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Dean Blunt (Hype Williams) - Untitled. One half of Hype Williams produces an incredible piece of music with his solo effort.

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JUSTIN BIEBER - CHRISTMAS EVE

i think chris brown wrote this. so many different melodic sections!!

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ROBERT OWENS / LARRY HEARD - I'm strong

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TOTAL FREEDOM MIX: YELLOWJACKETS FATIMA AL QADIRI w/ DJ LiloCox (TGF MIX) w/ KERI HILLSON from his LIFE LOVES NACH mix: http://soundcloud.com/totalfreedom/life-loves-nach it's amazing!!! it mixes the Fatima Al Qadiri song which I've put at the end because I thought that should be here in it's own right too, so incredibly with the vocals from the keri hilson song (fuck chris brown though - even though his voice is so good)

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FANMAIL - TLC

I heard this because of the Drake song I Get Lonely Too, which is a cover - i didn't realise but I think this version's actually better. it's more minimal, there aren't really any chords to support the melody, so the vocal harmonies in it become the chords. there's not really anything in it except drums and vocals, and maybe some sub bass, but that's pretty quiet. it's really beautiful. the drake covers pretty sweet too though

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SHOT CALLER - FRENCH MONTANA

just sits together as itself so nicely

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CHEATERS - JOHN TALABOT REMIX

this feels exactly like it's a really obvious style, like it's a real genre piece - as if it's a remake of chicago house or something, but I don't know if it is really. maybe i'm wrong, but it sounds to me like this is to 'classic' house as what you're mine by jeremih is to motown - obviously a kind of tribute to it but you wouldn't mistake it as actually being from that time, so it has to become it's own thing.

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ACT NINE - SLACKK

i read that slackk is the person behind patrice and friends. which makes sense in a way because this song is intense even though all the sounds are sort of ambient and pleasant, it's like a footwork approach to pantha du prince - i know it's shit to make that comparison, and phrase it that way but i think that's a really good thing! and kind of a strange idea.

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D-MEDLEY - FATIMA AL QADIRI

i'm really excited about Fatima Al Qadiri. I think she's really trying to find a space with her music and artwork that makes sense at this moment. In fact i think that's really true of a few people around at the moment. this song blends a lot of genres together comfortably without ever drawing your attention to that fact, which is a success i think.