Review to follow shortly…

Cool, swinging house mix from Parisians Dan Ghenacia, Dyed Soundorom, and Shonky in their b2b2b Apollonia guise. Features 17 tracks including a pair of exclusive Apollonia productions alongside classics from Callisto, Nail and Mood II Swing and modern tech-house from DeWalta, Grimes Adhesif, The Mole, Ryan Elliott, Tevo Howard.

Classy debut album of soulful deep house strokes from Bristol. In key with their 12"s for Immerse, Well Rounded Housing Project and BRSTL, Outboxx return to Idle Hands with a plush and wholesome long player nodding to the classic American modes of Ron Trent or Chez Damier with a dash of UK soul flavour.

John Roberts made a big impression with his last album for Dial, Glass Eights, and he's done himself proud on this refined, impressionistic follow-up, resisting as he has the deep house soft option in favour of weirder rhythmic arrangements and a well-defined, evidently very personal palette of post-modern chamber instrumentation and field recordings. Unlike, say, Pantha Du Prince, JR mostly favours subtlety and interiority over grandiloquence; there are no explosions of melody, the prettiness of each track is only gradually, almost shyly, disclosed - not least on gleaming highlight 'Mussels', a cu… Read more

The most keenly awaited entry in Fabric's mix series for a while is finally here. It's over a year since Karl 'Regis' O'Connor, Dave 'Function' Sumner, John 'Silent Servant' Mendez and Peter 'Female' Sutton called time on their Sandwell District collective and label, but Function and Regis continue to use the name for their DJ/live incarnation - and it's the sound of that battle-hardened tag-team which is captured on Fabric69, a 30-track rinse-out of high-torque techno broadcast from their bunker in Berlin. The first half of the disc feels like it belongs to Regis: his def… Read more

Panorama Bar's resident Dutch DJ lays down a sensuous and emotional deep house selection for their fifth annual mix CD. Installed as a regular fixture at the notorious Berlin hotspot since 2007, Steffi has honed her DJ skills in tandem with an increasingly smart production portfolio including Ostgut label classic 'Yours' whilst lending her refined balance to The Analogue Cops' as member of the all-hardware Third Side unit, and still finding a moment to run the esteemed Klakson and Dolly imprints. All that, coupled with over ten years of party-organising experience, informs her pristine 'Pa… Read more

Hamburg's raved-about Püdel Club present a live set of electronic soul music recorded by Benjamin Brunn in October 2012. In case you've not been paying attention, Benjamin's got a stream of lovely releases to his name on BineMusic and International Records Recordings, among others, all framing a delicately effervescent and richly melodic world of minimalism. This set neatly showcases the expanse of talents, from pink-hued, gaseous ambience to the patter of rolling silicone soul grooves and splashes of coaxing acid. It never busts a sweat and always leaves loads of ro… Read more

**CD and Vinyl contains different track listing** LA mainstay Eddie Ruscha makes blissful disco psychedelia with his esteemed pals for RVNG Intl on 'Tactile Galactics'. As a former shoegazer and core member of Medicine - the first American band signed to Creation - he's certainly got a way with melody, but his focus has long since shifted from moody rock to intergalactic dance music, bringing him into contact with the likes of Rub n' Tug's Thomas Bullock as Laughing Light Of Plenty and again with Ariel Pink's Huanted Graffiti bandmate Tim Koh, Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, and DJ Harvey … Read more

**Contemplative electro-acoustic recording made at the titular holy site in Kyoto** “Live At Honen-In Temple” is a document of a one-off site-specific performance in one of the most impressive settings a live electronic concert could possibly ever have. Featuring a wealth of new and unreleased material, Stefan Goldmann has custom-tailored a sound world as clearly detailed as the hidden gardens of Honen-In. Microtonal drifts, metallic grids and delicate turns merge into a gleaming monolithic pull. Embedded in the slopes of the Eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, the Honen-In Temple ma… Read more

**Housed in spot-gloss printed digifile case** Over ten years since its original release, Deadbeat hauls up his debut album for re-appraisal on his still young Blkrtz label. Originally appearing in 2001 it was evidently indebted to the (then) recently established legacy of Basic Channel/Maurizio, yet as with the likes of his future collaborator Robert Henke aka Monolake, or Detroit's Echospace, he stamped his own subtle watermark on the stripped down and purist dub techno style thanks to a taste for gloaming drones and a serious fascination with rugged bass weight. And it's exactly that fact… Read more

Cosmin TRG further refines his house and techno tastes on 'Gordian' two years on from his debut album, 'Simulat'. Packaged in the sort of grown-up tip-on gatefold slipcase you'd more expect from Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ imprint, both the titular, conceptual inference to ancient myth and the sleekly developed brand of techno within imply a carefully considered development of the Berlin-based Romanian producer's ideas. Proceeding to jettison any tangible connection with rave and dubstep in favour of a buttoned-up, earnestly focussed conservatism, Cosmin Nicolae offers, "The title references … Read more

CLR collate the most recent five volumes from Adam-X's killer Traversable Wormhole project together with a 73-minute composite mix. Adored by everyone from Chris Liebing to Dominick Fernow, this collection is the place to go for proper darkside techno thrills, especially if you like your rhythms churned off-the-bone and synched with that shark-eyed New York swagger. Pushed to pick highlights, we'd direct you to the shuddering roil of 'Paradoxical Consequences', the tunnelling, minimalist funk of 'Negative Energy Density' or the droning 4/4 beast, 'Worldline', but it's probably best experienced as a whole package, mix included.

*Includes Two Bonus Tracks* One of our favourite albums from the Kompakt archive is now finally given the reissue treatment via Koze's own Pampa imprint. Here's what we said when it first came out: "Koze has done something rare with this album - carefully assembling a tracklisting that's perfectly tweaked for primetime warehouse abuse alongside music that's hand carved into the most delicate homespun niche you could possibly imagine. The immediate destroyer here is the almost unacceptably good "Don't Feed The Cat" - a classic jack-track full of the most spannered synth mutilations you… Read more

The current garage revival is defined on this 17-track mix CD and 11-track unmixed CD. From its inner city roots in New York and the clubs of New Jersey, via the UK accelerations of the '90s and ruder purpose in the swinging clubs of Berlin, garage house has a long and fruitful history which has now been absorbed by the likes of Disclosure, Dusky, George Fitzgerald, Breach or Citizen and adapted to contemporary requirements. It's reprised a role as party music for the "debonaire" set, those who've fled from the excess of "hardcore" dubstep mutations and techno bangers… Read more

"After a string of twenty plus 12-inches, various high-flying mix-compact-discs, other audio-visual eccentricities and even books, she is finally ready to make a collection public that embodies the very character of Live At Robert Johnson and its affiliated club in Offenbach am Main. During this collection of 11 tracks, you will meet old and new companions; hear withdrawn songs and extrovert compositions, experience Frankfurt skyline techno-soul, hobo house and divergent disco. Starting off with new kid on the block Chinaski and an extended mix of the frag… Read more

**All remastered classics housed in deluxe hard-boxed card 2CD pack with graphic novel, collectors postcard set, and stickers** Soul Jazz take us back to Chicago 1986-1993 with a wealth of classic acid from Phuture, Mr. Fingers, Risque Rhythm Team, Virgo, Cool McCool and more, accompanied by a graphic novel in swish package. Delving deeper into the scene that jack built, this is the natural successor to their definitive 'Acid - Can You Jack?' compilation from 2005, now neatly incorporating Paolo Parisi's sci-fi graphi… Read more

Maurice Fulton winks at 'floor with a 2nd album from his kinky, psychoactive house project, Syclops. It's packed with the sort of expert, precise studio trickery you'd expect from Fulton, yet it's far from a dry machine exercise; the Sheffield-based producer uses all the tools at his disposal to shape and augment the groove and the surrounding space, creating a vividly 3D otherworld of non-linear rhythm switches and hyperreal spatial simulations which ultimately sound freakier and, for us, far more effective than 99% of the nu-disco and "proto"-house stuff you'd hear him lumped in with for va… Read more

Sandwell District official and NYC techno legend, Dave Sumner, aka Function presents his hugely anticipated debut album thru Ostgut Ton. As is well reported, it's taken him 16 years to reach this point, but to be fair, he's already had a hand in one of the biggest techno LP's of the last decade in 'Feed Forward', and laid out more than enough killer solo 12"s and gear with Portion:Reform to assuage any indictment of laziness. And far from lazy, 'Incubation' is a predominantly gymnastic affair, albeit with a moody cinematic bent. Scene-setting sci-fi vista 'Voiceprint' sets the tone for a super slee… Read more

Benjamin Damage wears his techno influences proudly with a debut album straddling classic '90s sounds and a 2013 production palette. From the outset he evokes comparisons with Luke Slater's 7th Plain or AFX's ambient works with 'Laika', and classic Surgeon moments in the swingeing shuffle of '010X', before really going heads-down with the bleeping, Clarke-like rollick of 'Delirium Tremens'. 'Extrusion' is more modern, carving up a decidedly 2013 sorta syncopation, before getting all misty-eyed for an era he was too young too live thru with the lovely 'Together'. There are more forward think… Read more

Following on from their Erdingertrax EP series, the latest fruit of Wolfgang and Reinhardt Voigt's renewed fraternal bond is a proper album, arguably their strongest collaborative work since mid-2003 neo-trance banger 'Vision 04'. While the recent 12" cuts were largely about restating the core club values of Kompakt, Die Zauberhafte Welt der Anderen is altogether more leftfield and ambitious, covering surreal instrumental pop, ping-ponging electro-acoustic sketches, sullen ambient and pneumatic, Profan-style techno, often in the space of the same track. Do yourself a favour… Read more

Dope and diverse beats album by the Canadian disco/soul/boogie fiend. For those bitten by Eddie's contributions to the 7 Inches Of Love series, this is an absolute treat, cycling thru 16 dusted and mostly downbeat or mid-tempo groove aces operating just beyond the dancefloor in that space between the sofa, the bedroom, and the back room.

Night Slugs sum up their last 18 months commanding the 'floor with anthems and unreleased bits from L-Vis 1990, Kingdom, Morri$, Helix and more. From the top L-Vis offers his exclusive street mix of 'Lost In Love' and nu tune 'Not Mad', while Girl Unit gives up his Prince-indebted 'Ensemble (Club Mix)' and the 3D R&B of 'Double Take Part 2'. The indomitable Jam City turns up one of 2012's defining moments 'How We Relate To The Body' and the rest are all one-off bangers: Bok Bok's grimy 'Silo Pass; Kingdom's ballroom mutant 'Stalker Ha'; the loose and crunchy Funky of L… Read more

Space, Ibiza's We Love series present two discs of Detroit tunes new and old compiled by Derrick May and Jimmy Edgar. Representing 313 heritage, Derrick May opens with John Beltran's sublime 'Synaptic Transmission', his disc's oldest selection, and moves forward thru the likes of Carl Craig's 'Sandstorms', to outside interpretations of the sound such as Kink's 'Hand Made', Petar Dundov's 'Distant Shores' and Kai Alce's 'Power Thru Pt.3', culminating in Andres' ubiquitous 'New For U'. Considering what he could have chosen from, it's perhaps a shame there aren't more actua… Read more

"Lovers of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Drexciya, Legowelt or Ceephax will find it easy to relate to this melodic acid bath. With its foundations in synth pop, Chicago house, Detroit techno and Electric Dance, this album brings us a taste of Scandanavia, rather than the all too common Swedish house mafia. 'My name is Stian and I've been interested in music since I was born. I've been doing electronic music for about 10 years, and these days I'm more compelled than ever to create new tracks and sounds to listen to. Music excites and drives me like nothing else, the feeling of creating somet… Read more

*Special 2CD Edition containing 9 remixes and previously unreleased tracks* Where the boundaries between Disco/House, Indie-Pop and Electronic music become fluid, we find John Talabot's debut album for German dancefloor institution, Permanent Vacation. The Spanish native has followed a steady curve of consistency since first appearing on the scene in 2009 with 'My Old School', followed by sought-after aces on Hivern Disc and Young Turks, plus a stack of remixes for everyone from Teengirl Fantasy to The xx. His first LP is a distillation of his sharply focused and defined tastes, weavin… Read more

Drew Lustman weighs in his loved-up and lush third LP, arriving via Ninja Tune. The emphasis is firmly on house and romantic soul music here, as opposed to the fragmented kaleidoscope of jungle, R&B, and garage that made up its predecessors. That's largely attributable to the fact he fell in love during the creation of 'Hardcourage', which would definitely explain its aerated giddiness and almost pop-wise swerve. It's even got vocals, thanks to a very tidy cameo from Friendly Fires Ed Macfarlane on the bumping sophistication of 'She Sleeps', while the hook-heavy single 'Straight & Arrow' is t… Read more

The UK's pre-eminent DJ and dancefloor tastemaker heads up one of his first commercially available mixes - for London's Fabric institute. One year on from his diverse and killer Rinse mix, the focus here is firmly on the spectrum of house music, contextualising vintage material from Mr Fingers, Herbert and Fluxion alongside fresh cut grooves from Juniper, Jam City and Blawan, and all shades between. Combining 28 tracks in 72 minutes, Ben's mixing is measured and well paced, rather than rushed and pacy, juicing the natural structure of stripped-down grooves to build a sensual session grea… Read more

'Motional Response' is Basic Soul Unit's long-awaited debut album of deep and rugged house functions. For the last ten years Stuart Li has issued dozens of 12"s both as BSU and Herman for fine labels including Dolly, Mule Electronic and Mathematics, shaping a richly expressive yet resolutely raw world of analogue electronics and house grooves. On his debut album, Stuart's joined by a vocalist for the first time, with Sacha Williamson flavouring the prowling groove of 'Breathe', while Jerome Derradji's remix of the same cut also features UR legend Gerald Mitchell on keys. The oth… Read more

Clone do the world another favour, compiling the 3rd volume of remastered Drexciya classics and obscurities. Compared with so much grid-locked house and techno created during their decade-long lifespan, Drexciya offered an intuitively fluid solution, often recording and playing live to capture an abstract, soulful essence rarely witnessed in any of their contemporaries, harnessing and channelling electronic soul energy, rather than being dictated by it. Their treacherously non-linear edits have long tripped up many a DJ who was probably too boring to bother with anyway, and… Read more

*Special 10th Anniversary Edition, Includes bonus CD of remixes by Mr. Oizo, DJ Koze, Plaid, Recloose, Dave Aju, Nobukazu Takemura, Matmos, Richard Devine** Since redefining the funk as Dr Rockit with his seminal releases for Clear, Matthew Herbert has continually pushed boundaries and amazed listeners with his inimitable brand of natural electronic mischief. Following the recent 'Hear Me Now' single comes a new album full of wonder and magic. From the opening 'It's only' you just know that this has the makings of a classic record. Herbert has managed the unthinkable, he has re… Read more