We’re pleasantly perplexed by the deeply expressive montage of uniquely creative beats, quiet subtle-touch guitar riffs and divinely-inspired picture-perfect seductive-expansive ambient background vocals on new dreamy fave “Lucid”, an outstanding hip-hop-influenced beauty created by Jerusalem-based producer Swum Beats. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
SWUM (Soundcloud)
We’re psyched on the brilliantly vibe-y indie dance triumph “Not Afraid” from French-electro duo Basic Tape (a.k.a Sav and Ben) who we think bring a cool magnetic minimalist style worth keeping an ear on. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Basic Tape (Soundcloud)
We like the starry-eyed cheery-sensed melody-driven instrumentals and creative-touch warm-ebullient cosmic-vibe undercurrents of “Madly” a vocally-picturesque ambient beauty from a mysterious new producer named Luna. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Luna (Soundcloud)
French producer Kultur, also know as Ismaël Dabo, creates a vividly-effervescent vibrant-pause-inflected potpourri of dreamy ambient beats, syrupy hazy atmospheric vocals, and perfect-touch melodic piano tone accents on his new electro delight “Jeux d’Enfants”. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Kultur (Soundcloud)
We’re smitten with the timeless meld of expansive cinematic atmospherics and fresh natural tropical beats on “Running” the new rhythm and percussion driven tech house track from Chicago-bred Denverite Sean Biddle and his fellow D-town house DJ sidekick Ben A (both are new to B3). If you like the vibe as much as we do be sure to check out the duo’s Manchester Underground tech house mix on the Juno minimal podcast series (its also very good). Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sean Biddle (Soundcloud)
The awesome Ghostly International will release Escapements, the new LP from Brooklyn band Beacon, in February. “Preserve” as a track sounds quite modern, almost as if it came from five-ten years in the future (no joke “Preserve” really sounds like what indie dance music might sound like in 2020), the synthesis on “Preserve” of a varying textures of R&B, dance, elsewhere is quite new (and refreshingly so). Don’t miss out.
Beacon (Soundcloud)
B3 fave dance-vibe mood-setter LO’99 wows us with a mind boggling barrage of synth-heavy instrumentals and an immense bass line groove on his intense new catchy-hooked percussion-accented ambient sizzler “Step”, a remix for Aussie act Crooked Colours. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
LO’99 (Soundcloud)
B3 favorite artist Tom Misch turns in an incredible new brilliant-toned funk-beat-textured hip-hop-picturesque vintage-jingle vibe-y new wonder that we love called “Twinkle Twinkle”. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Tom Misch 
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B3’s beat maker favorite Sango brings in his signature melange of phenomenal sophisticated beats and meshes them seamlessly with whimsical Latin-pizzazz female vocals on lusophone new track “Dias Melhores” (we swear she’s saying zanahoria). Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sango (Soundcloud)
The awesome new track “Aspidistra” is the charismatically-artsy turbulent-synth-driven deep-house b-side dance track from Brighton-based MTA Records rep’d rising-star artist Braxton. Excellent. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Braxton (Soundcloud)
Lose yourself in fabulous disco-biased abandon with “Make Me Feel” a stunning vintage Blue Notes-sampling 70’s-vibe dance track which is first in a series of five disco edits from B3-featured NYC-based house/disco/soul production artist Figgy (who we discussed in March for his vibrantly catchy electro-soul dance revamp of Le Youth’s Brandy-sampling standout “Real”). Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Figgy 
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We’re caught up on the sensational dynamically-simple clamoring-metallic piano-drenched meld of lovely instrumental ambiances on “La Nuit” the latest jazz-inspired melodic beauty from B3 recent-highlight Canadian artist JOSEPH L’ÉTRANGER, a low-profile producer who we covered in September for his deeply soulful stunning-radiant jazzy-sultry luxurious-entrancing keyboard driven gem “Forest Shrine”. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Joseph L’Etranger 
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