Rotate by Orchestra Of Spheres

According to their blurb, Orchestra Of Spheres ‘use homemade instruments like the biscuit tin guitar, electric bass carillon and sexomouse marimba to create their cosmic dancing sound’. What the hell is a sexomouse marimba?!

A Bird Flew By by Sandra Kolstad

Our musical cup is overflowing with free downloadable goodies this week. Check out this bewitching, (Knife collaborator) Jenny Wilson like cut from Norwegian synth-goth Sandra Kolstad.

Seconds (Syd Tha Kyd OFWGKTA remix) by Little Dragon

Whatever your thoughts about L.A.’s premier rabble-rousing, hip-hop collective, there’s something incredibly addictive about Syd Tha Kyd’s smooth treatment of Little Dragon’s Seconds.

How Could I Lie by Luke Temple

Balance by Future Islands

Channelling the spirit of OMD through a contemporary synth-pop filter and juxtaposing with vocalist Samuel T. Herring’s theatrical growl, Baltimore’s Future Islands deserve much of the praise heaped on them since 2010’s In Evening Air.

Into The Forest (Dreamtrak Diamond Sound remix) by Battlekat

Check out this bouncy, techno-pop reworking of the as yet unreleased Into The Forest by Copenhagen’s Battlekat (pictured).

Ronika - In The City

Another velcro-catchy pop number from underground pop starlette Ronika.

Nameless//Faceless (Bloc Party vs CoPilots Remix) by Rapids!

Bloc Party’s Russell Lissack has re-worked the closing track from Rapids! new EP Fragments, twisting the fairly standard gloom/math rock of Nameless//Faceless into a total party banger.

Free agent by Simian Ghost

Simian Ghost is the brainchild of Aerial’s Sebastian Arnström.

The Zone by The Weeknd

We first introduced you to Abel Tesfaye – it seems The Weeknd is a solo act rather than a duo as first reported – back in March.