As previously mentioned on these here pages JR Seaton is a man of impeccable taste, he’s called JR for fcks sake!

For further evidence look no further than the new release on his Nocturnes imprint from Brassica who normally has the prefix ‘Sometime Dissident Artist’ attached to him in sentences on the internet. ”New Jam City” from this release is a glorious late night preserve that ripples throughout with analogue bliss.

Download: Brassica – Late Night Jam

go forth and purchase ye vinyl

It’s been a bit of a vintage year for electronic music, with old hands like Four Tet and Caribou, releasing standout albums, and newer names such as Walls, Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda, James Blake and Dam Mantle helping to reinvigorate a genre that has been much in need of a tonic.

The latest addition to 2010’s bumper crop comes Norfolk resident Luke Abbott who has already wowed our collective hearing with the brilliant Honeycomb EP for the Amazing Sounds imprint run by  Allez Allez. You missed it?

Well here’s a sonic reminder of it’s greatness in the shape of “One Hundred & Thrteen”.

Download: Luke Abbott – One Hundred & Thirteen

Additionally last week saw the release of Holkham Drones, Luke’s debut album for Border Community. Full of layered textures and sounds, tones and drones that build up and up to hypnotic effect, Abbott has produced an album that could happily soundtrack a night on the sofa just as it could light up braver DJ’s sets. Holkham Drones firmly seats Abbott at the top table, and as such more than deserving of a place in the Slutty Fringe Mix Series hall of fame.

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Yesterday’s supremely hung over journey back from a weekend of excellence at the Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival in Katowice was made all the more bearable by repeat listening to The Upsetters’ barmy Kung Fu Meets The Dragon album.

Amongst the album’s legion of fans are the Seven Inches of Love crew who included a brilliant of “Enter The Dragon’ on their recent 45 by Koosh and Slumber Jack. It’s the sweet uptempo skank of “Exit The Dragon” that proved most soothing yesterday.

Download: The Upsetters – Exit The Dragon

JimJam Graphics make a welcome return to these pages with this visually stunning interpretation of the thumping qualities of Post Human’s excellent Mobile Mast

In which Hot Flush duo Mount Kimbie add a steppy haziness to the quite sublime voice of Andreya Triana, whose debut album Lost Where I Belong successfully challenges the notion that the world needs another singer song writer like I need a hoof to the balls.

Download: Andreya Triana – A Town Called Obsolete (Mount Kimbie Remix)

Shunting aside the likes of Blondes and Teengirl Fantasy and occupying the space in our hearts for American excursions into the deeper and stranger echelons of house music is Night Plane.

For those of you yet to experience the aural delight of “Str8 2 Ur Heart” the New York producers forthcoming single a seven minute visit to the relevant soundcloud page is in order.

With Thisisnotanexit Recordings not releasing “Str8 2 Ur Heart” till October 4th there’s plenty of time to further acquaint yourself with Night Plane. London dwellers could for example attend the debut live show from Night Plane at CAMP on September 24th with some shoddy sounding support act called Shit Robot.

A quicker fix can be found in this subtle edit of Ariel Pink’s “Round & Round” by Night Plane which shears off the psychedelic fuzz of the mid section to focus on amplifying the hypnotic groove.

Download: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round & Round (Night Plane Disco Edit)

Fans of vinyl records can get their preorder on for the “Str8 2 Ur Heart 12″ and enjoy two months of sweaty palms here.

In which BBE offer up a slice of proto New Jack Swing ahead of the release of their excellent GI Disco compilation which is curated by Berlin DJ heroes Kalle Kuts and Daniel W. Best and contains an brilliant selection of Cold War era Funk, Soul, Disco and Boogie.

Download: Timex Social Club – Rumours

Now in its fifth year the Berlin Festival is alongside amazing techno and dirt cheap rents just another reason for our German friends to look all smug.

This years looks event (10th – 11th September) is looking quite spectacular with appearances from what appears to be half of hypedom from LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax and Hot Chip, through to Caribou, Fever Ray and Gonzales playing.

Now wouldn’t it be nice if someone had a pair of tickets to give away, what’s that? We do? How handy!

You’ll have to make your own way there and find somewhere to stay (unless you just dance for 48 hours solid or already live in Berlin, both perfectly feasible) but if you fancy giving it a shot, answer the question below, email us by noon Friday 27th and we’ll randomly pick one winner.

Q) Which big furry animal is the symbol of Berlin?

The new deeps sea video for “Hang Four” from Walls created by Morphologic Studios proves to be just as hypnotising as the music.

Silver Columns are one of my favourite acts of the moment. Their debut album ‘Yes, and Dance’ is a thing of rough hewn beauty, unpolished electro pop that is part Hot Chip, part Kraftwerk and part Bronski Beat.

If you haven’t you really should go and buy it ASAP.

We were lucky enough to have them down play with us last week and hearing Brow Beaten played live, and watching them perform with total joyous, reckless abandon was my highlight of the night (much better than having my wallet nicked anyway).

Anyway they’ve just made a new video for ‘Always On’ and I think you should check it out.

Oh yes, if you’re in East London on Friday night or fancy going out in East London on Friday night, then come join us as we’re throwing another HAUS party.

This time we’re taking our work back underground (literally) and we’ve got Kill Em All and Fabric resident Stopmakingme and the We Play Disco boys joining us on the decks at Concrete.

Last week one of our favourite PR people did a bad, bad thing, filling our inbox with the above nightmarish image, luckily today all is (almost) forgiven as it turns out the disgusting horror monkey belongs to Fever Ray, who has just covered Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street and put it up here.

Now normally we wouldn’t bother linking to the NME, it’s not like they’re all ‘hey look at what Slutty Fringe have done’ but I just wanted an excuse to share that picture in the hope that you too will see the little bastard out of the corner of your eye as you fall asleep.

Despite being burdened with a fairly pony name (’From The Cradle to the Rave’)  Shit Robot’s debut album has still been on heavy rotation on the imaginary hi-fi in the fictional Slutty Fringe offices.

It’s a great album, packed full of tasty collaborationss with various members of the extended DFA family, from Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor through to Nancy Whang and James Murphy, who sings on forthcoming single, and album opener, ‘Tuff Enuff’.

As an appetiser they’re giving away another track off the album, ‘I Found Love’ which personally I reckon is a bit like a tougher, more electro’fied take on the magisterial ‘Part 4′ off 45:33. Anyway what do I know, grab it from the link below and decide for yourselves.

Download: Shit Robot – I Found Love