DgoHn (pronounced ‘John’!) has a new album on Planet Mu and whilst I’m not hugely up on current DnB, his music is always pushing that envelope as well as being suitable for home listening. My good friend Ali Gibbs aka Nebraska has changed his two decade long moniker to Dubl Drat and produced a new EP of electro funk and ‘understated club functionality’ (not my words – © Electronic Groove website). That’s his dog Olive on the cover too. I was sent a mystery package of occult-themed electronica by someone last week containing all sorts of bits and pieces by the band Pentagrams of Discordia, a shadowy collective who make music somewhere between FSOL and BoC whilst bringing something new to the table with their longform pieces containing multiple sketches and tracks.

Michigan native, Rebecca Goldberg has her debut album out now and it’s a great collection that builds across the spectrum of night time electronica, acid house and ravey techno. PC is back! Patrick Carpenter, my old DJ Food companion, mixmaster in crime and brilliant DJ has released the second instalment of his Electric Envelope (sort of) archive series. I’ve heard some of these tracks in different forms for years, one even dates back to 2009! Someone commission this man to soundtrack their film, it’s his natural calling. Stephen Buckley‘s release schedule takes some keeping up with, his Hungry Vortex release on Feral Child comes from late last year and sees him in vari-speed psychedelic mode, well worth a listen.

Funki Porcini recently put up a collection of early 80s experiments originating from his time in San Francisco – field recordings, tape collages and ambient pieces that are fascinating. Sherman Heath‘s second release on Coarse Fish Records swings from site-specific nature recordings to dark acid and on into wonky garage by the end of side 2 – out this week. Only two tracks are available from a new, barely advertised archive release from Vanishing Twin so it’s hard to tell how the whole thing will sound but they are always worth investigating, roll on September.

I do so hate to relentlessly promote things I’m involved with but if I don’t them this pile of tapes won’t leave the studio. I’ve repressed the tape I did with Graham Dunning earlier this year as it sold out pretty fast. I have less than 10 copies here I think but Graham has some on his Bandcamp too – it’s our FogFest performance from 2023 as well as a bunch of rehearsal jams we recorded around that time, vol.2 is nearly finished. Duplokit will be winging their way back to New Zealand shortly after their stint in Europe for the Extended Turntablism dates and their debut album, Warpdrive, is something I’m very happy to be involved with. The music originates from a few years ago when James Meharry was playing with a similar four-armed turntable set up to my own and a bunch of self-made locked groove records. Both of these are on my Infinite Illectrik label and are the first physical music releases I’ve done, so far they’re limited edition, hand-assembled objects that I’ll do more of if they sell. Rounding out the selection and just released on Friday – SD_OA‘s second album arrives on Detroit Underground with more meticulous clipped and cut beats and tones, wrapped in beautifully minimal artwork by his graffiti alter ego Soda.

Well, the big news is obviously the forthcoming Boards of Canada album, their first in 13 years, the ‘Inferno’ will be on us in less than a month! (cue a million fire-based descriptors in the reviews and any interview headlines). If you caught the ‘Tape 05’ video teaser you’ll know it’s going to be good. Angine De Poitrine are still rocking my world and album No.2 doesn’t disappoint, their rise is seemingly unstoppable although Boards did turn a few heads away from their microtonal loop riffs this month. Another new favourite is Studio Kosmische with their ‘Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel’ album which mixes ambience with saxophones and shouldn’t work but does exactly what it says on the tin. I’m slowly checking out the rest of the Dreamlord Recordings catalogue and there are some gems there. Nihiloxica are back with a stomping remix EP, heavy on the beats, and I slid a little Tom Scott reconstructed edit out last month that chops it into oblivion.

In the wake of Angine de Poitrine, several people started posting ‘if you like this then you’ll love this’-type pieces across the web and at least one of them measured up at least in part for me. Meule are really closer to what King Gizzard were doing five years ago than Angine but a microtonal guitar and two drummers is always going to sound interesting. I wasn’t sure about the lyrics first time round but it’s growing on me. Turbulent Space is a new project by Brian ‘Humanoid/FSOL/Yage’ Dougans, that runs the gamut between trip hop, acid jazz and, dare I say it? big beat in places. Cate Brooks has got the 303 out and seems to be conjuering up an album of business funk electronica from the three tracks previewed. Finally, Luke Vibert unearths another stash of unreleased mid-90s Plug cuts across a triple vinyl set for De:tuned. I had the pleasure of assembling the artwork with good friend and stencil artist supreme, Pablo Fiasco – look him up, he’s doing something very unique.

A bit later to this site this month but lots of great music around right now or just on the horizon and the list is boosted to 12 this month. From the top, The Def Boys are Awkward & MC Roughneck Jihad, the beats and scratches are lo-fi the tracks short and sweet. Angine De Poitrine’s second album dropped last Friday and I am excited! Their internet infamy seems to grow by the day and they’ve just announced more UK dates, I hope they don’t burn out. A new album on Astral Industries is always welcome and even more so by Multicast Dynamics, no previews as yet but past glories bode well.

Hawksmoor’s latest is a trip in every sense of the word, his experiments with a form of DMT informed the album and he underwent ‘a complete reset’ in his own words. Look up current interviews with him, there’s a great backstory to go with this one. Clocolan’s latest is darkly beautiful as ever and Dor Wand’s ‘Alchemy of Being’ dovetails nicely with the intent of Hawksmoor’s in that it’s a meditational drift.

On completely the opposite end of the spectrum, Lone’s new LP, ‘Hyperphantasia’ is rave-tastic, turned up to 11, multi-coloured, vocal-tinged, happy hardcore filtered through a sparkling prism. Chilled out it is not, contender for album of the year it is. Graham Dunning’s new tape is out soon so I have to give him the big up for his inspirational mechanical techno creations plus he’s just completed his PhD so I can call him ‘Dr. Dunning’ now. We have a rare outing together this July in Brighton at the Rose Hill Tavern alongside Furrowed and Duplokit. 310 are back with a new album, the first since member Joseph Dierker passed away, completing material he worked on and their music is always worth your time.

The ‘Part Time Archivists / Part Time Forgers’ compilation comes out of Thessaloniki, Greece on a new label, Necessary Unfold, and showcases contemporary techno and acid from the scene over there. Cavs from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard releases his second solo album in late April and, as you’d imagine, it’s drum-heavy but previews include bass, guitar and synths so I’m interested to hear the full thing. Seefeel return to Warp for the first new material since 2024 and the sole preview track sounds very promising.

This month has been all about Angine de Poitrine, discovering their music (and unique look) was a bit of a revelation and I immediately hoovered up everything on Bandcamp. There’s a new album coming in April and UK live dates in May. The main problem after hearing their music is that there’s not much of it and not a lot else like it so I’ve found myself going back to earlier King Gizzard albums to get a fix of similar sounds rather than listen to them on a loop. Not to diminish other releases this month but there’s been a nice selection of breaks and acid forthcoming; last month’s Radiamax release finally made it to Bandcamp a few days after BC Friday and good friends Fundamental Frequencies released two long lost UK Breakcore 12″s, my favourite being 2XDEF‘s ‘First & Last’. Two legends of the rave scene teamed up for a 12″ on De:tuned that I had the honour of designing – 808 State vs Humanoid‘s ‘In Place of Language’ is a 4 track release that spans all areas of electronica with standout track ‘Raid’ coming off like the son of ‘Cubik’. Jem Stone is at it again with the 3 track Boneshaker EP, my favourite being the moody ‘Wish Bone’.

There’s another release I can’t add to the playlist for some reason (Buy Music Club does this sometimes when there’s no streamable digital audio as part of the package) and that’s a cassette version of my Kraftwerk Kover Kollektion mix from 2004. First made for Solid Steel and showcasing cover versions, tributes and tracks that heavily sample the German four-piece, it became the first of eight (so far, there will be more) volumes of the weird, wonderful world of music inspired by the band. For this I’ve gone back to the original audio and made a logical split in the middle – not just a fade out – and reworked the original cover art I’d designed to fit the cassette format. Along the way I’ve updated and corrected several track listing errors now that we have the beauty of Discogs at our disposal to check these things. You can pre-order the very limited tape from Delic Records here