Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me (Ft. Ben Westbeech)
…ElectroSoul
The official video features a unique use of the flip book concept:
Sample Source: Johnnie Taylor - You’re the Best in the World
Hear more Johnnie Taylor @ A Song A Day/JohnnieTaylor
C2C - Down The Road
…while things start out as a twangy blues jam, you’re going to end up in a different place than you might expect.
Formed in 1998, and winners of the Disco Mix Club World Team DJ Championships four years in a row, French turntablist crew formerly known as Coups2Cross have certainly taken their time making their way into the recording studio. Even then, their debut release Down the Road (out now) is only an EP featuring six tracks, one of which appears twice, suggesting that Greem, Pfel, 20Syl, and Atom are still more concerned with gracing the clubs than the charts. However, what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality as there’s more invention on display in its brief 28-minute running time than many knob-twiddlers manage in an entire career.
- EP available on iTunes : http://bit.ly/wBGWA4
Icona Pop - I Love It
…i just want to hang out with these girls.
Fairly well put at lowerfrequencies.com:
For years now, the summer season has been dominated by nostalgic, topically sunny and dreamy pop/rock. Drop into your proverbial indie coffee shop and let the sonic ocean waves of Tennis, Best Coast or Beach House roll over you. Well, on “I Love It,” Icona Pop plants a stick of dynamite into that trend, steps back and then hits the record button, and the result is a track of such unadulterated bombast and fun, it almost feels like it couldn’t have been born out of today’s musical climate. “I Love It” is, as the ladies of Icona Pop say, a 90′s anthem of sorts, but more than that, it’s a salute to a state-of-mind and a mentality that is, at its core, recklessly youthful. This is a track built for summer. As cliche as this sounds and is: pile the friends in the car, roll down the windows and blast this shit.
Moullinex - Maniac Ft. Peaches (Michael Sembello Cover)
Gomma All Stars and Peaches reworked four songs from the legendary Casablanca records catalogue. A new version of Donna Summer’s “Our Love” by Telonius on which Harold Faltermeyer contributes some analogue Keyboards. A 90’s pop version of Stephanie Mills’ classic “You Can’t Run From My Love” by Mr. Munk. A cover of the Skatt Bros’ “Walk The Night” by The Phenomenal Handclap Band and Michael Sembello’s “Maniac” - best known as the song from Flashdance - by Moullinex.
Get the EP on Amazon.com. There is also an album of Remixes
Jessie Ware - 110%
…another breezy #summer song
Hear more of Jessie’s beautiful voice @ A Song A Day/Jessie Ware
Noosa - Fear Of Love
…Beautiful hazy vocals and retro electro instrumentals from an elusive New York City two-piece. Check out their debut EP @ Did.You Hear The New
Clyde McPhatter - That’s Enough For Me (c.1958)
“If there is one voice through which the glories of R&B ran their course in the 1950’s,” wrote Nick Tosches, “it may very well be Clyde McPhatter’s.” That’s high praise for a man born in Durham, NC who sang with the Dominoes (including their recording of “Sixty Minute Man”), was the first lead singer for the Drifters and then went onto a great solo career. Smokey Robinson said that when he was growing up, Clyde was “The Man”, and everyone knew it…here’s “The Man” in a somewhat rare recording from January of 1958, “That’s Enough For Me”.
The Marvellos - Why Do You Want To Hurt The One That Loves You (c.1966)
…Motown with a tincture of Beach Boys
