Makaya McCraven has announced four new EPs. Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop each arrive on October 31 (via International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL). The Chicago-based jazz drummer and producer will also release Off the Record, a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release of the collection of EPs, on the same day. McCraven additionally announced a run of tour dates this fall through North America and Europe, and has also shared a song apiece from each of the new EPs—“Technology,” from Techno Logic; “Choo Choo,” from The People’s Mixtape; “Away,” from Hidden Out!; and “Imafan,” from PopUp Shop. Check out his itinerary and the new crop of songs below.
Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop are the follow-ups to McCraven’s 2022 album, In These Times. The new EPs are captured from live recordings that McCraven later reworked through editing, overdubs, and post-production. Techno Logic features Ben LaMar Gay and Theon Cross, and includes performances captured in London, Berlin, and New York; The People’s Mixtape draws on a live recording taken at Public Records in Brooklyn in January 2025; Hidden Out! features recordings from McCraven’s June 2017 residency at the Hideout in Chicago, and includes contributions from guitarist Jeff Parker and others; and PopUp Shop was culled from recordings of McCraven’s performance at Los Angeles’ Del Monte Speakeasy in 2015.
“In a time where we’re increasingly connected through phones, in a virtual world where you can’t really tell what’s real or what’s fake, there’s something special where we come together and share space, there is something special where we are sharing music, art,” McCraven shared in press materials. “I want to create an energy that amplifies the magic in the underground moments where we come together and we experience something wild, different, off the cuff, human. What I’m trying to present is a dreamlike alteration of that energy, which only exists in the recorded realm. But to actually have been there, in real life, is the special thing.”
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