More shpongle. But this time with the added bonus of a picture of a cat! Even if I had to bribe her with a tenner. Meow!

It's been a week of Frank. First catching his minimal iBook set at the Marke B festival in Berlin. Minimal not due to the nature of the music, but to the number of people he played to. Then missing him altogether at the more refined Cut'n Splice gig in London. Then discovering ace Quicktime clip on this old release from 2001.

Teaming up with Brooklyn's Taylor Deupree and released on the now defunct Mille Plateaux. This saw Frank's piercing tones and bleeps moulded into Taylor's dub framework. The apparently light footprints of 'Dug In' have a real subversive kick to them. Reactive pixel dance perfectly demonstrated on the video for 'Automotive', where jittery scrapes of static dissolve in pools of blue.

I'd always known that Dirk Dresselhaus, the chief scientist of SchneiderTM, had a nasty streak to him. Imagining he'd always be happy drowning out his unique brand of avant-pop with great swathes of noise. Well it seems that teaming up any member of Pan Sonic will bring out the sonic devil in you.

This is a single improvised piece cut up into ten shards of pain and penury. Dirk's droning, grungy guitar is dragged through a field of broken glass by Ilpo Vaisanen's rustic, squeaking steam-powered contraptions. One of those 'so noisy its ambient' kind of records. Earthy and brutal, needless to say, this isn't most people's idea of fun. But for those of us who crave having their ear drums remoulded will find this most agreeable.

Slightly weird this, reading the (hilarious) sleeve notes, I almost assumed Watanbe had died. I mean, a tribute? You do that once the artist has expired. But no, this seems to be a gushing love letter from Athen's Klik records. Still, look past the overdone praise and here are six slices of widescreen progressive house.

Most of these appeared on Cologne's Kompakt label. His slipstream doses of 4/4 fitting in with their 'Pop Ambient' concept. But the bongo percussion, endless uses of echo and 'i can activate a whole orchestra with one key' effect can really get on your tits after a while. Coffee table not included.

Likeable, vaguely ambient electronics from the Yunx duo. This originally came out in 2002 on their own Yunx Recordings (they're now signed to AI). Shades of B12 and Carl Craig here, especially on the standout tracks 'Jazz Skunk' and 'Old Sckool Junnski'. But, as with a lot of electronica, its too light and fluffy for its own good. All nicely produced, but I seriously doubt whether i'll revisit this ever again.

Simply can't hold back how insanely good this is.

"Structural faults are good starting points for our pieces - finding an 'error' in a loop or in a track is a wonderful surprise, and that error becomes a source for our ideas."

As part of Ferric, the limited edition burn-to-order series from Ireland's Fallt. This is a smart introduction to Tu m'. The Italian duo of Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli eek out fourteen vignettes in playful, melodic exploration. Fusing glitch, toybox and muffled lo-fi recordings into a piece of work almost bursting with colour and geography.

At length: the frazzled, intense pixel wash of 'Mezzo Forte'. Zestful, almost fruity bubble on 'The End of the Summer'. The creaking, eerie glacial collapse that forms the backbone to 'Untitled' and overwhelming beauty of 'Something Sweet in the Coffee'.

In short: fucking amazing.

Check out their website at http://www.tu-m.com.