Top 100 Chart Placements
Updated 3 years ago
Barbara Nicole's Juicy Bubble EP reaches back to the raw mechanics of old-school house while keeping its feet firmly in the present. "Juicy Bubble" rides a thick, elastic bassline and clipped percussion, with Barbara Nicole's vocal woven into the groove in the tradition of early house records where a phrase could carry an entire track. "People Pleaser" takes the same economy into darker territory, letting drum programming, low-end and repetition build the tension rather than leaning on a conventional drop. There are flashes of Chicago and New York in the DNA, but the production never feels like pastiche—the references are absorbed rather than reproduced. Across both tracks, Barbara's ear for space, swing and arrangement does most of the talking.
Berlin-based producer Goner, aka Martin Maischein, makes his Electric Appliances debut with a four-track EP of deeply electronic explorations. Twirling between experimental IDM and electro, the release moves through intricate rhythms, shifting textures and restless machine funk. Detailed yet raw, futuristic yet deeply human, Goner's debut feels perfectly at home within the Electric Appliances universe. Out October 2026.
Freestyle Man continues the journey towards his forthcoming album Vorbeiflug with second single "PRO8E." Presented here in a slightly shorter version than the forthcoming album cut, "PRO8E" moves through hypnotic electronics, electro rhythms and the atmospheric, introspective sound that runs through the new Freestyle Man material. On the flip, "Dominant Dorm" takes the release into another corner of the same universe, adding a second piece of deep, leftfield machine music. Vorbeiflug, the full Freestyle Man album, follows on December 4, 2026.
Iranian producer Hamoon Nassaji has spent the past decade developing an electronic sound rooted in experimentation, detailed sound design and an open-ended approach to genre. Drawing from the foundations of Detroit techno and classic house, Hamoon takes familiar elements — machine-driven grooves, hypnotic rhythms and melodic futurism — and refracts them through a contemporary perspective. Rather than reproducing those influences as nostalgia, he transforms them into something post-modern and timeless, balancing references to electronic music's past with a distinctly personal vision of its future. With releases across Sum Over Histories, Surrrealism, Nightcolours, Eastern Standard and Moodmusic, Hamoon continues to build a catalogue that moves freely between deep, melodic and more exploratory forms, always guided by curiosity rather than convention.