Dancehall feeling> After Skepta was going on about watching Ninjaman Youtube clips, I determined to check him out properly, rather than just bits and pieces. On Move From Here from 1990, he sounds awesome. He's ridiculously off-key and loose melodically, but so lean it's hard as nails. The rhythms are virtually just a drum machine and couple of synths plugged into mixing desk. But this kind of directness, like Gussie Clarke's Hardcore Ragga is what either makes or breaks the MC, its so stiff they have to take its punches.

Tingling feelings > The Mole's "As High As The Sky". After recently digesting Theo Parrish anew, this live-feeling ouse album strikes a similar chord in terms of hypnotic dance music, almost the disco equivalent of motorik. This is considerably simpler than Parrish (a Michael Rother solo album rather than Neu! 2, you could argue), but the instrumental parts are deliciously inconsequential and interchangeable, its almost like a mix and match of luminous pastel colours. Almost edibly lovely.

Feeling > The Hub Boundary Layer
Surely one of the reissues of the year this, a bunch of Bay Area tech geeks in the 80s jerry rigging previously incompatible computers together and creating ad hoc.... improvisations? Compositions? Experiments? Who knows what they are. But the jagged, beepy, often funny, frequently weird and always unpredictable music is more fun than an army of laptoppers.

Probably feeling > Rhadoo "Dor Mit Oru" 2x12"
Really loved this to start with, more of Cadenza's sculpted minimal techno explorations. Really plastic-y, sculpted textures which seem to almost get stuck between your gums they're so chewy. Reviews haven't been all that positive, though, perhaps it's all getting too considered and discretely arranged to be proper banging, innit. But the thing it reminds me of most is DJ Krust's 12"s like Slow Motion and Genetic Manipulation, super elongated drum 'n' melody scapes which suggest nothing so much as the fabric of spacetime being distorted.

Really feeling > Der Zyklus "Cherenkov-Radiation" 12"
Slammingly immediate tracks from Gerald Donald, aka Dopplereffekt. Echo-y tech electro which sounds like its recorded in a gasometer with a self-destruct timer counting down.