Another day. Just believe. One of the most remixed tracks ever Telepopmusik’s “Breathe” gets another turn today in the form of a (excellent) warm-vibed beach-side mix from French artist Dust Yard. Bump this one out your cabana.
Dust Yard 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
The garage prototype. One of the strongest garage tracks of the year is one of the year’s best songs, our old friend Eliza Doolittle links up with the UK bass music mainstay Wookie for a TUNE that is as equally sultry as it is danceable (a no doubt difficult balance to navigate). Cheers to our pals at (KKS) for the tip.
Wookie 
(Facebook)
Eliza Doolitle (Official)
Rating 8.7
Our dude Patrick Baker taps the early 90’s sensual jam font for his latest creation “Control”. Very much of the vain of the sexier side of new jack swing and producers like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis & Dallas Austin, “Control” is the perfect track for your late-in-the-day midsummer cruise. We’re about to jump in the car and throw this jam on right now.
Patrick Baker 
(Official)
Rating 8.0
The Vek man goes in on Fun Adults’ recent (& great) “For Water” single embellishing up the percussion, shining up the vocal with some unique and dare we say mildly innovative layering and giving the overall track a glossier, more compact, can bounce to it if you like finish. The mix came about initially over a Twitter exchange between the two principal parties which is cool enough and has inspired us to throw our own remix request to Timbaland (@timbaland).
Rating 8
B3SCI in July = All FTSE all the time. No other artist, in any genre has captured as much of our attention or listening hours as much as the UK-based producer. Check out FTSE’s latest mix for London psych-pop outfit Cloud Control and their track “Dojo Rising”.
FTSE (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
“Astronaut” will be the title track on South London producer/performer Joel Compass’ upcoming due in September EP. Premiering last night on Mistajam’s 1X show last night, the brand new “Astronaut” does the R&B/garage revival thing very very well; complete with bits of melody and instrumental that are light years past many of the genre’s biggest current purveyors.
Joel Compass (soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
Berlin-based Kyson announces debut LP The Water’s Way to be released on L.A. label Friends of Friends. The first preview from Water’s Way is the melodically spectacular R&B-tinged melancholy of “Missing Things”.
Kyson 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.45
The tag [Prod. By FTSE] is quickly becoming a certain signifier of a must listen track. The UK producer’s hypnotic infinitely soulful nighttime hours style is a huge favorite around B3. Here, FTSE links up with oft-collaborator Kenzie May and rising London-based MC Thunderbird Gerard for the instantly-draws-you-in twilight blog rap of “Firewurx”.
Thunderbird Gerard 
(Official)
Rating: 8.3
“Recollection” is first single from Keep Shelly in Athens’ debut (!) LP At Home. Brought to us via the cool team at Cascine, the track (along with the rest of the LP) will see a September 17th release. “Maturing in sound” is often music blogger/journo talk for this sounds more like what I want this band to sound like and in that department, at least for us, “Recollection” does represent a maturation in sound for the Athenian duo. The track is more melodic, the arrangement of it is more concise (easier to get into on the first or second listen than a large amount of KSIA’s previous material). That said, “Recollection” is no less inventive or interesting than “classic” Keep Shelly in Athens, the amount of ideas and just flat out work that went into a composition as dense and varied as “Recollection” have to be immense. Blah blah blah, to conclude, we love it.
Keep Shelly in Athens 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
We’re usually pretty reticent to post “remixes” and “edits” of soul/r&b classics; like Marvin’s “I Want You” is one of best grooves ever period. So ostensibly we’re making a little leap here in giving Totescity, the Vegas DJ duo behind this new Theophilus London-featuring remix of “I Want You”, the Team B3/Estate of James Brown soul classic remix stamp of validation; but the remix truly is that fantastic. Hats off boys.
Totescity 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
Australian DJ Kilter hooks up an ace “dancing in the summer of 2013” viber of remix for Ben Pearce’s soulful “What I Might Do” track from last year. We’re really loving this one; get yours below.
Kilter
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We’ve been spinning “Drive (Part 1)” from 20 year old London based producer Ben Khan and processing what exactly to make of such a menacing and anomalous debut? What’s indisputable is Khan’s inclination to play by his own rules. Dark guitars, synth tones, vocal melodies and pulsing rhythms seem to maneuver effortlessly between the experimental pop worlds of projects like Massive Attack and TV On The Radio. We predict that Ben Khan will be one to keep an eye on, and we can’t wait to hear more. Sample why below.
Ben Khan (Tumblr)
Rating 8.3
