Back catalogue: Breakbeat

Review: The second in the BLE-EP series is another nostalgic trip back to the early days of rave. It's jam packed with six of the best breaks, bleeps and bass tunes, prickly analogue drum programming and future leads that immediately place you in a room full of smoke, lasers flashing by and strobes going mental. Bohm's 'Trouble' is a textbook take on this style, while Neil Landstrumm layers up bright melodies and refracts them around a punchy techno framework on 'Body Popper.' Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Destroy Dub' is a wild furry of drums and another gem on an EP full of them.

Review: A Beautiful Place label founder Noha (also head of Panick Panick) offers up his latest slice of sonic wonderment with The Abyss Between A&B. Hailing from Italy's great capital, Rome, but having lived in New York for some time, once that's clear you can't help but hear a mixture of old world musicality and modern - or indeed futuristic - production happening across this startlingly good, rather different electronic effort.
Comparing the first and second tracks alone is enough to prove this, with 'Today' and its beautiful beatless harmonies invoking a kind of ancient mystery, while the dub-stepp-y 'Kudos Kid' feels very much born in the clubs and streets of our time (while also nodding to another synth gem, Elektro Guzzi). From there, things continue to flit between those two worlds, combining lush soundscapes with infectious and often slightly off centre percussion, making for one of those outings that can make you move and dream.

Review: Piranha Hips kicks off with a mightily impressive full-length from Noiro. It is his first LP yet is packed with fresh sounds that suggest he has been at this a long old time. He's in fact only been on the radar for the last year or so with some nice non-conforming techno on labels like Format and Increase the Groove. Here though he really excels with cosmic techno bunker 'Good Morning Sir' opening in charming fashion and from there he explores vibey 90s house on 'Caveman', downtempo synths sounds on 'Saucy Sound' and jungle-laced dub on 'Bob Morale'. It's bold, adventurous and brilliant.