Category: Featured
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Nabihah Iqbal
Nabihah Iqbal is a London based producer formerly known as Throwing Shade. Under her old moniker she released various EP’s like Fate Exclusive (2015) which featured the lovely “Mirror” or last year’s House of Silk EP which featured “Marble Air”. Now, under her birth name she has just released her debut album Weighing Of The […]
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Tourist
Why have I never written about one of my favorite producers before? His latest EP Hush now brings me the opportunity. Tourist (real name William Philips) is a UK based producer with a danceable UK sound with hints of Garage and pop. I like that he has radio-friendly tracks but never gets too commercial sounding […]
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Gabriel Garzón-Montano
Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s popularity got an enormous boost when Drake sampled “6 8” for his track “Jungle”. The Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist released his latest album (and major-label debut) Jardín earlier this year and its sound is a mixture of modern R&B, funk and ‘neo-soul’. Gabriel grew up in a musical environment as his mom was a classically […]
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Everything is Recorded is the alias of producer Richard Russell who also happens to be the head of XL Recordings. So he has the right connections for guest appearances right? Earlier this year he released the soulful Close But Not Quite EP which featured Sampha on the title track (in combination with a Curtis Mayfield […]
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Sides
Up and coming South London duo Sides (RFK and Cleo) have been active since early 2016. They’ve released one EP so far, Bangbang, containing four groovy and catchy 80’s inspired electronic-pop tracks. “Feel Better” and “Do Tell” were released as a 7″ last year. And there’s a lot more new music coming our way! “Make […]
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LEISURE
If you’re saddened by the absence of new material by artists like Jungle and Her maybe you’ll find comfort in the sounds of LEISURE. The Auckland, New Zealand 5-piece band make soulful funk and R&B inspired pop. They released their debut self-titled album last year which featured their breakthrough single “Got It Bad” and the […]
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Sleep Party People
Sleep Party People is the project of Danish multi-instrumentalist Brian Batz who released his first album under this name in 2010. The fourth album ‘Lingering’ was released in June and features the singles “The Missing Steps” and “Fainting Spell”. With Brian’s falsetto over dreamy songs with hints of synthpop and shoegaze, Sleep Party People is […]
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Blood Cultures
Blood Cultures is an anonymous producer/multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey, USA. His first track “Indian Summer” was released in 2013 followed by singles “Mercury Child” and “Meavy Hetal”. Soon after, the producer kind of disappeared to only reappear again two years later with “Scene From A Midnight Movie”. No other music followed. Until last June when […]
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Firstworld
The producer behind Firstworld is South Florida artist/producer Kris Alvarez. He released his first self-titled single “Firstworld” last May, but I only stumbled across this dreamy, mysterious track thanks to Spotify’s ‘Discover Weekly’ playlist. Firstworld was actually sort of a darker and more gloomy side-project for main band ‘Sigh Kicks’. But since they’ve recently split […]
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LOYAL
The British quartet LOYAL make catchy, almost anthemic, electronic-pop music. A lot of their songs have a positive and hopeful message. Like their last single “Reset in Color”: “The song was inspired by the mass shooting in Orlando and the vote to leave Europe which happened weeks apart, it felt like ‘literally’ the colours of […]
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Bevan.
Bevan. is a Brighton based producer and multi-instrumentalist who has been releasing music (under this moniker) for two years now. His third EP titled Love Eternal will be released soon and “Coming for You” (featuring Holly Moore) is the latest single. It features back and forth singing between Bevan and Holly over an energetic beat, […]
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Jarami
Stockholm based producer duo Jarami released their ‘Sketches’ EP last week and it’s full of upbeat disco and funk inspired tracks. Definitely listen if you want some summer vibes. In the past they’ve done remixes for AlunaGeorge, Wafia and Honne and a track with Jess Boykins III.
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Hugh
Hugh is Joshua Idehen’s (you might know him from LV or Benin City) latest project, together with singer-songwriter Izzy Brooks, producer Andy Highmore and guitarist Tino Kolarides. It started with their debut EP I Can’t Figure You Out in 2014 and in the following years they have been steadily realising material. This year kicked off […]
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Goss
Danish songwriter and producer Goss released his first track “I Want To Know????” about nine months ago. Since that time he has released another three tracks with “Soo Bad” being his latest. His catchy and upbeat electronic pop feels fresh and is the perfect soundtrack for sunny days to come. Other blogs have compared his […]
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Opal People
Opal People are Greco-Roman’s newest signed act. They released their double A-side single “IKYTIF / Falling Out” this week. Especially “IKYTIF” is one upbeat track with retro sounding synths (those organ sounds!), a catchy chorus with falsetto vocals. I don’t have much more info about them, not even a promo photo, but my best bet […]
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Kwaye
[:en]Literally every hipster blog is posting about this but this song is so catchy we couldn’t let this one pass by. Kwaye is a Zimbabwe-born, London-based singer-songwriter who was discovered when he played some of his music to a Los Angeles Uber-driver. “Cool Kids” is a funky synth-pop song with obvious 80’s influences, perfect for […]
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Mattis – Loverboy
Copenhagen based Mattis scores with his first release, single “Loverboy”. According to his Soundcloud page Mattis describes his sound in a tongue-in-cheek way as ‘This is viking soul.’ And soulful it is. Not much is known about the Danish artist. Besides that his last name is ‘Jakobsen’ and he apparently is a 6’8″ tall former […]
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Utrecht
This London based producer/songwriter-singer/DJ (James McIntosh) has named himself after the Dutch city Utrecht, ain’t that nice? In an old interview he said about his choice for the name: “I think I liked the idea that Utrecht is pretty much like some of the provincial towns and cities of England (like Kingston-upon-Thames, where I’m from). […]