CFCF - Cometrue / Looking So 12"

Thanks to The Fader and Altered Zones/Yours Truly, we are now blessed with both sides of CFCF's new 12", out now on UNO. "Cometrue" finds the Montreal producer returning to the land of expertly-crafted piano house, while "Looking So" is a sultry slice of what we might call future R&B. Buy the 12" here or the digital version here.

  CFCF, "Cometrue" by The FADER 

  CFCF: "Looking So" by alteredzones

E&E - Various Songs

In addition to having that new Gang Gang Dance record on full blast for the past week, I've had Los Angeles-based producer Elijah Crampton's music as E&E on constant repeat.  It's safe to say I've obsessed over his ambient re-works of popular R&B from artists such as The-Dream, Destiny's Child and INOJ.  Seems like Crampton takes a cappella versions of these songs and adds his own layers of ambient sounds to the mix.  The results are breathtakingly brilliant.  Makes you wonder why the song wasn't produced as such from the beginning.  Take a listen:

MP3: E&E - The Dreem
MP3: E&E - Destine+e
MP3: E&E - Love U Down

Crampton's original creations are frighteningly good, too.

MP3: E&E - Reina (Tape Cut)
MP3: E&E - Submerging Cathedral

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How To Dress Well - "Ready For The World" (Star Slinger Refix)

Risen UK beatmaker Star Slinger adds a shuffling whateverstep beat to the emotionally fractured R&B of How To Dress Well.

MP3: How To Dress Well - Ready For The World (Star Slinger Refix)

Usher - "Appetite" (KINGDOM Edit)

This KINGDOM edit of Usher's "Appetite" is "killing it" right now. The genre tag says it all: "RnBass." Yes.

Usher - Appetite (Kingdom Edit) by kkingdomm

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Two Inch Punch - InspHERation MiXXX

London lovestepper Two Inch Punch curated a mini-mix for BBC Radio 1 and it's currently available to stream (and download!) at his SoundCloud.  Clocking in at just over 20 minutes, producer Ben Ash breezes through more than 30 songs, seamlessly blending electronica, classic R&B and old-school hip-hop into one solid, sexy whole.  The short mix goes a long way in illuminating the inspiration for Ash's own blush-pop glitch-hop.  

+++ InspHERation MiXXX --- by T.I.P

RxRy - "RxB" (mixtape)

The stupendous Stadiums & Shrines just posted this mini-mix of "next level future R&B music for the pre-apocalyptic masses," as curated by RxRy.  Featuring Frank Ocean, Mount Kimbie, The Weeknd, How To Dress Well, Com Truise, Aphex Twin, Delorean, Burial and Balam Acab, among others.  Future R&B, filtered and fuzzed-up as RxRy does best. 

RxRy - RxB (Mixtape) Side A
RxRy - RxB (Mixtape) Side B

Stadiums & Shrines also said that RxRy's Alpha microLP/megaEP is due on vinyl in June.

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New Supreme Cuts - "Issues"

New song from Chicago's Supreme Cuts.  More screwed and tweaked future R&B like "Amnesia" and "Months" before it.  Not sure this post requires any additional commentary.  I mean, just look at that artwork.  Yup.  Pretty much says it all.  "Issues" sounds like a face-to-face encounter with a four-fingered, two-thumbed, anatomically androgynous R. Kelly doll in the middle of steamy dream pool that's also a dimensional portal.  Creepy?  Yes.  Am I lovin' it anyway?  Definitely.  Rising designation from Pitchfork any day now...

  Issues by Supreme Cuts

Supreme Cuts - "Amnesia" & "Months"

Been digging Supreme Cuts pretty hard ever since I heard them on Friendship Bracelet the other day.  The Chicago act chops up R&B and serves it over some seriously sick and twisted beats.  Seems like these songs could even be cut from the same cloth as Two Inch Punch, if that cloth was spattered with salmonella and left to fester for a few days.  "Amnesia" almost qualifies as lovestep, but the more you listen, you realize it's really whining-baby-step.  Meanwhile, "Months" alternates between air raid sirens, cavernous percussion and diva vocals.  These are indeed supreme cuts, infected and raw.  Like the freshest scabs, you just wanna keep pickin' at 'em.    

Supreme Cuts by Supreme Cuts

How To Dress Well - "Waking Up To Life Sometimes Seems Worse"

Chicago's own lo-fi R&B crooner How To Dress Well just covered R. Kelly.  It sounds...well...pretty much like How To Dress Well covering R. Kelly.  Which is to say heartrendingly gorgeous.  If there's sensuality here, as R&B almost requires, it's the intimacy with which artist Tom Krell quivers over each note and the cadence in which he sings.  Frail and fractured to a frighteningly beautiful degree. 

How To Dress Well - Waking Up To Life Sometimes Seems Worse (R. Kelly Cover)

(via Tri-Angle Records on SoundCloud)