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1. Boxcutter – S p a c e b a s s [Planet Mu]
2. Various Productions – Lost (Actress Remix) [Various Production]
3. Karizma – 33rd Street Anthem [ITH]
4. AGF/Delay – In Cycles [BPitch Control]
5. Mux Mool – Eagle Fantasies [Moodgadget]
6. Daniel Savio – Ohhh! [Flogsta Danshall]
7. Joker – Psychedelic Runway [Kapsize] 8. Starkey – Gutter Music VIP [Keysound Recordings]
9. Skream – I (Loefah Remix) [Tempa]
10. Boxcutter – Old School Astronomy [Planet Mu]
11. Boxcutter & Kinnego Flux – A Familiar Sound [Kinnego]
12. Barry Lynn – Metric Cycle [Planet Mu]
13. Rival Consoles – Milo [Erased Tapes]
14. Narcossist – Brothel Creeper [Clandestine Cultivations]
15. Echologist ft The Spaceape – Mercy Beat (No Mercy Dub) [Resopal Red]

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Dorian Concept – Color Sexist [Kindred Spirits]
Mark Pritchard – ? [Ho Hum]
Tim Hecker – Sea of Pulses [Kranky]
2000f & J Kamata – You Don’t Know What Love Is [Hyperdub]
Martyn – Vancouver [Scape]
Boxcutter – Mya Rave [Planet Mu]
Bullion – Are You the One? [One-Handed Music]
Hermutt Lobby ft Non & Shadow Huntaz – Vampire Remix [Eat Concrete]
Onra ft Hazel – Supergenesis [Favorite]
Dorian Concept – Clap Beep Boom [Kindred Spirits]
Dorian Concept – Yorktown Recreation [Affine]
Flying Lotus – Camel (Nosaj Thing Remix) [Warp]
Ritornell – Emere [Karaoke Kalk]
Clark – Distant Father Torch [Warp]
Guido – Orchestral Lab [Punch Drunk]
Benny Ill vs DJ Dinesh – London [Tempa]
Kode 9 – Too Far Gone [Hyperdub]
10-20 – InB [Highpoint Lowlife]
Bibio – Torn Under the Window Light [Mush Records]

Album of the Month – Dorian Concept – When Planets Explode [Kindred Spirits]

Fusing together the fashionable ends of the hyperkrunk scene with sublime jazz synth work and micro-editing capabilities, Dorian Concept’s debut LP is a complex beast. The record plays more as a collection of tracks tan as a whole, but as the title suggests, each number is its own organic explosion, refusing to be tied down by quantized programming or any individual prevailing characteristic or sound. The contrast in styles on the album is staggering, with the monumental synth swagger of the ‘Fucking Formula’ and ‘You Tiresome Thing’ jostling with the abstract torrents of numbers like ‘Mesh Beam Splitter’, which burrows into your brain like a colony of funked up termites.
It’ll have you bopping your head while it blows your mind, these are the compiled snaphots of the many faces of Oliver Johnson, one of electronic music’s freshest talents.

Business resumes for ‘09 with a blend of the best beats and beatless from across the globe, including Scandinavian Skwee, French Dubstep, Roman Acid and erm… German 8-bit Classical.

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Star Crackout – Hudson Mohawke [All City]
Interferenz I – Atom™ [Raster-Noton]
Human Resources – Unknown [Hate]
Sample Clearance – Millie [Daphne]
Test Me for a Reason – Zomby [Hyperdub]
Phonebox – Sully [Frijsfo Beats]
Ruptured (Surgeon Remix) – Scuba [Hotflush]
Pabelcath – Funckarma [Highpoint Lowlife]
Springs & Wires – Helixir [Se7en]
Remixalo – Lory D [Wireblock]
Köln – Harmonic 313 [Warp]
Swedish Pommak – Limonious [Flogsta Danshall]
Revenge of the Nerds – Fulgeance [All City]
Funnybones – Bullion [One Handed Music]
Katabatic – Wisp [Rephlex]
Xerrox Monophaser 2 – Alva Noto [Raster-Noton]
WeiÃes Rauschen (zweiter Teil) – Atom™ [Raster-Noton]

Album of the Month – Atom™ – Liedgut [Raster-Noton]

The hugely prolific Uwe Schmidt has been refreshing his craft in electronic sound for over two decades. From industrial techno and acid through to his Latin inflected work as Señor Coconut, his works have always erred on the side of playful. Whilst Liedgut takes the Atom^TM project in a neo-classical direction, this fun remains essential to his work. Out of gentle white noise clouds, Schmidt arranges his 8-bit orchestra through lilting Waltzs and flurried Scherzos. There are Arias here too, only the voices here rasp out in gutteral and Germanic robot tones. The overall effect is rich, fantastical, and some times so beautiful it plays like the soundtrack to an unwritten fairy tale. In space.

On the back of the divine sonicscapes found on this week’s featured album, Ø’s Oleva, the latter half of the show is a bundle of beatless music after some utterly brutal beats from the likes of Joker and Si Begg. Prepare for an uninterrupted closing half hour that will envelope you in some gorgeous ambient, drone and other rhythmically ambiguous music.

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Forgive – Burial [Hyperdub]
Holly Brook Park – Joker [Kapsize]
I See Them Everywhere – Si Begg [Si Begg's Instant Noodles]
Daoine Sidhe – Likhan []
The Exotics – Leila [Warp]
Make It So (Samiyam Remix) – Daedelus[Ninjatune]
Sleepy Dinosaur – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Unien Holvit – Ø [Sähkö]
Mezzo Forte – Burning Star Core [Plastic]
Kent – Con_Ceeta [Moteer]
Circassian – Fennesz [Touch]
2 Harmonic Studies – Brian Eno [Opal Records]
Muistetun Palava – Ø [Sähkö]

Featured Album: Ø – Oleva [Sähkö]

It isn’t clear how we’re supposed to pronounce the name of Mika Vainio’s latest project; a quirk that seems at odds to the effect of the music itself which, despite being mostly spatial techno and post-industrial ambience, is crafted together with textures tangible and definite. Dank memories of sound are used to hollow out a cavern into which bass hits collapse. Great volumes for mesmerising throbs and drone are marked out by streaks of metallic snaps. Oleva is 12 tracks of intuitive dark, static music, in which Vainio’s most impressive trick is to make the listener feel like they’re providing a dynamic counter-point to it, just by listening.

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C’Est What – Terminal 11[Cock Rock Disco]
Riddim Grid – Disrupt[Werk]
Is We Going Under? – Steinski[Illegal Art]
Pop IV – Gas[Kompakt]
2D – Skream[Tempa]
New Territory (Norman Nodge Remix) – Peter Van Hoesen[Time to Express]
Matter of Sound – Planetary[Metamorphic]
Reminissin’ (Skream’s Time Traveller Refit) – Geiom ft. Marita[Berkane Soul]
Drama – Fool ft. MC Non[Hum & Haw]
Mom, The Video Broke – Syclops[DFA]
Poo Yourself Jason – Venetian Snares[Planet Mu]
W.32.Deadcode.A – AFX[Rephlex]
CYK – Cristian Vogel[Tresor]
Elektro Cut – MMM[MMM]
Heartbeats Per Minute – Astronaut No. 1[Bleepfiend]
Funf – Gas[Kompakt]

Featured Album: Gas – Nah Und Fern [Kompakt]

Nah Und Fern, an anthology of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project, brings some of the most influential recordings of electronic music out of the mitts of hoarding collectors and into a much more accessible domain. From the 1996’s self-titled debut to 2000’s Pop, the package is all 4 full length releases, missing only the Modern E.P. and a couple of other lost recordings from the discography.
Gas is Voigt, co-founder of the Kompakt label and microhouse pioneer, at his most reflective, taking inspiration from the Black Forest and looping crackly orchestral snippets into oblivion. Each sample used is a seed that branches and firs. Where the kick drum is introduced, it is only to gently pad you deeper into the dense, expansive drone. Occasional field recordings and instrumentation seep into focus out of the murk, only to disperse out of recognition. The music is vital and intuitive, comfortable in blind ambiguity and astonishingly beautiful.

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Piblokto – Loz Koleszko [One Man Army]
Redux – 2562 [Tectonic]
So Malleable (Cold Mix) – Milanese [Planet Mu]
Deepville – 808 State [Rephlex]
Leafy Imprint – Barry Lyne [Planet Mu]
chenc9 -1dub – Autechre [Warp]
Rude Effort – Bullion [One-Handed Music]
Sweet Memory – Clark Remix – Pivot [Warp]
fall – Frank Bretschneider [Mille Plateaux]
u_90-0 – Alvo Noto [Raster-Noton]
Highway of Diamods – Oren Ambarchi [Touch]
Suburbia – Martyn [Apple Pips]
Moog Dub – 2562 [Tectonic]
Like Sun – Toasty [Hotflush]
Only For The Heartstrings – Daedelus [Ninjatune]

Featured Album: 2562 – Aerial [Tectonic]

Whether as 2562 or A Made Up Sound, Dave Huismans has been dropping mind-melting dub swaggers so liberally over the last little while that the prospect of this LP has been tantalising to say the least, and it delivers completely

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Golden Diva – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Just 4 Kicks (Instrumental) – Rustie [Stuff Records]
Ghost Roller – Hermutt Lobby [Confined]
GNG BNG – Flying Lotus [Warp]
King In My Empire – Rhythm and Sound w/ Cornel Campbell [Burial Mix]
Drone – Move D [Modern Love]
The Deal – The Field [Kompakt]
Morning Of The World – Brael / Tokyo Bloodworm [Moteer]
Miss Balaton – Venetian Snares [Planet Mu]
Timing, Forget The Timing – Black Devil Disco Club [Rephlex]
Bellhead – Liquid Liquid [DFA]
Losing Marbles (2562 Mix) – TRG & Dub U [Hotflush]
Kaerb – Débruit [Musique Large]
Wanderlust (Matthew Herbert Remix) – Björk [One Little Indian]

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Featured Album: Flying Lotus – Los Angeles [Warp]

The follow-up to 2007’s excellent Reset E.P., Los Angeles is a colossal seventeen tracks of instrumental hip hop that boasts more influences than you could count without an abacus. Whilst there’s something definitely very signature about the sound to be found on the record, it’s hard to put your finger on what that common thread is. One things for sure though, from lurching swaggers like Golden Diva, through to the driven numbers such as Parisian Goldfish, it’s plain to see Flying Lotus’ production arm of present is not to be messed with.

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On Tuesday – Luke Abbott [Border Community]
Düsseldorf – Pole [Scape]
Pure I (James T. Cotton Mix) – Daniel Meteo [Kalk Pets]
Before My Eyes – Claro Intelecto [Modern Love]
test pattern #0100 – Ryoji Ikeda [Raster-Noton]
Amoroso – Fennsz Plays Charles Matthews [Touch]
Swimmer – Four Tet [Domino]
Empress feat. Mikey Murka – Disrupt [Jahtari]
Brulush – The Doubtful Guest [Planet Mu]
Moog Acid – Jackson Mix – Luke Vibert & Jean Jaques Perrey [Lo]
Ribbons – Four Tet [Domino]
Funktion – Peverelist [Tectonic]
Anti-War Dub – Digital Mystikz [DMZ]

Featured Album:Four Tet – Ringer EP

Keiran Hebden’s first solo material for just under 2 years finds him stripping away the dense production veils he was prone to weaving, revealing a much more defined and focussed piece that just sounds like someone rediscovering the fun in making music. Cutting jazz elements out of his recent ventures with Steve Reid and exploring his techno influences with a minimal setup, the result is an effortlessly musical collection of movements that will move you.

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Drone 1 – Rollercoaster Project [Dreamboat]
Vaporub – Alex Smoke [Hum and Haw]
Dirtylush Stinkwife – µ-ziq [Planet Mu]
Empty – Elemental [Halo Beats]
I’m Wanna Make a Supersonic Woman of You – Burning Star Core [No-Fi]
I-War – AGF [AGF Produktion]
Spicy Sammich – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Shipwreck – Kelpe [DC Recordings]
Hermutt Lobby Hazebola Bassline
Words Are Missing – AGF [AGF Production]
Tankarnen – Autechre [Warp]
Death Is Not Final (T++ Remix) – Shackleton [Skull Disco]
Brenn – Few Nolder [Planet Mu]
Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson) – M83 [Gooom]

Featured Album: AGF – Words Are Missing:

Antye Greie’s 4th solo LP is a collection of exercises in explotation of the voice, splintering syllables across delicate arrangements to produce her most coherent work to date. The attention to detail is what makes it feel so organic and dense beneath the characteristically Berlin soundscapes and her lilting words, cut into a thousands piece. You’ll be picking up on new mouth and respiratory samples with each listen, like throaty croaks filtered into percussive creaks on Kreuzwortraetsel and masked panting on Presswehen.