Top 20 electronic music albums of 2025: Call Super would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids

This is part of a series, postig between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026

Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel)

I have a policy of not featuring compilation albums in my end-of-year lists. Otherwise my lists will be full of Ibiza Classic Choons Volume 92 or Now That’s What I Call Breakcore (Unplugged). No compilations. That’s the rule.

The next album in my Top 20 Bangers of 2025 is a compilation from London techno experimentalist Call Super. He has gathered the greatest names in crepuscular micro-techno for a blockbusting collection of pristine, wonky beats.

There’s Call Super himself with the caffeinated bossanova garage of Waterways. Conny Slipp turns up for the Blue Sun pairing: a bluesy clarinet heats up a snuffling scatter-beat. Louis Lupin gets all spacey on Lululu. A defiant Eye Gritt treadmills his machines into a flurry on Same Battles.

Except, it’s not a compilation. It’s a trick. All of these artists are Call Super. Conny is Call Super. Louis is Call Super. This whole album is Call Super in the guise of his various projects and pseudonyms. What a reveal! This is his Keyser Söze / Wizard of Oz / fairground owner out of Scooby Doo moment.

The album includes a mixed DJ set of all of the tracks. Which feels like the point of A Rhythm Protects One. In the days of Spotify’s lug-eared shuffle function, which has the curational integrity of a labrador writing a crossword, mainstream DJ mixes feel like a thing of the past. Call Super is reclaiming the mix CD, albeit it in his usual opaque, tricksy and delightfully entertaining fashion.

See all of my Best electronic music albums of 2025