Autem 005 by Various Arists – Autem Audio Autem Audio’s 5th release enlists a combination of local favourites and nascent European artists for a four-track VA EP of promise. The Chicago imprint brings together a collective of production talents, and so far this has borne EPs from each...

For their second event of the 2013 summer season – and to ensure the second bank holiday in May goes off in true party style, secretsundaze travel to Oval Space in East London’s Bethnal Green on Sunday May 26, with Nick Höppner, KiNK (live) and Joey Anderson making their secretsundaze...

Reflections by Saytek – 808 Recordings Saytek’s 2012 was a whirlwind affair, with a sterling long-player, Cubism, that was borne on the wings of a seemingly endless live schedule. Honing tracks on the road, the album fused their freeform into a compact setting, and he finished the year...

Say Something (People Stamp Your Feet) by Luke Solomon – Classic Music Company Luke Solomon’s Classic Music Company gears up for the release of his long-awaited album, Timelines, in May, but as means of a warm-up, Say Something (People Stamp Your Feet) is an apt taster for its...

Reign of Drums/Gave Up The Dance by X-Press 2 – Skint Twenty years in and still going strong, X-Press 2’s influence on dance music runs far and wide, just as their appetite for music seems unabated. Residents at Brighton’s Skint since the monstrous AC/DC in 2000, the pairing’s...

Stratosphere EP by Shifty Disko – Shifty Disko Shifty Disko’s first two EPs showed a penchant for no-nonsense techno that were the sum of the parts of a crew with years of dancefloor and studio hard yards behind them. Tom Real, Ben Coda and Ipcress have put on parties in the capital...

Nobody Else EP by Dusky – Aus Music Will Saul’s Aus Music may have been the sibling to his Simple label when it began in 2006, but in recent years its influence and output has moved it ahead in electronic music’s conscience, with a focus on dubbier, more bass-driven work from Cottam,...

Adjustments Of Status EP by Rick Wade – Landed Records Jon Reynolds’ Landed imprint’s proven itself to have a fine track record of selecting deep house for the traditionalist, drawing in some of the Detroit’s talents alongside a clutch of European producers. The Motor City provided...

Catch The Break by Rik Parkinson – Hailstorm Music Northern exile in London Rik Parkinson upped sticks from his Leeds home to the capital long ago enough to have bedded down in London’s kaleidoscopic house scene, and he’s established a regular set of gigs at underground hangouts...