Besides the obvious, there’s lots to like about this.
Fe. 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.7
Like the title suggests, “Here We Go Again” is yet another Johnny Stimson grab bag of feel-good party synths and funky washed guitars. The song is as singalong primed as say, Maroon 5, and is as booty shakin as Zak Waters or say the latest Daft Punk, all hinting towards Stimson as one to watch for in 2014. Sample at “Here We Go Again” below and also have a spin at the recent Kulkid remix for the popular blogosphere track “Daddy’s Money”.
Johnny Stimson (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
Just 17, Atlanta artist Jamie impresses with the simple guitar-picked R&B of “Worldly”.
Jamie 
: (TUMBLR)
Rating: 8.0
The beautiful & refreshing “Heresy Baby” is new from Australian songsmith Paul Conrad. While certainly influenced melodically and in the instrumental track by 90’s alternative and indie music, “Heresy Baby” still sounds real and modern; it doesn’t sound like a pastiche or painfully muddled in influence gazing. Loaded with seemingly limitless feel and emotive quality, getting swept up in the track’s anthemic choruses and breaks is only avoidable by the most extreme cold of heart.
Paul Conrad
(Facebook) (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Undefeated champ of new wave tech house Robert Delong mixes up something very special with the neon plastic glow of his “Let Go” remix. “Let Go” is the lead single from the great RAC’s upcoming debut “Don’t Talk To” EP.
Robert DeLong 
(Facebook)
The mighty Misun get an assist from Chicago remix collective The Hood Internet on “Promise Me”. Sonically somewhere between a Super Mario Brothers underwater level (see Mario swim) and a Caribbean cruise leisure deck, THI have us diddy bopping w/ a fire flower in our hand. Watch out for the fireball.
The Hood Internet 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.4
Downtown Records artist Mapei returns with the release of the inventive R&B-leaning pop of “Don’t Wait”. On the song, a complex rhythm track (incl. kicks, finger snaps, & some sort of synth’d up drum that sounds like it was recorded inside a dungeon) frames up Mapei’s breezy but effective vocal. We’re into it.
Mapei 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Manchester-based Charlotte OC calls her music as “spooky gospel” which if you know B3 you know that is a description that is straight up our street. Let the darkly soulful Tim Anderson-produced (Solange, Sia) “Colour My Heart” be your introduction to Ms. OC’s very cool sound.
Charlotte OC 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
Maybe our favorite band period right now, PAPA let loose another winner with the wonderfully soulful call to arms (singer Darren Weiss said of the track, ” [it’s] a call for young people to get away from the b.s”), “If The Moon Rises” from the band’s much anticipated around B3 debut LP Tenderness. Get it while it’s awesome.
PAPA (Facebook)
Rating 8.5
We dig the minimalist hip hop-influenced pop of new NYC duo The Grand Affair. The piano/beat-based track “Work Week” is maybe simple in its lack of complication but is special for its melody-works-so-keenly-in-the-beat mechanisms and the spaces where the tune does become more complex ie: those piano scale runs in the verse and those space lazer synth embellishments that help add tension. Sample “Work Week” below.
The Grand Affair (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
We are very pleased to present the premiere of the Kyodai remix of “The Grace” by Birmingham UK-based Troumaca. From their upcoming “The Grace” single due November 4th on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings. The Berlin-residing brother duo Kyodai outfit “The Grace” with a rumbling march-leaning beat juxtaposed with more relaxed worldly synth and piano atmospheres and adeptly manage the mix’s dynamic tension & ebbs with a cinematically-informed temperament.
Troumaca 
(Facebook) (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
Hot off the remix press, favorite of the site Catching Flies flips “War With Heaven” from Brighton UK artist Louis M^ttrs into a syrupy late night post-garage cooler.
Catching Flies (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
