THREE B3SCI FAVS ON ONE TRACK! The stars do really align, as the homie B.Lewis dials Shadow and Yukimi’s “Scale It Back” into the stratosphere. Starting the mix with just an a capella Yukimi vocal (listen to Yukimi just shred that melody), the track then builds into an uplifting power jam, complete with spacey electronics and scaled up chords.
DJ Shadow – Scale It Back (Feat. Yukimi Nagano) (B.Lewis Remix)B.Lewis 
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Rating 8.7
The Neighbourhood (who are actually Californian) put on for the British big guitar band block with new track “Female Robbery”. Sure, the track does have those epic guitar elements (and it certainly has a massive enough chorus) but they’ve been pushed way back in the mix in favor of loud, compressed syncopated drums and hip hop-esque use of vocal sampling. So are bands like The Neighbourhood the way forward for Brit-esque band music? Don’t ask us to decide, but for now “Female Robbery” ticks enough “good song” boxes to get a b3sci co-sign.
The Neighbourhood – Female RobberyThe Neighbourhood (Tumblr)
Rating 8.3
Cults take on Commander Cohen’s latter day jam “Everybody Knows” for an upcoming cover LP Old Ideas With New Friends. The set also includes tracks from Bradford Cox and Cold War Kids. Cults choice to put an almost “Runaway” feel under the track (a cold rumbling guitar supporting one-the-ones single note piano stabs) ably maintains the original’s isolation and coolness while keeping Uncle Len’s tune up to date. Thumbs up.
Cults – Everbody Knows (Leonard Cohen)Cults 
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Rating 8.3
Bristol’s answer to current North American trends in R&B, Seasfire skillifully marry, not only that sound, but pop, big guitar British indie, and quiet storm among others. The cinematic, cascading “Falling” is a big track from a band that certainly now have our attention. Familiarize yourself below.
Seasfire – FallingSeasfire 
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Rating 8.5
Permanent Vacation just let loose “Destiny” the latest single from Balearic artist John Talabot’s upcoming fin record. Complementing the song’s Balearic rhythms, progression, and structure is a decidedly 90’s club feel in the track (listen to those fresh analogue-sounding wobbles in the bass). “Destiny” is the sort of track that’s 100% transportive. Trust, 10-15 seconds in and you’ll be totally hooked into the track’s absolutely magnetic, next level, atmosphere.
John Talabot – Destiny (Feat. Pional)John Talabot 
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Rating 8.2
Canadian production team Adventure Club flip the blogoverse-smash “Youth” from to be 2012 star Foxes. Need we say more?
Adventure Club 
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Foxes (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
French chanteuse SoKo returns with a new single and new video for “First Love Never Die”. It’s charming, it’s whimsical, it sounds of a Sunday afternoon in France but it’s also sincere and, dare we say, even moving? Try not listening to that “Four years and I still cry sometimes” line without at least a tiny lump forming in your throat; a charming, whimsical, adorable lump – but a lump all the same.
SoKo – First Love Never DieSoKo 
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Rating 8.0
Our man Havoc cooks up a heater for the Mobb Deep vet. Prodigy and French Montana (weirdest name in rap) rhyme well enough but Havoc’s eyes-to-the-sky chest-puffed-out beat is the main attraction here. Get it girl below.
Prodigy – I’m From the Trap (Feat. French Montana) (Prod. Havoc)Prodigy (Facebook)
Rating 8.0
Stumbeleine pulls the lights all the way down on this new mix for Submere’s “Kowai”. Stumbleine’s choices transform the 3 A.M. after hours club feel of the original into a world-beating/soul-wringing atmospheric track that reminds at times of Burial.
Submerse – Kowai (Stumbleine Remix)Stumbleine (Facebook)
Rating 8.2
New Zealand-born electronic newcomer Lucky Paul hooks up with one of our favorite singers on the planet, Mara TK of Electric Wire Hustle. The result of the collaboration, “Elephant Island”, is a far-off, exotic-sounding paean to distant lands. Listen below.
Lucky Paul – Elephant Island (Feat. Mara TK)Lucky Paul 
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Rating 8.0
This one right here is bananas. Chiddy Bang beatman Xaphoon Jones, goes 110% in on St. Lucia’s already awesome “We Got It Wrong” single. Using syncopated handclaps and a two-step shuffle Xaphoon takes “We Got It Wrong” next level. Expect this mix all over your favorite blogs the next couple days. Xaphoon, we got ourselves a burner.
St. Lucia – We Got It Wrong (Xaphoon Jones Remix)Xaphoon Jones 
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Rating 8.5
L.A.-based production duo go in on the Billboard Hot 100 entry (up to #50!) and damn does it knock. Turn this one all the way up.
Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (LAZRtag Bootleg Remix)LAZRtag (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
