Best Of by Nyra – Never Learnt In the saturated digital era, new label launches are a wearying weekly event in electronic music. When they’re accompanied by the words ‘vinyl only’ though, it’s likely the characters behind them are something more than standard twenty-EPs-a-year...

Nitin’s Latenightlife Remixed – My Favourite Robot While 2011 may have been the year that No.19 Music and Art Department hit the hype-o-meter, but Canada was far more than a two-pronged attack, with a host of labels and artists having put in the hard yards in recent times, and...

Ultrasound by Luke Solomon – Fullbarr Fullbarr’s commitment to all things house continues apace in 2012 with the third in their vinyl series, starting the new year with the impressive momentum they finished the old one. As they approach their 18th release, they’re showing...

Breed EP by Terje Saether – Lucidflow While a handful of Berlin ‘uber-labels’ may sometimes hog the headlines, there’s a rich vein of producers and label owners that can stake their claim as those worthy of attention in 2012. Lucidflow, born in 2009 by seasoned artists Nadja Lind...

You Were Away EP by Bonar Bradberry – NeedWant Leeds’ own Bonar Bradberry (yes, that is his real name) arrives in 2012 with a lot to match up to from his last twelve months. Very much a DJ and production talent in his own right, the previous year saw him alongside his erstwhile musical...

New Zealand-born Hugo Barritt moved to London at the end of the last millennium to concentrate on enveloping himself in electronic music, and since then it’s been a slow-burning progression from playing some of the capital’s most committed promotions and a production career...

We caught up with Deetron on the verge of the release of his new Balance album, and just before his gig at the ADE this year. Deetron is a Swiss DJ and producer that has made his name in the melodic techno scene, and with his new mix album he brings us two different styles of mixing, the old...

Body To Body EP by Moodtrap – Tsuba Records Tsuba’s strong 2012 closes with a pair of great EPs. Following on from Rio Padice’s excellent vinyl-only EP Kevin Griffiths’ imprint goes digital with the return of London-based twosome Moodtrap with Body To Body. Having appeared...

Alex Jones – Stamp! – Hypercolour Hypercolour’s had such a sterling year that they’d be forgiven for having the festive period off and making merry on mince pies and sherry. But their relentless work ethic is one of the many reasons they’re topping the year’s ‘best of’...