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Here are just some of the highlights of what we have in store for you this week.

Di Melo’s self-titled album is again available as a high-quality reissue - one of the holy grails of seventies Brazilian funk and a real killer record that sounds like nothing else out there. An incredible combination of tracks combining MPB, regional folk, soul and funk.

Music From Memory presents an excellent compilation of ambient explorations by British electronic pioneers MLO aka Peter Smith and Jon Tye including some unreleased pieces.

Leif returns with '9 Airs', a compelling and atmospheric nine tracker on AD93 that’s a stunning blend of ambient soundscapes and moving rhythms alongside enchanting melodies played with guitar, whistle and manipulated voices. Very clever and crafty sound design make this album a joy to the ear.

Ben Ufo follows up Four tet with the second part of the Melodies international Record Club mini compilation series, selecting tracks by pioneering American composer and multi-instrumentalist Laurie Spiegel (the droney computer generated proto-ambient techno composition ‘Drums’, off her 1980 experimental electronic album ‘The Expanding Universe’, originally recorded in the mid seventies) and Olof Dreijer’s infectious thirteen minute nineties UK techno-inspired ‘Echoes From Mamori’, that was originally composed for an exhibition called ‘THERE IS NO AUDIENCE’. Wonderful stuff throughout.

Detroit electro don DJ Stingray 313 is back with ‘Molecular Level Solutions’, a whopping four track EP for Micron Audio, gloriously displaying his trademark punishing one-of-a-kind futurist brand of post-Detroit electro. Mind-boggling material.

Legendary modern Detroit techno trailblazer Robert Hood relaunches his classic Monobox alter ego with a fierce and versatile four track EP aimed to destroy discerning dancefloors. Powerful stuff.

Just imagine stumbling upon an unheard integral live version of one of the most important albums in the history of recorded music - Coltrane’s four part 1965 magnum opus ‘A Love Supreme’. ‘Live in Seattle’ is just that.

Danish duo Bremer/McCowith with Jonathan Bremer aka Natten give us an album of contemplating jazz - a stunning listen!

A reissue of one of the crown jewels of South American jazz comes in the form of Viejas Raíces - ‘Proceso de Reorganización Nacional’, a deluxe reissue with sound direct from the master tapes and an accompanying 12-page booklet with previously unpublished pictures and bilingual liner notes.

Check out the new catchy soul 45 by Omar-S & SuperCoolWicked - so good!