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.

we have something of a Danish ambient dream team on our hands here

She’s had a nice line in ambient Americana for the last ten years, with numerous EPs and albums exploring the genre, at the same time as forming and fronting Once Great Estate who plough a more traditional Southern Americana furrow. She’s living the Americana dream.

Dadaman, with his innate Afro-funkiness and vision, squeezes every ounce out of his gear to turn up the bounce, swing and party potential to eleven

his warm, affable, velvety vocals delivering a nice line in lyrically ambiguous yet compelling vocals. But just wait for the K&D Sessions era downtempo dub riddim which eases this track past the stiff singer songwriter competition

the first single, "Voyager Sans Bouger" has got me dusting off my espadrilles and linen threads ready for some poolside shuffling and sunset gazing. Summer is on its way.

Whether it’s her original compositions or tributes to less heralded greats, Glass just digs that bit deeper and twists those familiar sounds that bit more

Mycelial bioluminescence takes just what’s needed from real world instruments and distributes the micro-samples where required, and so it continues, track after blissful track

If that wasn't enough Gollden digs out her guitar and peppers the remaining elixir with the faintest of notes to help ease any remaining tension.