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STREAM: Outfit: I Want What's Best
Young Brits idolize Eno and Hot Chip; make a foggy-eyed summer jam. That's the story behind Outfit's "I Want What's Best" – a simple-sounding exercise that actually flowers into a textured, danceable mountain.
STREAM: Mister Lies - Magichour (feat. KNOWER)
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On the impeccably-titled "Magichour," Mister Lies and KNOWER start with a slow build and it pays off as well as any electronic music I've heard this year. The entire track is a huge, open-hearted, swelling crescendo as touches of house music smash into deeper, textured sonic experimentation. When the top blows off, it's an ecstatic mindwarp.
DOWNLOAD: Cassie - All My Love (Kingdom Edit)
On the Kingdom edit to Cassie's "All My Love," the original gets clipped-out, fried and thoroughly crunched into a futuro-R&B sex explosion. Death to all genres – raise a glass to human emotion and late-night grinding.
Download: Cassie - All My Love (Kingdom Edit) [Zippyshare]
STREAM: Small Black - No Stranger
By the end of the year, Small Black shows are going to have entire crowds of people making out with each other and I don't even hate that. On "No Stranger," they practice open-hearted indie-pop that's more New Order and U2 than dudes in a bedroom. The crisp production highlights superior songwriting and production skills, as well as a real knack for melodies that will make you want to feel emotions and things. May 14 on Jagjaguwar!
STREAM: Soft Metals - Tell Me
On "Tell Me,' it's still a cold, cold world for Soft Metals as cloudy vocals drift over an analog house beat and metallic, eternally-delayed synthesizer swirls. The Los Angeles duo does what they do well – intergalactic crime driving music for both past and future. Hear more when their new one, Lenses, drops on Captured Tracks July 16.
STREAM: Jaguar Ma - Man I Need // Exercise (White Label Version)
Following their sampledelic "The Throw," Jaguar Ma returns with another endlessly danceable psychedelic voyage. Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, even the Chemical Bros come to mind, but really it just makes me want to do ecstasy for the first time since I almost married my college girlfriend because her hair was magic.
STREAM: Four Tet - Pyramid (Atoms For Peace Remix)
"Pyramid" is Four Tet at his most dancefloor leaning, and this remix by Thom Yorke and his Atoms For Peace clique is just an all-out assault. Like the original was dangled inside a helicopter propellor, it turns into a mixture of jabs, galloping drums and playfully-slapped vocal samples.
STREAM: Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
While the idea of a Grizzly Bear remix is nauseating in most situations, Nicolas Jaar works some true-blue magical hypnosis on "Sleeping Ute." Stretching the original so wide and fluidly that it becomes mere drops of sonic water, Jaar eventually finds a new pulse – one where he can reposition the vocals as indie ghosts staring at an uncertain and most intriguing electronic future.
STREAM: Gold Panda - Brazil
On "Brazil," Gold Panda previews his forthcoming Half Of Where You Live LP with a playful battering ram of rhythm, watery clicks and a gruff incantation of the track's title. "I was drinking a daiquiri for $40 at the top of a skyscraper that looks like shit," he says, describing the work here. And that's exactly what it sounds like – the glossy dance music of forward-thinkers with the bohemian grit of urban decay underneath it all.
STREAM: TNGHT - Acrylics
On "Acrylics," TNGHT continues their embrace of manic dance music with a hip-hop-ready bounce. It's all ADD electronics that spray with arena intentions and ultra-compressed sugar. You know, music for parties in 2013.
Stream: TNGHT - Acrylics [SoundCloud]
