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The soothing yet substantial, beautifully balanced, folk trio sound of Avocet's debut EP for Mink Records are hitting the sweet spot today - microdosed psychedelia, hints of jazz, beautiful vocals & a subtle Celtic thread in perfect folkloric fusion harmony. Make sure you dig out their recent singles as well.

Rising from the Dimlite ashes, Dim Grimm reminds us why he was always ahead of the beat making curve with this painstakingly sculpted, emotionally layered, experience recounting, psycho-sonic analysed, electro-acoustic biography.

Culling cliches, multi-disciplinary artist & one man band, WildBadger is putting the new back into nu-jazz in fine style. Check out the sax infused, hypnotic percussion, dub deviance & general genre & electronic fusion sounds of his great new EP.

Nice to see one of our pet labels Especial are hitting 2019 running with a wonderful EP of deeper than deep house cuts from Persian, fusing the evocative sounds of the Middle East with the classic house sounds of Chicago.

After the unique & timeless "Rehwe Mie Enyim" from 2018 it's good to see the wonderfully and wishfully entitled Y-Bahani and his Band of Enlightenment, Reason and Love back with another slice of killer Ghanaian Reggae for Philophon.

One of my favourite ambient drone albums of 2018 from Warmth on Archives has just been lovingly remixed & is simultaneously stimulating & caressing my cerebrum on my sun soaked, Sunday morning headphone session.

Welcome to Lazy & Hazy presented by The Slow Music Movement where light and dark ambient morphs into folktronica before making way for heavy dub & throwback Nyabingi drums. Afro Latin vibes meet slow motion house before Ayahuasca fuelled Pachamama incantations make way for Venezuelan disco and 80's minimal electro boogie.

DEEP LEARNING - Dataverse (Salmon Universe)
The Gentleman Losers - Shelter From The Rain (Sound in Silence)
The Uncertainty Principle - The Black Frame (Kompakt)
Deadbeat - Ain't No More Flowers feat. Fink (BLKRTZ)
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Abbey Road version (Upsetter)
Tapes - Datura Mystic (Honest Jons)
Penya - Search it Out, Dengue Dengue Dengue rmx (On The Corner)
Celine Gillain - Fight or Flight (Drama)
Leifur James - Mumma Don't Tell (Night Time Stories)
Julien Mier - Yesterday's Downpour (Perfect Touch)
Wanderwelle - The Seed of the Areoi (Silent Season)
Daniel Grau - Delirio En Fa Menor (Soul Jazz)
Kevin Morane - Ivre De Vie (SDBAN)
Sunrise - Vernal Equinox (Cabinet of Curiosities)

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I'm very happy to have finally discovered the beautifully arranged, classily produced, electronically tickled, genre flirting, traditional meets modern folk sounds of singer of songs & plucker of harps Brona McVittie. A lovely laid back weekend listen.

More great music for a great cause as Anatolian Weapons comes through with 4 proper, world music fusing, deep house tracks on Lurid Music with all proceeds going to help Humanity Crew provide psychological aid to refugees.

Germany's Hubert Daviz has always retained the bump whilst being one of the more interesting, adventurous beatmakers around & his latest EP of leftfield, late night, micro dosed, beat noir is no exception.

Stripped back, precision focused, conscious neo-soul with a healthy dose of spoken word that wears it's 20th century roots with pride & can unashamedly carry the R&B label from Rev.Lewis.

I'm not usually much of a glitch fan but when it's as cultured and subtle as James Stephen Finn's comforting piano, guitar and technology melding, electro acoustic LP, Three Months then I'm all in.

Combining an Amazonian ritualistic sensibility with Northern folk traditions, lit by a solar powered electronic glow & propelled by a subtly hypnotic, animistic, Motorik pulse make sure you check out this wonderful LP from Golden Ivy for Malmö Inre.

If hip hop had been invented in Laurel Canyon it would sound something like this guitar led, sun and soul imbued, laidback, languid, lounging, love filled Sunday suitable, LP from Los Angeles' Pax

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More on point, pointillism inspired, minimal ambient vibes from Zoltan Fecso on this all too short, hastily arranged, quickly improvised but lovingly crafted EP that is sounding great with the winter sunshine streaming through my windows.

Balancing darkness with rays of hope & thankfully slowing the tempo so we can appreciate the cinematic futurism, soundscaping craftsmanship, otherworldliness, mixed emotions & wordless critique on our disorienting times is Objekt's LP for PAN. An incredible listen.

Check out the seemingly ayahuasca fuelled, ambient inclined, New Age minimalism, technology & nature fusing, deep house flirting sounds of Alex Kassian on Utopia Records out of London.

Inspired by the humanitarian tragedy in Yemen, two great labels Hibernate Recordings & Dronarivm combine forces to raise money for War Child UK with this excellent selection of ambient, electro acoustic, drone and modern compositional music from some of the top names in the game.

A soothing yet stirring, ambient electronic soundtrack for brave new futuristic worlds from Isorinne for Northern Electronics seems like an apt start to the New Year as sore heads swim with new ideas and plans for fresh starts. Here's to a more peaceful, sustainable, equitable, tolerant and caring 2019.