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Stories Beyond the Dancefloor: Five Rituals Interview

Lithuanian duo Five Rituals discuss their debut LP of experimental low-end music, giving in to the present moment and eco friendly vinyl

Danalogue x Alabaster dePlume – I Was Not Sleeping (Total Refreshment Centre)

Danalogue and Alabaster dePlume hitch a wild ride together with a freewheeling studio set for Total Refreshment Centre

Just Turning the Instruments Up: Surprise Chef Interview

Surprise Chef’s Lachlan Stuckey tells Stewart Gardiner about cinematic soul, naming their HQ after a prison and making a deeper second LP

The Twilite Tone – The Clearing (Stones Throw)

Enter The Twilite Tone’s instrumental hip-hop world with The Clearing, his wonderful debut long player on Stones Throw

The Burrell Connection – The Breaks That Strung the Camel Back EP (Optimo Music Digital Danceforce)

Glasgow breakbeat scientist The Burrell Connection delivers a digital-only concoction of open-minded broken techno cuts for Optimo Music

Surprise Chef – All News Is Good News (Mr Bongo)

Australian instrumentalists Surprise Chef’s marvellous debut LP All News Is Good News recalls mavericks such as David Axelrod, Beastie Boys and Money Mark

Sven Wunder – Wabi Sabi (Piano Piano)

Sven Wunder’s Wabi Sabi is a treasure trove of psychedelic breaks and beathead jams for crate diggers, library music aficionados and outsider funk fans

Rupa – Disco Jazz (Numero Group)

Remastered and reissued by Chicago’s Numero Group, Rupa’s 1982 Balearic odyssey revels in esoteric disco breaks, cosmic synths and Indian prog-funk grooves