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Ikonika

Along with Burial and label operator Kode9, producer/DJ Ikonika (Sara Abdel-Hamid) was an integral person in the Hyperdub roster, among the leading dubstep labels. Ahead of releasing her 1st album, 2010’s Get in touch with, Love, Want, Possess, she released a small number of 12″ singles on Hyperdub, aswell as …

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Jensen Sportag

Both guys in charge of the fuzzy left-field bedroom R&B sounds of Jensen Sportag was raised on neighboring farms in tiny Cottontown, Tennessee. Austin Wilkinson and Elvis Craig began going out and producing music jointly during senior high school, but university delivered them in distinct directions plus they didn’t begin …

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Chrissy & Hawley

Chicago-based duo Chrissy & Hawley create catchy neon electro-pop that recalls ’80s dance genres such as for example Italo-disco, Hi-NRG, and freestyle. The duo includes maker Christopher Shively and vocalist Hawley Shoffner, who both comes from Kansas and have been friends for a long time before making a decision to …

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Nite-Funk

Nite-Funk can be an occasional collaborative store for Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, and Damon Riddick, aka Dâm-Funk. Both were brought collectively in ’09 2009 by XLR8R publication, which presented them in a repeating “Listen in a day” series. Riddick would produce a monitor fronted by Gonzalez, however they reversed …

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Abra

The “darkwave duchess” of Awful Information, an otherwise rap crew from Atlanta, Abra is a singer and songwriter who makes shadowy, mostly slow R&B that deviates through the slicker sounds from the genre’s commercial artists. Created in NY and elevated in London, she shifted near Atlanta, Georgia when she was …

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Janine and the Mixtape

As Janine as well as the Mixtape, Auckland, New Zealand’s Janine Foster crafts moody R&B motivated by legends like Aaliyah and Mariah Carey as well as the atmospheric noises of Sigur Rós and Bon Iver. As a kid, she was motivated by her dad to write tunes and play acoustic …

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Jessy Lanza

R&B-inspired vocalist, producer, and songwriter Jessy Lanza attained a music degree from Montreal, Quebec’s Concordia University and worked toward a Master’s degree in musicology at McGill, but she remaining the program to create (and teach) music instead of reveal it. She fulfilled fellow Hamilton, Ontario indigenous Jeremy Greenspan when she …

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FKA twigs

Crafting ethereal digital R&B that evokes the heyday of Tricky and Massive Assault and the free 2010s aesthetic from the xx, London’s FKA twigs may be the task of Twigs, aka Tahliah Barnett, a half-Jamaican indigenous of Gloucestershire. Encircled by farmland during her teenagers, she researched ballet and sang on …

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