Following the delivery of his single ‘Stay Forever’ earlier this month, spellbinding British producer Catching Flies returns with the release of his new EP The Long Journey Home. Featuring the aforementioned lead single and two others (‘Grey Skies’ and ‘The Long Journey Home’) the instrumental EP is covered in warm thoughtful beats and affectional samples (including a cheekily incorporated Badu reference on ‘Long Journey’). Listen below.

As Chicago beat makers The-Drum prepare to release their debut album Contact, they release a celestial new trailer filled with hallucinogenic 3D graphics which chronicle each of their 11 new songs. Created and produced by The-Drum and lead designer Theodore Darst, the trailer also features works from Omega Point and Logan Owlbeemoth. Contact is released June 25th.

Nottingham based producer, Matt Cutler recently uploaded his forthcoming single ‘Airglow Fires’ to his Soundcloud which will soon be officially released on R & S Records.

Since Lone’s last foray into the nu-acid rave scene two years ago with ‘Galaxy Garden’ he’s kept a relatively low key appearance. Now though he’s back and by the sounds of things venturing into deeper, more jazzier forums of house – just peep his lastest tease. ‘Airglow Fires’ begins to build with breezy halo style synths, fitted with what sounds to be a lofty, albeit obscure homage to the late great J Dilla; It then transforms itself into an uninhabited and rippling dance number before returning to an ethereal conclusion. A nice one for the summer.

The 12″ vinyl is out on July 8th on R & S Records.

One of my favourite and most consistent beatmakers doing his thing over in Cali is giving away a bonus track off the album to thank everyone for copping ‘Waiting’. Having produced beats for the likes of Badu, Q- Tip, Joey Bada$$ and remixing for everyone under the sun he is always in high demand and listening to ‘When You Sleep’ it’s evident why. A Ronny Jordan-esque guitar complimenting a knocking downtempo beat with a summer vibe. This is one for those late night/early morn sessions. Enjoy and download here

NPR are now exclusively streaming the entire Flying Lotus third album ‘Until The Quiet Comes’. After releasing two classic LPs of modern electronica, leftfield soul and future beats with Los Angeles and Cosmogramma, how does Until The Quiet Comes fair? Find out, run forth and back it’s entire eighteen track glory here and watch the genius unravel itself. Released 1st October (UK) & 2nd October (USA) 2012 on Warp Records.

“Unreleased Jai Paul Beats. Have a quick listen as gonna b taken down by our manager in the morning.” – Two Inch Punch. And, modern internet folklore continues with this re-surfacing of a snippet Jai had on his MySpace a few years back. Ahead of his time even then, it features a familiar Feist inspiration source more recently popularised in 2010 by James Blake. Here it’s organic, punching Dilla’esque funk and hypnotic alarms all lightly dusted and taking you up, up, into the clouds. One can only imagine where this goes past the cruel 53 second cut-off. With ‘Jasmine’ already being a favourite of the year, how much longer the wait for new material Mr. Paul? Obsessed. Repeat x 100,000.

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Like his previous singles ‘We Can’t Be Friends’ & ‘Treehouse’, 18 year old producer Dream Koala once again brings to life a stirring production built on spiralling instrumentation, filled with tangible emotion and texture. The video features French model Mae Lapres and as it’s title suggests, addresses the topic of date rape. Press play and watch his vision unfold.

Ripped off the Mary Anne Hobbs show on XFM last night, this is the latest in a series of tantalising rips and snippets that have been surfacing. Still no details on the name of the upcoming EP or when it is dropping, but its nice to hear Gold Panda‘s form is very much on point. Warm, almost deep house vibes to start, signature bells and almost lazy horns taking this one through. Looking forward to a CDQ version and more from the man that bought us the seminal Lucky Shiner long player

The original edit’s video off the Phone Line EP from PB favourites Funkineven and Fatima, dropped on Eglo records this week. Here cometh the remix courtesy of Brighton based Dauwd who releases under the wonderful Pictures Music imprint. This stripped back refix drops the full vocals of the future-funk number and settles into an acid-house like roller. Complete with speaker bending bass, chopped and screwed vocal and synth pad stabs off the original, expect this to tear up a dance or two much like the former’s been. You can grab a free download off the player.

Lunice has teamed up with Montreal based fashion label Off the Hook and together are launching a new line called The Good Kids. To kick start and launch the collection they’ve both teamed for the video of Lunice’s new single ‘Believe That’. And as with most things he touches, the TNGHT producer comes hard with a apocalypse-ready epic that’s armed with monstrous synths, signature claps, hats and horns, culminating into what sounds like an exercise in controlled sonic aggression.