Album: Gold Panda, Lucky Shiner (Notown)

Further evidence of the flourishing state of UK electronica comes in the form of this debut album from Essex minimal techno artist Gold Panda. Lucky Shiner - named after his grandmother - eschews thumping dance-floor fillers for more textured pieces, bearing out Panda's insistence that "I didn't want bangers, I wanted songs with structure".

Structure, but no words: these 11 instrumentals are built from sample-fragments which have been re-triggered, pitch-shifted and combined with glitchy backdrops, found-sounds, field recordings and keyboard figures to create hypnotic grooves and stuttering bricolages. In some cases, Panda's time in the Orient is discernible in his tones and timbres: "Vanilla Minus" could be Yellow Magic Orchestra. Best of all is "Snow & Taxis", which scuds lightly along, an exercise in aural skiing.

DOWNLOAD THIS Snow & Taxis; Vanilla Minus; I'm With You But I'm Lonely