Ellie Herring

Back in June, U.S. producer Ellie Herring gave an illuminating introspection of her outreaching style with 'Cool It'. The track was equal parts chromed out echo and haunting new wave plush, earning a mechanic, fuzzy feel.

With 'Gem Landing', Herring solidifies her production instincts, laying out chilled-out techno glitches with the very familiar vocal-compressed styles of her previous work, which can be heard via Herring's Soundcloud.

Listen and download 'Gem Landing' below and look out for more work from the Kentucky native in the near future. - The 405

If you want to know where music is going sonically, then you really need to look no further than Lexington, KY producer Ellie Herring. Her remixes are all on point and her mixtapes are curated impeccably from start to finish, as can be heard here. With an EP and LP to her name in the past year (found here), she is really starting to step up her original music game as well. Her latest one-off is titled “Gem Landing”. The song has a dreamlike, in-between quality about it that plays out like the moment where sunlight begins to fade over the horizon slowly transitioning into night. Stream and download it below. - My Old Kentucky Blog

Slowly, but surely Lexington, Kentucky native Ellie Herring has been building momentum and making a name for herself with original work and remixes. Today, she released a mix for fashion-forward designer clothing online boutique SSENSE. You can find the stream along with the tracklist below. - MOKB : My Old Kentucky Blog

Don't let her Kentucky roots fool you -- Ellie Herring knows her electronic music. On the heels of her Chipped EP, Ellie's mix combines SSENSE favorites Stwo, Jessy Lanza, Tinashe, Carling Ruse, and RuddyP with her originals "The Never Ache," and "Cool It." - SSENSE

Ellie Herring’s remix of Dross track “Softpretty” is downright shimmery. You’re going to need this on a hot summer night. Download the track below, or revisit Doss’ debut EP here. (Actually that isn’t an either/or statement. Do both.) - Under the Radar

Looping electronic sounds abound in Ellie Herring's 'Cool It' right here. I'm gonna have to say right away that I adore the chord progression around the halfway mark – reminds me of a piece of music from Mario Kart 64. Said chords are warm and fuzzy, blanketing a tick-tock mechanism of percussion that bounces with trap's laid-back intensity It's difficult to define exactly what this is though, not that you particularly need to know. You just need to listen to it. Appreciate its thickets of sounds vocal samples like pixie phantasms struggling through nostalgic circuitry of dial-tone melody, swirling in the track's general atmosphere of fantastical reality. - The 405

Ellie Herring has dropped a new track, “Cool It”, that’s perfect for an endless float in the ocean. Let the chill ambience of “Cool It” guide your body away until all signs of life disappears. - Earbuddy

I’m not going to puff out my chest and say “bow to my influencery,” but I was certain that after we posted about Ellie Herring last month, she’d be getting more coverage. For all of the talk about the lack of women in the electronic scene, you’d think media outlets would spend more time seeking, finding, and covering the talented ladies on the boards out there. What the fuck do I know? Why even bother with that rant? We’re sitting on a track that I hope puts a bit of a chill into what’s certain to be a day that’s hotter than hot. We’re on the cusp of summer and I’m already at the “I need to carry a sweat rag around” phase. Nothing like an appropriately-titled tune to help keep me chilled. If I do say so myself, I love how she flows a frigid, spooky intro into an immediately-booming beat. Love these crispy riddims. Free download to boot? Ellie’s got you. - Do Androids Dance

Doss‘ unstoppable debut 12″ is the gift that keeps giving, as Lexington, KY producer Ellie Herring turns EP highlight “Softpretty” into a shimmery, very chill summer night gem (speaking of balmy summer-y vibes, also check Ellie’s “Cool It” over on her soundcloud). - Gorilla vs. Bear

Ahead of Kite Day's release next week, Ellie Herring kicks out "Always Just OK" and "Full Eyed" in advance of the air sailing event. The Lexington, KY artist employs the electronic initiative to take the controlled breaths of all sounds set in sequence or sung in an audio biosphere where air and ambiance are of the highest order of concentration and principle concerns. The new EP will feature remixes from Albert Swarm, Sines + Katastrophic, and VHVL, following up last year's full-length Satiate for German imprint Phantasma Disques. Ellie Herring brings some words of comfort here with the xylophone-vibes tone of "Always Just OK", where reassurance of the spirit is bathed in a cool pool of calm.

On Ellie's "Full Eyed", digitized effects crawl up and down the beginning of the track as your own eyes will become widened somewhere along the keyboard corridor. The dance party here involves swoops from guest synths as Herring's hollowed out key notes stay the course and plot out their own route as if arranged and diagrammed out on a map. Around the 2:45 mark, the track kicks into heavy rhythmic synth territory that takes you to the best home spun house-centric apartment parties that were always a guaranteed bet to make the lease holder lose that precious security/cleaning deposit. - Impose

As more and more musicians touch on the dark end of electronic you find yourself weeding out the fakers and honing in on the honest ones that you can tell were born to make it. With Ellie Herring I have a feeling she has a love for haunting side of music, no matter what is popular now she would have made Touch Point without any trends influencing her and that makes me want to keep my ears open for her in the future. - ISO 50

The Lexington, Kentucky-based producer fuses an icy beat with even chillier vocals on her latest track.

Ellie Herring‘s sonic experiments find the producer dabbling with various strands of ambient, avant-garde electronic music. In kind, ‘Full Eyed’ reveals layers of synth melody, percolating percussion, and Herring’s wispy vocals for haunting, orchestral results.

Stream ‘Full Eyed’ below. The song appears on Kite Day, due out July 23 on the Racecar imprint. The EP includes seven originals and remixes by Albert Swarms, Sines + Katastrophic, and VHVL; the cover art is below. - FACT

Shortly after the release of last year's Satiate, Lexington-based tunesmith Ellie Herring began to find a natural knack for the ones and twos. At first, this seems to be an irrevalent connection to her sophomore release for Racecar, as Kite Day is her most reserved, skeletal release to date. Here, there's less emphasis on pop and more on texture and reverb. That's not to say this is music solely reserved for the introspective thinking man: while Herring's loops and percussion are heavily subdued, lead singles "Always Just OK" and "Thinking JFK" are both home to addictive grooves and playfully hidden left turns. As with her DJ sets, the latest one being for Wildfang and sporting one hell of a tracklist, there's a little bit of everything here: zombified R&B washing up against an Italo sheen and the thin air of Robert Miles.

Kite Day is out now on Racecar, and is streaming in full below. In addition to the record's seven tracks, Kite Day also features remixes from Albert Swarm, Sines + Katastrophic, and vhvl. - Ad Hoc

Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, budding producer Ellie Herring first appeared on our radar last year with her impressively diverse Kite Day EP. Now, Herring will follow up that record with the forthcoming Chipped EP (out on April 8 via Racecar), for which the skittering "Dynasty" serves as the opening cut. Built atop a foundation of sharp, hyper-shuffled rhythms, Herring's production is a moody, late-night excursion lined with layers of echoing choirs, dimly lit melodies, and subtle doses of slow-burning bass. - XLR8R

US based producer, Ellie Herring, is gearing up to release a brand new EP entitled Chipped via Racecar Productions. No stranger to wonderful releases, Herring has already put out some fantastic tunes on Japan’s Tugboat Records and Germany’s Phantasma Disques. The Chipped EP is set to showcase a more experimental side, filled to the brim with glitched-out electronic overtones. Recently, the tune “Dynasty” was premiered on XLR8R, you can check it out below. - Sound Color Vibration

La semi-esordiente producer statunitense Ellie Herring uscirà l’8 aprile con il suo nuovo EP, Chipped (via Racecar), che segue il suo album Kite Day dell’anno scorso. Il primo estratto dall’EP si intitola Dynasty, e potete ascoltarlo qua sotto. Si sentono echi di James Blake e Grimes nella formula della Herring – le linee vocali spezzate e cullanti del primo, il beat e l’attitudine femminista/rivoluzionaria/menefreghista della seconda.

Translation: The semi-rookie U.S. producer Ellie Herring will be released on April 8 with his new EP, Chipped (via Racecar), which follows her album Kite Day last year. The first single from the EP is titled Dynasty, and you can listen below. You can hear echoes of James Blake and Grimes in the formula of Herring - the vocal lines broken and lulling the first, the beat and the attitude feminist / revolutionary / uncaring of the second. - Rumore (Italy)

Minimalist challenge to James Blake’s throne. - State Magazine (Ireland)

Lexington, Kentucky isn't exactly known as a hotbed for experimental music, but Ellie Herring may soon change that. Mixing dance floor-ready beats, carefully programmed MIDI, and airy vocals, Herring has carved out a sound that's resolutely technical while still coming across as warmly human. Herring's new record, Kite Day, is the second LP that she has released in two years. Taking the sound that she developed on last year's Satiate and refining it, the record comes across as more cerebral and personal than her debut.

The mix of analog and digital in Herring's work is especially evident in her lyrical content, on which Herring puts great care regardless of whether she or a guest vocalist is singing. "During the process of writing the album, all of the songs turned into individual little babies that I care about a lot—it's cool to share that to see how it gets interpreted by other people," she says. Nowhere is her songwriting more emotional than on non-album track "Beachcomber." "It was kind of like an endless piece of work for me. I didn't know when to call it quits or when to stop," she says. (The song happens to feature Herring's girlfriend Amber, which could be part of the reason.)

When we call up Herring to talk her new record, she's just getting home from a long day at her job as a web developer—not to mention dealing with a new addition to her household ("I have a 70-pound puppy that keeps trying to get to me," she says). Still, she's happy to discuss her new record, life in Lexington, and the story behind "Beachcomber," which we're pleased to premiere below. - Interview Magazine

Meet Ellie Herring, a singer-producer who, despite trafficking in electronics, manages to imbue a sense of warmth and analog honesty to her work, even when she's filtering herself through layers of modulation. We're psyched to premiere her lush new single "Thinking JFK," off of her forthcoming Kite Day LP, due out July 23rd on Race Car Productions. Stream the single below, and check the Kite Day artwork below that. - VICE

Though only armed with a simple refrain and an occasional set of airy chords, Ellie Herring's "Always Just OK" is a beat steeped in contemplation. Still, the tune—pulled from Herring's forthcoming Kite Day EP—is not without a tasteful touch of bounce, which can be attributed to the track's melodic pattern of tuned percussion and alternating instances of reverb-washed snaps and drum-machine-born claps. In the end, it's hard to categorize "Always Just OK"—there are flashes of refracted R&B, the slightest footwork undertones, and the familiar sheen of space-age beatmaking to be heard—but Herring's craft is likely the better for its refusal to fit within a particular framework. Six more of the artist's original productions will be made available alongside remixes from VHNL, Albert Swarm, and Sines + Katastrophic when Kite Day sees a release on July 23. - XLR8R

Earlier this year, Ryan Hemsworth launched a sort-of label, sort-of "vibes delivery service," as FADER's Duncan Cooper so put it, called Secret Songs, and it's since become a great resource for discovering new artists and producers. Now, Hemsworth has rounded up a bunch of 'em and tasked them with hemming a song from #ffb6c1—aka the hex color code for light pink. The results comprise his first-ever Secret Songs compilation. You may recognize some of the contributors (PC Music affiliate GFOTY, J-Pop trio KERO KERO Bonito, Hemsworth-collaborator Qrion), and others you may not; no big deal, that's the fun. Get familiar with everybody here while you stream the comp below. - The Fader

Ryan Hemsworth has shared the first compilation for his not-really-a-label Secret Songs (you can learn all about Secret Songs in our interview with the producer/DJ from earlier this year).

Since launching earlier this year, Secret Songs has been a pretty consistent little outlet for good, otherwise-unheard music. This first compilation - named '#ffb6c1', which is the hexidecimal colour code for the same shade of pink you can see in the artwork - features some names you might know, and some you might not.

So there's music by PC Music's GFOTY, a new song by Kero Kero Bonito, a song featuring Tkay Maidza, and a song by Japanese dream pop singer Cuushe. And if you haven't heard of the rest: discovery is the spirit of the label! Stream compilation below, and download it here. - Dummy Mag