You’ll need oven gloves to handle ‘Cash Antics Vol.1′ by Deadboy, the 12″ platter that’s burning up dance floors with its wicked take on R&B. South East London geezer Deadboy (pictured) takes three syrupy smooth R&B vocals and injects fresh subsonic bass and futuristic keyboard swirls. The crowning effort here is ‘Unofficial Girl’, a remix…

Fly girls and homies, shake it to the rhythm of ‘Footcrab’ by Addison Groove! Novelty hits never sounded better than this Chicago Juke inspired, 138 beats per minute rush to the head on the Swamp81 label with its infectious “f-f-f-footcrab” stutter. Juke is a sped up, high energy take on hip-hop as pioneered by a…

The girl from Rio goes -bah bah bah bah, bah bah bah bah baah baah baah baaaaah’ before the distorted Acid bass kicks in leaving no doubt that -Naked Mariokart’ by RSD is a certified rave monster. It’s only a little scat vocal sample with a whiff of Brazilian Bossa Nova about it, but boy,…

If the dark promise of Gothic angst floats your boat then Dag för Dag are right down your alley. Like the less savoury cousins of the White Stripes hiding in a Swedish forest, Dag för Dag unleash a feast of obsessions on Boo….
Only last year, Dag för Dag dabbled in 80′s new wave

The UK funky sound has finally spread to the US, as Ghosts On Tape ably demonstrate on their Predator Mode EP…. The original mix is a loungey midtempo track with a 60′s TV theme melody in the vein of The Persuaders. Roska remixes -Predator Mode’ into a big, UK Funky freak out complete with

Pantha Du Prince is the man of the moment. His new 12′ The Splendour… on Rough Trade is the most elegiac piece of music you are likely to hear this month. Driven by an eerie bell sample it is pastoral techno at its romantic best. Played at high volume, the slow, majestically rumbling bass hits

The record of the month is easily the Credit To The Edit Vol. 2 EP… on Tirk Records. Three neat mid-tempo classics covering three decades in dance music are presented here slightly re-freshed and re-EQ’d for your listening pleasure. Manchester DJ legend Greg Wilson doesn’t go mad with the scissors here as he only subtly

Manchester duo Demdike Stare combine deep Techno and horror movies on their two self-titled EPs. It’s Volume 2 you want. The tracks have a Berlin feel to them, think deep, dubbed-out Techno like Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, etc. The stand-out track on EP Vol. 2 is -Haxan’, which takes its inspiration from the legendary…

Tired of uninspired Michael Jackson mash-ups? Good old Jacko had a life before -Billie Jean’ and the Moxie crew have dusted off some trusty breaks by the Jackson 5 that used to rock Bronx block parties back in -73/’74.
Credited to the High Five as the -artists’, -Ain’t No Words’ is a massively extended edit…

Let’s Post Funk! No joke, this is the sound that just keeps on coming. Post Funk takes smooth R&B, ruffles up the beats and adds some outlandish synthesizer melodies. The result is a highly addictive, gooey mess that sounds like Prince on horse tranquilisers. Play some Post Funk and watch friends and strangers getting drawn…

A look at the month’s best releases in dance, techno, dubstep and electronica with releases from Ricardo Villalobos, Prefuse 73, Martyn, Efdemin, Zomby and Animal Collective.

Two top names kick off this month’s Dance singles roundup as Berlin Techno legend Efdemin gets the remix treatment by happening Dutch Dubstep geezer Martyn.

Gerry Mitchell is a Scottish poet who makes Irvine Welsh sound like a verbose romantic. Various Production are the UK’s hottest production and remix team. The lovechild of this illicit coupling is an album dominated by Mitchell’s vitriolic verse. Only on three tracks do music and poetry truly gel and produce something bigger than the…

Here is a new column with bit of a Dance flavour to complement the current EP Roundup. If you like ELECTRONIC music and you like to DANCE, read on for the best new EPs and 12″ singles.…
Soca House looks like the New Thing in London. Not a million miles away from Brazilian Samba, the

Imagine an alternative or indie supergroup that does not take itself too seriously. Cryptacize are a West coast band fronted by ex-members of Deerhoof and Kill Rock Stars solo artist Nedelle Torrisi. So far so good, but what makes them stand out is their ability to fool around with different styles – often within the…