Best Albums

November 2023

- Fixed Abode
  Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding
  
  The trio's first full-length together expands the Space Afrika narrative with a brilliant host of UK artists, demonstrating the excellence brewing in the North's experimental scenes
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Ninja Tune
  Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
  
  An album of celebratory and intimately personal house music informed by the musical and cultural traditions of the artist's Peruvian heritage.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music
- Warp
  Evian Christ - Revanchist
  
  Evian Christ's debut LP is a passionate homage to his one true love: trance.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Ninja Tune
  Actress - LXXXVIII
  
  Adding a tinge of jazz to one of dance music's most recognisable sounds, LXXXVIII is eclectic and comforting, designed to make you squirm and relax at the same time.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music
- Parkwuud Entertainment
  Klein - touched by an angel
  
  A 93-minute epic of modern classical and drone partly inspired by a '90s religious TV drama.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Mama told ya
  Various - Mille attaques, les vents contrèrent
  
  Anetha curates a globe-trotting compilation of the finest in contemporary techno.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- PAN
  Marina Herlop - Nekkuja
  
  Marina Herlop's most striking and compelling body of work yet is made from tempered vocals, uplifting electronics and deep organ whooshes.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Astral Industries
  Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
  
  A journey to the deepest, most ambient depths of dub techno from one of the genre's leading lights.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify
- Dekmantel
  Nadia Struiwigh - Birds Of Paradise
  
  A beautiful exploration of IDM, prog and drum & bass from a true master of synths.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- !K7
  HAAi - DJ-Kicks
  
  A surprisingly minimalistic but banging techno mix that shows of HAAi's dance floor bona fides, blending the psychedelic sweep of her productions with hooks galore.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify

Best EPs

November 2023

- Obligated Records
  MJK & Skee Mask - Patchworks Vol.1
  
  Cunning dub techno UK funky fusions with a guest spot from veteran grime MC Riko Dan.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- AD 93
  Surusinghe - Brake Fluid
  
  A small but mighty project packed with four vigorous club tunes (self-dubbed "alien club music") rooted in South Asian influences.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Blueprint Recordings
  Setaoc Mass - Working Ways
  
  On his first EP for important techno label Blueprint, Sam Coates know how to get the hardest impact out of just a few elements.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Self-released
  Marlon Hoffstadt AKA DJ Daddy Trance - I Got You
  
  The perfect Eurodance tune: a zingy one-liner in a strangely baritone voice, a high-pitched vocal with lyrics that only make a little sense, pumping trance synths that go off between choruses like CO2 cannons.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Hyperdub
  Lila Tirando a Violeta & Sin Maldita – Accela
  
  This EP brings a baroque sheen to a heady onslaught of percussion, placing these two among some of the best making this sort of industrial, neo-classical-tinged club music right now.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- REBOTE DISCOTECA
  El Plvybxy - ALQUIMISTA FERROVIARIO
  
  Inventive cross-genre, cross-country Latin club music from a key Argentinian producer.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Warp Records
  Clarissa Connelly - Wee Rosebud
  
  The latest Warp signee brings a Celtic lilt to the legendary label, transporting the listener to the banks of a loch or a candlelit bothy after sunfall.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- ESP Institute
  Jdotbalance - Sublimate b/w Precipitate
  
  Complex midtempo percussion tools with endless twists and turns.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify
- Secretsundaze
  J. Caesar - Another Day, Another World
  
  The street soul revivalist sharpens his sound and amps up the romance on his debut for Secretsundaze.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify

Best Mixes

November 2023

- Rafiki
  Radio On Vacation
  
  Showing off his range, Mumbai-based artist Rafiki forays into rapturous house, swung breakbeats, tunnelling techno and bleepy acid for Permanent Vacation.
- Mohamed, Din & Tiny T-Bone
  Palestine Forever
  
  Mohamed, Din and Tiny T-Bone come together for the first Palestine Forever show on The Lot Radio, highlighting Arabic music of all stripes.
- Pjenné
  INVENS Podcast 103
  
  This INVEINS mix from Melbourne's Pjenné is a tribute to ASC's Deep Space mix series—it's a collection of drum & bass, IDM and ambient music.
- GЯEG
  Hessle Audio 06 November 2023
  
  Mauritian-in-Paris GЯEG takes over the Hessle Audio Rinse FM show—an honour for pretty much any DJ—with two hours of broken techno, global club music and some of the finest French sounds around.
- Alison Swing & Stella Zekri
  Daisychain 300
  
  Alison Swing and Stella Zekri team up for the 300th instalment in women- and nonbinary-focused mix series Daisychain, serving an hour of bouncy, old-school house music.
- Josh Tweek
  5918mins.
  
  "Josh Tweek unpacks a mix unlike anything we've ever heard before," say hosts 5918mins. Big words indeed, but this hour-plus set from one half of The Ghost is a truly mesmerising session of downtempo-leaning, ultra-chill, sometimes spooky beats.
- DJ Fuckoff & Narciss
  Live at WHOLE Festival
  
  This back-to-back between DJ Fuckoff and Narciss was recorded at peak-time at this year's WHOLE Festival in Germany. It captures the freewheeling, blissed-out and irreverent vibe of the festival, with plenty of killer edits, driving techno and bouncy house.
- Macksta C
  Radio TNP x Radio Oedipus x ORDER at De School
  
  Recorded live at De School this past August, this is a wonderfully mixed session of Memphis hip-hop and related edits, featuring the creamy flows and laid-back cool that just can't be replicated.
- Asa Collect
  THF Presents
  
  This full-trio Asa Collect mix on THF Radio is a wonderfully varied selection of African and diasporic dance music genres.
- The Carry Nation
  R.I.P. UNTER CLOSING SET
  
  Long-running New York techno party UNTER called it quits over Halloween weekend. Listen to local heroes The Carry Nation's pumping closing set.

Best Albums

November 2023

Best EPs

November 2023

Best Mixes

November 2023

Mohamed, Din & Tiny T-Bone

Alison Swing & Stella Zekri

DJ Fuckoff & Narciss

Macksta C

Asa Collect