On Repeat: Unspecified Enemies and Romance In The Age of Adaptive Feedback
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including an album of reconstructed Welsh techno from Louis Digital and Numbers.
Almost Music: Sublime deep house & much, much more from Land Of Echo
Nine expertly crafted tracks of alt-disco, deep-house, leftfield 4/4, digital boogie, future soul, R'n'Chug and forward-thinking sonic hybridizing on the very good Almost Music album from UK producer, DJ and musician Rob Mac and violinist/synth player Lucy Wilkins' new Land Of Echo project.
On Repeat: DJ Bone and The End of Never
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including DJ Bone's The End of Never - an album of machine music with soul.
Full Circle: Soulful bruk house from musclecars and Toribio
Super high quality package from Bradley Zero's Rhythm Section featuring four tracks from Brooklyn duo musclecars with Toribio and Roland Clark on vocals hovering on the organic, jazz-ish end of the house spectrum.
Future Hypnotic: Al Smith drops a near perfect deep house EP on “Sounds and Shapes”
Al Smith hails from Ireland and these late nite tracks on Sounds and Shapes, on vinyl from Chateau Chepere, are made for the vanishing corners of the 24/7 afterhours world.
All Rize: Harry Romero delivers a killer remix for Rekids
Absolute dancefloor fire: Harry Romero's remix and dub of Radio Slave and Kameelah Waheed's "All Rize" from Rekids.
On Repeat: A decade of Ron Trent tracks come together on “Lift Off”
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including Ron Trent's Lift Off, an album a decade in the making and released on Rush Hour.
On Repeat: Maurice Fulton’s sparkling house album “Night Blooming Cereus”
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including Night Blooming Cereus by Maurice Fulton (as "Boof").
On Repeat: Futuristic Sonics for the Soul on rRoxymore’s “Juggling Dualities”
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, starting with French artist rRoxymore’s "Juggling Dualities."
“Inside My Love” is one of the overlooked soulful house gems of 2025
Santonio, the Echols Brothers and Makeda Rose with an incendiary cover of the Minnie Riperton classic "Inside My Love."
“La Torre Ibiza Volumen Cinco” is one of this year’s better Ibiza compilations
The fifth installment of the "La Torre Ibiza" compilation series continues to document the Balearic sounds championed at Hostel La Torre, lovingly selected and carefully programmed by DJ Pete Gooding and DJ/producer Mark Barrott
Say Who: Exquisite deep house from Luca Olivotto & Small Great Beats
Luca Olivotto creates blissful, euphoric deep house music - everything you want in an EP, four times over - on Say Who?! released on vinyl by Small Great Beats.
Crooked Man turns a disco classic to the dark side
From the excellent Vicious Charm label comes a typically bold musical statement from Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt aka Crooked Man in the form of a mid-tempo dark, distorted, deep house remake of disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way."
Detroit’s Jon Dixon drops the sublime Paradise Valley EP
Bad ass tracks on black wax from Jon Dixon and No Speakers, featuring remixes from LA Synthesis and El Prevost.
Deep house maestros Abacus & Haf S collab on Analogue Stories Vol 4
The unmatched "Analogue Stories" series jumps back home to Re/Think on this four track EP of gorgeous deep house tracks.
Jevon Jackson signs a two track EP to Chicago’s Fresh Meat Records
Veteran of Chicago house's golden age Jevon Jackson is surfacing with two tracks of stripped down and manically addictive house music on Fade / Turnin' for Chicago's Fresh Meat Records label.
“Structural Disruption”: Five tracks of esoteric techno from Ground16
Structural Disruption is an EP of five tracks rooted in the underground and then branching out into the cosmos, crafting deeply physical dance music for esoteric heads.
Ralph Session & Juliet Mendoza go Mad Deep on Quintessentials
Following up on their sensational 2024 Freaknik EP on Freerange, Ralph Session and Juliet Mendoza return with Mad Deep, a four track EP marking the latest release from Quintessentials.
Matasuna reissues the ultra rare Latin Funk gem “Miami”
Explosive 1970s Latin funk from Dominican / Venezuelan bandleader Porfi Jimenez. If you're the type that digs for old soul and funk records, a near-mint condition copy of Miami might be the crown jewel of your collection. If you don't, this reissue by the soul survivalists at Matasuna might inspire you to start one.
Demuir reissues TruSkool on black wax for Purveyor Underground
Demuir's album, first released in 2016, gets a double vinyl release and it sounds better than ever.
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LOVEFOXY / The 5 Mag Cover Mix
A new 5 Mag cover mix and it's a gorgeous set from emerging DJ, producer and artist LOVEFOXY
