Audio Asia: Mixmag Asia February floor burners

With Asian-based artists and labels turning out a constant stream of excellent music from right across the board, we're launching a new monthly segment to highlight some of our favourites. In each instalment, Mixmag Asia Floor Burners will present five releases that have piqued our collective interest in the month gone by, from the vast spectrum of underground electronic music.

February was a packed month, as labels got busy after the usual Christmas and New Year slow down. We saw high-grade efforts from Cabaret Recordings, Red Light's collaboration with Adeen Records, and Fauve Records kept up their early momentum.

Here are five of the best:

Title: Purity EP
Artist: Wong Echo
Label: Forever 24 Records
Release: Out now, you can buy it here

Slow-mo back room house flavours. The reverb-heavy synth melody dances over a smokey drum track, pads slowly open and close as a playful counterpoint teases in the distance. Harmonically rich and textured.

Title: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Sophistication
Artist: Matthieu Faubourg
Label: Jazzy Couscous
Release: Out now, you can buy it here

Textured deep house album on the boutique label from Tokyo. Our pick, 'I've Never Been To Tokyo' grooves effortlessly as synth layers are weaved in and out. The album also includes an excellent remix from Alabama virtuoso, Byron The Aquarius.

Title: Extinct Melodies From The Canto Club
Artist: Various
Label: Fauve Records
Release: Out now, you can buy it here

More top-drawer edits from the Hong Kong's Fauve Records team. For this instalment, Midnight Runners join label boss RFX to re-purpose some super-rare Cantonese disco gold.

Title: That Body
Artist: The Cook, The Thief
Label: Loulou records
Release: Out now, you can buy it here

Solid main room house cut from Taipei-based South African, The Cook, The Thief. Jacking drums, sinister bass and vocal chops give this track an old school feel.

Title: Supernoize
Artist: Yellow Claw & Juyen Sebulba (feat. RayRay)
Label: Barong Family
Release: February 21, you can buy it here

High octane collaboration between Yellow Claw and Taiwan's Ray Ray. This is the first release from the forthcoming Barong Family album, 'Hard In Bangkok'. This is bouncy, hardstyle EDM that takes no prisoners.