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Estimable beat farm's greatest hits

Freak chart-topper proves he's no one-trick pony

Feisty, top-drawer compilation from Californian shit-stirrers

Tough-guy hardcore from Guelph, Ontario

Two-CD remastered reissue of the infamous pop opera, with unreleased tracks

Last year, in a fatally altruistic gesture, Japanese technocrat Cornelius invited visitors to his website to remix tracks from his excellent 2002 album, Point. PM (it stands for Point Mixes) purportedly compiles the best 12 from around 400 of those submitted, with largely dispiriting results. If Cornelius set out to showcase how the meticulous pastoral textures of Point could be desecrated, then PM is a triumph of sorts: only Masakatsu Inoue's "Pointer Remix", a beautiful hybrid of musique concrète and prickly ambience, really does the source material justice.

Unsatisfactory smattering by genius Memphis quartet/trio, the acme of twisted'70s power pop

Pete Stampfel and Steve Weber's heretic folk-loons going ape in the country

The Squire Of Somerton and The Black Neon are back

Brilliant collection of contemporary dub instrumentals