Best Albums

June 2022

- Tobago Tracks
  BFTT - Redefines
  
  Abstract, often breathtaking experimental club music with remarkable sound design and, most importantly, soul.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Delicate Records
  D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi - Edge Of Innocence
  
  Rushing through trance, drum & bass and downtempo rhythms, the duo's Trans-Europe Express of high-energy dance styles is captivating from beginning to end.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Midnight Shift
  ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U w/ friends - Midnight Is Comin'
  
  A mostly ambient DJ set that shows off not only one of Japan's most talented DJs but also the breadth of its electronic music scene.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Soundcloud
- Hyperdub
  700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare
  
  Through sludgy electronics and fearsome vocals, Moor Mother and DJ Haram offer a damning look at the past and present, with a look to a better future—or at least a different one.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- PAN
  Marina Herlop - Pripyat
  
  Marina Herlop's wordless vocal pieces take on a sinister yet colorful edge on this astounding work of voice, piano and electronics.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Novel Sound
  Levon Vincent - Silent Cities
  
  A downtempo adventure that features some of Levon Vincent's most emotionally gripping music.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Limousine Dream
  Gene On Earth - Time On The Vine
  
  Gene On Earth's second album expands the singular producer's cosmos, adding touches of techno and drum & bass to his sun-soaked house.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Naive
  ELLES - A Celebration Of The Euphoria Of Life
  
  On the first album on Violet's Naive label, ELLES implores us to celebrate the ups and downs of life both inside and outside of the club.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- ara
  Kangding Ray - ULTRACHROMA
  
  Kangding Ray's best album yet is close to IDM in the broadest sense of the term: beautiful and unpredictable tracks sculpted out of dance music elements, but taking completely different forms.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Naafi
  Lila Tirando a Violeta - Desire Path
  
  Inspired partly by a breakthrough in her battle with a chronic illness, this album presents Lila Tirando a Violeta's blend of global club music and pop with stronger melodies, in sharp relief.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud

Best EPs

June 2022

- Half Baked Records
  Margaret Dygas - Stars Are Only Light
  
  These are minimal tracks that are heady, patient but also filled with humor and drama—if you know where to look and listen.
  
  Listen:
  Soundcloud
- SZNS7N
  MISFYA - System Bug
  
  Despite what the title implies, this EP should leave your party better than it started—visceral techno that's much more fire than misfire.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Club Romantico
  Bitter Babe & Nick León - Delirio
  
  Latin American club music and Dutch bubbling combine on one near explosive EP.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Infinite Machine
  Aroent - Say
  
  Aroent's approach is aggressive, globally influenced and stylistically nebulous—three distinguishing sonic traits of the Infinite Machine label.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Peder Mannerfelt
  Peder Mannerfelt - All In Your Hands
  
  Peder Mannerfelt launches his new single series with two versions of one track: one lethal, one lighthearted.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- Gilmer Galibard Records
  Gilmer Galibard - Novaturient
  
  Immersive techno that feels like sitting in a mossy forest where everything around you makes unsettling but intriguing noises.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud
- AD 93
  Luis - 057 (Schwyn)
  
  DJ Python revives his most delicate alias for a gorgeous homage to friendship.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Soundcloud
- Balkan Vinyl
  WTCHCRFT - Drugs Here
  
  Acid-influenced ghetto house and techno from a New York producer who knows how to get the fundamentals just right.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud

Best Mixes

May 2022

- Sharlese
  333˚
  
  Seattle residents already know that Sharlese is one of the best DJs on the West Coast, and this mix for pi pi pi is proof. Enjoy slow but powerful jams, with mixing that moves like a lava flow, overwhelming and all-enveloping.
- Steffi & Virginia
  Is Burning 103
  
  Frequent collaborators Steffi & Virginia team up for a red hot Is Burning mix full of groovy house and electro.
- Toumba
  Untitled 909 117
  
  Jordan-based DJ and All Centre affiliate Toumba stuns on this mix for Untitled 909, including plenty of his own adventurous leftfield club material.
- Kilopatrah Jones
  Honcho Podcast Series 108
  
  Kilopatrah Jones' new Honcho mix is a direct shot of serotonin: an hour of feel-good house that invokes the spirit of togetherness and the unmatchable energy of the genre.
- DJ Nobu
  Bassiani Podcast #125
  
  Here's a rare chance to hear Japanese techno selector extraordinaire DJ Nobu in house mode, recorded live at Tbilisi club Bassiani.
- Adriana Lopez
  fabric podcast 002
  
  Adriana Lopez, one of Colombia's finest exports, shows off her cerebral, rippling style of techno on the second fabric podcast.
- CEM
  SITE : SOUND 11
  
  Check out the deeper side of Herrensauna cofounder CEM on this captivating mix that puts together slow, bubbling grooves and squishy organic textures.
- TYGAPAW
  Boiler Room x Primavera Sound
  
  This Boiler Room set from New York's TYGAPAW at Primavera Sound is a techno tour de force, with dynamic mixing and approach to the genre that highlights its most vital, elemental qualities.
- FLORE
  Dekmantel Podcast 390
  
  POLAAR head FLORE comes correct with her Dekmantel Podcast, offering up an hour-plus of careening, unpredictable, blink-and-you'll-miss-it blends and rhythms.
- Crystallmess
  Dazed Mix
  
  Paris-based artist Crystallmess offers up 50 minutes of unexpected twists and turns for this Dazed Mix. Strap in for a journey through Ugandan and Congolese rap, grinding electro, classic Chicago house and much more.

Best Albums

June 2022

Best EPs

June 2022

Best Mixes

May 2022

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