1. Convextion – Live in London, 2006
50-minutes of beautiful delays and chords from one of techno’s elusive masters. I always go all soft when those chimes bubble up after the first minute. Download it here (via The Illectronic).

2. Seefeel – Quique
Finally digging back into this recently reissued classic. Suddenly it’s 1997 again and I’m doing college radio at 3am and there’s some drunk guy on the phone telling me that this loopy seasick music is bringing him down and can’t I please please play some dance music for chrissake?

Seefeel – Plainsong
(from Quique. Too Pure, 1993)

3. DJ Koze – All the Time
Still makes me happy after being played to death last summer. I want to talk to people just like that vocal sample: “And hey, baby? . . . . all the time.”

4. Stars of the Lid – And the Refinement of the Decline
Picked up this double-disc a few weeks ago because of the marvelous packaging and general good word-of-mouth. Now it’s my default reading, sleeping, and brooding soundtrack.

5. H.O.S.H. & Stimming & Solomun – “Radar”
I bought the Trilogy EP because Solomun & Stimming were responsible for last year’s instant classic “Feuervogel,” whose unhinged carnival melody would get stuck in your head for days. This isn’t as catchy, but it works hard – “Radar” is a terrific cuts with rough scrapes, organs, and well-timed breaks that show their penchant for drama is still intact, even if they’re playing it safe. “Milkyway” is excellent but there’s a small piano bit, and I think pianos are intolerable in techno. Stay clear of “Ghostdog”.

6. Adultnapper – Maxwell’s Demon
Adultnapper is fast becoming one of my favorite artists and this sinister track features all of his best traits: pristine Villalobos-inspired percussion that gets plenty of space before the bone-rattling synths take over and spread out into epic territory.

7. Lee Curtis – Taint
Spooky morphing minimal 12″ with an edge of menace (see “Trip to the Woodshed”)

8. Maurizio
Last week it was Basic Channel, and this week I’m rediscovering the brilliance of the Maurizio offshoot. Every time I play the M series, I’m left speechless and shocked that these guys haven’t been thrown tickertape parades, knighted, and roundly canonized for making the best music in the past twenty years.

Maurizio – M6(b)
(from M-6, 1996)
I think this track was ripped from one of my distressed 12″s or lost CDs a few years ago. It’s hard to keep track of 20-odd tracks named “M”. Surprisingly, Maurizio and Basic Channel have made their back catalogue available through Beatport; I expected they would only release, say, three tracks on a cassette tape that is only available in some unknown Siberian outpost (remember those great aluminum Chain Reaction cases that would cause your CD to self-destruct?) – but happily, you can buy yourself some Maurizio tracks here.