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Buenos Aires’ Catriel Nievas builds a strange world of dungeon synth, throbbing ambience and cumbia villera on the ‘Dunyon’ EP

Catriel Nievas will release a new EP, ‘Dunyon’, via Buenos Aires’ nodo label this month. Listen to ‘Podran’ below. The Argentinian producer, composer, guitarist and...

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Montreal’s DJ Pacifier channels hardcore breaks, hyperpop, and their love for plush animals on their new EP, ‘Planet Pacifier’

Montreal's DJ Pacifier will self-release a new EP, ‘Planet Pacifier’, next month. Listen to ‘Turboworld’ below. After high-octane releases on labels including Club Cringe, GutterRing...

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Club Moniker returns with three club-ready cuts from the Bay Area

Recently launched San Francisco label, Club Moniker, will release its second EP this month, spotlighting club-ready cuts from three Bay Area artists: suade, Farsight and...

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Amsterdam’s Nachtbraker returns to his own imprint with a galvanic assortment of wiry grooves and body-moving house

Dutch producer Nachtbraker is set to return to his eponymous imprint this month with a new EP, ‘Dondoni’, featuring Venice-based DJ, Paolo Mosca on remix...

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Talik flexes her command of space, sub-bass, and broken rhythms on her debut for leftfield London imprint, Control Freak Recordings

Talik debuts on Control Freak Recordings with her first EP of the year, ‘Wood & Water’. Hear the opening track, ‘What Do You Feel’, below...

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Beloved Berlin queer club night Mala Junta celebrates its fifth anniversary with a capsule of hedonistic rave releases on Amniote Editions

Berlin-based underground queer rave Mala Junta will celebrate its fifth anniversary this month with a series of releases on the Amniote Editions label. Encompassing one...

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Samrai shares a buoyant piano-led ode to springtime from his debut album, ‘Work & Roti’

Samrai will release his debut album, ‘Work & Roti’, this month via his recently launched Sangha Industries label. Listen to ‘Yellow Crocus’ below. The Manchester-based...

Premiere: Nahash ‘Davide XV feat. Elise Massoni (Tim Reaper Remix)’

Nahash balances heavyweight experimentalism with club-tuned dexterity on his new EP for SVBKVLT

Nahash returns to SVBKVLT this month with the ‘A Snake In Your House’ EP. Listen to Tim Reaper’s remix of ‘Davide XV feat. Elise Massoni’...

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Tbilisi’s HVL and Gacha Bakradze link up for a six-track split 12” of blissed-out breaks and techno on Organic Analogue Records

UK-based independent label Organic Analogue Records launches a new 12” series this month with a split EP from Tbilisi, Georgia’s HVL and Gacha Bakradze. Listen...

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Kindergarten Records continues its futuristic dancefloor forays with ‘Fluo III’, featuring Ma Sha, Palitra and Martini

New York’s Kindergarten Records has announced a new V/A EP, ‘Fluo III’, out later this month. Listen to Martini’s ‘Show Me’ below. The three-tracker finds...

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Ten Toes Turbo co-founder Sonido Berzerk puts Veracruz-via-Chicago juke spin on Madison Avenue’s ‘Don’t Call Me Baby’

Sonido Berzerk returns with the fifth instalment of his ‘Ricky's Jukes Stash’ EP series this month. Listen to the Madison Avenue-sampling ‘Don’t Call Me’ below...

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Lagos and London-based Ekiti Sound blends Afrobeat, house and jazz-infused hip-hop on his fusionist second album, ‘Drum Money’

Ekiti Sound will release a new album, ‘Drum Money’, via Belgium’s Crammed Discs this month. Listen to ‘Ku Ise’ below. The London and Lagos-based producer...

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Bristol’s Yokel dishes up six cuts of playful post-industrial skronk for the dancefloor on NOODS Radio’s Dummy Hand label

Bristol’s Yokel will release a new EP, ‘Grockle Vision’, this month via NOODS Radio’s Dummy Hand label. Listen to ‘Born Sloppy’ below. The Plaque label...

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Paris’ François X explores fast, atmospheric techno, cloud rap, and what it means to be a cowboy on his new EP, ‘CEO’ for XX Lab

François X returns to his own XX Lab this month with the ‘CEO’ EP. Listen to ‘My NDA’ below. An acronym for ‘Cowboy Executive Officer’...

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Cairo multidisciplinary collective, MOSHTRQ, spotlights the gritty, high-tempo club sounds of its hometown on its debut compilation

Cairo multidisciplinary collective, MOSHTRQ, will release their debut compilation this month. Listen to Assyouti’s ‘Applied Pressure' now. Bringing together nine collective members, friends and collaborators...

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Shubostar continues her upwards ascent with a cosmic disco refit of Budakid’s ‘Milestones’

Berlin-based DJ and producer Budakid has invited a cast of rising names to reimagine his April single, ‘Milestones’, for a new release via Exploited. Listen...

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Venezuelan raptor house pioneer DJ Babatr’s early hits get reissued and revamped by 19 electronic innovators for a new release on Terminal

DJ Babatr, one of the pioneering DJs and producers behind the raptor house sound of Caracas, Venezuela, is reissuing two classic tracks from his discography...

Premiere: Prayer ‘Set Me Free’

Rua Sound continues its SPHERES EP series with a euphoric rave suite from Prayer

Rua Sound continues its SPHERE’s EP series this month with the release of Prayer’s ‘Io’ EP. Listen to ‘Set Me Free’ below. Launched in February...

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Montreal, Québec label Re:Conceive readies a new compilation of local electronic artists in aid of The Native Women’s Shelter of Montréal and Just Solutions

Montréal, Québec label Re:Conceive has announced a new compilation spotlighting electronic music produced by artists from the city. Listen to Neo Edo’s ‘Only One’ now...

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Turin’s early reflex returns with its third anniversary compilation, a selection of hyperactive rave hybrids from around the world

Turin’s early reflex label celebrates its third birthday in June with the release of a brand new compilation. Listen to California-raised, Berlin-based Ani Klang’s ‘Power...