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"Due To Popular Demand From Djs, Designers, Directors, Dancers, & Debutantes... We're Posting The Instrumental Version Of "AFTER DARK 2" For Everyone To Cut Up For Their Mixtapes, Runways, Films, Stages, Parties, Etc..." Download all of the instrumentals from After Dark 2 for free here, courtesy of Italians Do It Better...

"Jetée" is the beautifully lush + spacious new house single from London's Fort Romeau. Like all of the producer's best work, the track has a warm glow that's laced with just the right amount of late-night longing, and his label Ghostly correctly claims that it's "fit for both large soundsystems and epic summer travels...

If you don't have After Dark 2 yet, Johnny Jewel has generously upped a mixed version of the full comp -- one of our favorite releases of the year so far -- and it's a free download. Grab it: ...and while you're at it, might as well grab the original classic too:

Tracklist after the jump. Get it on iTunes. Physical copies apparently "on the way..." Italians Do It Better on the slight discrepancy between the tracklist that's been floating around and the final tracklist: "NIGHT SHIFT & JOHANNA WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY. AND THE GLASS CANDY SONGS WILL BE ON "BODY WORK". JOHNNY HAD 27 TRACKS MIXED & MASTERED FOR AFTER DARK 2. B

Another gem from After Dark 2, which is finally/officially out this Friday(!): this glorious 9+ minute vocoder jam from Mirage:"Let's Kiss" was written the same week as "Under Your Spell" in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life...

Here's an amazing/essential new mix for autumn from Glass Candy/Chromatics/SYMMETRY/Desire mastermind Johnny Jewel, featuring tracks from SYMMETRY, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Kraftwerk, Nico, and more. Johnny Jewel says: "After looping the globe twice...We're finally back in Montreal for one of my favorite times of year. It's the end of Autumn, & all of the Reds, Greens, & Yellows have

Another one from After Dark 2, directed by Alberto Rossini.

Italians Do It Better has just announced the long-awaited sequel to After Dark, featuring new/unreleased tracks from Glass Candy, Chromatics, SYMMETRY, Desire, Farah, and more. After Dark 2 is out on "gold glitter vinyl" triple LP on October 15, check the tracklist here...

Chromatics + Desire have released a gorgeous black & white artbook, featuring the above images + any many more. No word on whether the Black & White 2 artbook will get a much-deserved physical release, but you can download all of the images in hi-res here...