Afrodisiac Sound System
Afroheat #4

cktrl aka Bradley Miller is a key player in London’s pioneering musical underground, especially here on London's fast-rising label Touching Bass. cktrl plays heartfelt clarinet and saxophone-led soundscapes spurred on by "overpowering feelings of heartbreak" and a desire to push left-field Black music, and in doing so establishes himself as one to watch in the contemporary-classical music scene. One of the last OG DJs on NTS, he's also collaborated with Sampha, Sango and Dean Blunt. Gorgeous stuff.

Recorded with just a mic, Korg MS20 (synth), hang drum and field recorder, ‘Moon Phase Gardening’ is conceptually framed around how the lunar cycle affects plant growth. With stunning results, this record dissects indigenous South American and Afro-Latin rhythms into deep percussive workouts wrapped in electronic jilts and vocal fragments. A stunner release from Music From Memory's more left-field sibling label, Second Circle.

One of the definitive milestones in house music history (along with Fingers Inc’s ‘Another Side’, released one year earlier), Larry Heard’s seminal 1989 masterpiece ‘Amnesia’ is as blistering as ever. This album contains some of the best-ever versions of already classic Fingers material like ‘Can You Feel It’, ‘Washing Machine’, ‘Stars’ and ‘Mystery of Love’. A must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in electronic music!

The Maghreban 2016 house odyssey 'Brooklyn' is a breathtaking night flight with trance-inducing Caribbean percussion, possessed chants, sci-fi synths, wayward filter sweeps and analogue free jazz... all wrapped up in a weird and wonderful 8-minute microcosm. On the flip, 'The Carpenters' gets chopping straight away, with a motorik industrial dub eventually giving way to haunted sci-fi synths... Weird and wonderful heaviness for d-floor!