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Review: Detroit don Rick Wade pops up on Italian imprint Kinda Soul with a brace of deep house treats. Wade's "Loosingher" and "Drift" take up the A-Side, with the organ-filled jazzy undertones of the former only just shading the crisp thump of the latter. KSoul & Muteoscillator team up for "Funkin' Our Ass" on the flip, which serves as a master class in how to combine crisp percussion, warm chords and drowned out vocal samples into one hell of a groove.

Review: Launching with both serious and strange statements of intent: the location-unknown vinyl only E-Beamz imprint continues its wide-armed embrace of the deep with another boundary-smashing 12". US mystery man Tlim Shug paves the path with chugging Chi-town jack that wouldn't go amiss in a Farina set while Playstation (a Frenchman you may know as Maukook) lays down an Omni Trio flavoured jungle joint that's coated in pads so thick and breezy you can taste them. Delicious.

Review: DJ Plant Texture is this year's winner of 'production moniker of the year' (or at least he would be, should such an award actually exist). This 12" sees the Bari-based producer make his first appearance on DJ Haus' face-chewing, rave-inspired Unknown To The Unknown imprint. "I Don't Dance" is a typically full-throttle concoction, with the Italian producer making merry with mind-altering acid lines, snappy house rhythms and drowsy, ultra-deep chords. On the flip, Hungarian misfit Gnork dons his occasional "jungle techno" alias, DJ Shark, and delivers another typically spacey chunk of mid-90s D&B revivalism. It's rather fine, of course, and offers a refreshing alternative to the textured one's impressively manic A-side.

Review: Italy's Die Roh have come a long way since their first release for Vae Victis back in 2012 alongside Blawan, releasing plenty of militant house and techno with a rugged, analogue feel that sits just right with us. They're up on Axe Traxx this time for the label's second outing, and they're joined by newcomer Trudge. The former delivers a deep, lean deep house chugger in "Coming Out", relatively more docile than their previous material but it's still cut-throat enough to sound booming on a system and provoke a series of bodies to start moving thanks, in part, to its kinetic percussion rhythm and sublime keys. Trudge come through with "Give", a sludgy house monster with a brittle drum flex and banging toms built for destructive DJ use. On the flip of the wax plate, Die Roh are back with the funkier, more uplifting house bullet "Her First Time", but "Series 7" by Trudge is the killer on here, the shadiest house tune of them all that reminds us of Greg Beato at his very best. This is one hell of a tip - don't miss it.

Review: Ooh... Only 350 of these hand numbered doozies are being pressed with no digital versions and a three colour hand-stencilled sleeve. Talk about hot property! Naturally the content is exemplary. A classic east-meets-west scenario: Japan's 9DW shows off his slinky jazz boogie side and more mischievous Italo side with "Bobby's Jam" and "Funky Magician" respectively. Meanwhile on the B Pittsburgh live fusionists get loose with a Pat Metheny style jazz session ("Groovejam 1.6") and a freaky drum-supported bed of Rhodes and crisp clean guitars ("Rhododendron").