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.
Smoke DZA 
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Rating 8.0
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.
Saint Pepsi (Soundscloud)
Beat Culture 
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Rating 8.4
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 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
“Distance” is new from veteran New York soulstress Emily King. On the track, the piano-driven easy sounds of “Distance”‘s slow dance-ready instrumental well complement Ms. King’s sweet, playful, thematically perfect vocal. We like it a lot.
Emily King (Official)
Rating 8.2
L.A.-based low-tempo producer Shlohmo is the latest A-list collaborator (TEED, SOHN) for current top of the indie heap songstress BANKS. Shlohmo’s soft-touch, languid, churning palette is a nice match here on “Brain” for BANKS’ hazy pop-cognizant alto.
Banks 
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Rating 8.6
