Chapter

01

Best albums

September 2017

Bicep
Bicep
Ninja Tune

The Northern Irish duo plumb the depths of progressive house and trance for their most uplifting record yet.

Hercules & Love Affair
Omnion
MR.INTL

Inspired by recent tragedies and the 2017 political climate, Andy Butler's disco project gets introspective.

Pan Daijing
Lack
PAN

Pan Daijing's debut album, sitting somewhere between noise and ambient, reflects her intense and unnerving live sets.

Mount Kimbie
Love What Survives
Warp Records

The British band rejuvenate their sound with krautrock rhythms and guest appearances by James Blake and Mica Levi.

DJ Python
Dulce Compañia
Incienso

Brian Piñeyro calls his DJ Python project "deep reggaeton," an apt description for this album of sensuously slow and swung rhythms.

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Ninos Du Brasil
Vida Eternal
Hospital Productions

Pounding drums and hypnotic vocals put a tribal spin on Hospital Productions' dark brand of techno.

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Various
Visceral Minds 2
Fractal Fantasy

Footwork, Jersey club, garage and ballroom collide on this futuristic survey of club music.

JASSS
Weightless
iDEAL Recordings

Experimental and explosive techno from an exciting newcomer.

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Nmesh
Pharma
Orange Milk

Nmesh's latest album is a world of samples that defies genre and crosses pop-culture boundaries.

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Steffi
World Of The Waking State
Ostgut Ton

Steffi's IDM-inspired new album is marked by restraint and subtlety—the qualities that make it her best yet.

Midland
Fabriclive 94
Fabric Records

Midland goes deep on a mix that showcases both his intuitive understanding of mixing and his eclectic tastes.

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02

Best singles

September 2017

DJ Deep
For The Love Of Kaoz
Kaoz Theory

DJ Deep takes a break from techno with an EP of sunny house music on Kerri Chandler's label.

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SHALT
ʃælt
Astral Plane Recordings

SHALT slows things down on his latest abstract techno record.

Terence Fixmer
Force EP
Ostgut Ton

Terence Fixmer turns in another standout techno EP for Ostgut Ton.

Skee Mask
ISS002
Ilian Tape

The Ilian Tape artist delivers again with his winning formula: '90s dance music updated with glistening production values.

Kyle Hall
Euthropia Sevan
Wild Oats

This 7-inch features two of Kyle Hall's funkiest beats yet.

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Antigone
Ostinato
Token

Token looks towards trance, and the results are as classy as you'd expect from the Belgian label.

Sawlin
Motion Keeper
Delsin

The underrated producer's latest record features powerful techno with deep house atmospherics.

Sudan Archives
Sudan Archives
Stones Throw

Sudan Archives' debut on Stones Throw is homespun neo-soul made with a violin.

Koehler
Oblivious Pool
Die Orakel

Koehler's new record is the best example of his approach to techno: big drums, bigger synths and bold textures.

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SoundCloud

Peder Mannerfelt
Obey / Stream Of Time
Stockholm LTD

Few producers are as consistently adventurous as Mannerfelt, who here makes a four-minute soundscape into monstrous dance floor material.

KH
Question
Text Records

An infectious edit that set dance floors on fire this summer.

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Coucou Chloe
Erika Jane
NUXXE

The French artist blends icy pop with experimental club aesthetics.

03

Best mixes

September 2017

- Sold
  Blowing Up The Workshop 79
  
  The Hugo Ball resident delivers an idiosyncratic mix featuring avant-garde electronics, footwork and dub techno.
- Dane
  Dekmantel Podcast 140
  
  Edmonton's finest shows off his party-rocking style, with records from Powder, Dopplereffekt and Frak alongside some obscurities.
  
  Mara Trax
  Live At Closer, 09.16.2016
  
  This characteristically smooth session from Vera and Maayan Nidam is a pleasure for all six hours.
  
  Patrick Russell
  The Labyrinth 2015
  
  Three-and-a-half hours of pure magic, captured live at Labyrinth 2015.
  
  Russell E.L. Butler
  Truancy Volume 187
  
  The up-and-coming Bay Area artist describes this mix as "not genre specific, not time period specific, [with] long mixes and lots of psychedelia."
  
  DJ Sports
  Crack Mix 164
  
  One of the central figures from the Regelbau collective out of Århus in Denmark turns in a mix for Crack that begins with ambient and jungle and ends with dub.
  
  Jasmine Infiniti
  Close Up Of The Serene Mix
  
  30 minutes of surging electro and techno from the self-proclaimed "Queen Of Hell."
  
  Marco Shuttle
  Live At Concrete, June 9th 2017
  
  A deep, heady session from one of techno's finest hypnotists.
  
  Avalon Emerson
  RA Live At Brilliant Corners
  
  Introspective records from Leonard Cohen and Slowdive feature in this selection from our ongoing series at Brilliant Corners in London.
  
  Simon Caldwell
  Slices Mixes 008
  
  A dyed-in-the-wool Sydney DJ comes correct.