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Jungle – Drops

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Really this review could begin and end with a “Fuck yes.” but here are a few details about “Drops”, new from UK artist(s) Jungle. Space beats, space soul, soul w/ panache, pop w/ panache, pop that moves you; “Drops” is that soulful beats-driven modern pop that will absolutely move you at your most basic and most complex and will grab at you, addict you, make you feel a part of it. That is (roughly) how strong/powerful a track “Drops” is. “Drops” is a double-A w/ previously b3 rec’d “Platoon” and will be released on the very cool Chess Club Records, July 15th

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Rating 8.4

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07-03-13

Clean Bandit – Dust Clears (Russ Chimes Remix)

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Russ Chimes’ nonstop tour of world-beating jams rolls forward w/ his latest melodic house mix for UK band Clean Bandit. If you know Chimes you will love this remix; if you don’t know Chimes then for the sake of your own humanity and humanity at large you should sort out pronto (also you will love this remix). Chimes 100.

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Rating 8.4

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07-03-13

Clubfeet – Cape Town (Panama Remix)

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New jam. Panama ring in the sunniness sounds of “Cape Town” (yes, both the track and the place) with this latest remix of the stellar Clubfeet track. Catch these two acts together on tour in Australia this summer ahead of Clubfeet’s new AA-side single release for Everything You Wanted/Heartbreak (July 15) and new full length album Heirs and Graces expected this September. In the meantime, get your daytime disco dance-on to this fresh take of “Cape Town” below.

Clubfeet – Cape Town (Panama Remix)

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Rating 8.3

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07-03-13

Duke Dumont feat. MNEK – Hold On

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Duke Dumont’s maturation into a full on star of indie dance music continues with new single “Hold On”. Featuring Rudimental collaborator MNEK (& “Need U” co-writer), “Hold On” walks a neat juxtaposition between the immediacy of the track’s club ready beats and bounce and the more sobering spiritual for the 2010’s vocal and instrumental stylings. “Hold On” is a most definite win for Duke Dumont.

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Rating: 8.3

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07-01-13

Elli Ingram – Poetic Justice (Retrial) (Prod. Felix Joseph & Rudi Redz)

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The very very talented UK up and comer Elli Ingram releases her debut “Sober” EP. A tantalizing (and we don’t use that word lightly) mix of current R&B and pop sensibilities w/ the powerhouse vocal quality and performance of the best and most well-lauded of the current wave female British singers; and, oh yeah, there’s this absolutely crazy re-work of Kendrick’s “Poetic Justice” that closes the EP and is our pick from the set.

Elli Ingram – Poetic Justice (Retrial) (Prod. Felix Joseph & Rudi Redz)

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Rating: 8.5

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07-01-13

Bondax – Giving It All

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Lancashire UK’s soul pop home team Bondax. We’re going proceed now with this track by forgoing the requisite Disclosure comparison and introduce you straight to the track, which (and it should really not be a surprise) is very good indeed. We’re talking hit-you-in-the-heart-area R&B vocals, the slickest of slick bass lines & “feel good for summer” vibes; the typical (& typically well-fashioned) Bondax formula. A+’s all around.

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Rating 8.4

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07-01-13

Interview w/ Lovelife

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We were probably not alone in the music blogging game in scratching our heads at the notion that newcomers Lovelife were a partial extension of the once very well-hyped UK guitar band Viva Brother. That same band (or most of it) is now getting on well enough in their new digs as NYC-based 80’s dream-synth-poppers, Lovelife. We unlocked some of the band’s mystery during an interview before their recent Echo/Popshop West Presents show in L.A. We spoke briefly with producer/instrumentalist Ally Young and guitarist Samuel Jackson about their past, their new single with tastemakers Neon Gold, life on the road and more.

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07-01-13

Los Girls – One For Sloan

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Necessary chill coming your way from LA based producers LOS GIRLS. Their debut release “One For Sloan” fuses dreamy synths and subterranean beat culture into an experimental serving of surreptitious electro pop. Keep an eye out for their debut EP July 16 on Plug Research and sample the cinematic vibes of “One For Sloan” below.

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Rating 8.3

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06-29-13

Duck Sauce – It’s You

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NYC bros-in-DJ’ing Armand Van Helden and A-Trak a/k/a Duck Sauce a/k/a Goose Marmalade a/k/a Eagle Tapenade a/k/a The Ol’ Dirty Chinese Restaurant make a successful return to the $$$$ window w/ the playful kitsch of “It’s You”. Skip along to this one below.

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Rating 8.3

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06-29-13

Abigail Wyles – Mantra

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Soulful London girls over dark hypnotic beats; haha, for lack of a better way of describing it that lane of music may be the one we’re digging the most at the moment. And while Abigail Wyles joins a relatively crowded genre, there is nothing here on “Mantra” that sounds tired or imitative; a very strong singular vocal performance and tune well complements Wyles’ collaborator Holly Simpson’s spare but well-suited & unique ambient-touched production. There’s also an undercurrent of jazz (that you really don’t hear in this style of music or really done well elsewhere) both in Wyles’ vocal and in the instrumental (particularly in the verses) that is especially interesting.

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Rating: 8.3

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06-28-13

Premiere: American Authors – Believer (Captain Cuts Remix)

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B3SCI are very pleased to world premiere the latest creation from L.A.-based production trio Captain Cuts; their remix for “Believer” from BK band American Authors. Team CC boost up the beats, inflate the original’s already strong hooks to oceansize and blast the track’s chorus into a interstellar hyperspace (at least that’s what we hear when listening to it). Peep game and get with B3’s premiere of Captain Cuts new “Believer” remix below.

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Rating 8.3

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06-28-13

Marian Hill – Whisky

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Welcome Philly R&B band Marian Hill to B3SCI. We’ve been spinning the brilliantly simple “Whisky” the entire week. Perhaps what’s most refreshing about “Whisky” and Marian Hill is there’s no “winking” or “hand waving” to the more blog friendly tropes of the current wave of R&B, “Whisky” doesn’t try to be anything more than what it is: a really really great song that also happens to be R&B. Very well done.

Marian Hill – Whisky

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Rating 8.3

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06-26-13