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Man Duo HHH Orbit KAYA KAYA. CD/DL/LP Everyone’s favourite Helsinki tram driverturned-psych/synth space cadet, Jaakko Eino Kalevi teams up with fellow Finn Sami Toroi for an album of miasmic, trippy electro-pop, heavy krautrock rhythms and sinuous digital funk. There’s a sultry, sensual theme running through Orbit, exemplified by the sundrenched purple pop of The Middle (featuring Canadian vocalist Sean Nicholas Savage). Daphni HHH Fabriclive 93 FABRIC. CD/DL/LP For Fabriclive’s 93rd edition, the London electronica hub has allowed Dan ‘Caribou’ Snaith to release what amounts to the new artist album from Daphni – the Canadian’s more dancefloororiented alter-ego. Save for a couple of re-edits, this deeply satisfying blend of emotional techno, Afro rhythms and stripped back house comprises all Daphni originals, and is his first full-length release under the name since Jiaolong in 2012. Hyde & Herbert HHHH Fatherland DOGBOY/CAROLINE INTERNATIONAL. CD/DL/LP After collecting audio interviews for a play about fatherhood he was co-scripting, techno’s poet laureate Karl Hyde turned to sonic radical Matthew Herbert for its score. The remembered folly of childhood – bouncing balls, car keys – were turned into percussive elements or harmonic devices, resulting in musical stories that are often unsettling but hugely moving. Fabrizio Rat HHH The Pianist BLACK STROBE. CD/DL/LP Fusing jarring, Nils Frahm-style prepared piano with a Roland 303 and 909, Parisbased Italian Fabrizio Rat blends avant-classical, acid house and Detroit techno. The album’s apogee, Pollini (all eight tracks are named after acclaimed concert pianists), is a barrelling, six-furlong 130bpm sprint, replete with maniacal acid squiggle, hammering piano strings and muscular kick drums. SW