Some lovely analog techno for you here, and you know how much we like that shit over here! The original is well worth checking out too – about and minimal and stripped down as techno gets these days – but it’s Sascha Dive’es version that really got our attention. Tense, sinister and mechanical, it’s core elements are softened by a beautifully delicate murmur late on; the full version is over 11 minutes long so this clips doesn’t really do it justice, but hopefully it’s tickled you enough to check out the full release, out this week on Minimood Extra.

This is the next release from one of our very favourite labels. Yep, that’s right… we’re well biased, but you’re going to have to get over it. Anyway, it’;s a three-track EP from French producer Elize who’d gone heavy on the RnB samples but without making the records sound proper sappy. Instead, they’re all deep, groovy and delicious. Plus, you can download one of the track – All These Ices - exclusively from XLR8R ahead of the official release on 25th March. Bosh.

Completely forgotten where I got this record but wanted to share it with you nevertheless. Kinda reminds of Paranoid London’s very popular and very ace ‘Paris Dub 1′ but without all the wailing. Out soon, or already, probably on a record label.

Some delightful, dubby techno that pushes all the right emotive buttons; the A-side from Alan Backdrop’s forthcoming Excursion A is sublime. Check the rest of the EP for a bit more experimental weirdness, but stay right here for dancefloor-aimed deepness. Out 18th Jan on Swiss Motoguzzi Records, this is the first of a two-part release (Excursion B, perhaps?), that will no doubt be as exemplary as the first.

Phenomenal record to kick us off in the new year; the original mix of Jacques Renault’s Back To You is fine, but it’s this remix from Paradis that’s soothing the pain of coming back to work. Here’s hoping it has the same effect on you…

Few artists have been as prolific as Kris Wadsworth over the last year or so; fewer still have produced such relentlessly excellent, confident music as he does. So where he’s found time to create an entire album’s worth of new material in amongst everything else is beyond me. But he has, and we’re all the happier for it. Life & Death is a stunning LP; brash, raw, analogue sounds and deep, dark sentiments. ‘Showtime’ is one of the many highlights and characterizes much of the programming on display, building and layering harsh percussion on top of heavy-as-fuck beats until it literally pounds you into submission. Sound horrible? It really isn’t. Due out 30th November on Get Physical with a sampler EP dropping a week or so before that.