New age electro RnB songstress Stevie Neale gets the remix treatment from Sega Bodega on her new and debut single, “Dangerous”. The Scottish boardsman succeeds in tranforming the infectious dance-floor glam of “Dangerous” into an ambient fog of dawn-like reminisce. Consider this the morning after with it’s downtempo chill and pseudo-trap of scattered vocal manipulation. B3SCI’s got the premiere for you below. Check it out!
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Rating 8.1
Maplewood native SZA links up with producer BrandUn DeShay and makes for some fluidous R&B on “Crack Dreams”. Off the debut See.SZA.Run EP.
SZA – Crack Dreams (Prod. BrandUn DeShay)SZA 
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Rating 8
Heavy cool vibes coming your by way of 2012 Mobo nominee Zara McFarlane. Not long ago this budding UK jazz aficionado released her debut album, Until Tomorrow, on Giles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings. For this new version of “Police & Thieves”, Zara’s vocals glide a top the track’s steady shuffle depicting a story as much relevant to the conflicts of today’s society as any time prior, a true homage to the Junior Murvin classic. Keep an eye on this young voice and check out “Police & Thieves” previewed here from Zara’s forthcoming and sophomore 2013 release.
Zara McFarlane – Police & ThievesZara McFarlane (Facebook)
Rating 8.5
“White Night” comes to us via Stockholm collective Thus:Owls. We haven’t been able to stop listening to this. The song’s pop sensibilities and pensive strings serenade us in a way not reminiscent of much anything we’ve heard since a release like Elysium by The Velvet Teen. It’s a pretty undeniable night-cap for any music fan capable of becoming entrenched in a well crafted melancholy. Thus:Owls sophomore new album Harbours is available now via Avalanche/Hoob Records.
Thus:Owls – White NightThus:Owls 
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Rating 8.7
Gerry Mulligan – Night Lights (1963 Version)
Gerry Mulligan – Prelude in E Minor
“night lights” is the sort of record that cuts through you. it cuts at the superfluities, the trivialities, the bullshit that envelop everyday life. recorded in 1963, during the ascension of bossa nova into the american/european musical palette, “night lights” marries the airiness and tones of cool jazz with the feel of latin rhythm and syncopation.
not necessarily “melancholy” or “somber” or “quiet” (i mean it could be each of these things), this record just feels – it breathes, it washes over you. “night lights” opens quietly on the mulligan-penned title track with jim hall’s soft tremolo guitar floating in and out the taps of dave bailey’s hushed drums. “morning of the carnival from black orpheus” introudces the bossa nova meter. “prelude in e minor” integrates a chopin chamber melody on top that bossa meter. mulligan’s subtle baritone shines on “tell me when”.
the depth/beauty/intensity of the playing on “night lights” is remarkable. i find myself constantly coming back to this record – and, without exception, am further enriched as a musician/human being after each listening.
