BLUNTMAN DEEJAY ASTAT (Real)
A groove so smooth it can trip over its own feet and still look cool. The Canadian producer is a part of the on-point Mood Hut collective, but this one is on Glasgow's All Caps label.
CALL SUPER SULU SEKOU (Houndstooth)
From one of the best albums of the year, this relaxed cut shows the German producer (right) has an ear for texture at its most developed.
HIRO KONE DAYS OF BEING WILD (Geographic North) A strange one this, like a couple of tracks playing at once, but to great effect. So much going on it's hard to know where to start, but the Brooklyn-based musician makes it all gel.
LEE GAMBLE MOTOR SYSTEM (PAN)
Lee Gamble returns to PAN with another record some critics will use their most purple prose to pull apart. Don't mind that, though – this is a great beat tearing through a typically imaginative and inimitable sound world.
ITAL BLACK DUST (Planet Mu)
One of the more laid back tracks on Dan Martin-McCormack's third LP for Planet Mu, a record that finds him transcending the "outsider" part of the outsider house description. Beautifully enigmatic house; not weird, just individual.
GUNNAR HASLAM ATAXIA NO LOGOS (Delsin)
Prolific New Yorker drops a surprisingly original acid track in an era positively drowning in cheap knock-offs.
BASS CLEF STENALINE METRANIL SOLAR FLARE (Peverelist Remix)
With two of the finest British producers of the last decade working together, how could anything go wrong? A wonderful, upbeat track of propulsive, expansive techno.
