The Andrea train kept rollin’ on his latest buttery remix for Kyson. We’re talking lush atmospheres, and easy to love no stress beats. Pour that champagne, girl.
Kyson – Ocean Tides (Andrea Remix)Andrea 
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Rating 8.2
The Andrea train kept rollin’ on his latest buttery remix for Kyson. We’re talking lush atmospheres, and easy to love no stress beats. Pour that champagne, girl.
Kyson – Ocean Tides (Andrea Remix)Andrea (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“The Dark Age” is the latest from Widowspeak’s upcoming sophomore LP Almanac. “The Dark Age” is a bit of that dramatic dreamy-riff laced rock with a soulful underbelly that hits squarely into the b3 rock and roll sweet spot.
Widowspeak 
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Rating 8.1
Terry Urban, NYC producer by way of C-town, just dropped this free download of his cool flip on “Adorn” by year-end list favorite, Miguel. It’s a slowburning jam with a tap of rap. Scope it out and grab a download over at Terry Urban’s Bandcamp.
Miguel – Adorn (Terry Urban Remix)Terry Urban (Official)
Miguel 
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Rating 8.1
Join us at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles this Sunday for ArtDontSleep presents That 70’s Soul featuring special guests Seu Jorge, Coco O, Alice Russell, Zap Mama and more! Come celebrate along with host Garth Trinidad the soulful music of Al Green, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, Gil Scott-Heron, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Roy Ayers, Stevie Wonder and more! Enjoy performances with The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble and DJ sets by Questlove and Umoja Sound System. ‘Dig Deeper’ into the theme behind the evening with this foreword by Allen Thayer.
Tickets for the show are $30 presale / $35 at the door, and you can get more info on purchasing tickets here. OR you can drop us a line and we’ll enter to you to win a FREE pair of tickets to this event. To enter our raffle, just email us here and let us know that you want to catch That 70’s Soul on Sunday night. We’ll enter your name in our random drawing to take place on Saturday evening (day before the show). Keep an eye on your inbox and good luck!
We’re pumped because Contrakids have dropped this new DJ Skeet Skeet remix of their track, “We Go, You Go”. The cut is part of a new remix collection that also includes projects with Savoir Adore and Age of Rockets. Rumor has it the band may be in States for SXSW 2013 in support of a new EP release expected in February.
Contrakids – We Go, You Go (Yung Skeeter Remix)Contrakids 
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Rating 8.3
Kodaline have just released this new cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”. The track will be on the band’s forthcoming and second EP, The High Hopes, which drops one week ahead of the release of their debut album, In A Perfect World on 3/18, right around the high-tide season of SXSW. Expect to hear lots more from Kodaline in 2013.
Kodaline 
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Rating 8
We’ve been spending a lot of time with this pair of pensively crafted compositions by New York singer-songwriter, Noro. After two years of incubation, and with a yet to be named debut full-length album in the pipeline for 2013, Samuel Hoeksema aka Noro has teamed up with Mouser to release this new digital 7″ titled Nightingale. The release drops tomorrow (12/11) as a free download and offers two tracks: “For Joy”, an upbeat pop ode featuring an array of synth textures culminating in an ethos of etherial chaos, and the more straightforward “Amor”, with it’s lyrical vulnerability and hymn-like quality. B3SCI’s got the premiere, so take a listen below and make note for more to come from Noro in the days ahead.
Noro – For Joy Noro – ArmorNoro 
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Rating 8.4
The good people at The Central in Santa Monica had a monster lineup this past Saturday (12/8). And I was glad to be there for it. Sun Araw started the night off well, mixing different experimental sounds with funk based grooves. He even had three Santas and a Reindeer rocking out (four X-mas dressed concert goers, though it was the first night of Hanukkah). As Sun Araw finished up, the crowd started to grow and move away from the bar and towards the stage for the next set from Dam-Funk. LA based and Stones Throw records artist Dam-Funk brought the amassing crowd to dance with some straight funk, as his stage name would suggest. On a side note, Stones Throw will be reissuing Dam-Funk’s debut 2009 album Toeachizown as both a 5 LP set and individually.
After a well received set from Dam-Funk, Lawrence, Kansas based beat smith Morri$ took the stage. With his over sized glasses, almost like a calling-card, Morri$ dropped some serious heat. His dreamy beats made waves as the audience grooved to the offerings of the young producer. Flipping genres, Morri$ made a nice showing for the Santa Monica crowd. The last act of the night and recent cover boy of LA Weekly, was The Gaslamp Killer. Having just dropped a his new EP, Breakthrough on Flying Lotus’s label Brainfeeder, and recently playing at Low End Theory with the reveal of Captain Murphy (Flying Lotus), William Bensussen has a lot going for him. The San Diego bred, experimental DJ brought the house down. The wall to wall crowd went on a roller coaster ride that the bearded conductor, GLK, took them on. Do yourselves a favor and see this magician live, you will not be disappointed. By Brian Litwin
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Trails and Ways have just released this stellar remix of their single, “Border Crosser” by fellow Bay Area collective The Seshen. We can’t get enough of The Seshen’s reverb pulsed, chopped and screwed interpretation of the track’s already tense bass, synths, and melody. This cut is the first release from a new remix EP that Trails and Ways will be releasing January 8th, 2013. Keep a look out for Trails and Ways debut full length, Trilingual expected to drop sometime next year.
Trails and Ways (Facebook)
Rating 8.5
Com Truise adds a sythwave touch to “Kemosabe” with this latest flip on the new Everything Everything single. Get familiar below. #loneranger
Everything Everything 
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Com Truise (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
John Newman offers an intimate solo take on his recent feature from the Rudimental interwebs smash, “Not Giving In”. At the ripe age of 21, it’s an understatement that Newman’s vocal tone and delivery is well beyond his years. Here, with only his piano offering for a spacious setting, Newman tells the melodic story with a noteworthy level of conviction.
John Newman (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
Get psyched because Beni ‘Benga’ Adejumo has just dropped his latest banga! Yes, we did just say ‘banga’ and the track “Open Your Eyes” wraps the year for this UK based producer, offering just a taste of the electronic mayhem to come on his new album dropping in 2013. This track has come across our radar several times since this summer and now’s finally the official chance to turn your speakers up and bump. Dig in.
Benga (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.2
