Do Ya Thing highlights the fact that Albarn’s time is best spent with his animated friends – but it is Andre 3000′s contribution that really makes the track worthwhile.

London duo, Kodiak are responsible for the next single on Numbers – and what a single ‘Spreo Superbus’ is.

Torches have rescaled Crushed Beaks’ ‘Close-Ups’ to stadium proportions for their side of the bands’ split single.

DOOM’s latest project conjures images of a deranged inner-city carnival, while Jneiro Janel’s odd rhythmic tics bring to mind El-P.

‘Unknown’, the first track from Sascha Funke’s new project Saschienne, creeps along in unsettling fashion, gradually swelling but never reaching a crescendo.

‘Ebb’ is a lighter-than-air flutter across two chords, pieced together from processed clips of antique Edison cylinder recordings. Not a kick drum in sight.

Katalyst will be teaming up with Geoff Barrow for a new project, Quakers, out on Stones Throw. In the meantime, this is taken from Barrow’s latest Invada compilation.

New single ‘Dashing In Passing’ features vocals that sound like an (even more) unhinged Prince, and is evidence the Outfit’s horizons are even wider than they had let on.

‘Hazy Days’ is a summertime waltz that immediately brings to mind the Electric Soft Parade, but that sounds like it was recorded live, to a cassette boom box, somewhere deep in the Pacific.

Young Montana? recasts Radiohead’s ‘Idioteque’ as a major key delight. Swooning melodies, a lilting bassline, and beautiful, thudding kicks.

Our special Manchester focussed feature kicks off with a remix featuring two of the city’s brightest bands.

Machinedrum has injected a breaksy pulse into Gang Colours’ ‘Fancy Restaurant’, shocking the original out of its lazy, Sunday morning coffee haze.

Philco Fiction’s deconstructed disco is bookended by icy synths on one side, and bombastic, pop-hit vocal harmonies on the other.

’666.66′ sees Weird Dreams find the aggression they always needed, suggesting there is more to the four-piece than Beach Boys pastiche.

‘Absences’, by Sheffield multi-instrumentalist Carnivals, starts off a little subdued and hazy before kicking into full glitch lucidity. Download it here.

Crystalline synths and popping percussion form the basis of Becoming Real’s ‘Paramnesia’, a strangely agitating track that builds without ever quite crescendoing.