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Andrea – Down (Feat. Vanessa Elisha)

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We’re into the infinite charms and heady-atmosphere of “Down” a beauty from French producer Andrea who creates a gorgeous soulful vibe on the track with his outstanding harmonious male-female vocal duet; which features sultry-vocaled Australian songstress Vanessa Elisha who we recently discussed on B3 for her sensational talents on B.Lewis collaboration “Down For This”. Great track. “Down” is presumably the first to release off Andrea’s “Black Magic” EP which is out on July 10th via Jakarta Records. Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-24-15

Flamingosis – Love Me In The Evening

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We totally love the super-cool summery funk-soul vibe and superb use of a gorgeous Notations vocal sample on the excellent new track “Love Me in the Evening” a melodic and seductive swoony-vocaled flip from talented New Jersey artist Aaron Valasquez a.k.a. Flamingosis who recently released a collection of songs on his new beat-based album Newski, out now. Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-24-15

Tiron & Ayomari – 2 Kinds

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Get into the awesome percussion and scratchy hip-hop dynamic of LA-based rapper duo Tiron and Ayomari on their immeasurably catchy hand-percussion-graced track called “2 Kinds” which revels in a long-winded divinely energetic hip-hop rant style that reminds us a little of Kid Cudi. The new song is featured on the duo’s Great New Wonderful LP, out now. If you’re into drumming, scratch and percussion this one is mandatory. We love it. Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-24-15

Billie Black – Hung Up

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We’re hung up on the smashing vocals of promising young West London vocalist extraordinaire Billie Black yet again on her new mellow melody-laced piano-driven track “Hung Up”; which follows Billie’s engrossing rock steady, deeply-sultry beat enhanced track “Music Box” that we featured on the blog last week. New track “Hung Up” shines equally as bright in all its glorious simplicity and beautifully compliments the other tracks off Billie’s wonderful new “Teach Me” EP, that is out now. Enjoy! Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-23-15

AZEKEL – Sold My Love

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East London singer-beatmaker AZEKEL, a B3 featured artist who we adored for his EP debut-release of syncopated track “Mad About The Boy”, turns in “Sold My Love” which is AZEKEL’s second single from his upcoming “Raw Vol. 1” EP that is out via Thunderlightning Recordings on July 12th. AZEKEL, who sports an impressive mixture of his own amazing impassioned vocals, supporting instrumental melodies and a captivating reverse-beat exit on “Sold My Love”, is up there with our new favorite UK R&B/soul tinged emerging artists in 2015. If you’re blessed enough to be at Glastonbury this week be sure to catch Azekel’s debut live performance on the BBC introductory stage Friday the 26th. Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-23-15

Janet Jackson – No Sleep

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Ms. Jackson is back with “No Sleep” her first proper single in several years. Firstly, we have to grant Janet her respect due here for attempting (very well) at this mature point of her career to still put out relevant music while still being arty and tasteful in doing it (Hi Madonna!). “No Sleep” sits atop at a Kool & The Gang “Summer Madness” style neat instrumental bed and Janet’s breathy coos; that and Jackson’s managing of the cool Latin vocab phrase “fait accompli” into a pop song hook. Listen.

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06-23-15

Slime – Hot Dog

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Newcastle-born Will Archer a/k/a Slime is readying his debut LP Company for Domino imprint Weird World. New stream “Hot Dog” which despite it’s frankfurter-inspired title is a neatly-constructed bit of hazy and bare R&B set to easy beats, lilting horn samples and Archer’s cool falsetto. Sample “Hot Dog” below and look for Company on August 14.

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06-22-15

Krs – All of U (Feat. Roy Woods)

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B3 just covered Toronto producer and Noir Sound (Film Noir) founder Krs. for his joint-effort acoustic-leaning fix of D.R.A.M track “Cha Cha” (feat. Tierra Wilson) that he created with Texas producer pal Romby. We love the endearing, artfully-inspired minimalist style and long-view creative vision gift of Krs. who is rapidly becoming well-accomplished in making bootleg remixes and introducing the world to some incredibly promising vocal acts. Krs. impresses again on his newest bootleg endeavor “All Of U” which is a slightly more upbeat percussively-textured bass-heavy take on talented 19-year-old Brampton (Toronto suburb) vocalist homeboy Roy Wood$; who’s track “All of You” features his own very attractive, superbly impassioned MJ-reverbing vocal talents that have indeed captivated us. Stay tuned and be sure to check out Roy Wood$’s upcoming project EXIS which is scheduled to drop sometime in 2015 and follow Krs./Film Noir for some lavishly modern minimalist cross-genre R&B/Hip-Hop roots hybrid electro-tinged tracks. Reviewed by Erin Shay.

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06-22-15

Astronauts, Etc. – Eye to Eye

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Astronauts, Etc. wow us again with soulful new indie pop track “Eye To Eye”. Warm rhodes, hi-hat sync-d rhythms, and singer Anthony Ferraro’s excellent melodic choices frame “Eye To Eye”‘s potency. A+++

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06-19-15

Joe Hertz – Ashes (Feat. Liv)

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The sunset soul of “Ashes” is the latest track from London producer and songwriter Joe Hertz. Featuring the summer-kissed vocal of Liv, “Ashes” traffics in the breezy beats vaguely R&B house that is right now at peak trend. We do love “Ashes”.

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06-17-15