Mistress 13 is a delightfully sprightly session on a label that has often been dusty and understated in tone.
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Seph: Tierra del Fuego
Even though the eclectic 4 tracker never quite reaches the heights of the artists that have clearly inspired the Argentinian producer, he nonetheless delivers a refreshing update on a genre many fail to eclipse.
Albrecht La’Brooy: Healesville
‘Healesville’ is pitched as an album to soothe the soul in troubled times and it undoubtedly meets its ambitions. It is the pause button for modern life, an essential piece of augmented reality that rubs at the fraying caused by every day anxiety.
Aisha Devi: S.L.F.
Devi here offers some interesting updates on her earlier ideas: while ‘DNA Feelings’ set up a calmer, static kind of motion tied with bold storytelling qualities, ‘S.L.F.’ finds her confidently revving up the engines onto further club-friendly horizons.
Clark: Kiri Variations
After amassing a discography crammed with ravey goodness, left-field producer Clark turns on a dime to deliver ‘Kiri Variations’, a long-player bearing more similarity to baroque chamber music than anything compiled for a dance floor.
Leif: Loom Dream
Leif continues to provide a diversion from the mainstream crash and thud of banal house music and although ‘Loom Dream’ misses an opportunity to showcase an alternative to that world, it’s still an imaginative piece that you should pick up, go back to and revel in its indigenous beauty.
Dots: Dots
Dots sits firmly at the dead serious, black-turtlenecked end of this scale. It’s a shimmering exercise in restraint, poise and cognitive infiltration; never overtly loud or intense, yet incredibly effective at worming its way to the depths of your psyche.
Broken English Club: White Rats II
‘White Rats II‘ is a definitive statement, startlingly individual, and another brick in Oliver Ho’s formidable wall of musical output
Raving under the Midnight Sun: Solstice Festival 2019
In a world of endless iterations of soulless festivals filled with advertising and mass-marketing, cliches and tired stereotypes, when something like Finland’s brand new festival Solstice emerges you’re a fool not to grab it while it lasts.
Exael: Dioxippe
On ‘Dioxippe’ Exael branches out into less ambient terrain and explores the harder edges of electro-dub.
Anthony Naples: Fog FM
Although Fog FM is not quite “arms in the air”, take your shirt off ecstasy, it is something a little bit offbeat and unique. And that’s probably why Naples is here to stay.
Rod Modell: Captagon
Rod Modell’s latest offering, ‘Captagon’, lands on no less than Tresor, and whilst it’s recognisably his work it’s also worlds apart from recent endeavours such as his latest on Astral Industries.
Burial: Claustro / State Forest
Whether William Bevan is a jack-the-lad, an introvert, a gamer, is married with kids or divorced is irrelevant, he doesn’t make music for money or fame, he makes music to heal people’s souls. To rescue them.
E.M.U: Electro Music Union, Sinoesin & Xonox Works 1993-1994
There are few bigger thrills for crate-diggers than rediscovering pieces of seminal work that slam just as hard today as they did then, and ‘Electro Music Union’ is certainly one of them.
I Hate Models: L’Âge Des Métamorphoses
I Hate Models ‘L’Âge Des Métamorphoses’ offers variations of hard-hitting drums, uptempo rushes and unrelenting rhythmic aggression – the latter certainly bearing influence, leastwise the overall sounds and mood, which shall please Perc Trax fans and the likes effortlessly.
Pataphysical: Periphera
The ever-essential 12th Isle serve some truly peripheral music as the latest addition to their catalogue from live-focussed London trio Pataphysical.