In a completely out of nowhere collaboration UK producer FTSE links up with Atlanta-based producer/MC/singer of Trinidad James’ “Southside” fame for the beautifully melancholic “St. Tropez”. The midlands-based FTSE is on some kind of a run right now, turning in one must listen gem after another. With the release of today’s “St. Tropez” single, FTSE also announced a new EP today, the September 30th-due “FTSE II”.
FTSE 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
Chela, whom you may remember for her feature on Goldroom’s “Fifteen” record, announces her debut single w/ the awesome Kitsune label with “Romanticise”. To help whet y’all’s appetites the Oz-based singer looks up fellow Aussies and favorites of B3 Gold Fields for a breezy, very continental synth-driven remix of “Romanticise”. Look for “Romanticise” September 2nd on Kitsune.
Gold Fields 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Beck has turned his ever experimenting hand back to hip hop in a move anyone would find hard to predict, on this remix of JJ Doom’s “Banished” (JJ Doom = MF Doom + Jneiro Janel).
The results are certainly ‘interesting’, and not in an “I don’t like it but can’t be arsed to say why” way but more in a thought provoking, intriguing way; Beck’s raw and laid back acoustic instrumentation offers a whole new dimension to the original and gives you plenty of reasons to hold out for it’s full duration.
Out on Lex 20th August.
By Nathan Hetherington
Beck 
(Official)
Rating 8.3
We LOVE Cloud Control and we LOVE Wise Blood so premiering this hot-off-the-press new remix of “Dojo Rising” is a clear B3 no brainer. On the track, US-based Wise Blood selects for a hypnotic melange of warm psyched-out synths and deep reverberates-out-your-chest drums that are circadian in their repetition. Londoners Cloud Control, who are currently in America right now playing a small slate of mainly West Coast dates, are readying the release of their upcoming Dream Cave LP which is due September 17th via Votiv. You can sample Wise Blood’s remix of “Dojo Rising” below.
TOUR DATES
August 4th – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands
August 5th – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
August 8th – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
August 10th – Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Bar
August 12th – Los Angeles, CA – Bardot / School Night
August 14th – Portland, WA – Mississippi Studios
August 16th – Seattle, WA – Barboza
Cloud Control (Soundcloud)
Wise Blood
: (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Darius a/k/a French producer Terence Nguyen dials up a smoothly sultry, perfect for late summer take on Le Crayon’s “Give You Up” that’s destined for repeat play after repeat play out the B3 alpine the deeper we move into August. Look for Le Crayon’s “Give You Up” single out today on Yuksek’s Partyfine label.
Darius 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
Ah, yes, finally something new from the great London-based DJ xxxy this time in the form of a trap-drum pad/house vocal/instrumental hybrid remix for Polish artist XX▲N▲XX (we’re not sure either how you pronounce that). This xxxy remix is part of a new “Disappear” EP package from XX▲N▲XX which is due August 12th on U Know Me Records.
XX▲N▲XX 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
So here at b3sci we’re pretty big fans of EBTG, Walking Wounded & Temperamental are classics. The massive worldwide hit a/k/a the song that most 90’s bros know them by “Missing” occupies an odd place in the Everything But the Girl canon, as while the original was a more subdued track much in the duo’s subtle but at that time rapidly evolving toward dance style; the version that was a US #2 was a remix. So while melodically great, the version that remains seared in the consciousness of anyone who was conscious in the late 90’s is definitely a bit of a pastiche of its era. “Missing”s great melodic lines, though, get a superb rescue and a 2013 modernization from favorite of the blog Maths Time Joy and singer Kimberly Anne. We like it a lot.
Maths Time Joy 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
