AAries hit me up last night with some new music they’ve just put out. Their new CoverGirls EP consists of “a few old and new covers of some of their favourite songs” including Janet Jackson’s ‘Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun)’, DeBarge’s ‘Time Will Reveal”, Minnie Riperton’s ‘Baby, This Love I Have” and a more. Their “(re)introductions” are excellent – superbly arranged, beautifully produced – these ladies have so much swag, and crazy vocals!
Listen & download (for free) via their bandcamp player below…
Two producers, Teams & Star Slinger representing both sides of the Atlantic, battle it out and together producer some very sexy sounding disco-soul-funk.
Teams, waving the stars and stripes, goes head to head with our very own Star Slinger (whose Rogue Cha Pa EP deserves your attention) in a new six track (self titled) project distributed by Mexican Summer. Anthologised from vinyl-sourced samples of “R&B and modern Soul classics”, the songs have been reorganised, re-envisioned and reworked into seemingly new compositions.
‘The Yes Strut’ in all it’s 80′s sex-synth glory is the first single taken from the EP – check the video up top. I really like this.
LonTheBeat aka Landon Wix recently liberated a new beat tape consisting of… Well… Old beats. But, don’t mind – these ain’t soiled or moldy. They still fresh.
While there’s nothing necessarily ground breaking here, Evolve does possess a certain groove. Wix takes a selection of songs (some familiar, some not) and glazes them with some noticeably aggressive beats. His productions are promising, albeit a little rough. Stand out tracks: ‘Horns’, where he flips Missy Elliott’s ‘Sock It To Em’‘, and ‘Hypnotizzzed’, where he contorts Linda Jones’ ‘Hypnotized’.
The tape is available for free (or for a small, voluntary donation) via the bandcamp player (below)…
I couldn’t fathom anyone making ‘What You Need’ by The Weeknd any better. Until now.
Producers Vin Sol & Charles McCloud have metamorphosed one of the best songs I’ve heard in a long time into some next Burial-inspired sonic. Kudos. Massive, f*cking kudos. This remix is hard.
This track, in it’s original state, is without question the best song off The Weeknd’s newly released mixtape House of Balloons- that’s not to say however that the tape is a let down – it’s not, it’s actually rather impressive. It’s just the magnitude of this one song leaves it nearly impossible to top. I’m sure they’ll figure it out though. But to hear this type of remix; Transforming an already near-perfect song into something alternatively mind altering – that’s insane.
This is an 11 minute short film about Jamie Woon and his debut album mirrorwriting, produced for Channel 4′s ’4Play’ series. It’s beautifully made, albeit a little slow. A fascinating watch nonetheless.
Everything from the Carter IV so far (well, this and ’6 Foot 7′) have sounded like Weezy F. going to war.
(P.S. Out to the ‘authorities’. If you’re not giving us the Soundcloud – we (bloggers) are just going to give the people the download. Digital fed knob-heads. Get with the program.)
John Legend (bravely) takes on Adele’s world wide smash hit single ‘Rolling in the Deep’, and actually – does quite a decent job of it It’s funny, on hearing this, I can’t help but question why he hasn’t or isn’t making music that sounds like this? His voice sounds good here and as someone who has considered JL relatively lacklustre over the years – this injects some… Excitement. Momentarily, at least. Interesting.
