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)
r e l, the L.A.-based artist who in May released a very good self-titled EP, posses an extra affecting voice. Particularly special here on this new cover of Glass Animals’ “Gooey” (one of this indie decade’s best songs) is r e l’s skill at threading/weaving her vocal phrasing in an almost symbiotic way with the instrumental’s flow and pacing; listening to the track is akin to feeling the sensation (at least what I imagine this sensation to be like!) of being gently wound through a melodic whirlwind (think Pythagoras’ “Musica universalis”). We’re very impressed. r e l’s debut LP is in the works for early 2016.
r e l (Official) (Soundcloud)
Get into the classically-excellent wise-cracking catchy-flow Rick Ross magic on new track “Amazing Grace”, the prolific trend bender’s sublimely chill production which has us all wondering when the man is going to do a full album of tunes stylistically just like this (mafioso beats, cold paced flows, etc). Call us Ross, we’ll produce it; you’ve got our number. Awesome track. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Rick Ross (Twitter)
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)
Tune in to the voluptuously emotive heart-spun vocals of B3 featured rising-star songstress Vanessa Elisha on her smooth new track “Out Of Time” which features the deep-sultry beat-textured modern r&b production artistry of bright-talent LA wiz-kid producer XXYYXX (featured a number of times here on the blog). Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Vanessa Elisha (Soundcloud)
After a two-year drought, the newest president of G.O.O.D Music, Pusha T, releases “Untouchable” off of his upcoming album King Push. Timbaland is on production, nodding in tribute to Notorious B.I.G with the track’s main sample. Pusha T is having a pretty good week; Yeezus himself pronounced him the first president of G.O.O.D Music and T announced Friday the release of his latest Adidas shoe collaboration. Look out for King Push that will hopefully drop in the coming months. Reviewed by Jake Goldstein.
Pusha T (Twitter)
This guy. Freddie Gibbs successfully defends his title as B3SCI’s favorite rapper on “Extradite”. Instrumentally laced with jazz and trip-hop elements, “Extradite” as a beat stands zero chance vs. Gangsta Gibbs (and cool guest Black Thought from The Roots) command of diction and turns of tempo. A very good track.
Freddie Gibbs (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 
(Soundcloud)
“Solar” is the debut track online from Reading UK newcomers HAIZE. Best pals with Sundara Karma in the Reading scene, the quartet (all aged 18 years!) operate (much like SK) within a space of instrumentally artful indie ruddered by a strong command pop hook writing and song structure. In talking about the anthemic track’s origins HAIZE described “Solar” as “the first song to come together properly as a band. It’s all our favourite live song to play and is always sure to make us let loose at the end of a set.” and lyrically about “being stuck in the middle ground when ending with someone and second guessing every feeling, but in the end realising whats best and having to deal with it. In a way it’s a heartbreak song but goes through all the stages you go through when it’s over with someone.” We’re pleased to B3 Premiere the debut track from the very promising HAIZE. Enjoy below.
HAIZE (Soundcloud)
