Jacques Greene presents "a series of official remixes alongside a full library of stems from the record for free download - a token offering to a more free and democratic www, where so many of his original samples were found"...
Shlohmo drops his new, self-described "big heat wave lounge style music" mixtape FOR THA SUMMER for Sneeze Mag, featuring laid-back re-works of only the hits from Thugger, Future, Rae Sremmurd, Migos, Mobb Deep + more, with woozy samples from "old Japanese and Korean soul records" deftly weaved throughout...
Kedr Livanskiy shares the dreamy title track from one of our most anticipated full-lengths of 2017, the follow-up to her brilliant 2016 debut EP January Sun. According to her label 2MR, the new record was inspired by "the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s", and album-opener "Ariadna" is a perfect, glimmering union of Yana Kedrina's melodic, otherworldly dream-pop sensibilities and her thumping and hypnotic underground club music, and it's probably the most accessible track she's released to date...
The shapeshifting and ever-evolving Laurel Halo will officially release her brilliant and immersive new record Dust this Friday on Hyperdub, but you can spend the rest of the day listening to the record now below. The whole thing is a breezy, mesmerizingly weird and beautiful trip, but start with the infectiously playful summer jam "Moontalk", one of our favorite tracks of 2017:
Sound on Sound Fest (fka Fun Fun Fun) returns to Sherwood Forest in McDade, TX, just east of Austin this November, and the SOS squad reminds us once again why this has been our favorite fest for the last decade...
More heat coming this summer via Stones Throw, from Sudan Archives, a self-taught 23 year-old violinist/vocalist/producer who's inspired by "Sudanese fiddlers, R&B, West African rhythms, and experimental electronic music". Listen to new track "Come Meh Way" below:
Skylar Spence + the Knocks combine forces as supergroup/alter-ego Amelia Airhorn to drop an immersive, character-filled, starry-eyed love letter to NYC nightlife, teeming with summertime nostalgia, familiar samples, channel-surfing interludes, New York hip-hop, and straight up euphoric hands-in-the-air disco-soul...
Ernest Greene aka Washed Out drops a glorious hour-long mix of perfect laid-back weekend vibes (heavy on the lo-fi house) for NTS Radio, featuring tracks from Kaytranada, Jack J, Project Pablo, Mount Kimbie, Mall Grab + more...
Leanne Macomber + Joel Ford return with the biggest and most emotional Young Ejecta track yet: "Build a Fire" is a glittery, romantic electro-pop anthem, with Ford's skyscraping retro-futuristic synths and throbbing '80s dancefloor beats sending Macomber's ethereal, heartbreakingly bittersweet vocals soaring into the stratosphere...
DJDS teams up with future massive star Amber Mark, who takes the duo's soulful, anthemic dance music to another level on emotional new banger "Trees on Fire", which also features vocals from Marco McKinnis...