Nic Brown
Johannes Auvinen, aka Tin Man, has been on a mission to reinvigorate and push forward his most beloved electronic genre, namely acid, for over 10 years and, despite some seeing him as nothing more than a diehard retroist, there's no denying that plenty of his music is possessed of the forward-thinking inventiveness his critics insist it must lack. Volume 11 of his "Acid Test" series of collaborative series EPs (this is no flash in the pan), jointly produced by Jozef K and Winter Sun, contains three of the most gorgeous tunes he's ever been involved with and I couldn't give a flying fuck how many times acid has been round the block, this is electronic music of the very highest quality.
Favorite track: Pendle By Night.