Ash Koosha
Bold synaesthesia-driven fragmented compositions
Time Gane
Krautrock aficionado and one-time Stereolab man Tim Gane takes time off from his Cavern of Anti-Matter project to tell us what makes his creative juices bubble
Animal Collective ‘Painting With’ (Domino)
Poppiest outing yet from Maryland’s neo-psychedelic adventurers
Charles Murdoch ‘Point’ (Future Classic)
Hotly-tipped Australian dance producer turns in short, sweet curio of a debut outing
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Garden of Delete’ (Warp)
Experimental composer dials up the fear factor for his most ambitious album yet
Autre Ne Veut ‘Age of Transparency’ (Downtown)
Stateside singer/producer messes with convention and serves up an album for the narcissistic laptop era
Gary Numan: Numania!
Three nights of Gary Numan? Yes please. Three nights of Gary Numan performing first ‘Replicas’, then ‘The Pleasure Principle’, then Telekon’? Yes please with great big knobs on
Paul Oakenfold
Superstar DJ and remixer extraordinaire, Paul Oakenfold reveals that, among other things, his dad’s skiffle band proved more than influential on his formative years…
Faze Miyake ‘Faze Miyake’ (Rinse)
Hotly tipped producer reshapes grime template and turns in ice-cold debut
Letta
Grimy LA beatmaker exorcising demons in stunning greyscale