This week at Juno Download, there was a hushed awe as the John Talabot album Fin arrived into the digital domain courtesy of the kind folk at Permanent Vacation. When quizzed about his debut full-length before a Juno Plus party last year, Talabot paused for a minute. "It's not really house, more electronica - like a proper album," he finally remarked. It's an apt description. Fin is clearly rooted in house - and the kind of melody-driven, atmospheric tackle that the Barcelona-based producer excels at - but it's certainly not a dancefloor-focused set. Rivalling that in the album stakes was Sumach Valentine aka Gonjasufi, who continued to display his singularly unique musical vision on MU ZZ LE, the San Diegan sometime yoga teacher's first full length LP since the stunning A Sufi & A Killer.

Given his love of all things jazzy, it's perhaps no surprise to find that the latest Motor City Drum Ensemble label release (via parent company Faces France) is a modern re-boot of fluid jazz-house. "Cosmic Cart" itself is delightful, a spacious, flowing composition that fuses the looseness and organic grooves of jazz with the comforting pulse of high grade deep house. If Moodymann relocated to Moldova and necked copious amounts of tranquilizers, it would probably sound something like this. Other intriguing digital releases came from Young Hunting, Coki and West Norwood Cassette Library, while Detroit ghetto don DJ Assault’s potty-mouthed 2005 release The Lingerie EP was reissued digitally (along with lots of his back catalogue) for those who can't get enough filth.