Fizzarum Fusing pastoral, Russian folk-inspired melody with clicky, glitchy bits and lush ambience, Fizzarum from St. Petersburg are better listening than Autechre and at least as good as Murcof.

HipGnosis is Lab Beat's first yank signee, formerly based out of Chicago. With his deliciously clinical, wonky, bassy instrumental 'Scientific Illuminism (Is For Sissies)' HipGnosis embarks in a different direction, more usually collaborating with some remarkable vocalists.

Lewing makes music when he isn't making the internet.

Master Eveleigh is the multi-talented philosopher king of Lab Beat and writer of this sentence. Honours include a brief rumour that his music was made by the Twin.

Neverslept is a new alias by a renowned and experimental Bristol-based producer who has plied us with 3 tracks of wonky synth-funk / skweee.

Planes is the new Richard Bultitude (Point B, Frond). In new Lab Beat tradition, his style is a sophisticated plasticised synthfunk one, varying from the simultaneously playful and nostalgic, to a suggestion of Pierre Bastien’s seesawing clockwork and mechanical dulcimer. Squashy, wonk-hop.