The creators of ubiquitous DJ software Ableton Live, Berlin producers Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles are also responsible for some exquisitely crafted electronic music as Monolake, with tracks ranging from ambient field recordings to dub and techno. Read our full spotlight after the break!

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Wiley is the best artist in grime. Simple as that. Some might argue there are better MCs, but Wiley writes beats, rhymes and tears apart slots on London's pirate radio shows. That he does all of those things with enough skill and confidence to declare himself his own genre (Eskimo, after one of his early scene hits) says all you need to know.

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"How many DJs do you know that's from Russia?" asks Blaze on DJ Vadim's From Russia With Love . While that may be a fair question, the London-based producer and DJ's country of origin is nowhere near as interesting as his instantly recognisable production style.

Sparse tracks with the world's driest beats, strange rattles and atmospheres that are more to do with musique concrète than mainstream hip-hop, and pregnant pauses where the whole track falls away for a little longer than is comfortable: I always had the impression he heard RZA's beats on the earliest Wu-Tang Clan releases and decided to see how far a scuffed, abstract mess could go while still having hip hop's indispensable head-nod factor.

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