Kissey Asplund, “Beam Me Up” (from Plethora). Like a number of tracks on this Swedish space cadet’s first album, “Beam Me Up” seems to materialize and evaporate rather than begin and end. Half of the time, Asplund’s either fading in and out of consciousness or singing in her sleep, her multi-tracked voice about as tangible as the aimlessly swarming waves of synths. There’s more punch to the remainder of Plethora, laced in varying combinations by the French production team PapaJazz, who are — like most other exponents of off-center R&B these days — children of Dilla and Premier, but nothing is quite as hypnotizing as this, even if it could use some Vulcan lute.

Claro Intelecto, “Operation” (from Metanarrative). Between Robert Hood’s Fabric 39, Wighnomy Brothers’ Metawuffmischfelge, and Jennifer Cardini’s Feeling Strange, there was plenty of excellent mixed techno to absorb during the past month, and there was Mark Stewart’s second production-oriented Claro Intelecto album as well. Metanarrative is on the slight side, at least compared to 2004’s Neurofibro and his five-volume (thus far) series of Warehouse Sessions singles, but a couple tracks — “Operation” in particular — are as sorcerous and as mood affecting as anything else he has created.

Other favorites from the month’s new releases and reissues:

Aural Exciters - “Marathon Runner” (from Going Places: The August Darnell Years)
David Axelrod - “Ken Russell” (from Seriously Deep)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - “Searching” (from Vibrations)
Christopher Bissonnette - “Provenance” (from In Between Words)
Terry Callier - “Trance on Sedgwick Street” (from Occasional Rain)
Mariah Carey - “Migrate” (from E=MC2)
Dave Douglas & Keystone - “Flood Plane” (from Moonshine)
George Duke - “North Beach” (from Faces in Reflection)
Estelle - “Wait a Minute (Just a Touch)” (from Shine)
The Jazz Crusaders - “Rainy Night in Georgia” (from Old Socks, New Shoes)
The Bennie Maupin Quartet - “Inner Sky” (from Early Reflections)
Marilyn Mazur/Jan Garbarek - “The Siren in the Well” (from Elixir)
Portishead - “Machine Gun” (from Third)
Prodigy - “Real Power Is People” (from H.N.I.C., Pt. 2)
The Roots - “Rising Up” (from Rising Down)
Santogold - “Shove It” (from Santogold)
Strategy - “Bike Click” (from Music for Lamping)

And a few favorites from March’s new releases and reissues:

Autechre - “Tankakem” (from Quaristice)
Guy Cuevas - “Obsession” (from Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story)
Sascha Funke - “Mango” (from Mango)
Kelley Polar - “Sea of Sine Waves” (from I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling)
Jackie Stoudemire - “Invisible Wind” (from Don’t Stop: Recording Tap)