Monthly Archives: February 2016

New hip hop performer @WittLowry gets inside your head with “Around Your Heart”

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WITT LOWRY, “Around Your Heart”

Late last year you may have witnessed Connecticut-born 24 year old Witt Lowry’s arrival on the hip hop scene with nice chart numbers for his debut release Dreaming With Our Eyes Open.  Hot on the heels of that album comes something completely new for your attention called “Around Your Heart”.  It’s an intensely genuine song which will immediately call to mind some of Eminem’s best earlier songs.  Witt has a similar delivery that can be just as fast and jammed pack with thoughts and emotions.  “Around Your Heart” will certainly take a few listens before you can immerse yourself in Witt’s style.  But what helps is the vocal arrangement.  So many performers and producers are recognizing contrast as a focal point of their songs.  Here the two different vocals totally bring that to the table and either accentuate the edginess of the song or bring it back down.  It’s very well done indeed.  Give a listen below.  I’m hoping “Around Your Heart” will see some kind of official release.

Get into the synth swing with “All I Do” by @RadCatmusic (free DL)

RAD CAT, “All I Do”

San Diego producer/DJ Rad Cat (aka Christian Ariza) first came to my attention late last year with an unusual but memorable remix of Call Me Karizma’s “Euphoria”.  “All I Do” is something totally different – a bright, swinging, swaying future bass instrumental which easily gets under your groove and lets you bounce, and then before you know it it’s finished and you want more!  This is music for sunny days at the beach and shiny disco balls at night.  I think “All I Do” could easily catch the ears of dance club noteworthies, so head over to Hype Machine and show it some love.  Download it for free at the link above and bounce away!

In 2016 Dance music is “Super” with @petshopboys new music “Inner Sanctum”

PET SHOP BOYS, “Inner Sanctum”

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka Pet Shop Boys, have contributed significantly into how dance music is shaped today.  And even while the lads’ music has been eminently listenable since their late 80s, early 90s heyday, they found an entirely new niche to trailblaze in 2013 with their album Electric, their first outside of Parlophone/EMI.  From one of my favourite albums that year, their song “Vocal” was my #1 song of 2013.  So PSB continue where they left off, teasing us with a mainly instrumental introduction to their upcoming album, appropriately titled Super.  “Inner Sanctum” is one of those club powerhouses carried by lush, detailed synths and a somewhat disembodied vocal.  But there’s no mistaking this as anything but Pet Shop Boys music.  Watch out clubland for another dose of classic PSB dance music to come!