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Nerves fire in the thought experiments of ‘Bermuda Triangle’, opening with surging synths and curious melodies that drift upwards in quiet contemplation.

‘Push Power ( a 1 )’ opens a new chapter, stomping along as restless sounds flit through patient techno-adjacent beats, veiled by glimmers of vocals from HTRK's Jonnine Standish.

African Head Charge have operated at a scintillating intersection of Jamaican, Ghanaian, and British music since forming in 1981, and with their first new material in over a decade in Microdosing presents some of their best music to date.

Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach are both talented synthesiser obsessives that don’t overlook emotionality, pairing chirping fluttering synth magic with tiptoeing rotations of piano and strings in a ghostly mist.

Through sweeping gestures of strings and smooth, golden sunrise guitars on ‘It Must Change’, ANOHNI’s signature wavering vibrato sends powerful lyrics loaded with emotion: “Your god is failing you, things must change.”

The machines co-opted in production are as complex as the Weirdcore artwork, layering signature sombre ambient chords with intricate drum programming.

Filtered vocals are delivered swiftly over her signature glossy, detuned pianos, and haunting, ghostly strings add space to the sugary pop electronics, with earth shattering beats threaded in.

Kirk Degiorgio’s As One project is still evolving after 30 years, evident in the propulsive rhythms and extensive layers on Neptunium.

Infectious rhythms fold in dancehall and R&B influences while dreamy howls colour clean and slick jungle futurism on BAMBII’s debut EP.

Stepping it up for their second album bar italia recorded in the sunny climes of Mallorca with Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Daniel Avery), and following early releases with Dean Blunt, we find the London based trio mastering their lo-fi raw energy and grungy hooks with on my little tony.

Ghost Box cofounder Jim Jupp switches gears once more on his latest Belbury Poly album, with the inclusion of a full band on The Path exercising jazz and funk styles over his conceptual electronic compositions.

Giske's strips away the layered ambiance of his previous dauntless upheaving of the saxophone's conventions on 'Not Yet' to a naked core via input from the album's producer Beatrice Dillon.

Blawan marches further into battle with modular synthesis, surfacing victorious with the writhing relics of techno taking its last breath on 'The Path'.

A sultry slice of simmering house from the Night Slugs MVP, Bok Bok remains a master at vibes-forward tracks that could fill dancefloors and headphones with ease.

‘good endgar’ opens on a languid note overturned by beats like thousands of hailstones weathering down, then filtered through ice cracked by pickaxe rhythms.

Brian Eno's original soundtrack for the UK's answer to The Wire is now finally available and sees standout cue 'Sky Blue Alert' moving with a subtlety and restraint through the suffocating environs in the series.

Clouds of electrons in ‘Math of You’ oscillate in intensity, like corkscrewing sparks and colliding atoms its pinprick melodies are restless and ever changing.

The standout on Charlène Darling's debut for Disciples, Tout s'efface is a loping vortex of piquant post-punk detours with dubbed out distortion, dissonance, and displacement.

Manchester rapper/producer Chunky returns to Eglo Records paying tribute both to his hometown and his Zimbabwean lineage all across Somebody’s Child with standout banger 'GNG' featuring additional finesse from Metrodome.

With 'Wee Rosebud', Clarissa Connelly announces her signing to Warp and taps into ancient folk musical practices with the discerning dexterity of modern songwriting, while guitar strums and soft exhalations slowly lap in.

Danny Brown's Quaranta (“forty” in Italian) owns the vanguard status as an artist that allows him to school the youngins of the rap game while unpacking his own downfalls, all delivered to you raw on lead single 'Tantor'.

Italian producer Kelbin takes a recent Daphni classic for an extended spin, drawing every emotion out this sturdy house tune with piano runs that aim towards the sky.

Sneaker Social Club first ever release of Dylan Beale's (half of jungle duo Rude & Deadly) 1994 SNES soundtrack for Wolverine: Adamantium Rage hits all the marks with standout track ‘Tri-fusion’, a proto-grime banger only some years ahead of its time.

“Low-key R&B legend” Eddie Chacon (of Charles & Eddie “Would I Lie To You” fame) continues his incredible return to music since 2020 with his debut for Stones Throw, led by the sultry John Carroll Kirby produced cut 'Step By Step'.

‘Abril Lluvias Mil’ speeds up with a smashing beat and a mean bassline, extended to a massive 40 minutes on digital with the ticking synth hammering like an alarm all the way through.

In between wildfires of swerving breaks and diamond-cut piano notes, 'Nobody Else' spills with ambiance on Revanchist, a masterclass merging of catharsis and viscerality crystallising the world Evian Christ has built so far.

Eyedress' standout track 'House of Cards' from his album last year for Lex Records was blessed by a transformative remix from his number one inspiration, the guitar deity that is Kevin Shields who in turn was already a fan of the original resulting in a dream collab of truly blissful results.

Fatima Al Qadiri's latest for home label Hyperdub sees her pairing up with fellow Kuwaiti vocalist Gumar to focus on the traditional lamentation singing of their homeland given maximum evocation via 'Fidetik (I Lay Down My Life)' a brooding strata of sublime hauntology.

On 'What They Call Us’ we find Fever Ray's vocals formant filtered and tiptoeing into the romantic fray, fraught with anxiety and thunderous heartbeats.

George Riley and Hudson Mohawke run rampant over the sugary fury of ‘S e x’, smashing jungle and happy hardcore into a sly, assertive R&B track.

Rosie Lowe pens a soulful anthem, partnering with Gotts Street Park to deliver a gentle yet compelling modern soul experience where the singers’ sensual vocals soar over the loose and sparse beat.

Headache is a new project produced by Vegyn, with all lyrics written by Francis Hornsby Clark, and then performed by AI. Headache is here for you. Headache would like to brighten your day, today.

"Built & destroyed” between Lagos, London, and NYC by the elusive and unknown producer Honour, 'U&Me (decemberseventeen)' operates at the intersection of Seekersinternational, Hype Williams, and &&&&&/Xen era Arca, and far beyond such comparisons too.

AD 93 present james k (Incienso) and hoodie, comprised of Shy (Special Guest DJ, Caveman LSD, etc) and Berlin-based artist Naemi (aka. exael), dropping the dub drenched dream pop cut Scorpio, fulfilling all your trip hop deprived needs.

Nikki Nair makes his Warp Records debut with collaborative EP Set The Roof, his rough and raw rhythms colliding perfectly with Hudson Mohawke’s zipping and zapping electronics. Balanced on the title track’s brick wall beats are crunchy two step rhythms, glittery synths and chimes, and a grimy bass wobble.

Concrete slabs of percussion boom and rays of light fly out in the track's vast, grand atmosphere.

James Holden has total freed himself from structure and convention and ‘Common Land’ meanwhile climbs down a kaleidoscopic E2-E4 like vortex, with dusky dub beats and lush saxophone lost in an infinite dawn chorus.

Distilling the sounds of South London into a solid hour’s worth of dance and jazz fusions, Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin' metallic beats of ‘Lost In The Function’ bring the tension in the high speed chase.

Nia Archives reimagines Jorja Smith's club banger ‘Little Things' with a deft touch, increasing the BPM and energy for all the junglists out there.

Producer duo Jungle struck gold this year with the infectious hit single 'Back On 74', seamlessly combining nostalgic undertones with silky rhythms, creating a dancefloor delight that transcends the boundaries of time.

K-LONE returns to the label he co-founded with Facta fusing a variety of influences from house, R&B and melodic electronica with his unique production making a conscious step away from familiar territory with Love Me A Little.

Merging jazz, beats, rap, and his virtuosic drumming Kassa Overall's 'Ready To Ball' opens his debut album for Warp with an ephemeral groove dipping in between slick, freeform verses, and winding alleys of glistening, icy piano keys.

'Provide Those Ends' bursts emphatically with seafoam synth washes and swishing swung drums, pitting spoken word fraught with angst about exhaustion and family dynamics over the swaying rhythms.

The wait for Kelela’s much anticipated return is over, with her second album Raven documenting not only her withdrawal but also her magnificent rebirth driven by the propulsive drum breaks on 'Contact'.

Gentle sparks open with the natural plucks of acoustic guitar swimming in the electrical soundbath, the strings rippling tangibly as they are bent and manipulated. Soulful brass loops soon fade in, pouring desert sand onto the track as it shifts from ambiently informed experimentalism to roaring psychedelia with gritty guitars, downtempo rhythms, and a sample of Gloria Loring’s eponymous inspiration.

Space Heavy has allowed King Krule to look ahead by looking back, and given his usual track record, whatever comes next will be something else entirely, but 'Pink Shell' taps directly into Archy Marshall's unmistakable smoky, downtrodden haze.

‘Freedom 2’ lands somewhere between the pleasure-seeking 2-step on Overmono’s debut LP from earlier this year and lower boiling point tech-step: as in it’s got enough hype to smash on any size stage, but also enough room for Kwengface to take a star turn on the mic.

Dublin four-piece Lankum channel haunted Irish traditionals as if GY!BE had been raised on a diet of funeral keening and the black stuff alone and with a layered post rock approach they've conjured one of the year's most arresting and shattering songs.

Liv.e masterfully blends jungle drum breaks, ethereal synths, and soulful piano with her emotive vocals on 'Ghost,' creating hauntingly beautiful exploration of genre-blurring artistry.

Lee Gamble is among those making creative leaps with new musical technology, bending sound and synthesis to his will on 'She's Not', inspired by the persistent earworms of pop songwriting.

James’s glitchy mission statement introduces the achingly diaristic lyrics she dwells on with the candidness of a friend you’ve met down the pub: “I don’t see them that often,” she says on ‘Cards With The Grandparents’, “I think they think that I’d forgotten.” The literal shuffles of cards click, snap, and fold, with her hesitation of “I will come out… soon,” over bittersweet, sighing vocal lyrics, and a heavy kick strutting through.

On the joyous ‘Stairs Wine’, starry chords and spiralling stairways of arpeggios propel the track’s bouncing rhythms forward into the urgent orders of “Open your ears, open your mind!” on ‘Moderneers Modernize’.

MC Yallah unleashes a linguistic whirlwind on 'Sikwebela,' riding Debmaster's dynamic production with a rapid-fire flow, seamlessly weaving multilingual rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili, and English.

Loverboy finds Meemo Comma grounded in the euphoric and vibrant reality of nineties dance music and opening cut Cloudscape comes up hard with its gurning glossolalia and then some, all given a bonus rinse out by label founder µ-Ziq.

MIKE continues his flaming streak of quality raps with Burning Desire a “dark romantic horror” taking place in Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire featuring a star studded list of guests including Earl Sweatshirt on plz don’t cut my wings.

Minor Science explores the contrast between still and scattered sounds throughout Absent Friends Vol. III and Contingency toys with these two worlds even more, its staccato arpeggios fluctuate and fizz till they fill the track with reverent drumless trance.

‘A Time To Blossom’ is a carefree, tropical jam, swaying in the breeze with golden synth chords and winding passages of sighing vocal harmonies, bright guitar plucks, and sunny hand drums.

Infinito (Version) is a deep meditation on the dialogue between vocal and synthesised sound from the outright legendary producer and half of the indelible Basic Channel/Maurizio/Rhythm & Sound duo with Mark Ernestus.

Nathan Fake has always made music with the potential to destroy the dancefloor of any club and ‘Hawk’ in particular embodies Crystal Vision's vein, with crisp garage-like rhythms and a jackhammer beat cutting through the air like a diamond blade.

Originally from Nathan Micay’s latest full length for LUCKYME® Fangs (Club Mix) further distills the essences of his dancefloor work on the LP Inspired by classic RPGs, sound design cues from horror movies.

Emerging from the kaleidoscopic haze of Shout Out! To Freedom…, George Evelyn leads his focus into clear cut club tracks harking back to where it all began.

Noname's 'beauty supply' is a poignant exploration of self-acceptance, challenging societal norms, and embracing beauty beyond conventions, as she collaborates with rising UK producers emil and R-Kay alongside the soulful harmonies of Ayeisha Raquel and Tyler Daley.

Heinrich Mueller, Penélope Martín and DJ Stingray 313 use the language of electro to explore a more experimental otherworld with their NRSB-11 project.

Acid dub leaders Om Unit and TM404 combine their talents on London Stock with illuminating 303 stabs, elastic reverb and bass sourced directly from the depths.

Like the alluringly visceral artwork made by similarly multidimensional artist Matias Faldbakken, Oneohtrix Point Never crushes sound firmly in his fist, then outstretches it in his palm on vocal and orchestral album closer A Barely Lit Path.

Overmono’s debut album is “really a letter of love to the journey so far” and So U Kno has become a DJ set staple with pneumatic beats hitting hard and spewing out steam, hypnotising vocal loops and that monolithic bassline plunge.

In Daylight Dub is a leisurely compilation of Mark Nelson’s early Pan American output from 1999 to 2002 and ‘Esso’ continues on in that quiet note, with a hint of jazzy keys lying underneath its swaying beats.

Hessle Audio's Pangaea finally brings his long-awaited sophomore full-length LP to the storied label he co-founded opening with the vocal-lead and ecstatic blast of house inflected bounce of Installation.

Om Unit’s jungle/footwork origami under his Philip D Kick alias will be keeping all replicant ravers well satiated for many cycles to come with Orbit, fully set to blast us all into the off world colonies.

London producer Refreshers (aka Lukid and half of the duo Rezzett) returns for the fourth instalment of a flawless run of self-released jungle EPs with High In Me providing utterly blinding peak soundboy exorcisms. *Airhorn

Following in relentless fashion right after their long awaited new full length Rezzett's third release of the year, Boshly tears through with ‘Kermit’ literally swerving in with screeching tyre rhythms over golden synths and the duo's signature overdriven formant.

Over/Shadow present an eclectic confluence of artists, with Spatial label boss James Clements/ASC remixing the ambient work of Robert Haigh/Omni Trio into a dramatic, churning drum and bass number, snapping white rapids cutting through the blueness.

The electronics of Tehran born brotherly duo Saint Abdullah spar with revered drummer and composer Jason Nazary on Divine Timing Is Intuitive with its pulsating post-punk bassline and restless production eventually folding into something more cerebral.

Seoul-based electronica group Salamanda debut on Facta and K-LONE’s Wisdom Teeth making even further inroads towards traditional “pop music” on Sun Tickles but still adding another new wrinkle to their malleable sound and vision.

Sampha returns to the Young label for his long-awaited second album entitled Lahai led by Spirit 2.0 a pointed celebration of friendship and the ways that we connect to one another.

The flame of the elusive collective Sandwell District burned brightly in its ten year run and a lasting mark in the legacy of modern techno 'Surrender To The Unknown' is combative with its propulsive drum machines shuffling through sonic rubble.

The full throttle of ‘Family’ quickly furthers Shapednoise stygian tones on Absurd Matter with cryptic verses from Armand Hammer overloaded and entrenched in the anticipation of the unknown.

The sole album from James Stinson of Drexciya's Shifted Phases alias verges on experimental and even intimate, with the tender pads of ‘Lonely Journey Of The Comet Bopp’ introducing icy piano particles that flutter across tightly woven beats.

Heavy solar rays melt the city tarmac of ‘New Joy’, an ode to submissive pleasure, forming the sticky ground upon which prismatic hip hop beats skate.

DJ Slimzee, the godfather of Grime rolling deep with Rikodan and Boylan for a spiritual follow up to The Bug's 2008 sound system destroyer and roadman anthem Skeng, given an apocalyptic 2023 update. Hold tight the end times.

Taken from Sofia Kourtesis album of tenacity, miracles, all-consuming love and ultimately, of hope the anthemic Cecilia is inspired by the activism her parents and the work of her mother, who the LP is dedicated to, protecting Peru's Indigenous tribes.

From Brixton house band to in demand collaborators working with the likes of Dean Blunt, Wu-Lu, and MF DOOM, Speakers Corner Quartet debut has been a long time coming and Soapbox Soliloquy is a perfect entry point to their unique world.

Rounding up Squid’s modern anxieties into electrifying song, Swing (In A Dream) is subtle yet frantic as a driving beat kicks in and Ollie Judge sings “I worry in my sleep” to right-angled riffs tossing and turning.

Influenced by the likes of Coil and The Cure as well as time tested Detroit machine funk, Crash Recoil thrillingly adds a new layer of emotional turmoil to Surgeon’s renowned rumble with opener Oak Bank.

Mind melting link up between Miami-based producer Suzi Analogue and Pulitzer Prize runner and footwork legend Jlin, who dissects Suzi's original down to the granular and reconfigures it into frenetic clusters of bass energy.

Los Angeles bass god Thundercat returns to the spotlight for a collab with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker featuring the tender slice of futuristic funk and soul No More Lies.

Our beloved Tirzah's F22 ventures boldly into new territory with a sound that refuses to be ignored, one we are entirely enamoured by.

TYSON and Coby Sey link up for a moody, downtempo stunner of a would-be-lovers duet centering around that treacherous moment right before you let those walls down.

Gordon Chapman-Fox follows up his incendiary 2023 album with an EP more wistful in nature: Solid Foundations leans towards psychedelia with haunting folk guitar melodies, whistling synths, and shimmering mellotron harmonies.

With Hammer Lee in hand and viscerally detailed production, Yaeji’s breathy vocals and woozy sound find surprising reinventions: concrete beats are sledgehammered into rubble and pneumatic twitches “break the cycles” on For Granted

yeule’s music has been no stranger to darkness, simultaneously sweet and shredded as they explore intimately personal themes on cyber meat a total arena rocker, charged up and screaming into oblivion.

Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood takes us beneath all the bedazzled glam stardom as Yves Tumor journeys through the limbo of life and love, escaping toxicity to get higher and holier.

Stripping back the mayhem allows µ-Ziq to be seen in a new light, as '4am' shows with its gauzy synths and humming vocal cuts evoking openness and nostalgia, guided by soft bass stabs and subtle drum machines.