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Singles
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Mixes

Best albums
January 2020
- Ulla
  Tumbling Towards A Wall
  Experiences Ltd
  
  A deeply personal blend of soft tones and hazy textures.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Pulse Emitter
  Swirlings
  Hausu Mountain Records
  
  An American synth legend partners with Hausu Mountain for an album that combines the synth style of old Emeralds tapes with New Age aesthetics.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Phase Fatale
  Scanning Backwards
  Ostgut Ton
  
  Engineered for Berghain's soundsystem, this white-hot blend of techno and EBM had us reeling.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Various
  A Short Illness From Which He Never Recovered
  Blackest Ever Black
  
  A game-changing label bows out with an excellent compilation of ghostly, skeletal rock.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- NOCHEXXX
  B·O·M
  Plastic Horse
  
  Extremely weird techno slathered with reverb and loaded with good hooks.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
- Shasta Cults
  Shasta Cults
  Important Records
  
  Underground synth hero Richard Smith harnesses the power of the Buchla, delivering an elegant yet unpredictable LP.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Bergsonist
  Middle Ouest
  Optimo Music
  
  Trippy club music in touch with its creator's Arab roots, Middle Ouest continues Bergsonist's streak of original techno.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Sassy J
  Patchwork
  Rush Hour Music
  
  With exclusives from Dego & Kaidi and Hanna alongside time-tested classics by Larry Heard and Nu-Era, Patchwork lovingly lays out a continuum of soulful, jazzy dance music.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Fumiya Tanaka
  Right Moment
  Perlon
  
  A master of minimal returns with his first album in three years, a psychedelic blend of rhythm and texture that contains some of his best work.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
Best singles
January 2020
- Deena Abdelwahed
  Dhakar
  InFine Music
  
  Traditional Arab music meets blistering experimental beats on this hard-hitting EP.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Ans M
  Petrichor
  Tobago Tracks
  
  An excellent London label debuts another promising artist with this riveting experimental EP.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- quest?onmarc
  Phoenix
  Club Chai
  
  A unique look at New York's underground techno sound through the lens of ballroom.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Loraine James
  New Year's Substitution 2
  Self-released
  
  Drawing from UK club music new and old, this wide-ranging EP captures a breakout artist at her best.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Kush Jones
  Strictly 4 MY CDJZ 6
  Self-released
  
  A thrilling combination of footwork, jungle and house from a key New York artist.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
  
  Anthony Linell
  Core Field Horizon
  Northern Electronics
  
  An artist known for ultra-deep techno turns to more immediate sounds, and sparks fly.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
  
  Dead Man's Chest
  Lo-Freq Soul
  Western Lore
  
  A collision of UK hardcore and old-school jungle with plenty of (you guessed it) soul.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
  
  DJ Plead
  Massari For Relief
  Self-released
  
  Raising money for Australia's fire emergency, these edits capture DJ Plead's entrancing blend of traditional and modern sounds.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
  
  Forest Drive West
  Parallel Space EP
  Echocord
  
  Spellbinding rhythmic explorations from a dub scholar.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
  
  Four Tet
  Baby
  Text Records
  
  This taste of Four Tet's new album is everything you want from one of his tunes, capped off with cleverly tweaked vocals from Ellie Goulding.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
Best mixes
January 2020
- Rachel Noon
  Mysteries Of The Deep CXV
  
  A trance-inflected ambient mix from the Large Marge founder and Unter resident.
  
  Taylor Bratches
  The Bunker Podcast 208
  
  Spacey and nimble rhythms woven together by an underrated New York DJ (and occasional RA contributor).
  
  Alex Falk
  HNYPOT 352: Alex Falk's The Drums Are Lava Mix
  
  This mix of pounding house and techno from the Tennessee DJ lives up to its name: "the drums are lava."
  
  Denis Riabov
  Sounds From Nowhere
  
  An eye-opening mix focusing on electronic music from Izhevsk, a hotspot deep in Russia's Ural mountains.
  
  Gigsta
  Dekmantel Podcast 265
  
  A wild and dynamic mix of sounds—dubstep, techno, disco, ghettotech, etc.—that could only come from Gigsta.
  
  Akua
  Truancy Volume 256
  
  Techno old and new, played really fast, from one of the New York underground's most essential DJs.
  
  DJ Swisha & Kush Jones
  The Lot Radio 01-02-2020
  
  Speaking of New York DJs, here's two more, throwing down techno, jazzy house, ballroom, broken beat and electro.
  
  Seth Troxler
  Live At Closer
  
  This three-hour excerpt from a 15-hour set in Kyiv gives you a good idea of where the superstar DJ's head is at these days.
  
  Ali Wade
  Beyond / Below 28
  
  Another knockout mix from the inspiring ambient series Beyond / Below, this time from Frequency Domain's Ali Wade.
  
  Jasmine Infiniti
  FACT Mix 741
  
  Whiplash techno from one of America's fiercest DJs.

Best albums

January 2020

Best singles

January 2020

Best mixes

January 2020