One of the most exciting sounds I've been immersing myself in lately is wonky hip-hop, which (thanks to the ever-changing and often subjective nature of genre definitions) you could probably also refer to as glitch-hop or future beats without a blogger sloshing the kerosene of his opinion all over you and engulfing the situation in flames using his matchstick of keyboard warrior rage. The instrumental hip-hop scene has been developing for many years and has split off into many fragments (many of which are represented here), but it's gathering some serious momentum right now, which means more delicious vitamins that [...]
LYFSTYL - SOUNDSCAPES MIXTAPE The LYFSTYL crew is heading to the Sasquatch music festival tomorrow. Since we will be away for 5 days, I have decided to make you guys a funky little mix-tape called Soundscapes . While you no doubt have heard some of the tracks featured I tried to choose songs that get me grooving every time that I hear them. We will be back from Sasquatch with tons of amazing content for you. If any of our readers or artist would are attending Sasquatch this year and would [...]
Something else I've been meaning to post up for a while, Jai Paul's 'Jasmine' is a perfect future blues hybrid. Ace for summer lounging.
There's a style of minimalist pop music that's singed at it's edges with hip hop or rnb, of a kind that can be found successfully being paraded by the British artists, Jai Paul or James Blake . There's a steamy undertone infused into their music, and sexuality is a regular bold overtone that's found in the themes inside hip hop and rnb. The thing is Americans can place sex into their music better than us Brits. That's obviously a generalisation and it would be weak of us to push out the examples of Rod Stewart or Tom [...]
This week on Tracking ––a weekly series in which we discuss our favorite songs of the year (you can check out the official list as the year progresses )––you can listen to additions from Animal Collective , Fiona Apple , Jai Paul , Twin Shadow and Grimes . Continue reading: Tracking 20122s Best Songs #10 Read more articles like " Tracking 20122s Best Songs #10 " on Pretty Much Amazing . [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: The xx, Jai Paul, Rhye Song: Face + Heel - One Hundred Years Deep [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Honestly, where is this year going!? It feels like last month we were doing our end of the year write ups and making plans to party on New Years Eve, but here we are nearly halfway into the year already. That means it's definitely time to start making all of your festival plans and start picking songs to listen to on the way to the beach. This month's tunes that have been hand selected by us for Some Kind of Mixtape: April 2012 are sure to point you in the right direction. As always, we've left you some [...]
I originally posted this song, way back when and rediscovered it on my flight out west this weekend. Wowzers. So damn good, I couldn't NOT repost it. So now I bend on one knee and ask the music gods, in their infinite wisdom, "PLEASE PLEASE make Jai Paul drop his album NOW." Jai Paul is the truth and one of the best new artists of… well, ever. Dig this. - Bold statement? Yeah probably, but got damn…
Der wöchentliche 78s Podcast mit fünf Songs, die ihr diese Woche gehört haben müsst. Tracklist: Dr. John - Revolution Miike Snow - Paddling Out (Penguin Prison Remix) Niki & the Dove - Tomorrow Django Django - Default Jai Paul - Jasmine > Podcast abonnieren (iTunes) Podcast abonnieren (RSS) > Sendung herunterladen (mp3) [See post to listen to audio] [...]
Toronto producer Exeter just released this fantastic re-working of Jai Paul's "Jasmine". While we all know the original is brilliant, this takes everything to a more house party ready level.
Jai Paul - Jasmine (EXETER edit) Exeter just dropped this amazing edit of Jai Paul 's track Jasmine. Its my opinion that this version is wayyy better than the original. I felt that the original was missing something Exeter must have realized this as well since he added the perfect amount of thump to the overall beat. Enjoy Image Credit
Saturday's here at the Labs sees us dive into the worlds of soul, funk and disco and while this usually means a look at a classic, occasionally something new will take our fancy. This week we take a look at the latest from XL Recordings new golden boy Jai Paul . He first appeared with the phenomenal "BTSTU" nearly a year ago and it seems he's in no rush to unveil a raft of new material. A new track did arrive recently however in the shape of "Jasmine" and once again set the [...]
Words By Samir S. Most Hip-Hop fans are probably at least somewhat familiar with U.K. artist/producer Jai Paul on account of Drake's "Dreams Money Can Buy," which sampled Paul's broken-down [...]
After a year of internet silence the producer with only one other track to his name is stirring up the internet with his smooth electro R&B. Jai Paul may have had some help getting exposure when Drake remixed his "BTSTU" into "Dreams Money Can Buy" but 400K plays 10 days after dropping a track says [...]
It's only been ten days since Jai Paul's "Jasmine" made its debut on Soundcloud and already the track has over 400,000 plays. The UK singer/songwriter only has one other song to his name-20102s breakout "BTSTU" -and since then we haven't heard a lick from him, until now. Two years is a long time for radio silence, but "Jasmine" was worth the wait. Its sexy slinking synths, funky bass guitar line, and Jai Paul's falsetto that rivals other great male R&B singers like Robin Thicke is like nothing else else out there right now. Jai Paul has gotten the blogosphere buzzing [...]
Hello everyone, welcome back. First thing's first: I'd like to wish those of you celebrating this weekend very happy Passover and Easter. I hope you enjoyed the first part of your holiday weekend, now here are a few tunes to keep things moving until we get back to the grind. Neptune (Sinjin Hawke Remix)- Lemonade Automatic (Fuchs & Horn Remix)- Lexy & K-Paul
Two years is an awfully long time to hold your breath. Nearly two whole years – that's how long it has been since Jai Paul's last (and his only) song was released. Since the falsetto menace of that first demo, " BTSTU ," happened to find itself caught on the web, it has been played in sets by Thom Yorke and even sampled by Drake. Still, no new material from Jai Paul himself in all that time – no album, no EP, not even a meager single. Until now. His new demo, " Jasmine [...]
Although it's been nearly two years since Jai Paul released his first single "BTSTU," it's clear he is in no rush to drop an album's worth of material for us to savor. Nonetheless, when he does release a new track it is smooth. The demo for his latest track, "Jasmine," is a distorted & wobbling R&B jam anchored by a bright and funky bass-line, echo-heavy handclaps, and his tuned-up vocals. It sounds as if it could burst apart at the seams at nearly any moment and if that compelling groove wasn't so effortlessly holding it all together.
It's been a while since a song pulled me in like this. Of course, it helped that "BTSU", Jai Paul's lone XL release so far, had a similar effect on me. Somewhere between a delicately falsettoed "Don't fuck with me" and that monster synth wobble lay an undeniably disarming, absorbing piece of pop music, and a short-list candidate for one of the coolest records of the last year or two. As a follow-up, "Jasmine" hardly disappoints. Paul manages to pack all the slow-burning, sensitive sexy of Voodoo -era D'Angelo into a groove that sounds something like Daft [...]
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