How do you follow up a year of delivering some of the best music on the planet? Find some thats even better. Crosstown Rebels do it again and discover a true talent in Amirali unleashing his longplayer ‘in Time’ as their first entry into 2012.

Once a distant message written in the stars, the wisdom of Soul Clap has been beamed down to Earth in the form of EFUNK - Everybody´s Freaky Under Natures Kingdom - their debut album on Wolf + Lamb.

Melt! Festival is back for 2012 and this year marks the events 15th birthday! The lineup continues to impress with artists including M83, Gossip, Maya Jane Coles, The Whitest Boy Alive, Richie Hawtin, Caribou, The Rapture, Justice and Ellen Allien amongst the first wave of acts to be annouced and lots more still to come. For a taster of what to expect take a look at the Melt 2012 Festival Trailer

After announcing their 2012 Easter Sunday party taking place in a new spectacular venue within their Manchester home, The Warehouse Project have sold out their tickets in record time. However the story doesn’t end there as in true Warehouse Project style, we can now reveal the details of an epic Friday night show, which will be the first WHP event taking place in the new venue with an army of the brightest dance music stars.

Now the dust has settled on last years hugely successful 10th birthday celebrations, secretsundaze are ready to annouce their first party of 2012 - an Easter special with guests Lawrence, Tevo Howard and October playing alongside residents Giles and James. Taking place on Easter Thursday at Village Underground, it's set to be another sell out and the only place to kick off the long Easter weekend.

Manuel Tur has had a remarkable few years since his debut LP 0201 was released on Freerange in 2009. Notching up several key releases under his own name as well as starting up the Ribn project with Langenberg and their Mildpitch label alongside Dplay, it’s clear that Manuel is intent on making his musical stamp on electronic music an indelible one.

Swiftly following on from the high quality first release on the new Seamless Deep imprint we bring you the Head Over Heels EP from from Turkey's highly regarded deep house producer Evren Ulusoy.

A bit of a departure here for Ooze's next release. Deep house and down-tempo artist Primitive Eskimo has reworked a classic ambient techno recording from 1996 by Detroit producer John Beltran. The original track 'Soft Summer' appeared on Beltran's classic 'Ten Days of Blue' album from the legendary Peacefrog stable. Consisting of a looped synthetic bleep line, Detroit-styled rhythmatic pulses and soothing abstract strings, this was Techno for the soul, warming from within.

Having recently released on top-drawer labels such as Veryverywrongindeed and Dojo, along with remixing the likes of UNKLE, King Roc and Tim Sheridan, Paul Lyman debuts on Black Sheep Trax with "Sub Harmonic".

This is the fourth time Hanna Haïs and Matthias Heilbronn collaborate, remember 'Parfum Chic', 'Doucement', 'Bel Amant'. These 3 singles were part of Hanna Haïs' 2005 album 'Rosanova'. Matthias Heilbronn is currently putting the finishing touches on another single from Hanna Haïs which will be released in March.

mulletover’s January Sale may have been the end to a lot of people’s New Years vows and resolutions, but it certainly marked the beginning of what is set to be something of a landmark year for the party born out of the East End’s warehouses and wastelands.

Seamless Soul returns hot on the heels of the fantastic Hennings Project release – Do You Believe It, with the new release from Beaten Soul.

At the beginning of the new year, Loco Records returns with its samplers series. The fifteenth edition will be composed of such artists and projects as Deepswell, Jon Sweetname, Darius Vaikas & Chris Minus, and Karol XVII & MB Valence with Topspin & Dmit Kitz's remix.

The celebrated Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian are welcomed back for a second Late Night Tales, the 27th in the esteemed compilation series. Belle and Sebastian formed in Glasgow in 1996 where the success of college recorded cult debut album ‘Tigermilk’ led the band to signing to Jeepster for ‘If You´re Feeling Sinister’; listed by Pitchfork at #14 in its top 100 albums of the 90s and is widely considered the band´s masterpiece. Following the critically acclaimed ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’ B&S signed with Rough Trade (UK) and Matador (US) and have released a further five albums, most recently ‘Belle And Sebastian Write About Love’ in 2010.