American lo-fi house champion Grant is back with the fourth edition of his eponymous imprint. There's a familiar anthemic loop accompanying the moody acid groove of "Spiritual Path". The beats get broken up next, but the track is still in spiritually emotive fashion on the lush "Mediate" while the flipside features more soulful and reflective moments for late night dancefloors. In particular, the sensual "The Other Man" or the ultra deep and dub inflected mood lighting of "Capital Road" somewhat reminiscent of his tremendous work on last year's No Lights EP for Lobster Theremin - one of last year's favourites! Following up his brilliant Perception LP last year on Duke's Distribution, Grant retains his winning streak.

BeachFreaks Records co-founder Charles Bals is a man who knows about records - and obscure European ones at that. Club Meduse, his first compilation for Spacetalk (a label with a track record for producing these kinds of killer, crate-digging comps), is loosely designed as the soundtrack to life around a mythical (IE imaginary) Cote D'Azure resort. Musically, it gathers together the kind of hazy, soft-focus and life-affirming cuts that you would have heard at resort discos in the mid-to-late 1980s. Suffice to say that Bals' selections tend towards the rare, magical and undeniably Balearic, from the glassy-eyed, cascading jazz-funk of the Keyboys and loved-up post-boogie sweetness of Gemini's "Take a Chance", to the sparkling Euro-electro of Miss' "Hip Hop" and pitched-down drum machine chug of Gigi Flag's "Nymphomaniac (Instrumental)". Essential.

Serious jazz-funk collectors have long known about the stargazing charms of Senora's self-titled 1981 debut album, with copies of the rare German album changing hands for serious sums of money online. Happily, Growing Bin has decided to reissue it, allowing a whole new generation to discover its eccentric but hugely entertaining charms. Across the album's ten tracks you'd find sparkling, synthesizer-heavy jazz-funk dancefloor workouts, samba-infused summer shufflers, heart-aching piano jazz pieces, slick and sensual laidback groovers and - in the case of the obscure band's signature tune, "Senora" - wild and thrilling jazz-rock heaviness. In other words, it's an overlooked classic that's well worth a place in your record collection.

Albeit Records launches with something rather special: an EP crammed full of vintage, previously unheard archive material from mysterious underground outfit Activ Analog. The four cuts on offer were all recorded in one take between 1999 and 2000, using an impressive range of mostly analogue machines. First up you'll find a chunk of breezy, electric piano-sporting warmth rich in undulating bass and snappy drum machine beats, quickly followed by a more driving chunk of minor key Motor City futurism. Turn to the B-side for another driving - if deeper - techno floorfiller blessed with rock solid kick-drums and elongated organ chords, before "Outro" brings the curtain down via waves of spacey ambient chords and a restless analogue bassline.

Six years ago, Humberto "Andres" Hernandez donned the A Drummer From Detroit alias for an EP of heavily percussive workouts on Fit Sound. Here he finally offers up a follow-up, once again combining his own recorded drums and hand percussion with carefully selected samples. First up is "Part 3", a jazzy and groovy affair where undulating organ riffs and subtle samples buzz around a layered drum groove. "Part 4" is deeper, slightly looser and arguably more musically layered, with Hernandez's live drums once again to the fore, while "Part 5"- arguably the most percussively intense of the three tracks - sees the producer make great use of jazzy synths, carnival style whistles and eyes-closed vocal samples.

"Emotional Response continues the second SchleiBen series with a pan-ocean exploration of meditative spiritualism meets psychedelic ambience. The 2nd of the 4 part series expands with the inclusive offerings from LA's Matthewdavid and London's HOLOVR for a cyclical journey of altered consciousness against lush 303-tinged harmonics. First, Matthewdavid provides a 20-minute live recording to showcase his "meditation with music". Beat maker, producer, label owner, radio host and now new age explorer, Matthew David McQueen has been a fixture of the City Of Angles music scene for over a decade. However, it was his association with Tropical Hi-Fi (SchleiBen 3) that first attracted the label's attention to dig deeper in to his developing sound. As Leaving Records founder he has a prominent role is shaping the cities sound that has seen him work with Sun Araw, Laraaji and a myriad of the label's roster. Here performing in most his recent incarnation, Matthewdavid's Mindflight - having just released the wonderful Trust The Guide And Glide double album opus - is Sonos. Recorded live at Dublab Radio's "Tonalism" event at Sonos Studios, the piece utilises Critter & Guitari Pocket Piano, Hulusi Flute and Ableton Live to create movement, fade and sequence. A looping realisation, music inside music, thresholds expanded, connecting the centre, a place, origin, a soul that allows a devout expression to exude and find mediation in sound. This is music to get lost and at the same, get found in. Set against these endless arp-loops, is HOLOVR, raising a more focused consciousness that is a perfect counterpoint. Having already appeared on the label via his recent, deep, eloquent remix of Sad City, as well as releasing with label favourites Opal Tapes, Further Records and Firecracker, the desire to work with another uniquely individual producer has been in place for several years. Recorded using only hardware; 303 lines, soft pads, arpeggio synths and Roland percussion capture a snapshot of time in a natural, in-the-moment negotiation of these different elements, giving trademark, open, drifting loops that let the listener within, while texture and tone engage, activating harmonic resonances almost as a drone. This progressive disintegration, tuning in and dropping out of musical spheres envelops while hinting at aphex influences and (artificial) intelligence. SchleiBen shifts, expanding, growing, pulsating. Keep the faith and (un)listen. "

In the early 1980s, boogie chanteuse June Evans released a handful of singles on tiny, mostly New Jersey-based labels. Three decades on, those impossible-to-find gems are amongst the most sought-after synth-soul and electro-boogie records around. You'll find a couple of those singles - most notably the brilliant "If You Want My Loving", which appears in both vocal and instrumental variations - on this belated debut album, which is mostly made up of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1981 and '83. While there are a few synth-heavy club jams scattered throughout (see the sparkling '80s soul goodness of "Like It Or Not", which was produced by D-Train's Hubert Eaves III), it's an altogether jazzier and more soul-fired set than you'd perhaps expect. Crucially, though, the quality threshold remains impressively high throughout.

More than a year after the release of their debut album Mandar is back with an absolute stellar EP! Two full sided loud cuts of pure club madness! 'String Theory' has summer vibes written all over it with strings reminiscent of Pepe Bradocks classic sunset anthem 'Deep Burnt'. The flipside 'Poisoned Words' is a sexy groover with a woman whispering poisonous words. Mandar is raising the bar with this EP and shows that it's all about quality over quantity. Must buy!