January: 18 albums you need to hear this month

Various '#savefabric' (fabric Records & Houndstooth)

After asking each of its creative allies to contribute a track in order to raise money for the club’s fighting fund, the response was so overwhelming the Fabric team decided to release all 111 of them. The result is a full-scale digital mapping of the electronic landscape, from industrial techno to South African Gqom. The stalwarts (Terry Francis, Coldcut) and big-hitters (John Tejada and Shackleton) are here, but it’s lesser-known gems such as ‘Patterns Of Our Own Times’, from retired Serbian factory worker-turned analogue synth composer Abul Mogard, that really stand out. His music is the essence of what Fabric is all about, and what we would have missed if it had gone. Stephen Worthy

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