Electro
German dance duo The Unknown Cases made a mark in club dancefloors with their “afro-cosmic” debut single Masimbabele in 1983.
I’m so not the target audience for Canadian hyperpop singer 8485, but this song is such an earworm I can’t resist it.
DJ Seinfeld’s tune instantly evokes sunny afternoons in Ibiza, where you can imagine it seeping from the speakers of a beach bar as you sip on a cocktail.
Sophia Stel is a Canadian electronic artist who blends her emotional vocals with elements of hyper-pop and, on this mellow breakup tune, trip-hop.
This bass-heavy slice of minimal industrial techno by Maquina may be another first for me – a band from Lisbon.
Teenage reggae trio 15-16-17 recorded this lovers rock reggae version of a song penned by the Gibb brothers and featuring Dennis Brown and Dennis Bovell.
This is everything I like in electronica: a sinister undercurrent, a throbbing pulse, a driving rhythm, punctuated by modular flares and strange noises.
Anika has carved out a niche as a kind of modern-day Nico, bringing glacial cool to her dub-infused electro music.
It took me a while to work out which of David Boring and Jenny Rotten is the band name and which is the song title but I’ve worked it out now.