Chapter

01

Best albums

June 2019

- Moodymann
  Sinner
  KDJ
  
  Moodymann is one of dance music's greatest enigmas. He's also one of its most reliably excellent artists, as his latest LP shows.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- J-Zbel
  Dog's Fart Is So Bad The Cat Throws Up
  Brothers From Different Mothers
  
  The stupidest album name in recent memory? Sure. But its hyperactive approach is tremendous, undeniable fun.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Various
  Outro Tempo II: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1984-1996
  Music From Memory
  
  John Gomez compiles an immaculate survey of the range, energy and depth of Brazilian music in the '80s and '90s.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Sarah Davachi
  Pale Bloom
  W.25TH
  
  The Canadian composer stretches her work far beyond ambient in this meditative yet challenging piano full-length.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess
  One Place For The First Time
  Jahmoni
  
  Restless, funny and inventive electronic music that has shades of both William Burroughs and Ricardo Villalobos, but could be no one other than DJ Marcelle.
  
  Listen: Spotify
- Robag Wruhme
  Venq Tolep
  Pampa
  
  Gabor Schablitzki returns with a LP of minimal house that is rich and multidimensional.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Anthony Naples
  Fog FM
  ANS
  
  Absorbing house and techno from a master of the album format.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Kevin Richard Martin
  Sirens
  Room40
  
  The artist best known as The Bug reflects on the birth of his first child on this album of raw and ambient dub.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify

02

Best singles

June 2019

- Call Super
  PEACH007
  Peach Discs
  
  Call Super tries microhouse on this tripped-out afterhours record with two versions of the same lengthy cut—one fast, one slow.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
- Amazondotcom
  Mirror River
  Subreal
  
  A thrilling debut from a promising experimental club artist who blends character with precision.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Stenny
  Stress Test
  Ilian Tape
  
  The Ilian Tape maestro looks to 2-step, grime and electro with outstanding results.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Mood J
  Looking Further, Looking Forward
  Distant Hawaii
  
  Feel-good house music perfect for summer dance floors.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Tropical Interface
  Signature // Food Chain
  Hyperboloid Records
  
  Eco-grime's breakout star goes berserk.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Burial
  Claustro / State Forest
  Hyperdub
  
  Burial's first solo release in two years is another exercise in raw emotion, this time with a DJ-friendly garage banger.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Stonem
  Todo O Nada
  Phonotheque Recordings
  
  Slick and clever house music from one of Uruguay's new wave.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- Various
  Needs 006
  Needs (not-for-profit)
  
  Buy an Eris Drew house bomb, help the environment. (The other cuts, from D. Tiffany, Henry Hyde and Edward, are nothing to sneeze at either.)
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- Davis Galvin
  Davis Galvin
  Vanity Press Records
  
  Labyrinthine house and techno from a Pittsburgh producer to watch.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Coucou Chloe
  Naughty Dog
  NUXXE
  
  Another hazy transmission of outsider pop and experimental club music from the NUXXE cofounder.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud

03

Best mixes

June 2019

- Dee Diggs
  FACT Mix 710
  
  "American dance music is alive and well," says New York DJ Dee Diggs. This breezy and powerful mix proves her point.
- Yu Su
  Oscillate Recording N°08
  
  Yu Su is on a roll right now. This set from an Oscillate party in Berlin is a chance to hear her in dance floor mode.
  
  DJ Special Guest
  HNYPOT 323: Special Guest DJ's In Search of Sunset Mix
  
  DJing a downtempo set isn't as easy as you'd think, but the artist otherwise known as uon nails it here: effusive, rhythmic and captivating without ever rising above a simmer.
  
  Changsie
  DISCWOMAN 70
  
  The Tokyo DJ's mix for Discwoman soars from broken UK techno through to rollicking acid house and electro.
  
  Hamish & Toby
  Live At Closer
  
  Nearly three hours of loopy house with the occasional dip into disco and dub techno, recorded at Kiev's phenomenal Closer club.
  
  Mark Grusane
  Beats In Space 992
  
  The Chicago collector (and DJ) extraordinaire delivers more excellent and off-kilter disco and house that you've never heard.
  
  Djinn
  Outlook Mix Series 2019
  
  The Manchester DJ moves from pitch-black drum & bass to bonkers Amen breaks on her mix for Outlook Festival.
  
  Boards Of Canada
  SOCIETAS X TAPE (NTS x Warp 30)
  
  One of the most epic moments from the Warp NTS takeover was this two-hour set featuring killer edits of artists like Grace Jones and My Bloody Valentine, with plenty of unreleased originals in there too.
  
  Sarah Farina
  Ilian Tape Podcast 041
  
  Sarah Farina calls the music she plays "rainbowbass," which might be the best way to describe the broken and bass-heavy techno you find here.
  
  Mozhgan
  Dekmantel Podcast 223
  
  63 minutes of paranoid machine funk from the We Are Monsters resident DJ.