Best of 2017:
House / Techno
Ambient / Balearic
Albums, EPs & Labels
For fans of dance music outside the 4/4 mainstream, 2017 was a watershed year. A ... >>
Following on from our Arabesque Mix earlier this year is a new mixtape of club tracks from North Africa (and a few excursions further afield). One for the dance... >>
The third album from Italian duo Ninos Du Brasil was their best statement yet, continuing their trademark fusion of kinetic techno and Brazilian batucada percus... >>
This is a bit of a personal mix for me. Though I normally DJ house and techno, I wanted to make a mixtape of some of the music I discovered when I spent three y... >>
While the arrival of a new Kendrick Lamar album left us with slightly less time for club sounds this month, we still found some treasures during a little downti... >>
It's that time already. This month's top tunes range from bittersweet balearic to wild dancehall hybrids, via more beautiful house and techno than it's recommen... >>
As inviting as house music is, the genre rarely provides material that sounds genuinely fresh. Those looking for something that sounds new generally end up at t... >>
Since he emerged on Hessle Audio in 2014, Bruce has proven himself one of the UK scene’s most consistently creative new producers. Inhabiting the abstract space... >>
It's that time of the month again - all the best tunes from the last four weeks in one handy playlist. We've gone heavy on the techno in August, from sleek Detr... >>
As Islamaphobia and the refugee crisis continue to occupy the headlines, it's easy to feel that the relationship between Europe and the Middle East is dominated... >>
Shadowy duo Rezzett have become the defining act of Will Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes over the past few years. Their sound is decidedly leftfield, full of distorted... >>
How can we define experimental music? We live in a time where mainstream alternative music already reaches quite strange places, where Raster Noton delves into ... >>
The best of the last month, all tied up in a tidy Youtube playlist. This edition we kick off with some lovely balearic from Workdub and The Pilotwings, before r... >>
Will Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes is one of the UK’s most reliable sources for electronic music that pushes boundaries. Whether it’s abstracted house, distortion-he... >>
“We never, ever do things nothing nice and easy. We always do things nice and rough”
While he might be best known for his collaborative work with Kassem Moss... >>
Cultural critique has never found a great deal of expression in electronic music. While genres like blues, hip hop or folk have long been concerned with social ... >>
Best known as half of star-gazing electronica duo Walls, Italian producer Alessio Natalizia has been plying a much rougher strain of sound for several years und... >>
There are a number of seriously excellent labels reissuing forgotten gems at the moment and - for our money - Amsterdam's Music From Memory is the best. The imp... >>
There’s an interesting tension that exists in the world of dance music between the ideal of innovation and its execution. As heavy consumers of electronic and... >>
It’s been almost a decade since dubstep lit up the UK scene, and in the intervening period we’ve had no comparable innovation, nothing as groundbreaking or as c... >>