its lineup. Armin, Sander, Digitalism, Richie, Sven, Tommie Sunshine, Jackal & Hyde (live) and many more are scheduled to perform.