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Marina Zispin – The Bells (time will tell)

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t is the brilliant debut LP from Marina Zispin, the project of Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid. Scout, a composer and vocalist, has built a reputation for blending ambient, spoken word, and contemporary classical elements, with past work including The Heart of the Anchoress and last year’s incredible Pattern Damage. This new collaboration continues her exploration of fragmented memory and shifting perceptions, but with a (mostly) more upbeat tone that much of her previous work.

https://scenicroute.bandcamp.com/album/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont

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Il Quadro Di Troisi – La Terra

Not content with releasing arguably the best electronic album of the year so far, Donato Dozzy / Dozzers / The Big Dozz has reunited with Eva Geist – alongside the now permanent addition of previous collaborator Pietro Micioni – for a new LP under their Il Quadro Do Troisi moniker. Set for release later this month and billed as “classic Italian songwriting with an electronic spin”, expect soaring vocals and plenty of bubbling, electro basslines.

https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/la-commedia

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Raw Poetic – Digits (prod. Damu The Fudgemunk)

Raw Poetic and Damu The Fudgemunk collaborated on one of my favourite albums of this year – the massively underrated Laminated Skies – and this is similarly brilliant: robotic funk, hypnotic lyrics and the second single from their forthcoming album Space Beyond the Solar System, which lands this Friday.

https://damuthefudgemunk.bandcamp.com/track/digits-single-mix

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Daniel Avery – Spider

Daniel Avery has assembled an impressive raft of caollborators on his new album Ultra Truth, with production from Ghost Culture and Manni Dee, vocals courtesy of HAAi, Jonnine Standish (HTRK), AK Paul and the “voices” (not sure why that’s different from ‘vocals’, but apparently it is) of Marie Davidson, Kelly Lee Owens, Sherelle and James Massiah. It’s a more contemplative record that he’s produced before – way more afterparty mong than peak time rave up – and is probably the release of his I’ve enjoyed the most, which tells you everything you need to know about my current levels of rave-readiness. Spider is 90s-evoking ambient techno with all the OTT heartfeltness that entails, and I love it.

https://danielavery.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-truth

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Om Unit – Camo

Taken from the Bristol-based producer’s latest collection Acid Dub Studies II, Camo clocks in at just two-and-a-half minutes, but squeezes in a hell of a lot of influences, from its reggae-ish rhythm and stabs through plaintive ambient pads, skittering techno-evoking hats and squelchy electro bassline. Which sounds like it could be a bit of a mess, but definitely isn’t.

https://omunit.bandcamp.com/album/acid-dub-studies-ii

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System Olympia & Tom Sharkett – Jealousy

“She lay by the poolside, dipping her hands into the water as she wondered where her lover might be. It had been three days since he’d left her in the baking heat, stuck in a motel on the wrong side of town. She’d never dreamt it might have turned out like this? What with all the money, the wild nights and the excess. How had it all come crashing down around them all so horribly? Why was she the one all alone?”

www.melodic.co.uk

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Terrestrial Access Network – Endless Dunes

Taken from the the debut solo EP from Texan electro producer Terrestrial Access Network, Endless Dunes is exactly the kind of contemplative, broken-beat electronic music I completely lose my shit over, especially when there are a few gentle acid flourishes thrown in for good measure. Only gentle mind: I want to be soothed, not challenged. Inspired by the artist’s “shifting and hectic nomadic existence around the rattling expanse of the United States”, it’s out now and comes packaged with a remix from TPW favourite Versalife which is also well worth checking out.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/terrestrial-access-network-distant-lands-ep/857210-01/

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96 Back – 9696 Dream

Recording under his 96 Back alias, 9696 Dream is the excellent new album from Manchester producer Evan Majumdar-Swift; a body of work that can handily be summed up in all its fun-loving, electro-leaning glory by its title track. Some of the sound design here reminds me a little of Holly Herndon, but without any of the oppressive intensity her music often explores. Instead we get warm, open chords, stripped-back rhythms and an almost uncontrollable desire to listen this at a volume that would doubtless upset my neighbours.

https://soundcloud.com/96-back

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The Egyptian Lover – Cinnamon Oil Massage

Pioneering electro pioneer The Egyptian Lover has doubled down on his 2015 album 1985 with new LP 1986. Like its predecessor it focusses entirely on the kind of sounds and techniques he was using back in the mid-1980s, and aside from it perhaps sounding a little more polished that some of the electro and proto-hip-hop being produced then, its otherwise sounds completely indistinguishable. Cinnamon Oil Massage is a definite highlights, complete with the omnipresent crisp, punchy 808 beats and an outrageously over the top electric guitar solo which is absolutely joyous.

https://thegyptianlover.bandcamp.com/album/1986

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Sneaks – Sanity

Sanity is fierce, crunchy, eerie, swaggering and a whole load of other adjectives that I can’t really be bothered to get down on paper (screen?) as I’m too busy really, really enjoying listening to it. It is electro? Punk? Post-punk-inflected electro? Who knows, and more importantly, who cares? Big up Sneaks for creating my #trackoftheweeksofar – IT’S. A. BANGER.

https://sneaks.bandcamp.com/