October: Six artists you need to check out this month

Informed by a love for dubstep, the dubby, grainy side of his Dad’s music collection and the camp flair of the records his Mum played, 22 year old Leeds located producer Chekov has carved out a distinctive and personal sound. With piercing claves, coarse feedback, rib-shaking bass and vertigo-inducing arps, he makes some of the most wonky techno going right now. His debut release has just arrived via Shanti Celeste’s Peach Discs, titled ‘Rotlicht’, the German word for red light. It’s dedicated to a luminous source that exists at a queer party in Leeds close to his heart.

‘Rotlicht’ is out now on Peach Discs

A track by JASSS might include industrial noise, ambient drone and techno before progressing to an unpredictable climax. Raised in northern Spain, Silvia Jiménez Alvarez moved to the Netherlands in 2010 where she began editing field recordings before relocating to Berlin to score experimental films. Her debut release ‘Mother’ came in 2016; her first album ‘Weightless’, featuring the eerie ‘Every Fish In The Pond’, is out now.

'Weightless’ is out now on iDEAL Recording

DJ Python is the latest artist out of the New York experimental house and techno scene that spawned Anthony Naples, Will DiMaggio and Huerco S. Credited as the creator of “deep reggaeton”, his ‘¡Estéreo Bomba! Vol 1’ EP for Naples’ Proibito label melded the dembow beat with murky soundscapes and booming sub-bass. Now he’s readying his debut album on new Naples imprint Incensio, with tracks that range from trance to shoegaze, laden with floaty pads, offbeat percussion and dusty breaks.

‘Dulce Compañia’ is out now via Incensio

Russian-born but based in Berlin, Anastasia Vtorova makes chunky, bass-heavy techno inspired by “melancholic world-wide cinema”, but with a sense of humour: she’s been known to DJ under aliases such as DJ Away Team and DJ Half Price Lager. Her new EP, and first with Ninja offshoot Technicolour, includes ‘I Want To Fuck Tech House’ and ‘But It Was Like 30 Intros In a Row’ – the latter inspired by a particularly harsh review of a gig last year.

The ‘When Lobster Comes Home’ EP is out now

South Londoner Marvin Humes was raised on the sounds of Frankie Knuckles and Masters At Work by his father, who was also a DJ, and he supported his old man at gigs. Now he’s back behind the decks, hosting a show on Capital FM and playing Ibiza slots. Also going solo on the production front, Marvin is establishing himself with impressive outings on the LuvBug label he runs that channel surging, Balearic-influenced house. Floor-primed collabs with Kideko and A-Minor are due soon, check out a premiere of the latter below.

Marvin Humes & A-Minor’s ‘Girls On The Floor’ lands on LuvBug September 29

Billy Turner is making impressions in the underground with his dark and visceral techno. The 23-year-old producer met Skream after blagging his way into DC10 following a chance meeting with Dense & Pika on a flight in 2016, and went on to sign his first EP to Of Unsound Mind. Now Alan Fitzpatrick, Kenny Glasgow and Tiga are championing his tracks. He’s got an impressive CV for someone fairly new to the game, with mixes on Rinse FM and BBC R1Xtra plus gigs at Fabric.

‘Resolution’ EP is out now on Kneaded Pains