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Guess what, Detroit native Matthew Chicoine aka Recloose’s third album is out on Sonar Kollektiv, and no one on the blogosphere is talking about it according to hype machine.

Soulphiction aka Jackmate aka Michael Baumann has a new album out on the indisposable Berlin label Sonar Kollektiv. How they manage to be both prolific and quality is beyond me, but I have to say they’re holding the standard for cool electronic dance scene nowadays.

* New Thrill Parade
* Wait til the ice melts, compilation on Exponential
* Plunderphonics band Oh Astro
* Seattle singer-songwriter Andy Liotta

Latest additions : world renowned classical violinist Itzhak Perlman plays Klezmer , pianist Keith Jarrett on Improvisation, a b&w Nurse With Wound video, Fennesz “Caecilia”, Fred Firth & Camel Zekri improvising, Sunburned hand of the man – Live and a traditional Japanese dance version of Otemoyan which was covered by Andrew & Emiko.

I’ve first heard of Detroit based producer Maurice Herd aka Pirahnahead with an EP on Moodymann’s Mahogani Records and later on a vocal house track with singer Diviniti and his soulful deep house music has always managed to capture my attention.

I’m sure some of the die hard electroheads will find some songs on this list to be watered down electro, or electro-pop, but I’m pretty much proud of this post guys, this is probably my most dedicated post ever which I took time to remember tunes that cover most of the different electro schools. I was going to put a few electro classics online inspired by Der Zyklus, but then I pretty much delved into history and I couldn’t leave out any.