The Cyclist’s track from the Dual Form compilation was a definite highlight, and this new track sounds even better. I’m guessing that the new 2xLP, a collaborative effort from offbeat outsiders Leaving Records and the unstoppable juggernaut Stones Throw, is going to be one of the better beat driven albums you will hear this year [...]

Limited edition Demdike Stare vinyl should be enough to get you all out of bed in the morning. This is #001 from the newly minted Test Pressings label (which looks to be an offshoot of Modern Love). Two new transmissions from the twisted, blackened hearts of Demdike Stare — you really never know what to expect, [...]

Please, please, please: more high-spec dub reissues, please. I don’t care if they are $34, I’ll buy them. Anything to replace these shitty, pressed-in-a-dirt-making-factory pressings that seem so prevalent. This is a 2xLP reissue of The Upsetters stone cold Kung Fu Meets the Dragon, an album recorded under the inspiration of finest ganja leaves and even [...]

We slept on these two releases so goddamned hard last year. Thankfully, the Vinyl Gods are good to us, and PAN has repressed both of Lee Gamble’s excellent albums from 2012. Dutch Tvashar Plumes is a brand new album from the man, while Diversions 1994-1996 is a an EP culled from various jungle mixtapes Lee [...]

How about some low swung beats from Athens, Greece? Thank you Panajiotis Vaxevanakis for alerting us to his record label, Lower Parts, and in particular this new vinyl EP from local duo Tendts. Tendts keep their approach consistent on the Slow Years EP, never veering far enough from their mid-tempo swing to pull your head out [...]

Actress returns in 2013 with the Silver Cloud 12″. Hopefully you have all had a chance to digest the masterstroke that was R.I.P by now. If not, these 3 tracks are a little more straightforward (well, at least by Mr. Cunninham’s standards), as in, I can discern a rhythm (I think). Anyhow, you shouldn’t have any [...]

Nosaj Thing returns! Lift up your weary heads and let your hearts fill with light. Or just, you know, check out these beats (Toro Y Moi over Nosaj Thing? Yes, please) and then go pick up a copy for $18 over at innovativeleisure.com. We need not say much else. Seriously. Tweet

The Boomkat Editions are still in their infancy, but I think we all knew this was going to be a highly respectable enterprise right from the beginning. Catalog number 002 sees a vinyl pressing for 1991′s High Tech High Life, previously released on Opal Tapes as, well, a tape. A somnambulistic sound-world constructed from vintage [...]

Here’s what we want you to do: take every techno record you own, break it in half, and throw it in the garbage. You won’t have any need of them after you pick up these 2012 releases from Lee Gamble. Of course we are being melodramatic, but this dude is so good that it literally [...]

Stones Throw and Leaving Records, brothers in spirit and now comrades in arms. Both labels have always been champions of left-field music, and now they’ve teamed up to bring you a compilation that brings you just that: outsider artists hand-picked by both labels, featuring brand new tracks for this release. Dual Form has been available on [...]