Chromeo - When The Night Falls (Sammy Saxy Bananas Remix) - download here

It’s been said that 2011 is the “year of the sax,” which just means the music world has finally realized my deepest desire. Sammy Bananas knows what’s up. He goes all-in on this remix of Chromeo’s “When The Night Falls” using smooth melodic sax lines to punctuate the track’s slap bass and prowling-the-street rhythmic strut. Has the line between sex music and club music ever been this close?

Akron/Family - Cashanet (prod. Brian Eno) - download here

Sonic yoga and joy, friends—this is what Akron/Family creates. New-age noodle “Cashanet” (produced by Brian Eno) envelops with geode synths, shimmering vocal distortions, and total-immersion pysch swoons. It’s a bottling of that moment when you’re in the Planetarium, after the lights go dark but before the stars turn on. But it’s no album track. Rather, it’s part of the band’s 8-month-long prank war project, where they leaked alien versions of what would eventually appear on S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT.

The Field - Then It’s White - download here

The Field has always uniquely juxtaposed emotional force with the sterile dicing of samples into melodic fragments. Sure, it had “one-trick act” written all over it,  but each effort has evolved beautifully. Take “Then It’s White” — a raw slow-burner with disembodied voices equally orgasmic and haunted set against cold, isolated piano circulating through a minor-key fugue. The Field’s new album Looping State Of Mind is another peak and it’s out now on Kompakt.


Pill - Thousand Poundz (feat. Cyhi Da Prynce & Pusha T) - download here

From the first few seconds of this track—the sexy, breathy vocals and eerily haunting melody—it’d be almost impossible to guess that you’re about to hear three rappers wax poetic on the way “Thousand Poundz” would change their lives. Though it originally appeared on Cyhi Da Prynce’s Royal Flush 2 mixtape earlier this year, it surfaced again on The Diagnosis, the most recent project from Maybach Music Group rapper Pill. The ATL native (who collaborated on Mark Ronson’s Record Collection album last year) leads the charge on the first verse with G.O.O.D. Music rappers Cyhi and Pusha T following suit.