Fact mix 418: Gorgeous Children

Gila Monsta and Face Vega are exactly new to the game... but they have been slept on until this year when they signed with Jacques Greene' Vase label.  Now the duo is hurting speakers across the world... especially Gila... my god... Gila.

Tracklist: Feloneezy – Vikend
Balam Acab – Regret Making Mistakes
Gila Monsta – Empty 40
The Bug – Skeng (ft. Killa P & Flowdan)
Nickelus F – EMU (prod. Shawn Kemp)
Preditah – Threat
Young Dolph – A Plus Remix (ft. Gucci Mane)
Young L – Better That Way
Skittles – Dot 2 Dot
Christ. – Happyfour Twenty
J.K. The Rapper & Denzel Curry – Gankin (prod. Spaceghostpurrp)
Aphex Twin – Logon Rock Witch
Gila Monsta – Custom Ringtone
Gorgeous Children – Through The Trench
DJ Smokey & DJ Kraft Dinna – Cross Me
OJ Da Juiceman – Look At This Shit (prod. Zaytoven)
Key! – Free Waffles 2
Hefna Gwap – Drug Problems (prod. Lord Plawz)
Paper Route Gangstaz – Life, Money, Drugs
Tommy Kruise – #FORTDEMEME
Dopehead – Devil’s Heaven (ft. Danny Brown)
Gila Monsta – wasteman
Jahlil Beats – THE GHOST
Hudson Mohawke – Trace

Gila Monsta - Tusseidon

Remember who put you on Gila first... this post is overdue. We been getting sick to this track for a couple weeks now.

FTSE - HOLE WHY'D WURLD

FTSE is a gentleman from Midlands, UK.  You can catch his shows in London.  He's sitting on bangers.

JT The Goon - Twin Warriors (Murlo Remix) featuring Novelist

Murlo is the star of this remix of JT The Goon's eponymous track off his Oil Gang release "Twin Warriors EP" (which you can see below). Novelist (pictured above) raps over the remix on Slackk's live NTS show.

Sampha - Can't Get Close (Jacques Greene Edit)

Jacques Greene gives Sampha's "Can't Get Close" a dancefloor sheen.  The song has been released as part of LuckyMe's advent calendar, an initiative which sees the label releasing one track, for free download, each day until Christmas.  

Tele Fresco - Only The Beat Mix

Tele Fresco's mix for Only The Beat came out a few weeks back.  His mix starts at 30:00.  See the tracklist below.
Tele Fresco Guest Mix:
1. Tele Fresco - Pull Up Hard
2. Odesza - My Friends Never Die
3. Dj Hoodboi - In Luv With A Stripper
4. What So Not - High You Are (Branchez remix)
5. Ariel Camusso & The Persian Empire - Time (123MRK remix)
6. Chits - Looking So Good
7. Khadisma - Slow Breathing (Tele screwed edit)
8. Pascaal - Drowning In You
9. Brandy - Baby (Sweater Beats remix)
10. MGMT - Electric Feel (Gespau downcast edit)
11. Drip - Thuggin
12. IAMNOBODI - Mango Juice
13. Pascaal - Rain Jacket
14. Usher - OMG (Timeless One remix)
15. Jai Paul - Track 3
16. Tele Fresco - Sigh of Relief

Burial - Rival Dealer (HDB080CD)

New Burial. Yeeeeea he be killin shit.

Saturday Sleeper: Diamond Black Hearted Boy - Father, Protect Me

Diamond Black Hearted Boy is the moniker of Chino Amobi, a multi-medium artist from Richmond, Virginia.  See his biography, paintings, and artist statement at his Like the Space Gallery.  Adam Harper describes the March release below:

Father, Protect Me carries the full range of Diamond Black Hearted Boy—wild, surging energy, obsessive sample-scratching and chanting, perturbed meditation and ominous stasis—and all in a fresh hi-fi sound palette of polished chrome. Throughout the curiously compelling work, Amobi hangs at the periphery like a prophet or a fallen God, balefully conjuring dim visions of what a deity might perceive in the present and future. 

Sonic Router 031: Logos' Touch Of Frost

Article originally published at The Quietus.
By: Oli Marlow

Logos' debut album, Cold Mission, is a little bit of a masterpiece. It's an album that, frankly, I've been waiting a long time for someone to make. A record that unites a handful of my own musical interests, fusing numerous styles, approaches and sentiments, whilst drawing as palpably from the complex minimalism of modern classical composition as it does the brutishness of late night London's radio transmissions. What that then says about my own listening habits is probably best left to interpretation, but within the recent slew of brazen instrumental grime that's been piloted by characters like Slackk, Visionist and outfits like Oil Gang, Keysound and new Irish label Glacial Sound, there are artists whose work just juts out from the rest of the pack like massive glinting stalagmites: Rabit and his uber-melodic sparsity, Murlo's boundless and playful nature, or Mumdance's command of hardware. But it's Logos' reinterpretation of classic grime tropes, and his restrained deployment of them, that's been one of the most enjoyable things to follow.

Torus - Torus EP

6 tracks long [Torus EP is] a deft exploration of mood that sets a torrent of found samples, ambient swirls and little wayward riffs to post-Dilla drum patterns. It’s hazy, crackly hangover music. A collection of tracks that manage to sound archaic before they’ve even been mixed down, fusing Joeri Woudstra’s unique approach to production with a sense of isolation and introspection.
“I’ve been making a lot of music over the past year and a half, which includes a lot of stuff I wasn’t really proud of when I listened back to it after it was finished;” Woudstra offers when asked about the vision for his music. “The idea behind this EP is that I wanted to make tracks that were deeper than just some throw away beats. I wanted to go in and truly create an environment; tracks that I really put some emotion into and that I could be proud of to be released as a whole.”
“I come from The Hague in the Netherlands and we kinda have all the environments you could think of put together,” he continues. “We’ve got the beach, we got forests and woods, we got plains and we’ve got downtown and sometimes the whole city is covered in snow. In my music I move away from the crowdedness of the city to create a more natural and organic environment; but I also like taking a bit of the static interference from the bustling city and putting it all together into some sort of ambience.”

Ben Khan - Savage

Acid, acid

Rain drops to kill them bastards.

We'll feed them acid.

We'll feed them acid.

But we're dancing, dancing

To the rhythm of the plastic anthem. 

Tinashe - Ain't Ready

My girls recently dropped her project Black Water:

Deptford Goth - Remix EP

Select tracks from one of the best albums of the year get the remix treatment with highlights from E.M.M.A., Jim-E Stack, and Mute. 

Gorgeous Children - ICE

Through Jacques Greene's Vase imprint, Gorgeous Children release ICE.  At approximately thirty minutes, the mixtape is an example in odd juxtaposition as the length and capacious soundscapes across which mechanic trap percussion jitters bespeak cold minimalism while Face Vega and Gila Monsta craft hypotactic verses that, in some ways, eagerly try to fill the empty void with a potent worldview tinged with lust, braggadocio, and violence.

Knxwledge - WhenevrUreadi[devil'skrak] featuring Dudley Perkins

Murlo - Last Dance EP

Murlo, London's Chris Pell, along with his label mate Rabit, are leading a left-field grime scene that pulls lilting melody into the pulsating cadences of traditional grime.  Last Dance EP is out November 25th on Glacial Sound.

Mssingno - Mssingno EP

       

Perseus - Shadow of the Beast

Perseus is back ladies and gentlemen.

Here's the download

sela one - heartbeat

'heartbeat' begs you to stay another minute or two... the siren calls to you... demanding your attention... and whisking you away from tomorrow.  Crawl toward the light mariner.

sela one is 20 years old.  His music shows a patience & a restraint with the genre of trap music.  Might this young generation of beat-makers usher us into a post-trap period soon? fuck.  This is the first single from his new project, anniversary. Rumor has it... this track may be on there too:

EDIT: This one will be the intro track I believe:

Fraxinus - All Ends

For those that skipped the grammar school lesson on horticulture:

Fraxinus is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also meant "spear" in their respective languages. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly known as keys or helicopter seeds, are a type of fruit known as a samara. Most Fraxinus species are dioecious, having male and female flowers on separate plants; if grown as an ornamental and both sexes are present, ashes can cause a considerable litter problem with their seeds. Rowans or Mountain Ashes are unrelated to true ashes and belong to the Genus Sorbus though the leaves and buds are superficially similar.

Skin Town - Midnight Lover

LA-based duo Skin Town, composed of vocalist Grace Hall and Zola Jesus collaborator Nick Turco, have released a sultry, icy new single from their forthcoming debut The Room.  The Room will be out on 5 November through Time No Place. 

Wiley - Born in the Cold featuring Andreena Mill

Grime's progenitor, Eskiboy has released a new record on Big Dada that features ATL's first lady, Andreena Mill.  

Flume - Space Cadet featuring Ghostface Killah & Autre Ne Veut

Gorgeous Children - Sour

Gorgeous Children, signed to Jaques Greene's Vase imprint, deliver the icy, synth-swirling "Sour," the first release from their forthcoming release, ICE.  Denver-based producer Gila Monsta (whose previous work I've included after the jump)  grapples with the operatic Vangelis Blade Runner soundtrack to craft a sparse soundscape over which to lay trap drums. 

M.I.A. - Matangi [album stream]

Nacho Picasso - High & Mighty

Nacho, sprays all Seattle competition with his new tape.  His nonchalance however is convincing enough to make a listener believe he recorded the whole shit in a day.  Nacho is a formidable force who doesn't care to polish up his verses... which may not benefit him in the long run, but it sure does make you admire him in some, "im really not givin fucks about you out here"-typa way.  Happily we hear some variation in his flow, which was a big criticism Olympus had for him early on.  "You guys slappin Macklemore tho? I dono you. I know Nacho." And thats how you know which Seattle you're from.  Nacho represents the perfect counterpart for the politically correct rap scene the world is pigeon holing Seattle in.  That world is there... Blue Scholars, Macklemore etc. held the torch for it.  But Nacho is intent on breaking every rule; Disrespecting your girlfriend, kicking out your car window & making you smile while he does. Give into your dark side? Nacho beckons.

Pascäal - Fragile EP

Waldo - Kobe's Room (Truth Be Told) (produced by Sango)

Darkside - Freak, Go Home

Darkside's Psychic has been everything lately.  See a live recording of "Freak, Go Home" above. 

DJ Nigga Fox - O Meu Estilo EP

As described by Lisbon record label, Principle Discos:

'O Meu Estilo' ('My Style') is Lisbon-based DJ Nigga Fox's record debut. Real name Rogério Brandão, Nigga Fox came to our knowledge a few months ago, and we were immediately floored by what we were hearing. Still in his early 20s, Rogério has already played in all sorts of the greater Lisbon clubs, while discreetly refining his own productions. On this 12" he presents parts of his unbelievably vast pallet. As the title implies, there's nothing quite like this, even in Lisbon's ever more productive and creative beat-based music. He's taken all sorts of lessons from local producers, as well as from the tracks coming in from Luanda, and has done his unnameable hybrid, informed by kuduro, afro-house, Angolan deep, tarraxinha, batida, and created some of the dopest, freshest music we've heard in years. 

Track 1 in full:

Clips of the EP:

Flume - Intro Feat. Stalley

Gesaffelstein - Pursuit (Video)

Gesaffelstein - Pursuit from Gesaffelstein on Vimeo.
Directed by Fleur & Manu the French, male/female, director duo that was behind the M83 trilogy.
Produced by Division w/ Caviar (WARNING: They are out of Paris & are wet as fuck)
New album "Aleph" out on October 28, 2013 from Gesaffelstein... but who gives a fuck after watching that video.

The Range - Nonfiction LP

The Rhode-Island-based producer, The Range, has released debut LP, Nonfiction, via Donky Pitch. The eleven-track album is said to further define The Range's "uniquely crafted musical outlook; a sound that takes in ethereal classical instruments, tough intricate percussion, and thick bass and packs them with melody and emotion." 

M∆DDEN - Make It Go Away EP

Pulling a number of influences -- experimental bass, witch-house, trap -- into his oribit, M∆DDEN has released his new sythn heavy EP, Make It Go Away.  Personal favorites include the dance-infused eponymous track and the ethereal"Kava."

Throwback Thursday: Alex Isley - Into Orbit

Dropped over a year ago...

THE LOVE/ART MEMOIRS
Her Debut EP, written & produced by her...
DOWNLOAD HERE ------> www.audiomack.com/album/alex-isley…veart-memoirs-ep

Ois4 OMARI - Backstreet

snwb.bandcamp.com

Ben Khan - Eden

British producer and singer Ben Khan's new single. 

Gravity Boys - Ferragamo Gold

KILN - Star.field

Trio of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III (a.k.a. KILN) are set to release their new album, meadow:watt, on November 11th through Ghostly International.

Tele Fresco - Act 6: Longing (directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 6 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

Cinema is predicated on the “look” – an idea acutely observed by feminist film critic, Laura Mulvey, but not contained solely to the “male gaze” of her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” – in which the viewer’s beliefs and passions—in both voyeuristic and self-reflexive manners—are structured to induce a range of emotions from encouraging unfettered revelry and schadenfreude to the sadomasochistic cinema of late Pasolini or the existential heaviness of Tarr. Yet, in the grips of realism that is omnipotent camera of CCTV, the surveillance state,  and reality television, contemporary popular cinema proffers the farce of objectivity in which everything is unmediated.  Film is not so much about what we see in any descriptive fashion, not a Cartesian mind moving about in a cinematic universe; rather, cinema is a place for value, a place in which we inscribe value and meaning, about how we know the world in particular ways. I should qualify this prescriptive notion for cinema by saying that I am not advocating a Pragmatism agenda in which cinema offers an arena to test and revise our beliefs until we come to some satisfactory description of the empirical real.  My question is not “what does it take to know the world?” but “what difference does it make for our sense of the world to be concerned with knowing it in particular ways outside of the paradigm of objectivity?”

The most recent installment of Love Letters, Act 6: Longing, is a triumph in the way it cultivates particular gaze.

FKA Twigs - Ultraviolet

Busy week not spent looking at music and I miss FKA twigs' release of EP2.  See the image for the closing track, Ultraviolet, co-written and produced by Arca.  

D33J - Slow featuring Kreyola

"Slow" is from D33J's forthcoming release Gravel.  The album was recorded in a warehouse in downtown San Francisco while living with thirty other artists.  Read more details below. 

Gravel is an attempt to capture the contradictory thoughts that trip up your head at 3 a.m. Gravel is the soundtrack to sleepless nights spent ruminating on both right and wrong decisions. Gravel is the new Anticon EP from Djavan Santos, better known as D33J.
Upon first listen, its aquatic textures, faded neon haze, and blend of 808 drums and lo-fi desk claps, might recall D33J’s fellow Weditit Collective family, Ryan Hemsworth and Shlohmo. But closer listening reveals that D33J’s experiments yield a unique alchemy.
“It was about self-reflection—trying to replicate the feeling of sitting alone after you get home late, still drunk and on drugs,” D33J says. “You’re high and thinking about life and whether these stoned thoughts are even worth anything in the end?”
The record was created during D33J’s stint living with 30 people in a warehouse in downtown San Francisco. The building was essentially an art frat called “The Matrix 1061,” with almost all the inhabitants engaging in some form of creative project. Adding to the artistic ferment was the fact that only two rooms got natural sunlight. You can hear this darkness and fluorescent light in the tones of Gravel.

Read more after the jump. 

Jo Def - & You

The second of Tar's three-track releases.  Tar is a collective label of  3 track releases from artists worldwide. Based in Los Angeles & run by PBDY. 

Banks - This Is What It Feels Like (Akouo Rework)

Saturday Sleeper: Loyu

I dono if this actually counts as a sleeper. They have 263 followers on soundcloud... this is more like a proper plug.  But Loyu is from The Hague, Netherlands... they're website looks dope but it's down right now.  Male/female duo. Futuristic Gasoline.

Isaiah Rashad - I Shot You Down

The New TDE signee is coo wit Vlad n apparently kicks it. No surprise when u peep the flame tho.

FKA twigs - Papi Pacify

Written & Produced by FKA twigs & Arca.
Directed by FKA twigs & Tom Beard (who is with Partizan, twice listed over the past decade as the Gunn Report’s ‘Best production Company in the World’).

Tele Fresco - Act 5

Tele Fresco - Act 5 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

Purple - The Club

The first visuals from WEDIDIT Collective member Purple.

BANKS - Bedroom Wall (Prod. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs)

Azealia Banks - Atm Jam Featuring Pharrell (Kaytranada Edition)

Lost Scripts – I’ll Be Watching You

Young Turks will be releasing 12" complete with unique artwork from their stable of talent throughout 2013.  The first offering comes from Lost Scripts, Pional and John Talbot. 

Tele Fresco - Act 4: Aversion (directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 4 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

The fourth installment of Love Letter is the most emotionally charged yet as the relationship, replete with ferocious flames, vacillates between anger and passion.   

Tele Fresco - Act 3: Infatuation (Directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 3 from 2 Nice on Vimeo.

The lips are a boundary. They are portals where the inside is exposed to the outside, where the breath of life passes in and out, where food is taken in, and speech breathed forth. The mouth is the most variegated gateway into the interior of the body, taking in all sorts of things from outside the body and throwing out things from inside, and the lips are the guardians.  To kiss is to draw near to that boundary between me and you. - Peter Leithart

If the larger narrative arc of Love Letters traces the evolution of a relationship, interpolating a kaleidoscope of mini narratives in an effort to shirk traditional notions of titular characters, we have moved out of the excitement of the first night and into the engrossing sexual potency of infatuation.   But true to the tenor of the piece at large, this is not merely a descriptive endeavor.  While there is something sensual and perhaps fragile in the confluence of vintage pornography, time-lapse blooming flowers, gushing eros, there is a dark underpinning (the domestically subversive broken house of cards) to it all which is only made more acute at the time of writing for in some bizarre confluence of historical and cultural references, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream", fanfared by every major media outlet, stretches across time, as I plot the course of this essay, to engage with Act 3's preface: the ominous, syblline voice of Langston Hughes as he recites his poem "Dreams":

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

To hold onto your dreams is the task that Act 3 holds up for it's viewers, dreams of love, of anything and everything, while all the while knowing that dreams will pass and the field will be barren, frozen with snow or not.

Throwback Thursday: Mary J. Blige - My Life (Album)

Asking any contemporary producer who their 90's (/00's) R&B influences are is, at this point, painfully cliche.  Today we are bombarded by the voices of Usher, Ciara, Genuwine, Tweet, Ashanti, ... Ne-Yo... anyways these guys get sampled all the time. But what we don't hear is an abundance of samples from the two Queens of 90's R&B: Lauryn Hill & Mary J Blige.  Today I'm throwin it back to MJB's best album (there is no discussion about this that I'm willing to entertain - Breakthrough ain't doin shit like this-- this that classic shit) of all time.  Smoke somethin.

Tele Fresco - Act 2: Elation (Directed by 2 Nice)

Tele Fresco - Act 2 from Chuck Schwarzbeck AKA 2 Nice on Vimeo.

"Joy yes, joy is fine, but enjoyment is possessive." -  Geoffrey Hill

The psychedelic, syrupy swirls - sonic and visual - of Tele Fresco's and 2 Nice's second installment of Love Letters bespeak a type of bacchanalian revelry, as if commingling the lush synth's of Benzel's "Fallin' Love" with the hedonistic purr of new Gucci.  The plot is common and easily fits a self-referential reading: strangers at a party, a lilting voice breathing upon an ear, soft caresses.  Yet, more than a fond recollection of bygone nights, this hazy memory is punctuated by caustic wit.  Shirking simplistic depictions of romance that the project's semi-Romantic title suggests, the duo carve out a creative space that sarcastically rebukes a culture captivated by love (and twerking to the undulations of an anarchical flag) to pose an ethical question embedded in Act 1: are we culpable for our emotions?
If you haven't watched Act 1, please do so now before continuing.

Illangelo - The History of Man LP

I'm so down...

You can peep the whole project... with its accompanying liner notes, here ... but the story chronicles, "the sequence of events surrounding the escape of prisoner #870729 from Prison Planet Elysium, his journey to Colonization-Planet #1, and his successful infiltration and capture of said planet." It is supposedly a refashioning of Milton's Paradise Lost.  Just go peep that website. It's trip.  And for you mainstreamers... Illangelo is one half of the production team behind The Weeknd.  This is his solo shit.

Brolin - Portland

Sunshine, you should waste your time better

UK electro-pop producer Brolin, who is quietly writing some of the best songs of the year, has released his next destination-themed exploration: Portland. See the video for Reykjavik, named after the capital of Iceland, after the jump along with tracks NYC and Lisboa.

Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play (Jacques Greene Remix)

Ta-Ku - Closet Drake Fans

Hype is rising for Drake's new album Nothing Was the Same... And closeted Drake fans everywhere are buzzing.  Ta-Ku capitalizes on the tension with this digestible club banger.

Gucci Mane - Trap House 3 feat. Rick Ross (Eric Dingus Remix)

Eric Dingus is 18. He was home-schooled in Texas, and works tirelessly.  You haven't heard of him yet unless u fuck with Greenova or Raider Klan prly... but it isnt a stretch to imagine him producing for Rocky or another big hitter in mainstream rap.  He's very much next.  I first spotted him when he produced the Ethel Wulf EP and busted open every track with his ethereal sound.  Easily taking a page out of Clams Casino's playbook... Dingus wants very much to expand his sound to avoid the popular trend.  His beats may not be alarmingly novel... he's not Arca... at least not yet... but I see a bright future for the young Texan.

Felicita - climb up e/bring it

The South London producer's latest is climb up e, syrupy rhythm that features vocalist "chlo" who plays at being Rapunzel, calling out: "my hair it's black/climb up it". 

Andras ft. Oscar S. Thorn - Running Late

Literally dripping. Romantic shit. 1st post in a minute. Shout to Doc

Sza - Julia/Teen Spirit

King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (Stream)

Stream the album below or head over to King Krule's website where you can listen while watching a CCTV stream of London's streets that Krule has dubbed KKTV. 

Visionist - I Don't Care/My Time/Lost

Visionist took to twitter and soundcloud in the past few days to release three forthcoming tracks.  "Lost" and "I Don't Care" are to be featured on Lit City Trax's I'm Fine, a five track ep that explores the five stages of grief, while "My Time" figures to be released on the second forthcoming ep.  I'm Fine is out September 3rd.  See Xlr8r's superb feature in their Bubblin' Up profile.  

Big Sean - Control (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Jay Electronica)(Produced by No I.D.)

Oh.My.God.

Ok, so Jay Electronica is one my fav rappers n has been out the game way too long n i anticipate his shit a ridicilous amount... right? Bro, after Kendricks verse he jus sounded like... aight. Kendrick just sav'd out on this track. He kilt the shit so dead you cant even feel your face after slappin it. Thats some fuckin rap dog.  I thought I was gettin sick of Kendrick... i was really over him i swear. N he juss out here bussin! That's what this game is supposed to be. Beat is crazy too No ID, damn. Damn.

MaryGold - Prayer

She used to kick it wit Curren$y... he got in on the same track on his mixtape REDEYE Mixtape. This is the Single for the upcoming mixtape, Mother Mary.  Video directed by tokyo stone.  Here's the Curren$y version.

If I Ruled The World (STWO & FITZ Remix)

Good People (Majid Jordan) - Patience

When Drake's newest hit dropped the world began buzzing about Majid Jordan.  Initial questions were:  Is it two people or one cat? Were they with Kanye before?Where's all their music?... details are revealing themselves quickly about the Toronto duo... and more importantly so are their old tracks... the well composed, 'Patience' is going especially hard.  But it's clear Majid Jordan plans to clean out some dance floors and castrate some radio waves.  This stuff is mixed/mastered beautifully too.  If you're one of the five people on earth who hasn't heard the new Drake joint with them... go head:

Visionist & Fatima Al Qadiri - The Call

Visionist, like his label-mate on Keysound Recordings, E.m.m.a., presents a minimalist aesthetic; although, his is more edgy replete with dread, shimmering, rolling, and heavily reliant on syncopation. See his statement track on Keysound Recordings' This Is How We Roll after the jump.  The Brixton artist has coupled up with New-York-by-way-of-Kuwait artist, Fatima, for the haunting 'The Call'. 

Future Brown - Wanna Party featuring Tink

Future Brown - comprised of Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, and J-Cush -  has released its first single of an upcoming debut album.  Chicago rapper Tink is featured on the vocals.  

Jeremih - Love Hangover (prod. by Pop & Oak)

Thumpy Johnson on the way!

King Krule - Easy Easy (Official Video)

Directed by Focus Creeps.

Quasimoto - Catchin' The Vibe

Directed by Tuomas Vauhkonen & Jeremias Nieminen

Banks - Waiting Game (Produced by Sohn)

Fitzroy - Choped Chopin (ft. Stwo)

When Saints Go Machine - System Of Unlimited Love

You need to be dead for systems to care

The haunting sadness of the video coexisting with the macabre lyrics is evocative. The final portion kills me. 

FKA twigs - Water Me

Since dropping her acclaimed debut EP, which you can stream below and for which she released a series of stunningly bizarre videos that I've included after the jump, Twigs has changed her name to FKA twigs and been signed to Young Turks.  Her new Arca assisted track will be included, presumably, on her forthcoming EP2 record to be released 9 September. 

Throwback Thursday - Wiley - Wot Do U Call It?

The anti-genre anthem from Wiley's 2004 Treddin' on Thin Ice.

D I A N A - Perpetual Surrender (Four Tet Remix)

Infinite Frequencies - Computer Death

inc. - Angel

Directed by: Daniel Aged, Andrew Aged, Ryan Kuhlman

Fryars - Cool Like Me (Official Video)

My bruhs Ian Schwartz and Cooper Roberts directed this and they jus fucked your life up.  This video has been out for two days and it's a travesty it hasn't got more hits.  I don't understand it.

Francis Lung - Age Limits

The WU LYF split has engendered a bounty of new music among them Los Porco's C.W.F.   which, while a decent piece of music, doesn't capture the same emotional intensity Ellie Roberts' vocals brought.  Francis Lung captures something of his previous incarnation's depth of feeling while blending in the polished sound of his new outfit.

L. Pierre - Movement I

The former mouthpiece for the now defunct Arab Strap (whose masterpiece, Monday at the Hug & Pint, echoes The Pogues), Aidan Moffat has had a productive year with his L. Pierre moniker with 2013 releases The Island Come True (The album takes it's name from a chapter from Peter & Wendy, and it too is grimmer than you probably remember: For all the adventure and wonder crammed into its few thousand words, the segment is littered with sorrow, longing and blood. Using crackling piano suites, field recordings, found loops and swelling bits of dusty classical pieces, Moffat has crafted something similarly antique and unexpectedly dark, a moving if not fractured album that feels congruent with Barrie's mix of the fantastic and the fearful. - Zach Kelly) and The Eternalist, a study in brevity released entirely on Twitter's Vine.  Now, he prepares for the release of a new EP, Surface Noise, of which Movement I is the first track.  

Arca - &&&&&

This twenty-five minute free download comes after Arca’s credits on Kanye’s album and is as abstract as his pre-Kanye material. It is composed in a weird, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes hazily groovy modernist dream.

Alunageorge - Body Music LP

Here's the stream.  The album is out 29 July in the UK and 30 July in the USA.  

Willis Earl Beal - Too Dry To Cry

XL/HXC will release Willis Earl Beal's ‘Nobody Knows’ on 9 September.

Sam Smith - Safe With Me

Sam Smith's newest release features production from Two Inch Punch.  

E.m.m.a. - Blue Gardens LP

Originally a fan of US hip-hop, E.m.m.a. became interested in grime and dubstep through Skream's seminal "Midnight Request Line," a hobby which led her to work with names like Sully, Rebel MC and dub legend Adrian Sherwood, the latter of whom apparently had an influence on Blue Gardens. Reportedly inspired by everything from sci-fi to Spaghetti Westerns to her own brand of "Victorian grime," the LP sees E.m.m.a. mostly sticking to the 130 BPM tempo in the vein of her Keysound labelmates but also features dips above and below.  --RA

I've been waiting on this one for awhile and it easily exceeds expectations.  Blue Gardens is out July 29 on Keysound. 

UPDATE: SOUNDCLOUD STOPPED WORKING. ENTER SPOTIFY. 

Gossamer -Chaino / Ab​-​Mass EP

On the A-side, Gossamer's metallic melody dances along the otherwise bare house background creating something infectiously delicate which is only furthered by the B-side which entertains a similarly minimalistic sound that crescendos in some odd perfection.  

Obey City - Fallin'

Featured on Rustie's stellar BBC Essential Mix which is now a year past, Brooklyn-based Obey City's Fallin' finally sees release on LuckyMe Records.  See the EP sampler after the jump.