Albums
March: 18 albums you need to hear this month
This month's listening sorted
Differ-Ent 'It’s Good to be Differ-Ent' (Don’t Be Afraid)
Of all the OG Detroit techno generation, DJ Bone is one of the most under-appreciated outside specialist circles – perhaps because he’s always gone his own way and ignored all hype. But he’s up there with the best, and is clearly as in love with sound as ever on this new album released under his Differ-Ent alias. He occasionally breaks from four-to-the-floor on a few Underground Resistance-ish electro tracks, but he never sounds beholden to anyone else: whatever rhythmic framework he builds is always from first principles, exploring the synths and sequencers as if for the first time, constantly searching for the funk. This is hugely listenable dancefloor dynamite, and demonstrates how much techno’s core values still matter. Joe Muggs
8/10
