Best Albums

March 2022

- fabric Records
  Leon Vynehall - fabric presents Leon Vynehall
  
  Over the course of these 77 minutes, Vynehall moves from emo rap to classic dub techno to colossal drumfunk and Portuguese batida, and makes it all sound effortless.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Incienso
  Huerco S. - Plonk
  
  Eerie and beautiful IDM inspired by the Kansas artist's longtime obsession with cars.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Newhere Music
  Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car Original Soundtrack
  
  Piano, brushed drums and strings become the foundation for this uncommonly evocative score, made for one of the year's most intriguing (and acclaimed) films.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Pleasure Club
  Johnny Hunter - Dub Is King
  
  The London producer pays homage to British dance music through this funky and minimalist collection of tech house, garage and trip-hop.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Rádio Quantica
  Violet - Transparências
  
  Violet's sometimes jungly, sometimes ambient album is a symphony for everyday tasks like reading, taking the bus and cleaning the house.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Rhythm Section International
  TONE - So I Can See You
  
  Post-punk, calypso and ska meet on this dreamlike album written about the birth of the artist's child, veering between anxiety and hope and full of biting lyrics.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Other People / Unsound
  Various Artists - Weavings
  
  Led by Nicolás Jaar, this group piece, featuring the likes of Juliana Huxtable and Senyawa, plays with perceptions of repetition and time for a truly unreal hour of music.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Ice Drop
  DJ Lag - Meeting With The King
  
  The king of gqom brings together different corners of South African dance music on his show-stopping debut album, playing around with amapiano and reinventing the genre that he made famous in the first place.
  
  Listen:
  Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Kscope
  Tangerine Dream - Raum
  
  Using late founder Edgar Froese's sketches as a base, the pioneering German band has made one of its best albums ever, four decades into its career—true space music.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Urvakan
  Various - A Collective Memoir
  
  This compilation put together by Armenian festival Urvakan highlights shared cultural history across Central Asia and Eastern Europe, through ambient music and sound art that explores the meaning of memory.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music

Best Singles

March 2022

- Bambe
  GiGi FM - Magnetite
  
  A one-of-a-kind debut EP of trippy, hypnotic techno made for dancing and inspired by dancing.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Soundcloud
- HIJINXX
  Nia Archives - Forbidden Feelingz
  
  Nia Archives shows reverence for Black British music's past while blazing a trail for its future on this thrilling EP that infuses R&B with jungle and jazz.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Radical New Theory
  LUXE - Belonging
  
  Mixing together elements of dubstep, trance and garage, LUXE makes glittering hybrids that sound like the future, right now.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Youth
  Hajj – Drag Me Into The Void
  
  The emo vocal-sample anthem we need for this year.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Youtube
- Sonic Groove
  Dasha Rush - Dark & Filthy
  
  Sometimes the title just says it all. This is Dasha Rush at her most intense and unforgiving. She even sings on one track, the EBM-baiting "El Kinky," which is worth the price of admission alone.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Looking For Trouble
  Mall Grab - Metaphysical
  
  "Metaphysical" almost sounds like if the Shut Up And Dance crew emerged cryogenically frozen in 2022 and tried to make contemporary techno—it's brash, funky and tonnes-heavy.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Sportify / Apple Music / Youtube
- Principe
  DJ Nigga Fox - Música da Terra
  
  Lisbon's master manipulator of rhythm gives his audience room to breathe with bright, airy moments nestled amongst his usual intricate web of percussion.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- YCO
  Henzo - YCO004
  
  Henzo touches on old wobblecore with this alternately jaw-dropping and hilarious EP that also boasts an incredible remix from Manuka Honey and Florentino.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- n goes to infinity
  Nikki Nair - Step 2
  
  Atlanta new-rave young gun Nikki Nair kick-starts his own label with a single that feels like a rickety wooden rollercoaster, sending acid lines down a rhythm that careens between uptempo and halftime.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Youtube
- Hinge Finger
  Joy Orbison - Pinky Ring
  
  Where '90s techstep meets 2022 post-dubstep garage.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Youtube

Best Mixes

March 2022

- C.FRIM
  Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain
  
  Australian DJ C.FRIM's Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain set answers the question: how much bassweight can you pack into one hour? It's a tour de force of creative club music and impeccable mixing, the kind of set you'll return to again and again.
- more eaze
  how to become a fossil
  
  Ambient storytelling from more eaze, who has put together an alternately gorgeous and haunting mix for c-.
- ADAB
  Dekmantel Podcast 375
  
  ADAB's Dekmantel mix is a good encapsulation of what they do best as a DJ: weightless yet bass-heavy grooves where dub, jungle, house and other genres of club music all melt together into something unique.
- Robert Bergman
  HEAT Rave 19/03
  
  There is plenty of jacking Chicago house, swirling acid and other old-school goodies in this mix from Dutch DJ (and one-time Rush Hour affiliate) Robert Bergman, recorded live at Amsterdam's HEAT.
- Anetha
  LT Podcast 214
  
  Anetha's latest mix, for Lobster Theremin, keeps up the pace and energy, but highlights lighter, more nimble sounds than just tonnes-heavy techno—though you still get some of that, too.
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- Kikelomo & Courtesy
  NTS Radio 03/12/22
  
  Though Courtesy's upcoming debut EP showcases a more ambient sound, this NTS mix is closer to what you'd expect from her, a perfectly blended mix of house, techno, trance and electro, all sleek, shiny and overflowing with melody.
- KYRUH & WTCHCRFT
  Live @ BASEMENT NY
  
  New York duo KYRUH & WTCHCRFT recently opened for DJ Stingray 313 at BASEMENT in Queens. "Our ten years of friendship was poured into this performance," they said on SoundCloud.
- Rosa Pistola
  Reggaeton Mujeres
  
  This edition of Rosa Pistola's Radio Super show on NTS highlights some of the women who have helped push and define reggaeton over the years—an equally eye-opening and hip-shaking mix.
- Uncle Dugs
  MC Skibadee Tribute Show
  
  Uncle Dugs presented a tribute show to the legendary MC Skibadee, who recently passed away. The emotional broadcast includes many friends and colleagues dropping by the studio to pay their respects.
- Abena
  FACT Mix 849
  
  This FACT mix from Abena was inspired by some of their recent warm-up sets, and it's a masterclass in the form: wobbly, wiggly, bass-heavy and gradually increasing in intensity while keeping everything at a tantalizing simmer.

Best Albums

March 2022

Other People / Unsound

Best Singles

March 2022

Best Mixes

March 2022

Kikelomo & Courtesy

KYRUH & WTCHCRFT

Uncle Dugs