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Amongst the forthcoming onslaught of end-of-year lists (and after the blizzard of throaty rock magazine lists that have already appeared on Stereogum), I’m hoping for a few new categories, some new thoughts, new foundation principles. I might even start a few on my own, such as ‘Best Label That I Didn’t Think I Knew Very Well Until I Realised I Owned Most Of Their Back Catalogue’. This award, this week, goes to Werk Discs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Way back in the midst of whenever, I spent a lot of time writing about Sweden’s Stacs Of Stamina<\/strong>, and even more time beating listeners over the head with them on the Fat Planet<\/a> radio show. Their 2005 Werk album ‘Tivoli’ (feat. Earz<\/strong> and TTC<\/strong>) is still a masterstroke, and the pinnacle, of the came-and-went made-up genre of Eurocrunk. Werk also threw out the delicious ‘Grim Dubs’ series, featuring Atki2<\/strong> and his alias Monkey Steak<\/strong>, the glorious digi-dub album ‘Foundation Bit’ from Disrupt<\/strong>, Lukid<\/strong>‘s ‘Now EP’ featuring a clattering, wonky refix from Hudson Mohawke<\/strong> and the ravetastic retrovisionary recent drop from Zomby<\/strong>, ‘Where Were U In 92?’. Stellar, each and all, I’m breathless just typing the list. And after all that, there’s the not-insignificant matter of the new release from label boss Darren Cunningham, aka Actress<\/strong>, titled ‘Hazyville’.<\/p>\n But it’s to London kid Lukid<\/strong> we (re)turn, celebrating the release of his second album ‘Foma’ – promoted with a smart mix for FACT magazine and the admission that he’s been “listening to these [album] tracks for so long now that I don’t know if they are good or not anymore”. If this mix is anything to go by, they’re a smart bet for the next Award I decide to make up.<\/p>\n