Best Albums

September 2022

- AD 93
  Coby Sey - Conduit
  
  Inspired by the community spirit of South East London, this forthright and reflective debut album veers between grime and spoken word.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- One Little Independent
  Björk - Fossora
  
  Inspired by gabber and armed with bass clarinets, the Icelandic artist digs deep into the nature of human connection for another album of sprawling, orchestral torch songs.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Avenue 66
  Moiré - Circuits
  
  Moiré's formerly knackered house blooms into full colour for the first time on Circuits, his best and most elegant music yet.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Self-released
  estoc - Serenity
  
  The Philadelphia producer's debut album of expansive techno feels like a furious call to action and sounds like pent-up frustration that finally has somewhere to go.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Butter Side Up
  Sweely - Closer Energy
  
  Sweely raises the bar even higher on this album of lighthearted and groovy beats, angling for the title of tech house's goofball-in-chief.
  
  Listen: Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Late Music
  Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters
  
  Using centuries-old equipment and techniques to craft modern electroacoustic music, Sarah Davachi blends tradition with experimentation for truly compelling minimalist music.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Good Morning Tapes
  Gi Gi - Sunchoke
  
  Ambient jungle-not-jungle that strikes all the right notes, touching on Krautrock, The Orb and more.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / SoundCloud
- Naafi
  Animistic Beliefs - MERDEKA
  
  Skilled, sometimes astounding fusions of IDM, drum & bass and club music with Southeast Asian influences.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Steel City Dance Discs
  Nite Fleit - Day Fleit / Nite Fleit
  
  Split across two halves, Nite Fleit's debut album features electro at its sweetest and most sour, emphasising the genre's extremes.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Ghostly International
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound
  
  Armed with homemade vocal processing and a new ear for mischievous sounds, the synth wizard presents her weirdest, most vibrant music.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud

Best EPs

September 2022

- Specials
  
  Regularfantasy - New Glow
  
  Cheery house music laced with bona fide vocal hooks for a Vancouver label that focusses on real crossover potential.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music
- Butter Sessions
  Jennifer Loveless - Around The World
  
  The tracks on Jennifer Loveless's third record are blissed-out house jams, full of the effortless, soaring grooves other artists work a lifetime to achieve.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- M-Plant
  Robert Hood - Hectic / Amazon Dust
  
  Robert Hood goes very big room on his new single, which seems designed to send festivals into a tizzy. Minimal this is not.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- PSYCHICBODY
  Psybody - 2S+
  
  Barnstorming trance techno that layers loopy synth on loopy synth until it curdles into a roaring breakdown.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Rekids
  Jon Hester - Action
  
  Functional techno with just the right amount of cheek.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Voam
  Rhyw - Honey Badger
  
  One of the summer's most memorable techno anthems finally gets a release in all its sputtering, weirdo glory.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Love On The Rocks
  Paramida - Moonrise VII
  
  "Imagine it's 1992, you are at a rave in Goa on the beach. It's 8 AM, what's the track playing? Make that track," is the advice Paramida used to give other producers. She took her own words to heart on this new EP, which pumps trance full of spit and vigour.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Monnom Black
  Dax J - Brixton
  
  Face-melting techno from one of the genre's most consistent producers.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Cheeky Music Group
  Amy Dabbs - Baddest Gal
  
  Elegant, soulful drum & bass that may still catch the ears of house heads.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / SoundCloud
- Shall Not Fade
  Willis Anne - Movement
  
  Fast, calm, collected, abrasive, smooth—it's these contradictions that make Movement more than your average house EP.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify

Best Mixes

September 2022

- Hyeonje
  Missed Connections 019
  
  Hyeonje—a master of moods, movements and mind-melting percussive shakedowns—serves up 90 minutes of emotive explorations for Missed Connections Radio, punctuated midway through by a six-minute piano performance.
- Sicaria Sound
  Ilian Tape Podcast 083
  
  Sicaria Sound's Ilian Tape Podcast goes from dubstep to drum & bass in graceful fashion, with all the chest-rattling sub bass you could want.
- Batu
  Live At Waterworks Festival 2021
  
  The Bristol DJ (and Timedance boss) throwing down broken techno like only he can.
- ISAbella
  The Lot Radio 09/22/2022
  
  As cofounder of Barcelona crew MARICAS, ISAbella is one of the city's most important and respected DJs. This session for The Lot Radio in New York is a lovely hour of house-centric sounds that moves from lush and relaxing to perky at a near-perfect pace.
- LSDXOXO
  Nite Sport
  
  Berlin don LSDXOXO has amassed a cult following with his idiosyncratic blend of freakadelic techno and pop edits. His recent mix for Nike Nite Sport shows the musician in top form (including an acid remix of Cardi B's "Up").
- Haan
  The Warehouse #39
  
  Singapore techno DJ Haan puts together two hours of fast, rolling techno for Vietnam's The Warehouse, mixed with a very '90s touch that features fast cuts and plenty of snappy filter work.
- Sevyn
  HØR September 17 2022
  
  Sevyn is the cofounder of one of Los Angeles' best new parties, Serenity Link. Their recent set for HÖR is an hour of glitchy leftfield tracks, kicking off with Loraine James and reaching a satisfying climax with Kelela's latest single.
- Marionette
  The Wire Mix
  
  If you don't already know the essential Toronto label Marionette, this mix in The Wire makes for a great primer, featuring quirky and ear-opening electroacoustic tracks from artists like Burnt Friedman, Max Loderbauer, Kilchhofer and more, plus new cuts from Roxane Métayer, Delphine Dora and MinaeMinae.
- Yu Su
  Live At Dekmantel Festival 2022
  
  Dekmantel has shared the usual trove of recordings from their 2022 edition. This one features Yu Su in the party-rocking mode she's been mastering recently—effortlessly fun, groovy and ecstatic.
- Love Letters
  Only L.A. Williams
  
  New York DJ Love Letters put together an enlightening mix of tracks from '90s Chicago producer L.A. Williams—who ran the Chisel label—featuring plenty of obscure aliases and records long out of print.

Best Albums

September 2022

Best EPs

September 2022

Best Mixes

September 2022

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