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Best albums
February 2020
- Beatrice Dillon
  Workaround
  PAN
  
  A stunning album that approaches vintage dub techno from the perspective of midcentury minimalism.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Katie Gately
  Loom
  Houndstooth
  
  Katie Gately confronts death on this swooning LP, built primarily with her own soaring vocals.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Citizen Boy & Mafia Boyz
  From Avoca Hills To The World
  GQOM OH
  
  An essential compilation outlining both the vitality of early gqom and the genre's increasingly complex, trap-influenced direction.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify
- Smagghe & Cross
  1819
  Offen Music
  
  The oddball duo take a filmic approach to composition with this patient and rewarding LP.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Rrose & Silent Servant
  Air Texture VII
  Air Texture
  
  Two techno mavericks show how expansive ambient music can be.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify
- Grimes
  Miss Anthropocene
  4AD
  
  An album about the climate crisis that's as strange as it is compelling.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Borusiade
  Fortunate Isolation
  Dark Entries
  
  Borusiade's second album of baroque synth pop and new wave find beauty in the darkness of the modern world.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Various
  Kulør 006
  Kulør
  
  A compilation of avant-garde ambient and downtempo sounds from Courtesy's label.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Against All Logic
  2017 - 2019
  Other People
  
  Nicolas Jaar transforms the sunny house of his last Against All Logic album into snarling techno on this remarkable album.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Gallery S
  Gallery S
  Self-released
  
  The artist otherwise known as MoMA Ready continues an incredible streak with an album of fast-paced techno and surging drum & bass.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify
Best singles
February 2020
- Eris Drew
  Fluids Of Emotion
  Interdimensional Transmissions
  
  Eris Drew's first solo EP highlights the emotional intensity of her approach to dance music.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Maayan Nidam
  Hellium 002
  Hellium
  
  Maayan Nidam is making the best music of her career right now, as these three subtle but sprawling tracks of what she calls "obscure techno" attest to.
  
  Listen: Soundcloud
- Schacke
  There's Something Inside Me
  Intrepid Skin
  
  The unstoppable Danish producer once again proves that tough techno can have a sense of humour—and diva vocals.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Rubber Bullets
  Smell Your Smog
  Omega Men
  
  Grungy techno and electro that imagines a world without humans.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Surgeon
  The Golden Sea
  Ilian Tape
  
  Anthony Child's surging techno discography meets his psychedelic ambient side on this gorgeous EP.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Yohei S & Daniel 58
  Eight Two Five
  Parallel Minds
  
  Toronto's presence on the rave map has waxed and waned over the years, but this slick house EP from two young producers hints there's something new bubbling.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Anthony Linell & Adiel
  Raso
  Danza Tribale
  
  Two charismatic producers link up for an EP of burbling hypnotic techno.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Detroit's Filthiest
  Premium Content
  Casa Voyager
  
  Morocco is fast becoming one of the most exciting places in the world for new electro, and Casa Voyager's cultural exchange with Detroit continues with another stellar EP from Julian Shamou.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Tobias.
  1972
  Ostgut Ton
  
  Tobias Freund channels lightness and melody into a stripped-back techno EP that's full of feeling.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Peder Mannerfelt
  Like We Never Existed
  Voam
  
  Peder Mannerfelt jumps on Blawan and Pariah's label with the meanest techno he's ever made.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Cygnus
  Connection Error
  Craigie Knowes
  
  Electro, hip-hop, IDM—the Dallas artist melds these three worlds like a true Autechre pupil.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
Best mixes
February 2020
- FAUZIA
  DISCWOMAN 87
  
  Touching on dubstep, footwork, techno and more, this all-originals mix reveals the rising London artist to be a gifted producer.
  
  DJ Plead
  Dekmantel Podcast 271
  
  The Melbourne artist's mix of club music and hip-hop moves in mysterious ways.
  
  Shannen SP
  DJ Mag Recognise Mix
  
  Shannen SP puts together a mix of what she calls "Afrocentric techno," weaving in kuduro and gqom along the way.
  
  CCL & Physical Therapy
  Live @ High & Tight 12/13/19
  
  Three hours of the self-described "four-armed DJ squid" blowing minds in Seattle last December.
  
  Reptant
  Butter Mix #88
  
  Melbourne electro head Reptant (AKA Lou Karsh) delivers an hour of twitchy electro and techno for Butter Sessions' mix series.
  
  Lisa Frank
  Live At ROAM 2020 NYE
  
  Recorded live from her party ROAM's NYE bash, this set shows Morgan Tepper in strong form, with barreling techno, squelchy acid, breaks and drum & bass.
  
  Desyn
  Vinyl Chillout Set At Melliflow/Closer, Hoppetosse
  
  The chillout room doesn't have to be all droopy ambient and lava lamps—here's a master at work, mixing breaks, dub and techno on only the chillest of vibes.
  
  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  Kranky On NTS
  
  The American experimental artist processes Iron Maiden, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and more into oblivion.
  
  Jennifer Loveless
  sea you at the end (c-)
  
  Joyous but restrained house from an Australian newcomer.
  
  Solar
  Digital Tsunami 174
  
  The Bay Area stalwart doing what he does best: obscure punk and weirdo synth, mixed immaculately.

Best albums

February 2020

Best singles

February 2020

Best mixes

February 2020