Current bobbins

Caldera - Dolphin Skii. Hat tip Eris Drew for the ig story on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kosRNeVN4Y

a few recent things I've been enjoying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF05y29GqnU

Midland - You Never Take Me Dancing - square synths and crisp percussion, feels like a better take on the lumpy kind of Daniel Avery/later-era Tiga sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1Qmx7LhQM

I.JORDAN & Planningtorock - TNB (Night Version) - the hard house revival continues, but with enough strangeness to feel more than a pastiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4upjGRiCu6g

James Curd - I Am One, I Am Many (Adelphi Music Factory Remix) - nu-disco goes big-room house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3a3fDaG4io

Tino - Work My Body - yes we've all heard many tracks that sound like 1989 with this exact vocal but this is really well-executed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4FFwYQVIGk

Matias Aguayo - El Camaron (DJ Babatr Remix) - big percussive propulsive energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFo1DV8YDY

Elkka - DJ Friendly - massive madness that's not pretending to be anything other than big dumb fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJx0XbA-pc
DAPHNI - Cloudy (Kelbin Remix)
(that's Dan Snaith)

https://rhyw.bandcamp.com/album/mister-melt

This is pretty cool, electro around 140 BPM that reminds me of early "Croydon techno" style dubstep like early Benga, Artwork, and Skream.

I have endless amounts of time for electro that blends with UK bass stuff.

Also I strongly suspect he used an AI model called Musika for the title track's hooks, I did the same thing on an EP last year and it sounds really familiar. Although mine was nowhere near as good.

https://grrlmusic.bandcamp.com/album/honeybee

This title track is absolutely bonkers, like UK Bass music with a heavy Justice/French electro feeling, abrasive like some of the more out there mainstream EDM but super interesting sound design.

https://loif.bandcamp.com/album/plunge

Deep aquatic electro that surprisingly really doesn't sound like Drexciya, honestly it's got a bit of an Aussie psy trance vibe to me, or maybe something like Midi Milliz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgwIz_BfaI

Tsundere Twintails - Butterflies

peak time tea time

love it

In one sense an E2-E4 bootleg defeats the point, but if I had dj gigs I would play this

https://omunit.bandcamp.com/track/e2-e4-edit

brand new from one of my favourite producers of late, Lindsey Wang aka Polygonia - twitchy techno with a good ear for colourful melody often of a very chinese flavour, all her stuff is gold tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VkI6p1q1A
Polygonia - Disha Shu

Catching Polygonia at The Cause on Saturday - hoping for a live set but flyer gives few clues

Oh I missed that post - how was she?

Well, annoyingly about 2 days before the night they cut off half the acts, which took away most people we wanted to see, including Tia Cousins and Jaye Ward… and stuck Pokygonia on at the start of the night, so we missed most of her set and the part we saw we were in the start-of-the-night zone so weren’t really focussing much. She was DJing rather than live and it seemed OK but the venue also had that annoying thing where the volume was low because they were building it up, so all in all no comment!

ah that's a pisser, too bad!

just done a quick raid on the apartment records back catalogue. the last thing they put out was the debut belacqua EP - some great wonky, wheels-just-about-to-fall-off techno, first track on it is this which is somewhere between the fall and the young gods 'did u miss me?':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHE7_rhAH00
Belacqua - Gunnish (Original Mix)

Yeah it’s a really fun track that one!

I like Apartment Records a lot. Kenny Hanlon is a very enjoyable DJ too if you ever get the chance to hear him play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hFd2eT5tow

Will Long: Too Much

Will Long... doing his thing

Some big tunes on this comp, but this one brings a smile to my face

https://clasicorecs.bandcamp.com/album/supercl-sico-vol-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8zZlgc6up0

I like the Francis Harris version on that Will Long record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W90cWPqTraQ

Lizz - 909 R1

Leads me a bit towards this as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXo_kV6N6I8

Mike Shannon - Hover Drive

charming and jaunty

I made some bobbins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxtVj9PddY

Carpainter remix of another track on the EP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLi-NKKlQ-w

Genius of Time - CS70 House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGbAC4W2Xxo

My friend Sakro just released this track called “walking into mirrors” probably one of my favorite bobbins he has done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxHQJ3tk3Q

oh wow, i heard that on bandcamp a couple of weeks ago and i stuck it on my wishlist to remind me to listen to the whole EP when it comes out. nice one!

I wont tell where the sample comes from because I doubt it’s cleared and I don’t want to get him in trouble but I’ll say it comes from one of the coolest children’s cartoons ever.

new bobbins i'm enjoying

https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/track/grand-slammin

https://perm-vac.bandcamp.com/track/no-haters-extended-version

https://johnheaven4ever.bandcamp.com/track/te-siento-gazzi-remix

bought this i love it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdjhwl8Oz0
parris - why can't rabbits wear cowboy boots

Some quality Larry Heard style house here

https://davemoloney.bandcamp.com/album/blackout-ep

yes, the Parris is a good one.

this parris ep is excellent

https://aromapitch.bandcamp.com/track/millennium-surfer

reminds me of pretty arpeggiated bobbins of the 00s, like balearic kompakt with heftier drums

brand new from one of my favourite producers of late, Lindsey Wang aka Polygonia - twitchy techno with a good ear for colourful melody often of a very chinese flavour, all her stuff is gold tbh

I had never heard of her and randomly came across her youtube channel the other day. She has a few production tips videos that are interesting if you're into that kind of thing. I like her music.

https://alwootton.bandcamp.com/album/river-songs

love this al wootton ep, great dubby psychedelic techno

Cosign on the Al Wootton EP.

https://kareemali19.bandcamp.com/album/new-worlds-new-horizons

Kareem Ali is both prolific and astonishingly excellent

wonderful, thanks!

yeah he's made some great stuff! need to do some catching up though

also some excellent news: I seem to recall someone posting an edit of e2-e4 a while back? well alex kassian announced his own version of it today with a mad professor dub on the flip, willing to bet it will be an absolute beauty...
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6JaYykr6L3

oh bandcamp link
https://alexkassian2.bandcamp.com/album/e2-e4

alex fast becoming my go-to guy if ever i need a hit of the goosebumps

yup, best mad professor mixes of recent times!

there was also a recent OM Unit take on E2-E4 - https://omunit.bandcamp.com/track/e2-e4-edit

Is the soundtrack to Challengers by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross current bobbins? I think it may be.

e.g. Challengers: Match Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNApAMcoAs

or The Signal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlaQfG9q-CE

the new Shinichi Atobe 12" on Demdike Stare's label is fabulous, especially this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh9YgSxWbM

I am listening to a new XDB mix and a new Chez Damier track, “Do It” is giving me warm, chunky, 90s vibes.

No YouTube clips up as yet, but it is at 1h25m on the mix.

NC4K do put out some quality music, new one from Ko Yang is no exception:

https://nocollar4kicks.bandcamp.com/album/nc4k0035-wonder-bcn-ep-incl-max-in-the-world-remix

Last track is my favourite, deep but swinging uk garage with some lovely romantic plucked strings, very gorgeous imo

Bit reminiscent of SFA's 'flowers' if you like that sort of thing

Finally heard one of the mad professor e2-e4 dubs today, holy god

already screaming for a repress and its not even out for another two weeks

both Mad Professor mixes are so good. He's on a bit of a roll just now. This one is very good too -

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/chief-commander-ebenezer-obey-his-eyi-yato-remixes-vinyl/1015252-01/

new man power ft. louisahhh - big room house w/ the "i trawl the megahertz" monologue on top of it, incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4seSoD6AU

i like it!