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Party of the year incoming. Already locked in for Sydney’s Vivid LIVE festival, Detroit house and techno wunderkind Kyle Hall has locked in a Melbourne show. Having being mentored by luminaries such as DJ Raybone Jones, Rick Wilhite and Mike Huckaby, Hall has released on the likes of Warp, Clone Records, Hypercolour and Objektivity, and has graced the decks of hallowed clubs such as fabric, Panorama Bar and Warehouse Project, just to name a few. His new record From Joy (on Wild Oats) is straight-up fire. Support will come from András, Tom Moore, Edd Fisher & Simon TK, Jesse Young, Kiti and STM on Saturday June 4 at Glamorama.

It’s been two years, but Simon Haehnel and Tobias Mueller AKA Andhim have locked in a return Down Under. If you like your house with a side of tech, the Cologne natives are about as good as they come, with their releases finding homes on labels such as Black Butter Records, Defected Records, Get Physical Music, Heulsuse, Kompakt, Monaberry and Terminal M. They’ll be flanked by Jacob Malmo and Brian Fantana on Friday June 10 at Brown Alley.

Oooooooh baby. A regular staple of the impervious Mood Hut family, Jack J, is coming back our way. Also one half of the duo Pender Street Steppers, the Canadian house cat has been lighting up dance floors worldwide ever since 2013, with his 2015 cut Thirstin on Future Times coming in at the #2 track of the year over on Resident Advisor. Simmering the dance floor on the night will be the regular Animals Dancing heads. It’s their last party for a while, so get down to The Mercat on Friday May 20.

If you’re already looking forward to the next long weekend, why not spend Queen’s Birthday Eve with the greatest electronic artist Australia has ever produced? Carmelo Bianchetti, known to many as DJ HMC, found his calling to the dance floor in Adelaide way back in the early ’80s. Since then, over the course of his esteemed career the DJ and producer has released dance floor weapons such as LSD, 6AM and Phreakin’ and is one of the few Aussies to ever garner true international underground acclaim. In the past he’s been dubbed ‘Godfather of Australian techno’ – and when you see him manning the decks it’s hard to argue against it. He’ll play a rare Melbourne show on Sunday June 12 at Brown Alley, supported from Spacey Space and Gavin Keitel.

Tour rumours: expect to see a visit from Moscow’s deep house veteran Andrey Pushkarev in the near future. Same goes for Berghain resident Boris.   

Best releases this week: the new Max D record Boost (on Future Times) is really hitting the spot right now; otherwise I can’t stop spinning Horsepower Productions’ Crooks, Crimes & Corruption (on Tempa), Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux’s Two Changes (on Paralaxe Editions) and Morah’s Anarchy (on Berceuse Heroique). There’s loads of good lookin’ shit on the horizon, too, including newies from Huerco S, Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon, Willie Burns and Raime.