Best Albums

June 2024

- Love On The Rocks
  Various - Sky Is The Limit
  
  Groovy enough for the heads, loud enough for the club—PARAMIDA's label turns ten with a typically high-class compilation.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Leaving Records
  Qoa - SAUCO
  
  Soothing ambient odes to the wilderness of Argentina.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Downwards
  British Murder Boys - Active Agents and House Boys
  
  Regis and Surgeon's debut album after two decades together fine-tunes their live sets into a dubby, post-punk snarl.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Hyperdub
  Iceboy Violet & Nueen - You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire
  
  The Manchester rapper and producer debuts on Hyperdub with a corrosive ambient break-up album.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Self-released
  Clara La San - Made Mistakes
  
  An immersive and intricate take on bedroom R&B built from a lush array of early '00s pop and nods to the softer sides of the UK hardcore continuum.
  
  Listen:
  Spotify / Apple
- Obligated Records
  Various - Obligated Records: Vol. 1
  
  This album shows what grime actually is, in all its different forms—two sides of the same rough-edged coin with techno.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Smalltown Supersound
  Actress - Statik
  
  Statik rolls back Actress's recent free jazz curveballs and corrugated hip-hop beats to focus on windblown hiss and radio interference for a sense of uneasy calm.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple
- RCA
  Kaytranada - TIMELESS
  
  Kaytranada delivers his most exciting, upbeat record yet, a sexy dance odyssey at the intersection of R&B, hip-hop, pop and soul.
  
  Listen:
  Spotify / Apple
- Atlantic Records
  Charli XCX - BRAT
  
  Brash, confident and proudly messy, Charli XCX's clubbiest album is also her most vulnerable—and best.
  
  Listen:
  Spotify / Apple
- Never Normal Records
  Suzi Analogue - ONEZ
  
  The Never Normal Records boss drops a sizzling mixtape of tracks old and new just in time for the summer.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple

Best EPs

June 2024

- Tresor
  Various - 030313
  
  Carhartt WIP and Tresor team up for an EP that highlights the past, present and future of the unique, enduring Detroit-Berlin connection.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Timedance
  Verraco - Breathe... Godspeed
  
  The TraTraTrax cofounder gets bigger and bolder on his debut for Timedance.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- all my thoughts
  Yetsuby - b_b
  
  Part hyperpop, part weirdo club, part easy listening—the Salamanda cofounder operates in a world of her own.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Carrier
  Carrier - In Spectra
  
  With Carrier, Guy Brewer looks back to his formative drum & bass years and rebuilds those sounds in a creative, and wizened, way.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- AMF
  Boo - Hyper Feminine
  
  In just under five minutes, Boo builds a hypnotic techno soundscape where softness intertwines with grit.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Apple
- Nous'klaer Audio
  Robert Dietz - 3 Mirrors
  
  A lowkey German lifer turns in a surprising record of emotional and dramatic techno for Nous'klaer Audio.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- ec2a
  INVT & Introspekt - Tectónica
  
  Across four tracks, the trio find an unexpected sweet spot between 2-step and reggaeton.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple
- Limousine Dream
  Gene On Earth - The Velvet Edge
  
  The American producer is taking on the big room without compromising his commitment to the funkiest—and weirdest—corners of dance music history.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Naafi
  Tatyana Jane - Elixyr
  
  Hazy drum & bass-techno hybridism on N.A.A.F.I.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp
- Spazio Disponible
  Kangding Ray - Polar
  
  The French producer continues to drift away from peak time with an EP of beautiful and intricate ambient techno.
  
  Listen:
  Bandcamp / Spotify

Best Mixes

June 2024

- Nathalie Seres
  Bazaar 71
  
  Panorama Bar resident Nathalie Seres puts together a wonderfully paced Bazaar mix that starts out house and gets wobbly and bouncy from there, climaxing with Pangaea's "Installation."
- BFTT
  BFTT's Take It Higher Mix
  
  Manchester DJ BFTT dropped an exclusive mix for RA called Take It Higher, blending tried-and-true club classics with cutting-edge UK dance music, plus tracks from Dj Babatr, Ben Sims, Lemon D and others.
- Gbenga
  Extasy Overnight Guest Mix
  
  The multidisciplinary artist and Serenity Link resident joins Los Angeles rave and mix series Extasy, delivering an hour of barrelling techno, trance and reggaeton-inflected club edits, including their own rework of JT's "Okay."
- Daria Kolosova
  NTS
  
  The Lutugino-born DJ is one of the post-pandemic era's breakout stars, with frequent appearances at Awakenings, Berghain and Bassiani. For the first show in her NTS Radio residency, she steps up for an hour of what she does best: heavy-hitting techno on an old-school tip, including a barreling rework of M.I.A's "Bucky Done Gun."
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- JS Alvarez
  Neptunian Influences 67
  
  The Podlasie resident steps up for the latest instalment of the Detroit podcast and event series Neptunian Influence, delivering a hefty 90-minute mix of sub-heavy rollers, mutant percussion and post-apocalyptic electro.
- Calibre
  Waterworks Artist Mix #1
  
  Spanning 90 minutes of dubstep, UK garage and drum & bass, this live recording from last year's Waterworks Festival in London perfectly sums up Calibre's signature soulful sound.
- JWY
  GMIX002
  
  Dublin-based DJ and Foxgluv founder JWY delivers the goods on the second instalment of the GMIX SERIES. With propulsive tracks from the likes of Amor Satyr and Ulterior Motive, it might make you reconsider a quiet night in.
- Fortunato
  Residencias Mariposa
  
  For the third edition of Mariposa's programme linking artists in the Global South, the Colombian collective invites Brazilian producer and DJ Fortunato for an hour of pumping techno, electro and Jersey club.
- Fafi Abdel Nour
  Lentekabinet 2024
  
  Running the gamut from old-school techno to tech house, with plenty of sultry vocals along the way, this two-hour recording is from the Amsterdam festival's 2024 edition.
- Chucheewa
  Kiosk Radio: Summer Sound
  
  The Bangkok-based DJ, singer and instrumentalist delivers a steady stream of groovy house cuts for Brussels' Kiosk Radio, from some old-school Green Velvet and Jex Opolis to Alex Kassian's rendition of Manuel Göttsching's "E2-E4."

Best Albums

June 2024

Best EPs

June 2024

Yetsuby - b_b

Best Mixes

June 2024

Gbenga

JS Alvarez

Fortunato