Get acquainted with Akiko Haruna, the Brighton artist who's searching for connections through filmic sound design, pop and hardcore fusions

aya has dazzled the UK underground with her experimental club productions and genre-hopping DJ sets, which she demonstrates in her exhilarating “at the end of the day it's a game ov two halves really init” mix. The London-based, Huddersfield-raised artist also speaks to Sophie McNulty about how her creative upbringing in West Yorkshire informs her work, and how her hyper-detailed process allows her to create art that is genuine

With sizzling electro, crunching breakbreats, frenzied footwork and much more in between, Nikki Nair records a jaw dropping productions mix for the Recognise series, and chats to Katie Thomas about his route into music-making and DJing, the importance of respecting dance music history, and the push for a more diverse scene

96 Back sprints across a spectrum of styles in his electrifying Recognise mix, and chats to Kamila Rymajdo about his early diet of Actress and post-punk, finding confidence in unexplored sonic territory, and his new album for Local Action

Glasgow's EzUp resident Jay Celino moves seamlessly from house and breaks into techno and electro in his Fresh Kicks mix, and speaks to Amy Fielding about the city's influence on his sound

Compiling hyper-speed, sci-fi sounds from producers across the globe, Anna Morgan and Bell Curve’s Worst Behavior has quickly become a force to be reckoned with. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, the pair chat to Theo Kotz about how friendship, collaboration and artistic freedom are key to the label’s success

Founded by Suraj Mandavia and Eugene Onyango, Kenya’s foremost Afro-house label, Gondwana KE, aims to take African electronic music where few have gone before. Alongside a mix of tracks from the label’s catalogue, the pair share its story so far with Shiba Melissa Mazaza

Rachael Williams, aka Ambient Babestation Meltdown, compiles an hour of obscure TV samples and leftfield techno, rave and '80s German punk for the Fresh Kicks series, and chats to Amy Fielding about discovering alternative music, working at an adult entertainment channel, and a love for sampling