Chapter

01

Best albums

May 2017

Nummer
Second Sight
Going Good

Sleek house music that balances dance floor functionality with out-there experimentation.

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Clark
Death Peak
Warp Records

The long-time Warp producer gets downright euphoric on his latest album.

Pharmakon
Contact
Sacred Bones Records

Margaret Chardiet's third album of intensely personal noise music is her most fearsome yet.

Gas
Narkopop
Kompakt

Gas returns after 17 years as majestic and haunting as ever.

Forest Swords
Compassion
Ninja Tune

Matthew Barnes' usual acoustic and electric hybrids are even more stunning on his new album.

Jan Jelinek
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
Faitiche

A minimal classic revived for 2017, its unique, immersive charm still very much intact.

Jan Schulte
Tropical Drums Of Deutschland
Music For Dreams Denmark

The Salon Des Amateurs resident compiles outré German music loaded with drums and offbeat personality.

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Perc
Bitter Music
Perc Trax

Bleak, pounding techno for our bleak modern times.

Jlin
Black Origami
Planet Mu

On her second album, Jlin's music is darker, more powerful and more experimental.

Overlook
Smoke Signals
UVB-76

Precision drum & bass with a healthy helping of deep atmospherics.

Chino Amobi
Paradiso
UNO

A dense, thoughtful album from one of the experimental club scene's visionary artists.

Ricardo Villalobos
Empirical House
[a:rpia:r]

Four tracks of immersive, trippy house music in a style only Villalobos can pull off.

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Live In Detroit [Ghost In The Sound]
echospace [detroit]

A standout live set from one of the finest acts in dub techno.

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02

Best singles

May 2017

Mina
Sentah
Enchufada

Funky broken beat from the UK but with a global outlook.

Galaxian
Blowback
Foul-Up

Creative electro that hits like a bag of hammers.

PTU
A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day
Trip

Nina Kraviz's label continues its fantastic run with this Russian duo's disorderly beats.

Proc Fiskal
The Highland Mob
Hyperdub

Hyperdub's latest signing highlights a growing grime scene in Scotland.

Organ Tapes
Words Fall To Ground
Creamcake

The Bala Club producer serves up an EP of complex but approachable R&B.

SBC
LACK012
LACKRec.

Vintage jacking techno from the producer otherwise known as DI-X.

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Yaeji
Yaeji
Godmode

Dreamy hip-house from one of New York's most exciting newcomers.

Vatican Shadow
Rubbish Of The Floodwaters
Ostgut Ton

Dominick Fernow's techno project debuts on Ostgut Ton with some of its most powerful work yet.

Photek
T'Raenon
ART Records

A masterpiece from Photek's peak period that features his first work with techno.

Kara-Lis Coverdale
Grafts
Boomkat Editions

Kara-Lis Coverdale does minimalism with gorgeous results.

The Vision
Spectral Nomad
Metroplex

An essential record from Robert Hood's minimal techno heyday.

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Ena
Divided: Body
Horo

Dark experimental electronics by a Japanese master.

Peder & Hodge
All My Love
Peder Mannerfelt

Two leftfield producers join forces for a face-melting techno EP.

Wilted Woman
Diary Of A Woman
She Rocks!

Kaleidoscopic techno that folds in musique concrète, noise and other abstract influences.

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03

Best mixes

May 2017

- DJ Persuasion
  Tech Step mix for Berceuse Heroique
  
  An hour of classic banging drum & bass.
- Gonno
  Dekmantel Podcast 122
  
  A three-hour live recording featuring the relaxing but uplifting grooves we expect from Gonno.
  
  Melina Serser
  Intrinsic
  
  Dreamy downtempo from the Montevideo selector.
  
  Beatrice Dillon
  Mix N°21
  
  An introspective and captivating selection of oddities.
  
  Truly Madly
  Spaced 06
  
  Spacey dance music from an old-school London digger.
  
  Dark Entries
  Fact Mix 601
  
  Dark Entries presents an hour of music that's upcoming on the label, from house to disco to post-punk.
  
  LNS
  Trushmix 104
  
  The Vancouver DJ shows off her now-signature blend of IDM, Detroit techno and smooth electro.
  
  Silent Season
  Forest Of the Dancing Spirits III
  
  Ultra-deep and ambient techno inspired by walks through the forests of British Columbia.
  
  James Creed
  GHOSTCAST002
  
  All-vinyl old-school house.
  
  Pjenné
  Inner Varnika '17
  
  A feel-good live recording of Melbourne's Pjenné at the Inner Varnika festival.