Dedicated dub archivist Deadbeat delivers an essential remix double LP through Sasha’s Last Night On Earth back catalogue.
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XOROS: XOROS
Will Ward and Jack Wyllie join forces to explore textural liminality across their craft on this off-kilter debut LP on Truant Recordings.
Rhythms Of The Pacific Volume 4
Pacific Rhythm return with a sun-shaken release featuring the likes of Khotin, Active Surplus and Wolfey, the fourth of their Rhythms of the Pacific compilation series from the online record store-turned-label.
Squarepusher: Be Up A Hello
‘Be Up A Hello’ is a fantastic addition to an already stellar canon of work, and while this album may remind you of Squarepusher’s earlier work, it doesn’t feel retro in the slightest.
YS: Music Angel
YS and Pace Yourself make a striking debut impression with ‘Music Angel’ EP, paving the way for a lot more artistic wizardry to come.
Natural/Electronic System: Mediterranea EP
natural/electronic.system. mark their second solo outing on Casablanca’s Tikita with ‘Mediterranea’ EP, perfectly showcasing the duos diversity and breadth over tempo and style.
Gacha Bakradze: Extensions
Gacha Bakradze latest extended player ‘Extensions’ pushes breakbeat to the forefront of a techno and IDM-flavoured sound.
Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing Vol.10
‘Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing Vol.10’ is an essential document and complication archiving the spatiotemporal history of Berlin’s iconic party, Cocktail d’Amore. Leaving you with one crucial question: ‘When is the next Cocktail?’
His Master’s Voice: Transition
His Master’s Voice ‘Transition’ is a thoughtful and mature record that demonstrates Bomt’s mastery of additive production techniques.
Doon Kanda: Labyrinth
Jesse Kanda’s debut album ‘Labyrinth’, released on Hyperdub under his alias Doon Kanda, seems to encapsulate this embrace for the weird and the wonderful as a descent into some controlled madness.
Pender Street Steppers: Our Time
Notoriously slow to unveil new music, it’s been two years since Pender Street Steppers released their previous record, now ‘Our Time’ delivers a refreshing and exploratory take on their nonchalantly breezy style.
Quirke: Steal A Golden Hail
Followers of Quirke will be relieved to find that the producer’s first full-length album marks his arrival at precisely the sound that he has been consistently mining for the last five years. And given the quality of his previous output, it should come as no surprise that this vein is both rich and deep.
Clark: Branding Problem
Warp aficionado Chris Clark sets club focus to new extremes on his latest extended player ‘Branding Problem’, released through his own label Throttle Records.
RAMZi: Multiquest Niveau 1: Camouflé
Preparing to set sail once more for the most distant and strange sonic shores, the first number in FATi Records new Multiquest series, ‘Camouflé’, pushes forth RAMZi’s adept skills in composing hardly fathomable harmonious worlds. A piece that most definitely lives up to her uniquely lavish universe’s ideals.
Andy Stott: It Should Be Us
What Andy Stott delivers with ‘It Should Be Us’, is a portrait of us…a masterful congealing of dance music history, heard through the reverberant spaces collapsing ballrooms and the tension of dismantled promises.
Shed: Oderbruch
Whilst the atypical sonics of Shed and related pseudonyms can be easily identified, his new album ‘Oderbruch’ on Ostgut Ton makes for a paradox.