For this month's Reviews Roundup, I take a look at four recent releases and reissues from Hoshina Anniversary, Yasmine Hamdan, Borrowed CS, and Fila Brazillia, all of which are available on Bandcamp. For art-rock slanted electronica, Lebanese downbeat, astral techno and a cult '90s classic, look no further.

Over the last half decade, Tokyo-based DJ & producer Hoshina Anniversary has served up a steady stream of releases that triangulate the influence of the 1970s jazz fusion era, traditional Japanese instrumentation, ambient, EBM, house and techno. With his latest release, "Rebirth", he leans into singer-songwriter mode, nodding towards the sounds of experimental art-rock and progressive pop, dreaming up a set of songs that feel indebted to Radiohead and Robert Wyatt, as well as his wheelhouse milieu. These are nocturnal songs for quiet moments spent alone in our inner space. In the right moment, they could be transcendental.

If "I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر" by the Lebanese singer and songwriter Yasmine Hamdan isn't a modern downbeat/trip-hop masterpiece, I don't know what is. A mournful, inward-looking album that explores memory, identity, and political unrest through a lens equally informed by traditional middle-eastern musical sensibilities and contemporary electronic textures, it's a major mid-career work from an artist who has spent decades renovating underground music throughout the Arabic world and her current home, Paris. Masterful music.

After scoring the 2025 APRA Best Jazz Composition Award for his composition ‘Cascade d’Ars’ as Clear Path Ensemble, Melbourne-based New Zealand drummer, producer, DJ and bandleader Cory Champion gets back to the techno with "Process Knowledge", his latest release under the Borrowed CS alias. A collection of "High spirited deep techno, acid, and beats recorded between Wellington and Melbourne [during] winter-spring 2025,", "Process Knowledge" kicks off with some syncopated beat-slop science on "Incense", before heading off on a deep astral techno tip on the title track. From there, the esteemed Mr. Champion is away to the races.

Originally founded in 1990, Fila Brazillia is the duo project of Steve Cobby and David McSherry. In 1995, they hit a creative high with the "Maim That Tune" LP, which was recently remastered and reissued. Everybody say, "Thank you, Growing Bin Records" for that one. For many, this one is an essential desert island disco of the 90s electronica/downbeat variety. That said, there's a timeless quality to it's effervescent blend of jazz-inflected mid-tempo breakbeats, blissed out dream funk and devotional new age sensibilities. "At Home In Space" might be the fan favourite, but this LP offers plenty more pleasures.