DERAM

One of the biggest surprises about this year's BBC Sound Of longlist was the absence from it of genre-busting Liverpudlian...

RINSE

Enigmatic 20-year-old producer Route 94 has been causing a stir over the past year with a clutch of sub-heavy house...

Ministry of Sound Recordings

The success of Martin Garrix's Animals and Showtek's Booyah last year suggests a widening gap in the mainstream market for harder-edged...

Warner Bros. Records

Indie hit ahoy: the debut single from Brooklyn four-piece Bear Hands feels like an alternative smash. Featured as a Next Hype...

3 Beat Productions

2013 was a big year for breakthrough bashment star Stylo G, highlights including a Top 20 placing for RotD-featured Soundbwoy, a...

Independent/EMI (Australia) / Just Music (South Africa) / Independent/AWAL (RoW)

Depressing as it is even to hear the words 'summer' and 'anthem' in such close proximity at this time of...

Harvest / Capitol

It was the joyous, ELO-tastic harmonies that immediately caught our ear on 70s-inspired pop smash Glowing late last year, an...

Atlantic Records UK

A more or less permanent fixture in our own Ones To Watch section of the magazine ever since the sublime,...

RAM / Virgin EMI

Wilkinson's knack for delivering massive drum and bass bangers straight from the club into the mainstream is in evidence again on Too...

3 Beat Productions

You may already know club hit Who, a collaboration between German producer Tujamo and house duo Plastik Funk that's been around...

RCA

Not to get all 'preferred their earlier stuff' on you, but we've been trying to feature Ian Axel and Chad...

Weird World

Anyone at Eurosonic would do well to check out Finnish cult hero (and part-time tram driver) Jaakko Eino Kalevi tonight at Forum...

Capitol

A second outing for the sunny post-pop vibes of Games by Munich five-piece Claire, whom we featured as an unsigned...

Sign Of The Times / Epic

It's a brave man that takes on Cassie's unimprovably cool Me & You, but Le Youth's C O O L found myriad new layers...

Black Butter / Virgin EMI

Combining the talents of two of 2014's hottest new acts, Gorgon City and MNEK team up for their smash new...

Neon Gold (this release)

The fantastic Dreams has a hook perfect for a big summer sync, courtesy of hot New York band Wet. "Bring...

37 Adventures

The transcendent Right Thing illuminates Rosie Lowe as one of the most exciting artists to arrive in 2014. Her soulful...

Positiva/Virgin EMI Records

Swedish House Mafia's Axwell teams up with rising electro-house duo Sick Individuals and Californian vocalist Taylr Renee on I Am, a Beatport-topping...

Decca

No one who is familiar with Tom The Lion's MO will be the tiniest bit surprised he has quietly delivered...

Ministry of Sound Recordings

Lord knows it's about time the UK had a moombahton number one, and having scored the first ever dubstep and...