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New age music from West Africa. Lush and hypnotic dreamscapes combine traditional instrumentation with sweeping electronics and field recordings. Bamako based composer Luka Productions delves into avant-griot, transforming ancient music for the 21st century.

Red Axes have come a long way since the 2014's Ballad Of The Ice. Tel-Aviv, now a scene and sound that the duo were instrumental in putting on the map, has burst onto the world stage armed with limitless electronic bravado and the city's strong guitar music heritage. Now, the much loved duo return, sophomore album in tow on their own label Garzen Records.

Helsinki's Jesse teams up with DJ Sotofett for a highly super sonic double-album-ride touching upon dubbed out tundra disco, desert boogie rock and cosmic afro funk. All baked & dubbed in to a balearic and trippy legacy of sounds, rhythms and melodies. Includes this years most dreamy instrumental space ballad "Orga Fit" and DJ Sotofett's secret tool & very potent afro funk stomper "Kuume".

With the soundtrack to ‘Good Time’, Oneohtrix Point Never has created a genuine listening experience rivalling the very best of his landmark studio albums. Throughout the soundtrack, diegetic audio is interspersed and mutated in a natural foundation of ‘Garden Of Delete’ meets ‘Rifts’-era Oneohtrix Point Never sound palettes. And its a damn good film too.....

Brand new double dunter of fkcd rippers from man like Blawan! Apparently Blawan is fully modular now, which explains the thoroughly alien vibrations emanating from his outboard shuttle. Grating perc rhythms, metallic washes and tense atmospheres characterize his work, and it's executed via some precision engineering and sound design. No-one quite sounds like Blawan, and this new release sees the producer in top creative form.

The final studio recordings of deep, hypnotic Gnawa trance music from the late, great Maalem Mahmoud Gania, one of Morocco's most revered Gnawa musicians. From the 1970s until his death in 2015 he released numerous albums for a variety of local labels including Tichkaphone, La Voix El Maaraf and Sonya Disques, as well as recording with Western musicians such as Pharoah Sanders, Peter Brotzmann, and most recently James Holden and Floating Points.

'Utopia', Bjork's 9th album, heralds a return to the lush nature of older albums with flute and birdsong permeating many tracks. However, these airy sounds are paired with harsh, disjointed electronica with abstract rhythms.

Third album 'I See You' marks a new era for the London trio of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith as Jamie XX takes control over proceedings as more samples and more 4-to-the-floor give it a new slant.

On Hans-Peter Lindstrøm’s latest album, those northern disco lights are twinkling once more. Over the continuous stream of nine interlocked tracks on It’s Alright Between Us As It Is, he’s refined his love of arpeggiated synths, warm and steamy analogue bubble baths and earworm melodies into his most rounded and complete statement to date.

Com Truise's second album carries the hallmarks you might expect: neon-streaked melodies, big drums, robotic grooves, bleary nostalgia, but 'Iteration' is also the most elegant and streamlined that Haley’s music has ever sounded.

Pye Corner Audio return to Death Waltz Originals with a stunning 10 inch featuring 6 brand new and exclusive tracks featuring his trademark sci-fi electronica. "Do You Hear Them" pulses with a dance floor verve you've not yet heard from PCA bouncing along a killer 4/4 beat with a super melodic bass riff on top, "The Spiral"; begins with a riff on the classic Axel F bass synth and it's super hyped drums and refrain could be placed in any classic 80s action movie you already love.

Four albums in, and 9 years since their debut, Hercules & Love Affair reinvigorate their disco/house sound with touches of 80s pop, techno, ambient and easy listening for a breath of fresh air.

French multi-instrumentalist Colleen (Cécile Schott) introduces the most drastic change to her music since she began singing on her fourth album, setting aside the viola da gamba she is known for in exchange for all electronic instrumentation - Moog pedals and Critter and Guitari synthesizers.

'Gore-Tex City', the third in his Nordic Flora Series, marked a further and deeper sweep of his elements. Stealth dance floor assaults are layered with lobotomised, spoken word meetings in malls, and free-form electronics pepper acoustic bereavement motifs.

Slowdive return with their first new album in 22 years - swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms “a trip down memory lane”, these eight new tracks are simultaneously expansive and the sonic pathfinders’ most direct material to date.

Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

Karen Gwyer returns to cement her reputation as one of the most individual and daring voices in dance music with 'Rembo', her first full LP for Don't Be Afraid. Reflecting the sheer energy of Gwyer's improvised, undulating and unpredictable live shows, 'Rembo' captures Gwyer in her element as a techno producer not afraid to smudge both the physical and emotional edges of what we may have come to expect in the club.

Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. On Poulo Warali, she and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant calabash gourd hand percussion—with broader Malian sounds like lightly-distorted guitar and a heavier, rollicking inertia. Shapeshifting layers of rhythm and woody overtones match Poulo’s commanding voice in a jocular yet deliberate dance. This is a relatively rare example of Malian Peulh music played in a modern, cosmopolitan context, brought to us by the excellent Awesome Tapes from Africa.

The legend that is Luke Solomon resurfaces with a new project that combines classic 4-to-the-floor house with disco strings, stabs, conscious lyrics and a feel-good vibe that you don't find too often on long players these days. From the leftfield anthem 'Safe and Happy Place' to the Bohannon-like groove of 'Muscle Groove', this album slowly crept up on us!

Having spent seven years in his adopted home of London steadily crafting a hazy, ambiguous identity that fuses ambient onto drone and techno, Tom Hang (aka Lobster Theremin boss Jimmy Asquith) finally steps up the the plate with 'To Be Held In A Non Position' - a melded one-take LP that explores extended themes of isolation, loneliness, personal loss, disconnection and reconnection with reality and (self)-identity.

Optimo off-shoot So Low release their first LP from the Happy Meals duo of Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook and as you can probably tell from the title 'Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony Volumes IV-VI' is a meditative journey in experiment ambience that demands listening to in full to achieve 'listening enlightenment'.

'Systhema' comes three years after his last album on his own Eerie label and finds him again focusing on an absorbing ambient techno style across eight enthralling cuts. Shuttle layers sound in subtle ways and has a meticulous attention to detail that results in a cinematic techno style that is cavernous and hypnotizing.

The second album from French-Cuban twins Ibeyi establishing their unique sound - a blend of modern pop, hip-hop and electronic influenced music that incorporates the traditional sounds of Yorùbá.

The ever enigmatic RAMZi graces one of our favorite labels 12th Isle with ‘Pèze-Piton’ - a 9 track visitation of the familiarly disjointed melodies and rhythms that make up our favourite sonic-nymph’s unique musical language.

With his self-titled debut album – across ten ice-cold and avowedly futuristic tracks – Pessimist seals his status as one of the most innovative and consummate producers in underground drum’n’bass.