Adrian Sherwood: "Semistoned"

If your favorite form of electronic music has a strong dub influence in it, you've got Adrian Sherwood to thank. With his On-U Sound Records in the 80's he and a plethora of handpicked luminaries were largely responsible for bringing dub into the house/techno world. Now it's 2012 and, strangely enough, he's peddling material that sounds like neither era, but rather somewhere between those two bookends: "Semistoned" is ripped fresh out of 1992, with its minimalist, filthy slur of a synthline and a vintage breakbeat from back before they decided "drum & bass" was less racist than "jungle".

The Recovery Time EP is due November 26 on On-U Sound.

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DJ Spookz: "Turntabla" [Morcee remix]

The genre regrettably dubbed "electronica" has morphed greatly over the years, but one thing that's largely been lost is the buoyant catchiness of those old rave-era tracks. DJ Spookz is apparently as nostalgic for the old sounds as we are, and it doesn't hurt that Morcee updates his "Turntabla" banger with a bit of that UK bass flavor, UK bass being one of the few modern electronic subsets to bring back that carnivalesque funk.

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DJ Clap: "Come On"

That's that busy shit right there. Far from being a blur of white noise, however, Phoenix's own DJ Clap maintains a steady, recognizable beat throughout, merely changing the sounds representing said beat every four bars or so. You'll really want to be around for that break at the 2:20 mark.

This is straight up one of the most exciting electronic releases you're gonna hear in 2012.

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Airhead: "Black Ink"

Airhead implies something flighty and inane, but homeboy's "Black Ink" is a focused blend of old school IDM glitch and modernist post-dubstep. Fuck, is it possible to come up with descriptors without sounding like a pretentious douchebag? Probably, but not if you are in fact a pretentious dbag like yours truly (that's post-douchebag if you're nasty).

Just listen to the fucking joint already.

Physical Therapy: "Drone On" [feat. Jamie Krasner]

Most producers, if given the melancholy, ethereal vocals of Jamie Krasner to work with, would have put her over top a bed of standard, narco-trip hop beats and called it a day. Physical Therapy turns that idea on its head, even mocking the obvious with a contradictory song title that he has no intention of living up to: "Drone On" is an incendiary dance floor stomp filled with skittering breakbeats and old school D&B flavor.

The Safety Net EP is supposedly already out on Hippos in Tanks, but their shop page still lists it as a pre-order.

Elite Gymnastics: "Life/Trap"

Indecision runs rampant through Minneapolis duo Elite Gymnastic's spastic "Life/Trap", the propulsive, skittery drums wholly at adds with the purp swigging vocals and ambient, beat-resistant production. This was originally recorded for 2011's Ruin 1 & 2 but is just now being released... on Ruin 4. At least you won't have to worry about iTunes screwing up the chronology of your E.G. collection.

Willy Moon: "Oh Yeah" [Sinden Remix]

One thing that gets lost in the era of 2.5-minute, truncated techno tracks - or the polar opposite: eight minute spacey, blissed out ambiance with beats - is the appreciation for the old school breakdown. On a Soundcloud post you can often tell a breakdown is coming by a certain bell curve in the middle of the waveform map. So on that basis alone you know that three fifths of the way through Sinden's remix of Willy Moon's "Oh Yeah" things are about to get epic.

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize: "Roland Rat" / "Brain Storm"

Apparently these collaborations between Erol Alkan and Boys Noize are an annual meeting of the minds, at least they have been for the past three years. Both the a- and b-side from their latest single are both just sickeningly fantastic, the sort of artistic checks and balances that very rarely add up to the more than the sum of the collaborators' parts. Nothing atmospheric or trippy about either of these cuts, just straight skullfuck floor fillers.
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Stylus Rex: "Blatant Elephant"

Damn, where are the easily accessible artist bios/discogs when you're in a lazyfuck mood?  All I've been able to dig up about Stylus Rex is that it's some guy named Greg Marshall and he's on Ground Level Breaks, but ELEPHANTS ON TRAMPOLINES!  All you need to know.

If anyone knows what to call this shit leave it in the comments.  For now it's just "breakbeat".