Back at his atmospheric best, DJ Python’s debut EP on XL Recordings is a masterclass in merging club-angled elements to create a soothing, luscious sonic paste. While lead single ‘Besos Robados’ pairs rolling reggaeton percussion with delicate synths, ‘Elios Lived Behind My House Forever’ applies analogue warmth to an intricate array of bleeps and bloops. This record never attempts to use its kicks or its bass in contrast against his atmospheric elements, but instead they melt into their expanse. It’s like if the dancefloor had lazy boy chairs in sonic form.

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There is genius in aya’s ability to combine disparate production, poetry, instrumental, raw vocals — carefully fusing and moulding elements together, tightly, before shattering them completely. Following on from 2021’s incredible ‘im hole’ was always going to be a difficult feat, but the Yorkshire-born artist manages to create an even more unsettling, unforgettable journey with ‘hexed!’. Written following the success of her last album, aya’s return to Hyperdub turns the sesh idolatry brought to the fore within it on their head — instead, exploring the uncomfortable, disconcerting reliance on partying and drugs. The result is a record that presents its most club-angled moments as skin-crawling, while within the quiet - such as on second to last track ‘The Petard is my Holster’ there is calm, serenity; blistering synths warm instead of scorching.

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Myd delivers two typically sun-drenched bangers on this two-tracker, marking his return to Ed Banger following his 2022 EP ‘I Made it’ featuring the Picard Brothers. Deep-spanning bass, rhapsodic vocal samples and intense synths bubble to the surface within the peak-time destined ‘The Wizard’ — while ‘Song For You’ is a story of disco romance; dithering lo-fi percussion flows beneath euphoric synths and a lusciously catchy vocal. It’s giving 30-degrees.

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Sibling duo Los Thuthanaka, AKA Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, cook up a brain chemistry-altering collage of sounds on this eight-track album. Fusing everything from gutteral vocals, wilding out guitars, dizzying melodies, offbeat percussion, spiritual exploration and chopped and screwed samples into its coarse, noisy and inspiring arrangements, it feels like a rare gift, and intoxicatingly unique.

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On the second album for her Whatever The Weather project, the industrious Loraine James crafts hazy, ambient soundscapes that shimmer with mesmeric beauty. With each track taking its name from her “emotional temperature” at the time of recording, the span of 1°C up to 26°C ranges from glitchier moments to transcendent trails of sound.

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Prayer’s style of blending ecstatic production and rave sensibility into dancefloor transcendence is at its exquisite best on his new album for Prague label YUKU, ‘Dream of Heaven’. Themed around the “concept of hope within darkness”, there’s a sense of profound optimism brimming through this 12-track release. On tracks like open ‘Better Times’ it’s overt, with blissful pads that wash over you like serotonin flooding the veins, and in darker moments it persists, with the crunch bass of the title-track or punchy breaks of the ‘May Never’ uplifted by affecting vocals and, on the latter, a subtly euphoric synth build.

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In early 2025, Jaymie Silk’s home was broken into and a computer containing seven years of musical work, ideas and demos was taken. His loss has now become our gain. Piecing together some of lost material from files he had sent out, he decided to overcome the loss by turning it into an offering, putting out everything he could recover. This month the trilogy was complete with the third ‘Missing Tracks’ volume, and there’s some real highlights across the series that affirm his decision to put these into the world, from the infectious pace of ‘Do You Want Some’, haywire energy of ‘Touareg Riddim’, dizzying techno of ‘Tornado’, funky vibe of ‘Best Of Us’, and lo-fi heater ‘Music Saved My Life’.

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An entrancing release that steadily ensnares you into its hypnotic textural techno, this three-track EP is an otherworldly listen that takes hold of your mind and transports it to another state of consciousness. It's taut, tense and precise in its sound design in a way that grips, but does not overwhelm.

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Billed as “the ultimate manifesto of Latincore’, the pacey and playful hybrid club music style pioneered by CRRDR, this new 10-track compilation is a dynamic showcase of the thrilling dance music movement. Moving through palpitating rythms inspired by dembow, reggaetón, guaracha and cumbia to the urgent, brash synths and a sense of industrial size aligned with hardcpre, as well as exploring emotion-drenched autotune vocals and compelling chants, it exemplifies why the sound is taking dancefloors by storm from Buenos Aires to Berlin.

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Greentea Peng, real name Aria Wells, is back with an anticipated new album, offering her mystical, lo-fi take on electronic sounds. Borrowing from a wide spectrum of genres to offer up her idiosyncratic blend of psychedelia, neo-soul, trip hop and dub, on ‘Tell Dem It’s Sunny’ the rebellious South Londoner digs deep to analyse herself as well as the world around her, all the while whisking us away with her hypnotic smoky vocals and a lulling languid pace.

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Mincy’s EP ‘Fall Down Go Boom’ is a confident offering. The Sydney DJ and producer only delivers a quick couplet of tracks, but what a fiery statement she makes. Spilling over with tongue-in-cheek dramatics, Mincy delivers invigorating ravey music with one eyebrow raised.

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Bakk Heia label co-founder Jorg Kuning brings together a mischievous mix of electro, tech house and bass. Across six tracks the glitchy, quirky ecord ‘Elvers Pass’ will massage your mind in all the right places, taking listeners on a dynamic, fast-moving journey through a rainbow-hued array of offbeat sonic textures.

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Two years after her debut, we’re welcomed back to the magical land that is Fucktopia. With the album’s leading track already becoming a dancefloor success it comes as no surprise that the rest of the album is one to keep on rotation. No genre defines Fuckoff as she guides us through her universe of sounds from the sexy donk on ‘UNIVERSAL-USSY’ to the atmospheric trap on ‘outro’. Track-by-track we’re here for the ride.

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After a long, long wait - which included the album dropping four hours later than scheduled - Playboi Carti has released ‘MUSIC’. This 34-track project is teeming with inventive ideas and features from heavyweights of the game such as Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Future, Skepta and more. With noisy and punk-esque beats, this album sees the vampire sticking his fangs in.

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Breaka is back, and this time he’s fusing his dyanmic club sound with vowel-only vocal samples. Fizzing with infectious beats, the album will pick you up and land you in the centre of the dancefloor. The star of the release has to be ‘Are We There’ as he merges soft vocals with a glitchy underbelly of crackles and washes of bass.

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Left, Right & Centre label boss Korzi returns to his beloved imprint after four years with a full-throttle EP packed to the brim with low-end bass. From the broody openings of the record’s title track to its techno-leaning finale, ‘Sitting On Thin Ice’, this triumphant four-tracker scatters through a range of 140, coming together with sleek sound design.

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UK jazz specialist and Ezra Collective comrade Joe Armon-Jones delivers his first solo record in some six years on his Aquarii Records label, ‘All The Quiet (Part I)’, the first of a two-part, conceptually linked album. A fitting soundtrack for the warmer weather, ‘All The Quiet (Part I)’ is inspired by the “soundworld of dub”, which Armon-Jones skillfully applies to his usual palette of jazz and funk across ten tracks.

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Honouring the “UK-born phenomenon of cascading breaks and gut-wrenching subs”, New York label Twist’s first compilation enlists 14 US-hailing artists to deliver their own individual takes on jungle, breaks and bass. Featuring the likes of Ontology, Poisonfrog, BC Rydah, and plenty more, ‘Stateside Jungle Vol. 1’ is a cocktail of breakneck sounds spanning the US underground bass scene.

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