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Love this breathless new track from Canadian artist Tep No, who combines dance and R&B sounds. Pacing is a lush, blissful track that combines summery melodies and vocals from Tep No himself. Check it out below:
Another slice of aural gold from Eskimo Recordings. The Owner is an easy going love song from Greek DJ and producer NTEIBINT, real name George Bakalakos. On it he whips up a steady-paced electronic track with disco flourishes with gorgeous vocals from Stella... And it is the vocal hooks and those muted guitars in the chorus that really hold this track together.
Together with an accentuated, more Balearic beatless version and and extended mix are two remixes. Justin Faust lays down a chunky elastic bassline and uses those guitars to full effect, mixing them in more liberally than on the original. It plays more with the track's layers, creating more of a sense of contrast.
Anoraak's remix is the best here - slickly layered in a effects on the central synth patterns and using a strings to create a more dramatic sense of disco that actually evokes Everything But The Girl in their Temperamental-era, and their collaboration with Deep Dish on Future Of The Future (Stay Gold) particularly. It's utterly glorious disco of the finest variety, and frankly I can't get enough of it.
The Owner is released through Eskimo Recordings on 8 June. Whilst you wait for it to come out check out an edit NTEIBINT released a while back entitled Fooling Around. His remix of Chet Faker's 1998, also below, is great too!
Love is the latest track from Hackney based R&B / electro artist Blooms, and the second to be lifted from her forthcoming second EP Still. There's a cool, laid back 80s-soaked feel to this - a little bit Blood Orange, which can only be a good thing. You've also got to love that percussion - check it out below.
Cool R&B sounds from London-native, Columbian / Italian descendent Desta French. On Take You For Dead she combines sounds from her Latin background, 80s pop and sophisticated production to create this catchy track.
Look out for the big hooks in the chorus and the bridge - there is a real early 90s R&B sound to this - understated and excellent.
Another great track from Brighton group Fickle Friends... Paris is the second track to be taken from debut EP Velvet, out today. This is a slightly more laid back track than those we have heard from the band previously - still starry eyed but with the edge taken off. In singer Natassja Shiner's words:
“Paris is our quiet storm." explains singer Natassja Shiner, continuing "It captures the subtleties we love in Bombay Bicycle Club's instrumental layers but with our own Janet Jackson-esque spin. It's the song you hear at 3AM when things are getting hazy.