as fluid, bumping a bassline as your dancing feet could hope to meet, which will get even the most wall glued party attendees looking for the shortest route to the dance floor.

Perhaps he’s mellowing with age, but those beats have been left in a club somewhere, replaced with a decidedly modern ambient sound, that still retains a cultured ethereal sensibility.

I'm guessing the arrival of Spring resonates even more in Canada, with its longer and harsher winters, and Riana's new single celebrates this seasonal unfolding and the accompanying mental and physical blossoming of the country's residents

The album is a start to finish meditative joy, a welcome return from Guidry and an auspicious start to her label.

A simple, brisk, hypnotic guitar refrain stops just short of toe tapping, but should immediately get heads turning and nodding

It’s a pleasingly off-kilter collection of darker ambient hues and quirky songs that inhabit a distinctly underground bunker, but which sit together very nicely as a cohesive listen.

Purkins and The Co-Operators more than do their part, laying down deep warm roots riddim after riddim with all the right amounts of Pablo blessed melodica, countryman flute, righteous horns and choice effects.

Mayraz for his part has got his synths set to vibe, content to sit back and ride the compelling riddim, embellishing the groove with his succinct phrasing, cosmic chords and astral jazz vibes

but man and machine soon start to swirl and synergise, weaving cosmic patterns that slowly unlock your doors of perception so you too can see the light

This is cultured, jazz licked minimal dance music for the head as well as the hips that will also look great on stage and I like it.

introducing his new found guitar chops with some thoughtful picking that sets a warm tone before introducing some cosmically inclined ambient synths and sax to make smooth jazz cool again

but ultimately acting as a sweetly sung palliative for "the pain and at times chaotically disillusioning experience of being human."

he’s just released this eye opening snapshot of the British folk underground, and when I say underground I mean it.

The EP heads back to Berlin for its parting shot with some dub technoid downtempo to test your speaker choice and make you contemplate buying a sub-woofer.

Just as you think he might be laying his hat in more folky terrain he's off on an electroacoustic, voyage full of precision placed and played micro-sounds that gives folktronica a cosmic Americana injection

Calibro 35 tend towards the if it ain't broke don't fix it approach with their music, but still manage to give this classic a bit of a microdosed Milanese makeover.

It's a compelling slice of horizon gazing Egyptian music that is rooted in the region's rich musical heritage whilst causing multiple ripples in the North East African music continuum

Fuubutsushi were born in the lockdowns during the age of virus and were an instant TSMM fave, setting the bar for remote recording projects during the period.

her music is restless and hard to pin down, veering from minimal piano to club ready beats and all sorts of ambient experiments.

Kabaco gives a hearty laugh at the thought of the Swedes trying to get down to this funktified groove and polyrhythmic percussion

This new LP sees him descend from the new age stratosphere for a somewhat more grounded release, his usual wispy, well meaning electronica part exchanged for the more gravity beholden autoharp, upright piano and vintage Yamaha keyboard

twists up a serious dub meets dancehall cone, before Tiiu Helinä drops a heavyweight ethereal floater to remind reggae’s digi-misfits that they’ll always have a home in Lepzig.

The track is a singular abstract jazz soundscape that sounds like a Sam Gendel and Joseph Shabason love child, and you shouldn't need much more encouragement to take a listen than that.