[Album] LIZ: "Just Like You"
LIZ has been popping up all over our radar since just before the start of the new year. The Los Angeles-based Mad Decent signee may very well be the best example of the theory of a "twenty year loop" in fashion, media, art and music. Her website literally has the Millennium embedded into the title and is a templated Google Image search page. Her music pulls from the early 2000s, adding the grungy dance vibes of today's EDM world with the angelic-ness of artists like Aaliyah to produce a sound that is described on her Mad Decent profile as "reminiscent of that perfect Pop/R&B tune from the 90s that you couldn’t wait to burn onto a CD so you could play it endlessly in your car after dropping your summer crush off at their house." Great imagery there. Honestly, just try LIZ on for yourself. Her project, Just Like You hit the Internet yesterday and the complete, seven-song project is sure to be talked about for some time. Pick it up/listen below!
Disclosure: "Latch" (DJ Premier Remix)
It's fun watching acts come up. Disclosure has been on the elevator all year and today got a bit of a cherry on top of their dessert of a 2013 as the legendary DJ Premier dropped a remix to their track, "Latch" today. Premier adds his own unique sound to the single, infusing his eclectic taste of R&B-influenced aesthetics to achieve something that feels maybe a bit more full than the original, like a thick woman in snow pants. Anyway, anything Premier gets his hands on is certain to get the Midas treatment and turn to gold, and building on Disclosure's already distinct sound and structure he does just that here. Check out the remix to "Latch" here below, alongside another recent Disclosure remix to hit the web, this one by Kaytranda for the track "January".
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[Video] PARTYNEXTDOOR: "Break From Toronto"
Canadian singer PARTYNEXTDOOR needs a break. The interesting thing about his latest single from his debut project is that it was an interlude of sorts in the tracklisting, allowing the listener a 'break' from the album, and thus the Toronto native as well. Regardless, it was decided that the song was a single and with winter edging in on whatever Fall existed this year, I'm about ready for a break from Chicago myself. Check out the treatment below.