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.

Giving Brandy’s classic Best Friend a serious re-working, Smirkface, hailing from the US brings the tune into a new bubbling realm. Some nice click action coupled with tunnelly chords and synths make this a true gem. Currently the only offering from the young man on the interweb, keep eyes peeled for future releases

‘Lightbulbs’ comes courtesy of London based creatives Cronos and Lander Khadel. Like alot of good music being made this doesn’t fall neatly into one genre, but intelligently borrows and blends. Cronos’ ear for arrangement and production’s apparent when the intro comes on all laid back, yet intense, mirrored in the video by a figure carrying a rug he’s about to ‘cut up’. It sets the scene as a skilfully worked Angie Stone sample grabs attention for the screwed down Lander verse. The track draws on a lot of what’s potent now, codeine vocals and hydro beats, but they manage a fresh britified balance with it.

‘Slow Memory’ by London based producer Becoming Real is a great example of what happens when the worlds of experimental Electronica collide with that of Folk. On this track Alice Sunless 97′s vocals waft over Real’s glitchy drum patterns and arpeggiated oriental chords like an eerie lullaby full of spectral harmonies. The ‘Blair Witch’ inspired video transports you further into the other worldly space the pair have created on this collaboration.

‘Slow Memory’ is taken off Becoming Real’s mini-album Solar Dreams/Neon Decay and will be released on 17th September via Not Even/Moshi Moshi.

Hats off to Tri Angle Records’ ethos: “Pop is religion. Overground is underground.” They’ve had some brilliant acts that coalesce with the both sides of the equilibrium – experimental music taking inspiration in Pop and vice-versa from Clammy Clams to AlunaGeorge. Another of theirs that’s had a grip on the headphones since last year’s stunning work With U, is Holy Other, returning last month with the teary eyed beauty of track ‘Love Some1′.

Having kept a cult fanbase engaged, the esoteric Other really delivers with this hyper-emotional second long player. It re-iterates his sound that takes a European sense of urbanity and melts it into one misty city. Aching, amplified layers of drone overpowering the spirit, as downtempo time signatures are thrown into turmoil making you want to, essentially, be ‘Held’. It’s 110% night bus. ‘Inpouring’, ‘U Now’ and ‘In Difference’ are corkers aswell. Get in the zone for 36 minutes and let it help you find your way out again #noseasonalaffectivedisorder. Out 27th of August.

Toro Y Moi  takes a step back and lets the alter ego Les Sins come forward. The ’09 born,  party fuelled acquaintance,  seems more adamant to bring blissful subs, twinkling sun kissed hi hats and straight dancefloor vibes to your ear drums, rather than his usual Indie Pop palette.

‘Fetch’ surges along the new route perfectly offering up electronic dreams and pump fisting synth stabs throughout. Alongside that, is the B side chugger – ‘Taken’, which is also part of the package that is due to be released soon on Caribou’s rising Jiaolong label, which sounds like another track that was most likely influenced by the label owner himself. Both are a clear departure from what we are used to from Chaz Brunswick nee Toro Y Moi, but more than happy to receive more.

This is Dorian Concept‘s rework of Austrian producer Cid Rim’s ’Draw’, a track taken from his excellent debut Micro Album. Where Cid Rim’s ultra slick, yet slightly more reserved original takes its time, Dorian Concept’s ode is a skittish, jittering, electro funk inspired re-fix. Steadily building to a crescendo of crushed drums and spiralling vocal samples. Brash and hasty in it’s deliver, it gets to the point and insists on raising the stakes even further with a bout of surging keyboard riffs.

If you haven’t already go get Cid Rim’s excellent  Micro Album  which is available now on Lucky Me, who continue to add to their already impressive roster.

With Ryan Hemsworth’s profile increasing off the back of a post-wavey (gosh, are we there already?) Max B citation ‘Charly Wingate’ and a slew of decent remixes this year, his flip of just-signed RCA R&B chica Tinashe wipes the floor and electric slides into sexier plains. His oft-employed combination sub-Saharan fills and 808 cricketing often strike the middle ground between equatorial and plain out there. There’s something intriguing about the weird Hip-Hop amalgam displayed on his solo stuff, in some ways reminding of how Clams Casino really struck gold by being some avant garde by-product of, say, The Heatmakerz. Keep an eye out.

How To Dress Well bravely flips Janet Jackson’s 1993 classic ‘Again’ into an echoey gospel, composed of dispersed silence and a fragile piano. As one of the most gifted experimenters in contemporary R&B and like any true artist, HTDW seems to be continually pushing his talents into unexplored territories. Excitedly anticipating that forthcoming album Total Loss, due out September 17th. Pre-order here.

Ladies & gents, it’s that moment… the forthcoming collaboration between two behemoths of experimental, soulful sound. One a scientist, one a sorceress, ‘See Thru To U’ takes both artists love of progressive Jazz and indulges it to their hearts content. The arrangement’s spectacular as are the Thundercat riffs sliding between glaciers of percussion, tribal thundering and layers of stacked instrumentation and vocals. It all feels like it’s been carved out of some lucid DMT trip and brought back to Earth with uncompromising brilliance.

Until The Silence Comes? The silence has been broken. October 2nd is the date. Meanwhile, the Fly-Lo and Badu collabo LP is on hold, but fingers crossed, could materialize in future.