The first of several new and we hope interesting features to be implemented at Juno Plus was rolled out this week with the inaugural monthly best record sleeve roundup. Typically no sooner had we published the feature than an amazingly presented record arrived in the shape of the new Chasing Voices 12". In true Chasing Voices style the music is immense too, encouraging us to invent the phrase Stottified to describe the immense waves of pressurised sound that build up as the needle creeps across the twelve inch. If this is your first experience of the mysterious New York production enclave it's a perfect place to start!

Occupying first place in the commission two remixers that Juno Plus love stakes was the fledgling Irish label Apartment. Their second release gathered up a quite excellent production from compatriots and sometime Fine Art Recordings artists TR One in the shape of "Drum Dance" which naturally featured plenty of analogue rhythms and woozily hypnotic chords. Their efforts were matched entirely by the remixes from Mathematics artist John Heckle and Juju & Jordash - with the former's all fidgeting machine funk and the latter's one of their trademark wide screen dub house revisions.

January is not yet over and already Xosar has served real notice of her obvious musical prowess with her Rush Hour debut Ghosthaus following swiftly on from Tropical Cruize. Just as enthralling as the L.I.E.S released debut record, Xosar threw down two spectrally enhanced analogue jams on the plushly presented twelve inch - clear red vinyl in a clear plastic sleeve with insert? Yes please - and they were complemented by two finely judged Legowelt remixes that teased out their dancefloor capabilities.

Another producer whose graced us with some excellent records in a matter of weeks is the enigmatic Los Angeles based GB who recently dropped a stunningly presented (and naturally quite expensive) Japanese edition of his self released Provider EP that didn't stick around the Juno warehouse for very long at all. The Gifted & Blessed boss man followed that up with an excellent two track EP for All City this week that matched the A Side's wonderfully effervescent crunching 808 sounds similar to Fulton's best moments as Syclops with the more dexterous 80s electro flex of the flip. Keep an eye out for GB's forthcoming new project The Steoples that we recently mentioned because that's pretty awesome too!

Should your heart beat loudest to the unforgiving rhythms and sounds of techno then this week my friend was a week you will rejoice. Spanish label Semantica for example served further notice of their "ever adventurous" status with an Arcanoid 12" that brought to mind early Ai releases AND a Svreca 12" that somehow crammed in remixes from Regis, Orphx, Skirt and Silent Servant. If your senses scream more, more, give me more techno then the excellent Adam Rivet returned to Kontra with more examples of his highly charged ware on Amid The Roar (Fengler Remix included) whilst the second installment of Skudge's curatory series arrived with two slabs of Swedish ruggedness from their compatriot MRSK.

Occupying a space in the musical spectrum all by itself was the latest Shangaan Electro remix EP from Honest Jon's which featured two unhinged productions from Actress. Clearly inspired by the loose nature of the source material, the WerkHaus enigma dropped some pure Drexciyan funk bliss on "Actress Meets Shangaan A" which was complemented by the even more disjointed nature of the flip side revision. The arrival of a new 12" from the rarely spotted these days DMZ means we don't feel reticent about saying "hey, this dubstep record is pretty damn good mate" with Mala and Coki bringing some of that primal dubstep that continues the tradition of the genre's earliest form.