01

Best albums

March 2018

- The Mover
  Undetected Act From The Gloom Chamber
  Planet Phuture
  
  Marc Acardipane revisits an old alias and finds the magic is still there.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Essaie Pas
  New Path
  DFA Records
  
  Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau tap into classic science fiction to create dark dance music whose paranoia feels distinctly modern.
  
  Listen: Bancamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Kilchhofer
  The Book Room
  Marionette
  
  A master of modular synthesis forms an intimate world of wriggling rhythms, exotic sounds and nostalgic melodies.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Electric Indigo
  5 1 1 5 9 3
  Imbalance Computer Music
  
  Susanne Kirchmayr uses a Robert Henke-designed plug-in to make bizarre and captivating techno soundscapes out of vocal samples.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Facechain
  Accensor
  Dream Catalogue
  
  A strong debut album from a Dream Catalogue newcomer whose tracks sound like dub techno in a rainstorm.
  
  Listen: Bancamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Hunee
  Hunchin' All Night
  Rush Hour Music
  
  A glimpse into the record bag of one of dance music's most eclectic DJs.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Mark Grusane
  The Real Sound Of Mark Grusane
  BBE
  
  A long-time record dealer and talented DJ shares some of his best finds, lovingly edited by the man himself.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Vakula
  Metaphors
  Leleka
  
  Vakula goes further into the cosmos with this record of extended Krautrock-inspired jams.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- De Leon
  De Leon
  Mana
  
  This humble LP of careful but unpredictable rhythms makes an outsized impression.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Bézier
  Parler Musique
  Dark Entries
  
  Bézier throws new wave, Italo and synth pop into the blender on an LP that captures the gaudy glee of the '80s.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud

02

Best singles

March 2018

- Peggy Gou
  Once
  Ninja Tune
  
  Peggy Gou's name is on everyone's lips this year because of records like this: melodic house that balances personality and functionality.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Francis Harris
  Minor Forms
  Scissor & Thread
  
  The American producer's first solo EP in five years evokes the yearning of DJ Sprinkles with a noir-ish and jazzy sound palette.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- DJ Marcelle
  Another Nice Mess / Psalm Tree
  Jahmoni
  
  Bizarre spoken-word samples, extreme mood shifts and leftfield rhythms.
- DJ Slyngshot
  New Era EP
  YAPPIN
  
  The oddball German producer makes lo-fi broken-beat sketches that sound like lost relics from a bygone era.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- Pangaea
  Bone Sucka / Proxy
  Hessle Audio
  
  The only thing more infectious than the piano riff on "Proxy" is the pounding breakbeats on "Bona Sucka."
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Andrea
  Remade
  Ilian Tape
  
  Post-Shed techno tunes with classic Ilian Tape atmospherics.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- 4E
  The Gentle Killer
  was / is
  
  This 1996 record from 4E, sitting somewhere between techno and electro, sounds like it could have come out this month.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- DJ Nigga Fox
  Crânio
  Warp Records
  
  The standout Lisbon artist debuts on Warp with a richer, tighter and more polished version of his rambunctious club sound.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify
- Wata Igarashi
  Sekala
  Midgar
  
  One of Japan's key techno artists produces another EP that carefully weaves subtlety with drama.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Martyné & Jacob Chenaux
  Bodin - Scale
  Pressure Traxx
  
  The Traffic Records crew drop two ten-minute-plus cuts that highlight the zippy, old-school spirit that makes their style of house and electro so addictive.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- 700 Bliss
  700 Spa
  Halcyon Vei
  
  Moor Mother and DJ Haram team up for an inspired EP of club beats and haunting spoken-word.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud

03

Best mixes

March 2018

- Teki Latex
  The Naked King
  
  The third mix in Teki's King Of Blends trilogy puts together pop anthems, dance classics and cutting-edge club music like only he can.
- Kampire
  Sounds Of Sónar
  
  Ugandan DJ and Nyege Nyege affiliate Kampire Bahana turns in a mix of upfront, bassy dance music.
  
  Vincent Lemieux
  Toi.Toi.Mix Series 16
  
  Canadian DJ Vincent Lemieux—one of his country's more underrated exports—live in the mix from a Get Perlonized party at Hoppetosse in Berlin.
  
  Alexandra
  Cashmere Texture Mix #26
  
  The Melliflow co-founder juggles downtempo, house and electro for Cashmere Radio's Texture Mix.
  
  Octo Octa
  DISCWOMAN 40
  
  Four hours of ecstatic, hands-in-the-air house music, with a special emphasis on Chicago classics.
  
  Bleaching Agent
  100% Gabber Set
  
  Tap into the harder side of dance music with this blood-pumping 37-minute mix of gabber classics.
  
  Varoslav
  Mosaic Mix Series 027
  
  Loopy and groovy are the key words in this mix from the French minimal mainstay.
  
  SCRAAATCH
  Truancy Volume 208
  
  MHYSA and lawd knows put together Lisbon dance music, Jersey club, all kinds of hip-hop and plenty of bootlegs in this globetrotting journey.
  
  Kieran Loftus
  2 RAW 4 THE DAW (PC)
  
  An all-originals mix from an East Coast artist who makes a distorted, fun-house mirror reflection of Jersey and Baltimore club sounds.
  
  DJ Bus Replacement Service
  Sheffield February 2018
  
  If last month's podcast left you wanting more, here's the masked selector playing incorrect music at HMT Hard Cru in Sheffield.