Pandr Eyez have really got us excited. They make a synthy, dark version of early 2000s r&b. We’ve never really heard anything like it before, but we’re hoping to hear a lot more. This one, “Eyes On You”, is the title track from their new EP. Can we please have an LP soon, Pandr Eyez?

Cristian Cassara grew up in a small town in Germany, the son of Italian immigrants who owned a pizzeria. In between shifts washing dishes for his family, he explored his secret passion, finding off nights to DJ in a little club in town. As his love for music progressed, he became interested in making music, and soon he turned his regular DJ gigs into secret live performances, where he would be the only person who would know that the music coming out of the speakers wasn’t coming off the records, but out of his hands. The audience danced on just as if their favorite songs were playing…

Fast forward a few years to now, and Cristian is releasing music as Cassara on the label Flexidisco. “Fantasma” is a great track from his new EP, filled with the energy of many many hours of playing live to a dancefloor. Download it while it lasts.

My Favorite Robot is a trio of gents named trio of James Teej, Jared Simms and Voytek Korab. We were hoping they were actually going to be robots… This is a track from their recently released Unplugged EP. It’s called “New Addiction”, and we are indeed hooked.

Clearly a fan of Digitalism and Justice, Scottish-born Rudi Zygadlo, in his song, “Achtung! (Go Easy, Come Easy)”, has co-opted the digitized bass sounds of both and incorporated them into a breathy tune with lots of oooh and aaahs. Those vowel sounds point to the real fundamentals of Zygaldo’s music: pop. He may have underground influences, but he’s aiming for the stars.

The Present Moment is an L.A.-based band making music that’s inspired by dancing at nightclubs, if not for dancing at nightclubs. All the elements for great club tracks are there – mantra-like lyrics, synths, drum machines – but somehow the music is too heady for the dancefloor itself. We’ve got a track from their new album, “The High Road”, here for download. We suggest playing it on the way home from a big night out.

Crazy P, who got their name from a record called “loco pinga” (you do the translation), have been around an making music for over fifteen years now. Their new song, “Beatbox”, is epic – strings, backup oohs and aahs and an eight-minute time mark. It’s certainly the most mature thing we’ve ever heard from them.

Before the two gents who make up the hybrid electronic rock duo, Composer, met one another, each one was already recording music for the French label Infiné. The owner of the label, Alexandre Cazac, heard something complimentary about each artists’s work and decided to push them to get together. We’re quite happy that he did: Composer works off the strengths of each, with Eric Raynaud bringing the pulse of his electronic project, Fraction, and Guillaume Eluerd, the singer/songwriter of the duo, bringing a more organic structure. Check Chuck is a perfect example of their work overall. You can download it above for free…

Apparat has a long, storied history in dance music. Once a co-owner of and artist on Shitkatapult Records, a leftfield-leaning German techno label, over the past few years, he’s moved to song-based, melodic music. His recent projects have been as much about textures and soundscape as they are about composition. His new album, The Devil’s Walk, just came out on the legendary Mute label. This track, “Song of Los”, is from that album. He’s on tour in support of the album now.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is a band from Springfield, Missouri. The members cannot remember how they chose the name for the band, but no matter what, over the ten years they’ve been in existence, they’ve made some great music that only seems to be getting better as time goes by. Later this month they’ll be releasing an album full of songs that never made it to any of their previous records. If any of the others sound like “Yellow Missing Signs”, we’re gonna have a winner on our hands…

Nzca/lines is a solo project by Michael Lovett, who plays bass in a band called Your Twenties . The Nazca Lines, on the other hand, are a series of ancient geoglyphs etched into the Peruvian desert. You can only see the Nazca Lines from an airplane or a helicopter, and you can only download Nzca/lines’ new single, “Compass Points”, from here on the HUGO Tracks blog. For both, it’s good to have friends in high places.