We're not going to lie; a week where we squeeze in mixes from our favourite J's of the electronic music world in Jimmy Edgar and Juju & Jordash is always gonna be seen as a good five days work thank you very much.

In between preparing those audio treats for your ears, our own lugholes had plenty of twelve inch shaped treats to occupy ourselves with, not least the techno variety. In its purest, wall shaking form we had the second installment of Mote Evolver's Paralell series arrive with Shifted and Samuli Kemppi at the helm, contributing some bleak and tracky and quirkier material respectively. Hotflush offered some more examples of the concrete Berghain ready material that the finely coiffured Sigha has to offer, though Abstractions I-IV does provide a certain warmth in sound at times. Providing some diversity in the genre was the sixth EP from Dutch label Field, finally arriving on vinyl with some fresh thinking techno smartness from Delta Funktionen, Rod, Mark Du Mosch and Robert Auser.

Holland's bustling label community had plenty more to offer this week; Delsin for example offered up Second Blood, an EP's worth of what to expect from Claro Intelecto's forthcoming new album for the label. The three tracks from the Mancunian techno stalwart demonstrated a return to the sounds that permeated his early releases and you should probably soak up the words of Richard Brophy to get a full idea of what to expect. Just as essential, Rush Hour dropped the first in a series of Burrell Brothers retrospectives which should see the New York production outfit escape their trappings amidst house nerds collections and break into the wider consciousness. The packaging on this one is absolutely lovely too!

On a house tip, the ever excellent Studio Barnhus returned with a third release from Shakarchi and Straneus that further demonstrated the duo's propensity for producing delightfully unusual styles of deep house in oblique and non-direct ways; Skylax uncovered some more Lost Cuts from underground Detroit hero Jason Grove for their Wax Classics offshoot; FXHE Boss Omar S presented the debut and deeply soulful sounds of Fit Distribution owner Aaron Siegel and Echovolt continued their LIES matching endeavours with an EP from Simoncino replete with a excellent Legowelt remix. Oh and do check the monstrous Cottam production on the Tru Thoughts Black Gold 3 12" which sounds like something Jamal Moss might record at his paranoia inducing best.

With the chairmen of the genre board still deep in conversation regarding the correct umbrella term for all the music that has bass in it should be called, we're just going to have to plough on and focus on the artists. At the traditional dubstep end of the spectrum was Goth Trad, clipping off two cuts from his recent album for Deep Medi and putting them either side of the Airbreaker twelve - expect monolithic, lurching dubstep that will put the frighteners on the more delicate souls. Representing how far times have progressed, Rohan of Randomer fame added Hemlock to his bristling CV with the devastatingly good Scruff Box fully proving his Numbers release was no one off and has been described by one member of the Juno Plus office like "being hit in the face with a bag of rocks". In between this Punch Drunk continued to excel at the West Country sound with a meaty two tracker from Tessela, matching the chunkiness of "Channel" with the unpredictable jerking swing of "D Jane".

In CD land, we saw the arrival of Trevor Jackson-curated compilation Metal Dance (check out the artwork for the lush vinyl version at the top of the page), which focused on the clanking, far-sighted world of the 1980s’ most revolutionary genres – namely industrial, post-punk and EBM. His two-disc selection touches on many different strands, from bleak synthesizer jams and crunchy punk-funk to twisted industrial disco, mutant electrofunk and almighty percussive workouts.