700 Bliss: Live Wires

Surreal and enigmatic, San Francisco avant-garde collective The Residents have been redefining art with their radical output for over five decades. Blending operatic form with macabre humour, their new work is another experimental triumph

Stationed behind the decks, Rusty Egan made the Blitz club tick and was pivotal to the electronic and new romantic cause. With a definitive Blitz boxset incoming – curated by the man himself – he regales us with colourful tales of Kraftwerk, globetrotting and his late-career rebirth

Colombian producer Montañera makes deeply hypnotic and emotive music that fully draws you into her sonic world – all rich, expansive electronic textures and warming ambient hues

Incorporating house, dub, ambient and synthwave hues, Indian producer Sahej Bakshi – aka Dualist Inquiry – creates scintillating and gorgeously wonky sonic sketches

Taking aim at hypocrisy, inequality and apathy, the sharp tongue and infectious grooves of the Sleaford Mods album ‘Spare Ribs’ is a proper vitriolic soundtrack for our dystopian times