ON OUR RADAR

Welcome back to On Our Radar, a music feature where the team at Reform select their hottest tracks of the week. This week we explore the sounds of Industrial, Rave, Ambient, Rap and Jazz.

MOBBS

If industrial and noir were to have a baby, it would undoubtedly be MOBBS. Electric counter-force, brutalist sound mechanic and cyber magician (you name it) has just come out with a fourteen track album. If you’re into sound design, you don’t want to sleep on this one.

MURG

Fresh face of BBC Music Introducing West Yorkshire, Bradford-based Murg has just come out with a whopper of an EP, available on SoundCloud. Dark, dingey and dizzyingly addictive, Cosmic Dreams has us hooked from monotonous chord build-ups and punchy drum loops.

MELCHIOR PRODUCTIONS LTD

Bringing back this euphoric masterpiece from 2021. Thomas Melchior, the owner of the German label My King Is Light and alias to Melchoir Productions, serves up a ten-minute blend of brilliance. Emotive and minimal, perfect for the last song of a set.

CABALLERO

If you’re not familiar with European Rap, then get to know. Brussels-born rapper Caballero has just come out with his latest album, available on platforms such as Spotify.

SKYGAZE

The Broken Beat influence of London shines through songs like Night Heat, besides dreamlike synths and melodic bass melodies which reconstruct that grungy broken beat pattern we know and love. Here Skygaze merges the hard-hitting genres of electro with ethereal notations to produce an atmospheric phenomenon.

ALEX FIGUEIRA

Psychedelic Caribbean Jazz. It’s the genre we never knew was missing from our lives. Alex Figueira’s latest two-track EP is ridiculously catchy, groovy and enchanting. If music intoxication’s a thing, then we are drunk on steel drums, acoustic piano and staggered congo solos.