DJ Clap - Sparkling

DJ Clap has taken juke to its maximalist extreme. If Rustie suddenly stumbled upon footwork, this is the kind of thing he would make. The song is a frenzied journey and, with the addition of a big phat, clean kick drum to the bangs, finds itself in very ravey, trancey circumstances. For some this may be a little too much to handle, but it just sounds like a fucking banger to me.

chits - Barry Sanders

Chits has to be one of my favourite bedroom producers around at the moment. Juke motifs are sleekly blended with hip-hop and bass tropes and in this case Barry Sanders is a thunderous roller of dark chords and various movements and themes. Starting off with glistening yet restrained vocals and stop-start beats before transferring to deeper territory and ending up in a field of mutated synths and skittering juke percussion. Free DL as well!

BODYGUARD - Silica Gel

Love him or hate him, James Ferraro is one of the most intriguing characters in modern music. He has been involved in everything from punk to kraut to drone and, as last year's Far Side Virtual, a fantastical trip through a psychedelic, postmodern virtual reality, demonstrates, has shifted towards a dense, cerebral electronic music bathed in the internet and heavily dosed with current pop music. Silica Gel continues this idiosyncratic trend with a vengeance, as Ferraro wades through a pool of 'Rude Boy' samples, icepunk allusions, metallic timbres and lo-fi cloud rap. Silica Gel is an exercise in repetition, with songs often containing a single loop with subtle variations and additions, creating vivid sonic landscapes and deep grooves.

Even within this framework, Ferrarro shows his penchant for bringing pleasant listening out of highly abstract and experimental productions. 'E-Cig' is a perfect example - an overwhelmingly weedy, murky jam, soundtracking the landing of a UFO, signalling the landing of the alien album. Ferraro has situated himself in the outskirts of music's fringes, but this tune shows that he still has the ability to engage the listener through catchy phrases and warm sonics. 'Dry Ice' is a nod to the burgeoning and previously mentioned icepunk movement. The synths sound like the biting winds of the Arctic, creating a freezing ambience which encases a slowed, chopped n screwed hip-hop beat and thick, gloopy, low-end. 'Fatal' sounds like it could have been created in an industrial estate, all big metallic synth lines, clanking chains and watery drips and drops. It evokes the too-stoned drawl of a Hype Williams song with its overload of fuzzy echoes and delays and its detuned retard-rapper sample. The album sometimes has you stopping and thinking 'how the fuck did he come up with this and pull it off?' 'Acid Rain' is one of these moments, it is a deluge of eclecticism, a postmodern sonic spew that just doesn't stop splattering multicolour on the ground. Wacky marimbas, vocal chords, drum bursts, piercing twinkles and default horn blares make up the definition of the cut'n'paste schizophrenia that Ferraro has come to be known for.

The album does have its weaker moments - songs like 'Raiden' and 'Turbulence' don't quite work and take the repetitive experimentalism into areas that verge on boring - but these can be excused in such far out territory. 'Blu Smoke Rings' features a twangy wind chime melody, a haze of caustic white-noise glitches, what sounds like a rusty trash can lid for a cymbal and a set of heavy death synths. This is the mind of a New Age yoga instructor gone mad - those chimes on the door of his studio have rattled one too many times. On 'Liquid Metal' a beautiful guitar sample drifts over booming sub throbs, floating vocals and a primordial drum machine. All the elements come together to create something greater than their parts, into a new area of vibe and sonic texture - one removed, for once, from reality and planted in the virtual, in the wondrous unknown.

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DJ Taye - Studio 24

Teklife's Dj Taye the 17 year old prolific prodigy has dropped a full length on Rashad's new 'Lit City Trax' label. Taye has apparently been in the game since he was 14 and obviously shows his skills on the LP. His style is far more disposed to repeat listens as tracks each flaunts an obsessively catchy vocal hook and is teemed with a pop directed, ear-pleasing production. His songs definitely hang together with a more widely palatable eb and flow as opposed to the erratic syncopation and stop-start drops more common amongst the Ghettotekz but his sound is further distinguished by a certain cartoonish cuteness that he brings the album. I have to refer here to 'Popkorn Love' with is ecstatic bounciness and bubbly melody. Taye does loose it sometimes when his high pitched jingles just get too much but overall 'Studio 24' is a very subtle but effective album that will hook you in from first listen.

✞ENNI$R✡DM∆N - The Future Is Now

Rodman with his trademark wonky swagger just came out with this track for one of our favourites 'post religion'. The sloppy hashtaggy vocal clips are layed underneath an almost garage-y swing which is pinned down with Rodmans usual sticky drumwork. The net effect is a sprawling headfuck from an artist who is working the edges of the internet for that post-futuristic sound.

Jlin - EXPAND

Jlin charging in with her new track 'expand'. Its urgent tempo and ominous vibes give the tune a tweaked out pressure and is tinged with jlin's copyrighted dark psychedelia. Jlin works out some screeching sirens, rimshots, snares and elastic vocals like a sped up juggling act. Absolutely killing it

Dj Rolow - Make It

Some banging clean production from new Teklife addition Dj Rolow. Proving yet again that the Ghettotekz are on their game, Rolow hits us with some deep bangs and vocals set against a heavenly synthed backdrop. Perhaps an atypically polished and clearly realised production for the Ghettotekz but one that is equally compulsively listenable.