Zomby’s 8-bit grooves are some of the few that I can get behind. The jumpy vocal samples on “Labyrinth” and the ominous, meandering “Trap Door” are high points. Also peep his awesome album Dedication from earlier this year.

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Teebs has a new batch of tunes on the way called Collections 01. Below you can find two shimmering beats for the soundtrack to your next grand adventure.

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Download: Teebs – Pretty Polly

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Download: Teebs – Cook, Clean, Pay the Rent (New House Version)

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Whatsoever.

The asian-american electronic juggernaut known as the Far East Movement is back for another go around. This time recruiting the M.I.A. endorsed & Baltimore raised Rye Rye to the sing the hook on this track off their next album (dropping next year). FEM has carved out a nice little formula of synths, bass, chopped up catchy hook that you can’t get out of your head. If I was a betting man, rappers are going to stop hopping on this track to add verses with the quickness. When the album drops, it will feature RedOne, David Guetta, Bangladesh, wil.i.am, The Stereotypes.

Oh, and if Oprah can dance to Black Eyed Peas, watch her jam to this.

Jonwayne owes just as much to Koji Kondo as he does to the beat scene and not just for his surface level video game references. “King” is built on top of classic Nintendo boss level gloom. But not the boss fight itself — “King” summons the ominous tones of the dungeon/level that precedes the final showdown. Anyone who has played Ocarina of Time knows what I’m talking about. “King” will appear on The Death of Andrew EP, which drops October 25.

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Jamie XX last blew our minds back in February when he teamed up with Gil Scott-Heron. He’s been busy since then putting out an Essential Mix with BBC’s Radio 1 (posted below) and dropping one of the best mixes I’ve heard in a while for FACT magazine. It’s 32 minutes of awesome that fits into pretty much anything I do in my daily routine so I highly suggest you fit it into yours. Jamie XX starts off this mix with crazy ominous bass that probably scares my neighbor and progressively picks up until he starts getting dirty with his beats around the 14:00 mark and then it just turns into a straight up dance party towards the end.

Check out both mixes here:
Jamie xx Essential Mix

FACT Mix 282 – Jamie xx

PLUS, you can download the FACT mix for free here.

I’m glad there are people other than me who appreciate the good vibes of “1 Thing” by Amerie. Octo Octa liked it enough to sample it. So did Q-Tip.

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Download: Octo Octa – I’m Trying

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This is my reward for following James Zoo on SoundCloud after I listened to his awesome mix with Paul White in April. Named for a Hermeto Pascoal LP, “Slaves Mass” is a nigh unclassifiable almighty banger. James told me that it will appear on a forthcoming EP. Beats, son.

I remember watching youtubes of last years Fool’s Gold Labor Day party with Yelawolf rocking the hell out of his set, well this year I will probably doing the same with shaky cell cam videos of Juicy J & Danny Brown rocking. Danny Brown’s live set impressed me so much at SXSW, that I became a believer, dude is just great on stage. Of course, you can’t forget the rest of the Fool’s Gold fam including, A-Trak, Dave1, Araabmuzik (mpc vibez!!) and Nick Catchdubs who are sure to have gems to drop. If you are in NYC, I can’t think of a better way to spend your Labor Day, ok now close the Safari window and go get in line.

Fool’s Gold Day Off

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Just Blaze
Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak & Dave1)
Araabmuzik
Cubic Zirconia
Party Supplies
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The Hood Internet take Foster the People’s jam Pumped Up Kicks (I mentioned it briefly a few weeks back) and slow it down into an equally awesome counterpart. This was an official remix by the duo so Hollywood Holt’s verse was crafted specifically for this. It’s a nice fresh take on this song and I appreciate that it slows it down instead of speeding it up like the other remixes out there that just ruin what was already a good thing. Check it out: