Back catalogue: Experimental/Electronic

Review: Hailing from Brescia, Italy, brothers Michele and Simone Bornati are Twoonky, and in 2023 return to the fabulously varied and always on-point Macadam Mambo imprint for another immersive journey through electronica, alt-synthesised pop, chill out, downtempo and exotic, seductive sounds. Following on from 2019's Dezzo, which landed on the same label and achieved widespread acclaim, it's safe to say this second opus lives up to expectations. At once organic in feeling but high tech in production process, distorted vocals, analogue guitars, strange electronic effects, sax samples and more combine to create mutant rhythms and harmonies, avant-garde tones that pull us in further as things bore into the mind's ear, capturing the unique spirit of the production pair responsible, themselves highly influenced by the noises that have found a home at Spettro, a local club in their hometown known for exploratory bookings.

Review: Shanghai-based, Malaysian-born artist Tzusing offers us a future-facing and experimental techno record that also serves as a meditation on "China's complicated history of patriarchal heteronormativity, and how these archaic double standards continue to dominate the culture in pervasive, often invisible ways." It is packed with dancefloor highlights after a deep-thinking cultural monologue to start with. Hard and funky drums, twisted sonics, manic uptempo bangers and wheezing voices and downtempo rhythms all combine into something utterly unique.