Ike Release

It's been a while since we heard something fresh from Ike Release. The Chicago-based producer was on a productive roll through 2015, both solo and alongside Hakim Murphy in Innerspace Halflife, but now he breaks his silence with a sturdy two-tracker for Finale Sessions. As you would expect, gritty machine jams are the order of the day, but there's plenty of soul and mystery sprinkled atop the box beats to make for spellbinding results. Both ''Tangerines'' and ''Tungsten'' lurk in the lower registers of the tempo range, but there's a weight behind these productions that makes it far from mere warm-up fodder.

• 1 Tangerines
• 2 Tungsten