Give Me The Future, Bastille’s wildly ambitious and brilliantly bold new album, is a tribute to humanity in a tech age and reflects on the strangeness of living through times that can feel like science fiction.

Exploring both the opportunities of new technology and the dark side of lives lived online, it’s as playful and fun as it is thought-provoking, as dystopian as it is dancefloor-friendly, and as electronic as Bastille have ever been.

Everything But The Girl was formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn's unique voice and Watt's arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul, through to the 90's, including the global smash hit Missing and ending on the album 'Temperamental', where the duo chose to quit on a high.

Tracey focused on family life away from the spotlight before returning with a run of solo albums and best-selling autobiographical books. Ben moved into DJing and remixing, and launched the respected electronic label, Buzzin' Fly. He returned to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020.

In November 2022 Everything But The Girl announced they had recorded a new studio album - the first for over two decades, released in 2023.

Track Listings
1 : Angermanagement
2 : Headlock
3 : Powerslide
4 : Flavourtown
5 : Love Letter to Summer

Borrowing its title from the exuberant Filipino dining tradition - a communal, bare-handed feast among friends and families - UNOS' debut EP highlights her sincere love for communities forged through club culture.

Track Listings
1 : I Miss U (Club Extended) - Jax Jones & Au/Ra
2 : I Miss U (Dub) - Jax Jones & Au/Ra
3 : I Miss U (Acapella) - Jax Jones & Au/Ra

Chart topping international DJ and multi-instrumentalist Jax Jones' single 'i miss u' featuring Au/Ra. 'i miss u' marks the next phase of Jax's ascent as he continues to create genre-defying dance music. Returning to his club and underground roots, the emotive dance track comprises colder sounding beats when compared to his hugely popular dance pop tracks. Underpinned by a hair raising vocal from German singer-songwriter Au/Ra, best known for her 2018 breakout hit 'Panic Room', Jax's latest collaboration makes nod to his beginnings with a harder bassline and club ready tone.

Track Listings
Side: 1 : Transform - Factory Floor
Side: 2 : Wonder - Factory Floor

Transform and Wonder will be the second 12" release on Factory Floor's own imprint H/O/D Records. Transform, a section inspired by Maria's transformation from human into the robot, reveals itself in a haze of accumulating ambience and scattered percussion that evolves into the heavy repetitive bass groove reassuringly stabilizes Maria's journey into metamorphosis. The slow tempo and atmospheric wash of synths and electronics on side B 'Wonder' offering a hesitant hush contrast.

Track Listings
1 : Catching Rare Birds
2 : The Grand Pacific Garbage Patch
3 : Quicksand
4 : Walking Distances
5 : Are You Still Hurt
6 : Matted Feathers
7 : Pacifier Habits

Sleep-deprived, breakbeat-driven vignettes of unclear authorship, from somewhere west of Lake Lagoda, near the Russia-Finland border. Sekundenschlaf has significant points of correspondence with contemporary European electronic music, as well as the golden age of (early) jungle and ambient techno. But it's response to tradition, and to the zeitgeist, is idiosyncratic to say the least - with an atmosphere and psycho-geography rooted in the tranquility and majesty of Western Russian nature, and the anxiety and distress of the country's post-Soviet working class. Pastoral calm meets dissonance and unease. The music has a loose, improvised feel, but it's arrangements are intricate, it's melodies iridescent; cascading arpeggios that stir a sense of optimism and renewal, sighing string-pads that evoke the deepest melancholy. Rhythms simultaneously hyped-up and burned-out, collapsing in on themselves as they race to destinations un-known. All bound together with field recordings of eavesdropped conversations, blurred into abstraction, a droning subliminal menace.

Track Listings
Side: 1
1 : My Body Next to Yours
2 : All Rolled Up
3 : Awkwardly Blissing Out
Side: 2
4 : Time Passes
5 : You're Confused
6 : Off Silently

Recorded in Melbourne and Berlin 2015-17 by Samuel Karmel, Carla dal Forno and Tarquin Manek, its title is instructive...the spiky eldritch song-spells of previous album Hide Before Dinner have become more dubwise, immersive and potently psychedelic. Euphoric even, but paranoid and laden with self-doubt. Projecting onto strangers, watching not participating, turning ever inwards. The cosmos explored from behind closed doors, under the bedclothes, alone.Whereas Hide evoked the thrill, and casual cruelty, of unsupervised childhood summers a suburban gothic of grazed knees, hide-and-seek, nettle-stings this is an album of more adult anxieties and metamorphoses. The ghouls in your neighbour's garden are still there, but have come to represent something else. Something more mundane and empirically real but no less terrifying. Struggles with time, distance, isolation, communication, commitment. Your memories have a heaviness now.You can hear aspects of ferric post-punk and hauntological/DIY electronics in Awkwardly's musical make-up... Flying Lizards' Secret Dub Life or Brigitte Fontaine's Comme a la Radio...not to mention two generations of Oz/NZ underground experimentation/introspection/dereliction...but now, more than ever, F Ingers' highly evolved but naturalistic sound-world is difficult to precisely place or unpick: a mildewy drug-dazed dub-scape, teeming but minimalist, framed by lonesome guitar strum, Manek's supple percussive reverberating basslines and Karmel's painterly synth washes, over which dal Forno exploits her voice for its pure tonal character whether diffracting light across the loping, uncanny techno rhythms of 'All Rolled Up' and the waterlogged psych-folk of 'Off Silently', or sliced and looped into disorienting patterns of abstract glossolalia on 'Time Passes' and the time-dilating 9-minute title track. Awkwardly Blissing Out is a landmark recording from one of the Southern hemisphere's most extraordinary, visionary freak units; a deep and sensuous trip that nonetheless prompts some uncomfortable or at any rate bittersweet reflection on what we are, what we were, and what we might have been.

Track Listings
Side: 1
1 : Wreck His Days
2 : Ghost from the Coast
3 : Reverberasia
Side: 2
4 : ...And I Tried So Hard
5 : I Beat As I Sleep As I Dream
6 : Ay Carmela
7 : Rosa/kollantai

Dubbed-out cosmic pastorals and politically exasperated techno-exotica from Blackest Ever Black's most secretive and shape-shifting project. Guest contributors include Conrad and Jonnine Standish of HTRK, Genevieve McGuckin (These Immortal Souls), and Lucas Santanna. The ghosts of Les Baxter, Rowland S. Howard and Nina Simone are also in attendance. But whoever is pulling the strings remains hidden...possibly in plain view. Structurally Wreck His Days recalls the grand collective statements of This Mortal Coil or Massive Attack, but musically its dreamlike overtures have more in common with Deux Filles, Global Communication, Arthur Russell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Anthony Moore, even Robert Wyatt circa Old Rottenhat/Nothing Can Stop Us. It roams far and wide: from the lambent, near-Balearic piano loops of the title track, to the Audrey Horne-worthy death-jazz of Ghost From The Coast , and hulking, bass-heavy soundsystem weapon Reverberasia . Side Two opens with the swelling, uplifting astral psychedelia of ...And I Tried So Hard , while I Beat As I Sleep As I Dream reprises the bleak existential synth drift of T.T.W.F.U.'s extraordinary 2014 10", How Great A Fame Has Departed?. A deep-seated socialist impulse drives the whole thing: with a dedication to women who have fought oppression throughout history, references to the Spanish Civil War and the UK Miners' Strike, and an overarching belief in the international ideal (in fact the closing Rosa / Kollontai explicitly invokes the Internationale). Written and recorded over the course of 2014-15, Wreck His Days is a plea, or perhaps a requiem, for a world that embraces difference and upholds equality. Its contemporary relevance hardly needs emphasising.

Now That’s What I Call Drivetime featuring hits from the best to keep you entertained on those long drives, commutes to work and the school-run!

Artists include Justin Bieber, Olly Murs, Sia, Little Mix and Years & Years to name a few.

The No 1 Dance Hits

Track Listings
1 : Cost of the Feast
2 : Buy a Serrated Knife
3 : Ghost Lineage
4 : Bathed in Piss
5 : Last Glacial Maximum
6 : Night Salad

Last Glacial Maximum is the debut full length from Dream_Mega, the recording project of Los Angeles-based artist/musician Joel Kyack. Across six songs, the album unfolds like a set of auditory hallucinations that are at once alien, funereal, triumphant, and life-affirming. Situated somewhere between the lysergic bedroom crunk of Black Zone Myth Chant's "Straight Cassette," the fourth world punk sensibilities of Sublime Frequencies and Glitterbeat Records, and the homespun terror of early Hanson Records, Dream_Mega's sound is something entirely new-like Terry Riley doing Cro Mags covers using Uncle Sleazy's gear, or God making a trap record.

Track Listings
1 : Phantom Selector dk05
2 : Victim Victim
3 : Form A log In The Streets
4 : Carrier - Bridge

Another Dark Age captures the schizophrenic culture that exists in one pocket of the underground. This V/A release reaches across oceans and continents to connect music from four obscure projects. From Providence (USA) to Melbourne (Australia), ADA delves deep into the noise and experimental scenes of both cities. Form a Log is a trio of which Ren Schofield (AKA Container) is a member. Their twisted analog improvisations are as disciplined as they are chaotic. 'In the Streets' is a chugging percussive jam that winds its way to-and-fro, between noise and entropy. Phantom Selector, Victim and Carrier are artists who have released diverse music on cassettes under ever-changing monikers. Tortured vocals, eerie textures and cavernous kick drums represent the fleeting moods of these artists who may or may not produce material under these aliases again

Track Listings
1 : Active Discovering
2 : Information Is Forever
3 : Sight Of Hirta
4 : A Change Of Attitude
5 : He Was Human And Belonged With Humans (Regis Version)

Visibility Is A Trap is the new EP by Dalhous, comprised of four originals together with a masterfully understated Regis remix of He Was Human And Belonged With Humans . The EP heralds the arrival of the Edinburgh-based project's sophomore album, Will To Be Well, due out on Blackest Ever Black in early Summer 2014. Dalhous first announced its existence in 2012 with the Mitchell Heisman 10 , and last year released its debut full-length: An Ambassador For Laing. Both Visibility Is A Trap and the upcoming Will To Be Well LP reflect writer-producer Marc Dall's continued interest in the language and imagery of self-help, R.D. Laing and the anti-psychiatry movement. Though recorded after Will To Be Well, the tracks on Visibility Is A Trap at first appear to have more in common with the blue ethereal drift of Ambassador. While Information Is Forever and A Change Of Attitude are firmly in the ambient mode, Active Discovering fizzes with arpeggiated energy, and a battery of percussion disrupts the calm surface of Sight Of Hirta . Something is up. All is not as it seems. The Regis remix of Ambassador highlight He Was A Human And Belonged With Humans finds Karl O'Connor in unusually pensive mood. In fact this near-beatless, dubwise version is unlike anything he has put his name to before. Discarding the rhythmic skeleton of Dalhous's original, he gives their weeping saxophone more space to roam and resonate, adding off-beat, sleep-deprived keys, murmured vocal fragments and swells of sub-bass pressure. It could be construed as a love letter to his former home in West Berlin; certainly it evokes and effortlessly updates the drugsick grandeur of later Neubauten or Low side 2.

Filmed on the stage of The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, director Paul Czinner's outstanding film showcases prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn in what was her first feature film. Partnered by Michael Somes, this DVD takes acts from three of the most well-known and admired pieces of ballet in the world:

Ondine
A showpiece for Margot Fonteyn, who owed much of her success to the tailor-made role that Ashton created for her. Seats for every performance of this ballet were sold out within two weeks of opening.

The Firebird
In which Michael Somes as Prince Ivan Tsarevitch was said to be unsurpassed by any living dancer. It is a riot of colour and action, ably showcasing Stravinsky's haunting music.

Swan Lake (Act II)
This shows the Royal Ballet Company at its classical best. With Tchaikovsky's enchanting music it brings contrast to the modernism of Ondine and the excitement of The Firebird.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 : Run It
2 : YAIMT
3 : PaaRRttYY
4 : Mob Life
5 : ODO
6 : Mob Life (Tsuruda Remix)
7 : ODO (Eprom Remix)
8 : Run It (Alpha Remix)
Disc: 2
1 : Stockholm Syndrome
2 : Cut 11
3 : Cut 22
4 : Give In
5 : Bull Run
6 : Fading

Mr. Carmack and Promnite have teamed up for a series of projects under the alias Project Paradis. Fusing gritty experimental sound design, hard-hitting production and dynamic machine-like soundscapes, Carmack and Promnite introduce a dystopian future where human freedom has come to an end with technological singularity manifesting itself in the form of tyrannical, artificially intelligent, all-robotic corporations, with one such corporation - Project Paradis© - whose purpose is to further the advancement of singularity.Carmack and Promnite delve deeper into the universe of Project Paradis© with Paradis 2 Deluxe - an intricately embossed gatefold with a double-vinyl comprised of both Paradis 1 and Paradis 2. The experience deepens with details such as raised soundwaves, scannable barcodes and detailed blueprints of the machines that have taken over.

Track Listings
1 : Buckle
2 : Darkest Place
3 : Lunar Caustic
4 : Terminal Man
5 : Volcano of the Bleeding Skies
6 : No Autopsy
7 : Epilogue

Debut LP from Ruadhan O'Meara (No Spill Blood). A collection of cosmic synth compositions, it's 7 tracks feature swirling psychedelics, pulsing sequences, and stark minimalism all the while incorporating harmony and melodic leads. Drawing heavily from the sounds of bygone eras, it also sits aside the current wave of electronic re-invention.

Track Listings
1 : Divers in the Water
2 : Silver Pit
3 : Helix
4 : Fossils
5 : Knots
6 : Substrates
7 : Claws
8 : Hound Point
9 : Bow Shock
10 : Black Castle

Working from The Vennel, his home studio in South Queensferry, Scotland, composer and producer Ben Chatwin creates a musical language permeated with an ambiguity, or tension, between the electronic and acoustic worlds. Much more than just a meeting of the two, what emerges is a daring, vivid and emotionally-charged music unshackled from a traditional sense of structure and genre. Following The Sleeper Awakes (2015) and Heat & Entropy (2016), Staccato Signals is Bens third album under his own name. Set for release on 6th July 2018 through Village Green Recordings, its a bolder and more ambitious record than anything he has written before, largely the result of relinquishing different levels of control over the musical process. Its an album which smoulders with an almost aggressive darkness, yet one that is laced with melodic glimmers of light. This constant pull between the acoustic and the electronic, man versus machine, and the agile production Ben utilised to maintain their balance, is what gives Staccato Signals its powerful and beguiling character. Throughout the album mournful strings are engulfed by harsh, all-encompassing synths, while disorienting climaxes of blazing electronics recall the deafening loudness of an inferno. Yet while the jagged, synthesized textures that needle the album together might call to mind such devastating imagery, the acoustic instruments that feature throughout the album continuously provide a more human counterbalance. 'Staccato Signals' will no doubt appeal to fans of the hybrid forms of Ben Frost, Board of Canada and Tim Hecker. Ben has performed live across the globe with the likes of William Basinski, Hauschka, Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never and Loscil.

Track Listings
1 : Asbambeki (Feat. Worsthood, Resto & Ayanda) [TLC Fam]
2 : Futuristic Gqom
3 : Insimbi Yase Dubane (The Sound of Durban)
4 : Rains of Terror

Durban's 23 year-old producer Emo Kid presents Gqomtera on Gqom Oh!. The record actually explores sgubhu, a strain of South African dance music that shares many stylistic parallels with gqom, though it is always written with a 4x4 beat. Like DJ Lag before him, an artist widely considered the king of gqom, Emo Kid is also considered a pioneer in Durban. At eight tracks long, Gqomtera provides a comprehensive overview of the sgubhu sound, with the aim of taking the listener on their own "Durban Journey". "I wanted to show the uniqueness of my own style which I would describe as more musical," Emo Kid explains, "you can feel the music when you listen but it still hits hard with that gqom flavor." That gqom flavor, powered by hard, fast, uncompromising drums, provides a solid core from which everything else functions. Bright, shimmering trance synths are featured on "Futuristic Gqom". There's also space for harder, deeper cuts, the charging pace and power of "Insimbi Yase Dubane", and the anthemic "Asbambeki" featuring local crew TLC Fam. Capturing the raw, street sounds of his city, Emo Kid is the latest Durban artist to take the music global and with Gqomtera, he puts sgubhu firmly on the map. Includes a download card with four bonus tracks: "Enkwarini" featuring vocalist Fawell, "Ground Shaker", "Digital Response", and "Isukile" featuring Mapopo.

Track Listings
1 : $ixxx Harmonie$ Version

'Six Harmonies', the febrile opener from Killing Sound's recent EP double-pack (BLACKEST028), refashioned as a shapeshifting, shark-eyed junglist wrecker. Nine minutes of pure dread at 180, cut by Matt Colton at half-speed for maximum dancehall pressure. A one-sided 12" release.