The Luca Buccellati-produced (Tei Shi, Yellerkin) “Time” is the debut track from New York popstress Renee Orshan a/k/a RÉN. Ms. Orshan’s neatly melodic melodic vocal is “Time”‘s central mover around the track’s not one note of place instrumental. “Time” is one of Fall 2014’s best debuts.
RÉN 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Basement Jaxx and Snakehips collaborator Meleka further explores the alternative sound of those artists with just announced “The Funkin’ 90’s” EP and single “You Don’t Know”. A cover of girl band 702’s late 90’s track, “The Funkin’ 90’s” EP will feature seven covers of 1990’s songs.
Meleka 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Day Wave is the project 25 year old Oakland native Jackson Phillips. The pristine lo-fi pop songwriting of “Nothing At All” is the debut track from Day Wave and will feature on upcoming EP out early next year.
Day Wave 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
AZEKEL’s trajectory continues to point decidedly upward on the visceral and forward thinking R&B of the just melodically out of this universe “Chronophobia”.
Azekel (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
Two of the blogworld’s hottest commodities intersect on Chicago duo Louis The Child’s hit-in-the-making remix for Oh Wonder’s “Body Gold”
Louis The Child 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Welcome back Ghostface. “Love Don’t Live Here No More” features a doo-wop-y soul instrumental that Ghost could body in his sleep/while he was dinning/doing his taxes, etc. 36 Seasons is the new LP from Ghostface Killah, out December 9th on Tommy Boy Records.
Ghostface Killah (Twitter)
Rating 8.5
Sample the vibe-perfect soul tones of instrumental “Shakers & Movers” from the New York duo of Algorythm and Flwrpt The Stuyvesants new Fine project.
The Stuyvesants (Soundcloud) (Twitter)
Rating 8.5
