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Best albums
June 2020
- Various
  HOA010
  Haus Of Altr
  
  An all-star compilation featuring "the future of Black electronic music," according to the label, HOA010 is an essential look at some of the most exciting young producers around.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Space Afrika
  hybtwibt?
  Self-Released
  
  Part mixtape, part sound collage, this beautiful release captures the pain and the hope at the heart of the ongoing fight for racial justice.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Josey Rebelle
  Josey In Space
  Beats in Space Records
  
  On her first official mix CD, one of the UK's best DJs threads together spacey beats that connect Black music across the decades.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Theo Parrish
  We Are All Georgeous Monsterss
  Sound Signature
  
  A deeply affecting spoken-word mix-album hybrid made from tracks both unreleased and familiar, discussions from around the internet and personal storytelling.
- Various
  Don't Turn Your Back On Love
  BANK Records NYC
  
  The underrated BANK NYC crew deliver a charity compilation featuring blazing new tracks from Bookworms, E-Saggila, Entro Senestre and more.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Dreamcrusher
  Another Country
  Self-Released
  
  The creative noise artist pulverises familiar tracks from across the decades into a wall of sound that alternates between soothing and searing.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Ras G
  Raw Fruit Vol. 5 & 6
  Ghetto Sci-Fi Records
  
  The final two installations in the late Los Angeles artist's Raw Fruit series were finished just before his death, and feature some of the most powerful hip-hop beat sketches of his career.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Speaker Music
  Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
  Self-Released
  
  DeForrest Brown Jr. channels vintage and future techno, hi-tech jazz, UK dance music and more on this illuminating and powerful album.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify
- Jaymie Silk
  Club Mermaid
  The Silk Hour
  
  The Montreal artist takes ballroom as a jumping-off point for leftfield bangers and woozy R&B.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Moodymann
  Taken Away
  KDJ
  
  A bittersweet album that explores the ups and downs of being a Black house music superstar.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Divine Interface
  Seeking Arrangement
  2MR
  
  Louche hip-house, funk and R&B combine on an entertaining album from an up-and-coming Atlanta producer that tracks a love affair and all its emotional stages.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
Best singles
June 2020
- Iceboy Violet
  Drown To Float
  Self-released
  
  Floating edits that turn mainstream hip-hop tracks into ambient dreamworlds.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Jenifa Mayanja
  Seeds: Alternate Versions Vol. 1
  Self Released
  
  An underrated voice in East Coast deep house delivers sensual new versions of familiar tracks, underlining her atmospheric approach.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
- Olive T
  m.o.i.
  Self-released
  
  Heart-tugging and rousing techno that paints this New York DJ as a producer to watch.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
- Shy One
  2010/2011
  Self-released
  
  Old tunes that sound fresh from one of the UK's most overlooked and inventive dance music producers.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
- Kush Jones
  EP (FT055)
  Future Times
  
  The New York footwork maestro hops over to Future Times for an EP of percussive, silky house music, with influences from all the genres that make his music tick.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Huey Mnemonic
  Virtuosity
  Subsonic Ebonics
  
  Following a spectacular self-titled EP last year, Huey Mnemonic mints his new Subsonic Ebonics imprint with sweeping melodies that prove his strain of Midwestern techno is only getting better.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- NKISI
  BLK SPELLS
  Self-released
  
  A collection of bats from 2013-2016 that show NKISI's surging techno sound taking shape.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Househead Samira
  Radio Safia
  Self-released
  
  Feel-good house and disco that touches on several eras in dance music history.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- NÍDIA
  S/T
  Príncipe
  
  The closing chapter of the Lisbon producer's recent three-record drop is the most danceable, but keeps the tender melodic touches that make her music stand out.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Ase Manual
  SHAKTI EP
  Like That Records
  
  A dazzling track rooted in ballroom and Baltimore gets a star-studded cast of remixers, including an earth-shaking Jersey club rendition from UNIIQU3.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Forest Management
  Rooftop By Dusk
  
  Self-released
  
  A look at the early work of an important player in today's ambient music, emphasizing his gift for slowly blooming longform compositions.
  
  Listen: Bandcamp
Best mixes
June 2020
- SHERELLE
  Dekmantel Podcast 285
  
  Another ace mix from UK talent SHERELLE, bottling up the energy and emotions from the last few months into a blistering selection of breaks, footwork, hardcore, jungle and more.
  
  Honey Dijon
  NYC Downlow
  
  Honey Dijon marks what would have been Glastonbury's 50th edition with a mix celebrating the eclectic and rowdy NYC Downlow party.
  
  Soso Tharpa
  Extended Family
  
  Future Times affiliate Soso Tharpa combines funky techno, American club music and UK sounds.
  
  DJ Swisha
  SORRYMIX004
  
  DJ Swisha puts together an incredible all-Baltimore club mix for Sorry Records, featuring the vocal talents of New York's Guarionex.
  
  Reverend Dollars
  your house is on fire 🔥
  
  A joyful mix from the Seattle DJ that connects the dots between Taana Gardner, Boo Williams, Byrell The Great and LSDXOXO.
  
  Anz
  spring/summer dubs 2020
  
  Anz's all-originals "dubs" mixes have become an annual tradition at this point, and this latest one packs more than an album's worth of upbeat jams that mine UK dance music history, from hardcore to garage and beyond.
  
  Marcellus Pittman
  Bologna MP Mix
  
  This mix from the Unirhythm head shows off Pittman's unrivaled skills, with tracks from Ron Trent, Bam Bam and Stefan Ringer, to name a few.
  
  Oli XL
  Lily Mix III
  
  Hypermodern club and pop bliss from the rising Swedish producer.
  
  Gabrielle Kwarteng
  Uncanny Valley Podcast 091
  
  From '90s house to Italo disco, Kwarteng's mix channels the loose, garage house spirit that originated in her home city, New York.
  
  A.G & Manara
  Beauty Blender
  
  This ecstatic episode of the UK duo's Beauty Blender NTS show features UK garage, turn-of-the-millennium R&B and old-school breakbeat.

Best albums

June 2020

Best singles

June 2020

Best mixes

June 2020