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Hudson Taylor & Gabrielle Aplin – Helplessly Hoping (Cover)

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01-30-14

The Chainsmokers – #SELFIE

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Remix rainmakers The Chainsmokers are taking the plunge into the arena of original tracks with a slapping new jam called “#SELFIE”. A ‘#selfie’ raging valley girl curates the track throughout to it’s resonating drops. We can’t get enough. Grab the new single soon via Dim Mak.

The Chainsmokers (Soundcloud)

Rating 8.1

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01-30-14

Jagwar Ma – Uncertainty

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01-30-14

Wake Owl – Letters

Wake Owl - Letters

“Letters” is new from soulful indie outfit Wake Owl. Taken from the Vancouver band’s Richard Swift-produced debut The Private World of Paradise LP, single “Letters” does well to focus Wake Owl’s compact, hook-driven, emotive through the sound lens of Swift’s band The Shins (in that the production pulls from a similar palette of wistful tones and lo-fi atmospheres). The Private World of Paradise is out March 4th on Vagrant.

Wake Owlcanada: (Facebook)

Rating: 8.7

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01-29-14

Smoke DZA – Just My Thoughts (Prod. By Flying Lotus)

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NYC’s highest FlyLo stan (guessing) Smoke DZA takes to Until the Quiet Comes instrumental “Getting There” and clocks through a solid run of bars doing well to smoothly navigate the tricky beat. “Just My Thoughts” is taken from Steve-O’s “We Are Alive #7” podcast coming out next week.

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Rating 8.0

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01-29-14

Beat Culture – Drifter (SAINT PEPSI Remix)

Beat Culture Saint Pepsi

The ineffable SAINT PEPSI, who tore up the indiesphere earlier this month with “Mr. Wonderful”, debuts a sunny disco-leaning mix for our very own B3SCI Records single “Drifter”. In exchanging the Psychic Twin-featuring “Drifter”‘s choppy drum stabs and vocal slices PEPSI a/k/a Boston College student Ryan DeRobertis selects for a “he just turned this thing around 360 degrees” melange of smooth, buttery, yacht-day grooves. Turnt it up.

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Beat Culture connecticut (Soundcloud) (Purchase 7-inch)

Rating 8.4

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01-29-14

The Soundmen – My Friends (ft. Mick Coogan & Panic City)

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01-29-14

No Age – I Won’t Be Your Generator

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01-29-14

Be Forest – Captured Heart

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01-29-14

Chelsea Lankes – Ghost

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01-29-14

Arthur Beatrice – Midland

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01-29-14

BABEL – Life Of Eve ft. Låpsley

Life Of Eve ft. Låpsley

Låpsley, fresh from her breakthrough single “Station” from a couple weeks ago, links up with Belgian producer BABEL for a soothing bit of heavy on mood/atmosphere deep house. That we all love, BUT THEN, there’s this sax-driven break that crashes into the track at around 2:20 and pushes “Life Of Eve” into a fifth or sixth gear of sorts that is just simply euphoric. “Life Of Eve” is excerpted from BABEL’s “Matthew I” EP. (HD)

BABEL belgium (Soundcloud)

Rating 8.0

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01-28-14