Maciej Zambon: the Poland-born, Berlin-based gentleman with a penchant for obscure Polish edits has another plaything. See, as well as paying homage to the past via The Very Polish Cut-Outs - garnering support from Andrew Weatherall, Todd Terje, Pender Street Steppers and more - he's also peering forward with this over venture.

Enter Transatlantyk. Started in 2014 as a means of further establishing (mainly) modern day Eastern Europe dance music from little-known sources, it's definitely made its mark. Speaking to us last year before The Very Polish Cut-Outs BR session he said: “Until now, Transatlantyk has released well received house records by Naphta and The Phantom, with releases by Selvy and Jazxing coming after," before adding: “This winter the label will also release Ptaki's debut LP, the duo responsible for our label’s biggest hit to date, and masters of creating sample based collages. Following that, we’ve got a compilation called POLO HOUSE that will be an overview of the emergent Polish house scene.”

There's still no intentions of lowering the anchor either. Just this October saw the release of Lutto Lento's Mondo Hehe EP, unearthing a stricter four-to-the-floor approach from the usually avant garde Warsaw native with exotic results. It's just one example displaying not only Poland's wealth of talent, but Zambon's ability to highlight it.

For this week's Upfront, the honourable boatswain has plucked eleven rubies out of his secret zip files. It will no doubt reconfigure your rudders towards the East and its criminally overlooked musical treasures.