Raiza Biza is an emcee originally from Rwanda who immigrated to New Zealand with a couple of albums under his belt. REMI is an emcee from Melbourne who has been releasing music for about the same amount of time. When the two decided to pair up for an EP, they not only combined their talents, but they also enlisted one of the best producers in the game, Black Milk, to give us Black Hole Sun.

Indian Wells is a producer from Southern Italy who has been making music for a few years now. A little over a year ago, he teamed up with Friends of Friends Records to release an EP called Where The World Ends. Now he’s back for a second go-round with Friends of Friends with Phase Transition EP. On Indian Wells’ last EP, he was making some interesting experimental electronic music that was along the lines of artists like Daedelus or Four Tet.

A.M. Breakups is a producer from Brooklyn who has been working for years, both as a solo artist and as part of groups like Cult Favorite and We Are Not For Them. It’s been two years since his last proper album, which came from his work We Are Not For Them. It’s been even longer since we go a proper solo release from him, but the wait is now over with the release of his solo full-length album, Out Of Four Came Many Soldiers.

Wool See is the alter ego/fictional band project from Oldominion emcee IAME. He first premiered the project back in 2014, and has been releasing music under the name at a steady pace ever since. Just one year after the release of their fourth full length album in as many years, Wool See keeps the pace up with their fifth album, Ewe Gross. Ewe Gross is an interesting album in a few different ways, but mostly because it’s a mostly instrumental album with some rapping on it, with no outside guests, which is not a formula you see too often.

Kaidi Tatham is a London producer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked in soul, hip hop, and jazz amongst other things. He’s worked as part of the collective Bugz in the Attic, and he’s worked with everyone from Slum Village to Eric Lau. Just this past June, he released a full-length album called It’s a World Before You. Now he comes back with a four-song EP, In My Life. The music on In My Life generally falls under the umbrella of jazz fusion, the type of psychedelic soul-jazz being laid down in the ‘70s by people like Herbie Hancock or Donald Byrd.

Eric Lau is a producer and deejay from London who has been making music for a while, working with everyone from Guilty Simpson to Georgia Anne Muldrow. Just last year, he released an excellent instrumental album called Examples. Now he comes back with the follow up to that album, simply titled Examples Volume 2. Examples Volume 2 is what happens when a producer is a deejay as well. At one point, that just might be assumed to be the case, but things evolve, and being a producer these days doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re spinning records on the weekend.

Moods is a producer from Rotterdam, Netherlands. He first came to our attention five years ago when he released an EP called Another Point of View on the Fremdtunes label. Over the years, he’s released some remixes, singles, and EPs, just leaving the elusive full-length album on his to-do list. Now he can finally check that off, now that he releases Zoom Out. The full-length album can be a tricky endeavor for producers, for a couple of different reasons.

Mel. Crozby is a young emcee from Birmingham who is part of the RDFND crew. He released his first EP, The Free Tea EP, in the summer of 2017. It was a fun introduction to someone with a lot of charisma and potential, and he was certainly winning people over with his live shows. After this initial introduction, the question started to be what would he do next? Well, the answer is here in the form of a new EP, Diplopia.

On March 30 of this year, Brandon Whitney, better known to the world as Alias, suddenly and tragically passed away in his sleep. Not only was he a founding member of the anticon. collective, he was also an incredible producer, who along with making some brilliant solo albums, produced for the likes of Astronautalis, B. Dolan, and Sage Francis. His career slowed down in the 2010s when he decided to move back home to Maine with his family, where he worked a couple of jobs and mostly made music in his home studio at night after everyone else had gone to bed.

Pastense is a Boston emcee best known for his work with such artists as Uncommon Nasa and Shortrock. His last album was An Astronaut’s Dream, done in collaboration with Willie Green, and released in May of last year. This time around, he’s teamed up with a Swiss producer by the name of John Sarastro to make one of his most interesting albums to date, The Light Behind Closed Eyes. The title of the album comes from the idea that the light behind closed eyes is when our ancestors talk to us.