Add to playlist: Deeply detailed techno music from Conna Haraway and the best new tracks of the week | music

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As autumn paints the British air, skies and seas gray and white, it’s time to color-match your soundtrack accordingly. Dub techno is my thing this time of year, chilled but with a crackle of heat at its heart. A pioneer of the early ’90s that mixed hardcore techno with gentler ambient vibes and offbeat nods to dub, it’s been a deep, slow current in dance culture ever since and still has stellar new advocates in the likes of Purelink, Cousin and Glasgow producer Conna Haraway (who also heads up the co:clear label and Index:Records).

Following his debut album Lusidiq in 2023, Haraway has released two impressive albums this year. Spatial Fix is ​​a 35-minute opening film in which Freon rides on a tropical ride over normally chilly techno music, before a gray veil of static drifts sweeps in over the rest, concluding with the brilliant dance floor of Patent.

Meanwhile, the three-track Shifted has been released on Short Span, a new label from Matthew Kent (much acclaimed for his mixtape label Blowing Up the Workshop in 2010) that has been pushing techno dub forward this year, releasing impressive LPs from Mammo and Sa Pa. Haraway’s entry into their discography begins with Redirect (a collaboration with fellow ambient techno traveler Xenia Reaper), which sounds like running your hand over quiet. Subtly textured surface of slate tiles. Then it’s on to Detach, a four-by-four track that’s the most club-ready of those listed here, followed by Duration, where the treble effects are kept in orbit by a clever syncopated beat. The subtle swing on Haraway’s beats, and the touch in his vocal design, build deep layers in this majestic, hazy music. Ben Beaumont Thomas

The best new songs of the week

Peaches – Not in your mouth, none of your business
“I cannot be crushed or belittled!” As they prepare their first album in a decade, due out next year, Peaches announces a brilliant statement of queer resistance over a fist-raising electro beat. BPT

This is Lorelei – the name of the band
Another perfectly converted pop gem from half of Water from Her Eyes: a crunchy 90-second bedroom anthem about the hurt of hurting someone by accident, full of boyish sentiment. L.S

Dexter at the newsagent – I told you
London R&B pop artist Charmaine Ayoko has a spring in her step on these sweet tunes, as she realizes she’s dating someone she doesn’t really love and brushes him off with breezy self-determination. BPT

Lala lala – is this faster?
“Hell is the day after the party,” Lily West sings of a dreamy, wistful indie-pop song that feels like the kind of moment that should last forever. L.S

Armand Hammer and Alchemist – Super Nintendo
Over a beautiful spaghetti synth melody that The Alchemist took from “God Knows Where,” Billy Woods meditates on the passage of time and Elucid delivers a stunning verse of surreal poetry, summing up its flow in his closing line: “He’s grown strange and wild, his style casting shadows like a sundial: ta-doo!” BPT

Juliana Barwick and Mary Lattimore – Melting Moon
Strap yourself into something heavy before listening: the combined beauty of two of the most celestial musicians in modern composition may lead to the sublime. L.S

Steve Hochelt – Dividua
Once a member of Karama kosmische With the Emeralds, Hauschildt continues his solo career with a beautiful new album called Aeropsia. Dividua is like an extended trance collapse, a cloud of shimmering sound and thunder threatening its edges. BPT

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