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Companion EP to Patrick Walker and Smear's imminent debut album as Forward Strategy Group, featuring two of its heaviest cuts, one exclusive track and a brace of remixes from Factory Floor. 'Labour Division' is a low-slung but shark-eyed warehouse number with shades of Luke Slater's LB Dub Corps project, while 'Mandate' explores darker, more minimal territory, with killer snare edits and scruffily dubbed-out chords, and 'A Greyed Out Life' is lush synth dreamscaping a la C2, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and even early Human League. Factory Floor's remix of 'Nihil Novi' is an interesting synthesis of post-DF… Read more

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Mr. Fingers, Linkwood and KiNK weigh in classy remixes of Tom Trago's 'Iris' album tracks. With the Tyree Cooper-starring 'What You Do' Mr. Fingers aka Larry Heard remixes the elements to a sensuous, slow-burning glyde while Linkwood serves a buttered, hypnotic overhaul of 'Being With You' urged by lustrous square bass and cushioned with velvet atmospheres. The notorious Bulgarian, KiNK takes a grubbier route with 'What You Do', adding a layer of gritty noise to rolling Reese bass, driving organ keys and roiling percussion in a subtly gripping, building 'Peaktime' rearrangement.

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After debuting on Martyn's 3024 label in late 2011, Jon Convex is joined by dBridge on vocals for three darkly romantic machine grooves. 'Lied To Be Loved' is the standout cut, rippling a "Moroder/Human Centipede" bass under glass-cut drums and dBridge's tender vocal highlighted with slivers of metallic synth melody in a fresh update of classic Electro schematics. Meanwhile, 'Zero' locks on a crafty sort of Electro-House motion hinting at ruder Detroit moves from an underground UK perspective, while 'Stay' sounds like a wetter Jimmy Edgar cut.

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Minilogue, Donato Dozzy and Dorisburg give sweetly faithful revisions of Jonsson/Alter's well-recieved 'Mod' album from late 2011. With album highlight 'Kyrka 2.0', Minilogue use finely selected elements of the original in a tenderly tranced-out framework designed for eyes-shut dancefloor shuffles while Donato Dozzy sprinkles 'Acapellan' with his signature minimal magic and Dorisburg, aka half of Genius Of Time remoulds 'Djup' with a more robust bassline but keeping the woolly atmospheres perfectly plush.

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2nd of three EPs pairs two of Juan Atkins' original Infiniti tracks with ace Function and Redshape remixes. A-side über-classic 'Flash Flood' from the 'Infiniti Collection' should put a lump in the throat of any susceptibly sensitive Techno heads, and comes backed with the tribal wiggler 'Skyway'. On the flip Function gives a respectfully augmented remix of 'Flash Flood' reworked with cavernous dub chords and crisp 909's next to Redshape's sunken, sullen sci-fi mix of 'Skyway'.

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Wicked, bare-boned jax from UTTU's West Coast US pals, 5kinsandbone5 & Vin Sol. Dudes know what's up on 'Rhythm Tracks Vol.1', riding raw, chunky and tracky machine patterns like an old skool Chicago boss. All DJ - you need this one!

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Ostgut Ton kick off their white label Unterton series with strongly functional remixes of Tobias from Efdemin and the illustrious Villalobos/Loderbauer duo. Reworking 'the title track from the 'Leaning Over Backwards' LP, Efdemin stealthily unfurls a smoky, slinky roller freckled with smallsound percussions and dreamy, hazily harmonised chords almost guaranteed to work wonders at the right time of the night. To 'Girts' Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer secrete their grid-dissolving matrix of chattering, barely-hinged FX, while the bass gyrates on a fluid axis with a fruity, hip-tucked and swinging sensuality for as long as it takes to get you there. Totally bob on, this.

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After debuting on UQ in 2010 and delivering some cool 12"s for Tsuba in 2011, Tazz has refined his sound with a body-synced sensuality on the 'Cosmic Sex' EP for Adam Marshall's New Kanada imprint. Styles range from low-slung, floating Deep House electronics on 'Wanderer' to greasier, tripping sex-jax on the ace 'Cosmic Sex' produced with Bacanito, and proper dark room business on the sturdy pusher 'Mermen and Mermaids' made with Giovanni Randisi. Adam Marshall also chips in a more layered, dubby remix of 'Wanderer'.

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The 'Say What' EP finds WNCL in dopest 'ardcore mode, tucking up springy, darting jungle breaks on a bass-jacked Techno axis. The arrangement unfolds with constantly surprising twists, revealing proper darkside stabs and cyber-strafing drones with signature, unconventional flair, while 'Flashlight' applies that uniquely strange touch to a tight Dubstep flex and Adam Marshall's remix skanks to a weirdly successful fusion of digi-dub and baroque electronic melodies kinda sounding like a baffled mixture of Deadbeat and Fatima Al Qadiri. Aces.

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Marcus Intalex turns up on Craig Richards' The Nothing Special imprint with two robust yet elegant House and Techno productions as Trevino. He's already receiving a lot of praise from the likes of Rob Hall and Scuba for his productions in this guise and it's likely he'll be getting more for these two. A-side 'Backtracking' works a warehouse-ready groove of super-phat square bass and oxidized drum machine rhythms softened by heart-lifting keys almost guaranteed to trigger whatever you've been taking. B-side's 'Juan Two Five' looks to the classic double refractions of early '90s UK/Detroit Techno with an ornate, blue and atmospheric arrangement likely inspired by classic Mayday, The Black Dog and B12.

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French dancefloor mastermind I:Cube presents his new album-cum-mixtape. The "M" Megamix is expertly pieced together as a continuous set cycling through 24 relatively short tracks freely morphing between fragments of House, slo-mo grooves and techno for the modern disco. You never know what's coming next, from Zomby-esque digi dance to Italo ballads and quirky 'lectronic funk, making for a highly entertaining listen.

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Finely constructed and powerful Techno from this sought-after, Brussels-based producer. Between the elevated trajectory of 'The Escape', 'Stalker''s foreboding darkside swing and the galloping Industrial freak 'Attack Pattern', you're looking at one of the strongest Techno singles this year so far. Get us to a club, pronto! Recommended.

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Rekids comes correct with two contrasting kickers from Nikola Gala and Ryan Elliott. Gala's original works to a proper American template of bumpty, swinging House somewhere between Sneak and Todd Edwards styles, handling proper, pendulous kicks and cutting hi-hats with a real ruffneck drive. Ryan Elliott's remix essentially inverts it all to throbbing bass pressure and tingling hi-hat patterns enveloped by spacious, brooding atmospheres. Strong.