Play Snakes & Ladders With Wiley

This week has seen the release of Snakes & Ladders, an album which Wiley originally started recording last year but then scrapped in his own mercurial manner. The re-recorded set certainly sounds like one of his freshest, and sees the rapper return to his spiritual home of Big Dada. To celebrate the release the label have created an actual game of Snakes & Ladders which takes its lead from Wiley's own journey through the music industry.

Glyn Johns Interview

George Martin may be credited with expanding The Beatles' ears to sounds from beyond the Pop spectrum and troubled producer Phil Spector will forever be synonymous with the Wall of Sound, but there's another producer who whilst maintaining a constantly low profile since his first job engineering The Kinks in the early Sixties has been responsible for more classic albums than anyone else. In a rare interview Glyn Johns talks about his life in the studio.

Maxmo Park

Brain Cells

Cooly G Remix

Two artists who may have otherwise remained happily unassociated take part in a surprisingly satisfying exchange, their interaction bringing together two disparate ends of the musical spectrum. For her rewiring of Maxïmo Park's Brain Cells -  a track originally produced by The Invisible's Dave Okumu - Cooly G uses shimmering synths and staccato snares to create a piece of music that's as minimal as it is modern, and in doing so disproves Paul Smith's recent declaration that the band "would never be too cool for school".

Burial

Lambeth

Hyperdub

Whilst by no means a new production the arrival of Lambeth on Hyperdub 10.4 should still evoke a good deal of fanfare, the track having only been available as a low quality radio rip since Kode9 gave it its one and only airing on Benji B's radio show in 2009. The handful of EPs that have since surfaced have seen Burial's approach become increasingly experimental, though with Lambeth the listener is immediately reminded of the shadowy energy and unnerving edge the producer channelled on both his landmark albums.

Metronomy

The Upsetter

Directed by Daren Rabinovitch

A song originally inspired by a whiskey-induced campfire singalong during a camping trip in Devon now soundtracks what might be one of Metronomy's most surreal videos to date, no mean feat considering the formidable form of their previous promos. Daren Rabinovitch of directorial super squad Encyclopedia Pictura follows a forest-dwelling hermit as she turns to the trees to help ease her loneliness and enters into an unlikely arboreal affair.

Owen Pallett

In Conflict

Directed by Jason Last and Jaime Rubiano

The title track form Owen Pallett's latest is treated to a cinematic piece of filmmaking that much like the record itself marries brave invention with understated and inherent tenderness. The track is notable for featuring Brian Eno, who accompanies his young Canadian contemporary on the guitar; it's a role the iconic produer may well reprise when Pallett and his chamber orchestra play a special show on at the Queen Elizabeth Hall this December.

Wild Beasts

Palace

Directed by Alex Turvey

A strange sort of psychological experiment is dressed with the trappings of a cheap game show in the video for Palace, an ingenious clip in which Wild Beasts attempt to bring a spark of spotaneity back to the world of music videos. The band perform individually in a darkened room and are introduced to bizarre characters and unexpected content as they play, with director Alex Turvey capturing each of their candid reactions with a single shot.

Nils Frahm

Hammers

Directed by FELD

Live performance has always been integral to Nils Frahm's hypnotic music, not only serving to elate those who experience his immersive live shows but also at a more fundamental level helping inform his own artistic process; the sublime Spaces, for example, was born from two years' worth of recordings made at gigs. The set up for a live shows usually takes his team around three hours, a routine which is now captured in the video for Hammers.

Slimzee's Going On Terrible

Directed by Rollo Jackson

Following his documentary Tape Crackers, an essential insight into the life of a pirate radio fanatic, and London 'On A Regular', a heartfelt homage to the clubs that shaped the Capital's underground, Rollo Jackson's creative connection with the Hardcore Continuum once again informs his latest work. The film focuses on Rinse FM founder Slimzee, one of the original architects of Grime and the earliest supporter of both Dizzee Rascal and Wiley.