Add to playlist: Conna Haraway’s deeply detailed dub techno and the week’s best new tracks

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<p>Listening to Shifted, a new EP from the Glasgow producer, is like running your hand over cool, subtly textured slate tiling</p><p><strong>From </strong>Bath, now based in Glasgow<br><strong>Recommended if you like </strong>Porter Ricks, Basic Channel, Robert Hood <strong><br>
Up next </strong>Manchester and Glasgow DJ sets this weekend, a China and Japan tour in November, and new collaborative project Department releasing an album in November</p><p>As autumn paints the British air, skies and seas grey-white, it’s time to colour-match your soundtrack accordingly. Dub techno is something I always reach for at this time of year, cold but with a crackle of heat at its heart. Pioneered in the early 90s and blending stern techno with kindlier ambient and the sagely nodding offbeat of dub, it has been a deep, slow current in dance culture ever since and still has excellent new proponents such as Purelink, Cousin and the Glasgow producer Conna Haraway (who also heads up the labels co:clear and Index:Records).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/17/add-to-playlist-conna-haraways-deeply-detailed-dub-techno-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks">Continue reading...</a>
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