The Best Electronic Music of October 2024

• Parallelograms – Phylum [Melodykrafter]

Melodykrafter is a Mexican label focused on music from Latin American producers and one of the few Mexican labels that have started to release their music in vinyl format.

The record contains five tracks produced by Erik, one of the label’s founders. Expect some downtempo, ambient-techno and progressive house music with influences from the golden era of the 90s and early 00s.

• Picture – Soft Rock [Help Recordings]

Second record of the year by Picture, better known as DJ Central. It contains tracks that were previously released on his 2022 Untitled cassette but now in vinyl format.

Two totally dancefloor weapons and a beautiful ambient music track <3

https://www.discogs.com/release/31326316-Picture-Soft-Rock

• DJ Sotofett – WANIA mk1 [Wania]

Energy driven Dub-Techno, overtonal & percussive Acid, pumping bassline-riding power Dubs and Deep Techno.

https://www.discogs.com/release/31744094-DJ-Sotofett-WANIA-mk1

• Christopher Rau – Better Times [Smallville Records]

Smallville purveyor of the deep Christopher Rau with his third long player for the label, “Better Times“. Timeless crispy house music to stay forever.

• Fantastic Man – The Axis of People [Axis Of People]

The Axis of People EP, on new label, Axis of People. FM is back with four club cuts, conjured up over the last year, that are so thoroughly road-tested, they practically come with their own mileage report.

• Benjamin Fröhlich – The Love Dilemma Remixes Vol. 1 [Permanent Vacation]

A new remix for the sunset of your parties by Soos!

• Floorplan – The Master’s Plan [Classic]

Robert and Lyric Hood deliver their fourth studio album ‘The Masters Plan’, releasing on Luke Solomon’s Classic Music Company imprint. Spanning 18 crafted house and techno tracks, Robert and Lyric playfully juxtapose the light and dark of their signature sound, navigating a spectrum of genres and styles on this highly anticipated body of work.

• Work The Peripherals – Silhouettes [The Space Between Us]

Marking our 15th release is the Silhouettes EP, the long-awaited debut of local Naarm producer WTP to The Space Between Us. We’re thrilled that through these four timeless tracks, the label finds a place within the incredible catalogue of releases from WTP.

• Mammo – Slows The Pace And Goes Farther [Puddlerunner]

Yes! another gem by one of our favorite producers.  Three tracks that range from ambient to dub techno at its best.

• Fergus Jones – Ephemera [Numbers.]

Ephemera is the debut album by Fergus Jones, the artist formerly known as Perko, an Edinburgh-born, Copenhagen-based producer, DJ and founder of the FELT record label. The nine-track release is out now.

Ephemera was developed with collaborative energy as the creative priority, produced by Jones alongside an extensive list of like-minded musicians, lyricists and vocalists including Huerco S, James K, Koreless, Birthmark, ELDON and Withdrawn of Bristol’s Cold Light crew, Laila Sakini and Lia T. The album embodies Jones’ inner journey as he ranges further than ever sonically and emotionally, emphasising instinct, intensity, tactility and rapture.