The ever-consistent Snakehips remains undefeated and still defending champ on brand new mix for buzz artist RAURY and “Cigarette Song”. If you’re familiar with/into the Snakehips’s style of easy R&B-esque beats with pop-informed electro touches then you’re already into this new one. Spin it below.
Snakehips 
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Rating 8.2123
Fave producer Black Metaphor sets the instrumental for the 70’s cinema rap of Young Jeezy’s “Beautiful”. The three vets trade hooky bars on top a “Gonna Fly Now/Summer Madness”-styled and one of the coolest tracks in hip hop this year. Jeezy’s Seen It All LP is out September 2. “Mirror mirror in my garage, tell me which lambo to park at B3SCI”.
Young Jeezy 
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Rating 8.5
Traces, a modern pop/R&B band out of Guildford UK that we posted back in February for the stunning debut “A Place To Call Home”, release a second, equally strong, track today “Obstacles”.
Traces 
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Rating: 8.6
S. Pepsi keeps his parabolic trajectory firmly in the forward position on the breezy late summer anthem “Fall Harder”, the b-side to his “Fiona Coyne” single for Carpark Records.
Saint Pepsi 
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Rating 8.4
SBTRKT collaborator Fabiana Palladino links up with another SBTRKT pal Sampha for minimalist indie pop of “For You”. Producer Sampha is stylistically present on “For You” in the track’s soulful visceral quality and its more adventurous arrangement choices with Fabiana’s R&B-y but restrained vocal (this is not another singer trying to duplicate Jessie Ware) the track’s star attraction. “For You” is forthcoming on the great Double Denim Records.
Fabiana Palladino (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.8
Sample the Aaliyah-sampling “Polaroids”, the coolly soulful self-produced new one from great UK artist Jay Prince.
Jay Prince (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.8
The seemingly tireless Kaytranada latest remix trophy is Tensnake & Jamie Lidell’s electro-soul single “Feel of Love”. Kay selects for an outfit of spacefunk that is an ideal complement to the timbre of Mr. Lidell’s voice, hand in glove. Kaytranada’s “Feel of Love” remix is part of a new remix package for Tensnake’s track which also includes remixes from Joe Goddard, Boys Noize & Djedjotronic and Drew Hill and it’s due August 26th on Virgin.
Kaytranada
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Rating: 8.7
The mega-talented Josef Salvat returns today with the excellent dark pop of “Shoot and Run”. While slightly more robust in its arrangement and maybe a bit more accessible around its edges, “Shoot and Run” is another brilliant entry in the young Australian’s spotless record of terrific singles. Framed within verses of dramatic strings and lurching electronics is “Shoot and Run”‘s exultant, infinitely singable, and starmaking choruses. A+++++++
Josef Salvat 
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Rating 8.3
Hotly tipped Swedish/Australian girls and Gap Ad vets Say Lou Lou link up w/ Norwegian production starman LINDSTRØM for new single “Games for Girls”. Constructed around a more immediate more pop-accessible instrumental than still great but blog-poppier tracks like “Julian” or “Peppermint”, “Games for Girls” is infectious. “Games for Girls” is excerpted below from Say Lou Lou’s debut LP Lucid Dreaming, due February 2015 on Columbia.
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“Hot Box”, new from L.A. emcee Bobby Brackins, has hip-hop radio hit marked all up and down it. From it’s “2 On”-styled off-beat instrumental to its mainstream radio-flavored hook from rising songstress Mila J of “Smoke Drink Break-up” fame. Give “Hot Box” your time below.
Bobby Brackins 
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Rating 8.1
The Chef loves a ballad. As part of his current “Throwback Thursday” series Rae spins a couple Moscato-ref’ing verses around the 2010 Fantasia R&B joint.
Raekwon (Twitter)
Rating 8.4
BK band Salt Cathedral release second single from upcoming “OOM VELT” EP. “Holy Soul” further explores the modern alt R&B/2014 indie blend that set the Brooklyn apart on previous single “Tease”. “OOM VELT” is out September 25th.
Salt Cathedral Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.3
