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EP: Montreal’s Busty and the Bass release the groove of ‘The ET Suite’

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IF LOCKDOWN releases and remote recordings are anything to go by, especially when you’re a jazz ensemble, then you best take example from The ET Suite– a reimagined expansion of Montreal jazz-funk collective Busty and the Bass’s album track, “ET”. They’re already receiving high praise for their second album, Eddie, from Mojo Magazine, Echoes, Complex …

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With co-writes from Starrah, Ali Tamposi alongside himself, Are you even real?, the new track from Grammy award winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Blake certainly has the buzz. Written as part of Apple’s global ‘Behind the Mac’ campaign it comes off the back of Blakes recent fourth album ‘Assume Form’, which has currently clocked …

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London based indie newcomers, essentially classically trained British-Albanian producer Admir Hyka and vocalist Andrea Skalec, are back with a new EP, and from it they’ve released a single, Tears left to Cry. Influenced by the likes of Pink Floyd, Portishead, The Knife, Bonobo, the pair produce smoky hip-hop beats and tells Kayla words of neglected …

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Taken from the forthcoming album from. Dizzy Strange Summer, out on Friday 17th July on Brainfeeder Records, ‘Living like I know I’m gonna die’ is the new single from LA vocalist, composer and producer Genevieve Artadi. It’s her second album, but first for Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, and her first self-produced release on any label. …

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Out now on Westwood Recordings is the new single from British Columbia singer, producer and mult-instrumentalist Frase and Whistler DJ/Production team SkiiTour, ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’. These gluey, hazy synths open the show on ‘Too Hot, Too Cold’, but it quickly loosens the shackles into this electro soul head nodder, the pulls in brass (synth) …

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Body Meat is the project of Salt Lake City born producer Christopher Taylor, a man who’s father once played Conga’s for Earth, Wind and Fire, so who has been surrounded by music, and in particular rhythm, his whole life. He’s just released a new single The Well, and it’s a genuinely interesting and ingenious piece …

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Mysterious (or at least anonymous) bedroom pop project Lyfe Indoors has return with a new single, Put you down. Operating since 2014 and spending long Summer’s indoors writing (hence the name), it’s taken from an album to be released later in the year. Of the track Lyfe Indoors says “Did I miss the chance, for some …

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Busying himself in this lockdown period with his live streams on production, covers, fan favourites etc, James Blake has released his first new material of the year, You’re Too Precious. It’s a beautifully intimate and fragile thing, it’s shadowy electronics sporadically giving way to this delicate piano figure, as little fragments of vocals or vocal …

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It’s been a couple of years since South London producer/multi-instrumentalist Wu-Lu released his breakthrough Ginga EP, but he’s returned with new musi. In the shape of a single, Jaybo. It’s this woozy quasi-italio soundtrack, characterised by Wu-Lu’s ethereal yet soulful delivery over this echoey, psychedelic sounding backing. Check out the accompanying video, here

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Doing Better is the the first single to be taken from producer, singer-songwriter and all round musical polymath Jamie Isaac. After the success of his debut album Couch Baby, he’s returned with his engaging electronic soul, with flakes of hip-hop and driven by his emotive piano playing. It’s a fragile thing, with gently stuttering beats …

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